Succession Planning
Learn how top financial advisors and firms handle succession planning and what industry experts suggest is key to getting it right.
FPA Leaders Talk About Diversity, Fiduciary Rules
By Melanie WaddellIn a recent wide-ranging interview with AdvisorOne, two of the top executives at the FPA, Marv Tuttle and Paul Auslander, talked about the top issues facing advisors.
March 08, 2012
Succession Planning 201: How to Motivate a Newly Hired AdvisorHiring a new advisor for your small(er) firm is one thing, keeping them motivated can be another. Heres how to retain those new hires
February 01, 2012
Cherish the Young(er)If you are serious about your commitment to your clients, you should be thinking beyond your own span of days to when you shake off this mortal coil and head to your own reward, and plan for who will take care of those clients after youre retired or dead.
December 28, 2011
Sounding the AlarmLately an advisor can rarely open a trade publication without coming across at least one article focusing on succession planning.
December 28, 2011
What’s in a Plan?In our view, transitioning control and management of [advisory] firms from founding owners to a new generation will prove to be the single most challenging issue for advisory firms over the coming decade.
November 14, 2011
More RIAs Developing Succession Plans: TD Ameritrade SurveyMore advisors are developing a formal succession plan, with most saying they will name an internal successor, according to a survey released Monday by TD Ameritrade Institutional.
October 25, 2011
How Do You Transition More Clients Than You Have? By Doing It RightLarger advisory firms usually get that way by offering better services than smaller ones.
October 14, 2011
What’s Your Practice Worth? FP Transitions’ Latest FindingsMarketplace demand for advisory practices is rising, said David Grau Sr. and Jr., while prices for practices are slipping. The father and son principals of FP Transitions say the market is better than for other professional practices.