Added on August 2015 in Join an RIA
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Summary: In May, after a decade at Wells Fargo Advisors, advisor Michael Palace joined the independent RIA Gladstone Wealth Group in Bedminster, N.J., which uses LPL Financial’s brokerage services. The sole practitioner, who also had worked at UBS for five years, managed about $130 million at Wells Fargo.
Added on August 2015 in Join an RIA
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Summary: Almost a third of all 11,472 SEC-registered RIAs are concentrated in New York and California, which has several secondary financial hubs in the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Summary: Eric Roberge dedicated three years to helping an adviser develop a business he expected to take over one day. He quit, though, when the adviser offered him a handshake promise instead of a written succession plan that spelled out his future with the firm.
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Summary: In its efforts to raise awareness, TDAI has awarded its third annual NextGen Financial Planning Grants and Scholarships: a $50,000 grant to the University of North Texas to expand an existing financial planning degree program; a $25,000 grant to Temple University in Philadelphia to help develop a new program; and 14 $5,000 scholarships to students across a variety of universities.
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Summary: Pershing Advisor Solutions’ CEO Mark Tibergien was an early and vocal proponent of the serious industry need to attract and retain younger advisors to replace departing (and dying) advisors, citing data that since 2008 there are 50,000 fewer professionals in the industry.
