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Comprehensive
Added on January 2020 in M&A Issues
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RIA Match Concierge Consulting Comprehensive
For those who require an extra level of service, RIA Match Concierge Consulting provides expert guidance and a consultative approach to manage your goals every step of the way.
RIA Match Concierge Consulting Comprehensive offers exclusive end-to-end management of your firm’s succession planning or growth goals. Our high touch service is provided by a suite of industry experts and leverages the RIA Match platform. We will navigate you through the entire process and communicate with you regularly.
The RIA Match Concierge Consulting Comprehensive program consists of:
- 1-hour Introductory Interview
- Complete RIA Match profile
- Manage the RIA Match Platform for your firm
- Narrow your matches based on interview intel and platform’s functionality
- Share profiles of interest with the advisor
- Conduct correspondence on the RIA Match platform
- Monitor your account weekly for new matches
- Bi-Weekly RIA Match Concierge Summary Report emailed to client
- Bi-Weekly call with client to discuss results
- Preview ADV and/or FINRA Broker/Check report on match finalist
- Preliminary screening calls with match candidates to validate worthiness
- Candidate searches will be conducted both on and off platform
- Correspond with matches on client’s behalf
- Coordinate and participate in Match calls with client and match
- Coordinate Match Intro Meetings and participate – phone calls are included in the program fee; travel / onsite expenses are optional
- Coordinate negotiation; bring in third party resources as needed
Pricing:
$250/ hour, 4 hour per month minimum Monthly fee* in addition to a 3% success fee.
Resources:
* 3 month commitment required
Jump Start
Added on January 2020 in M&A Issues
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RIA Match Concierge Consulting Jump Start
RIA Match Concierge Consulting Jump Start service is for those who want expert guidance in formulating and communicating their unique value proposition.
Concierge Consulting Jump Start service provides the same foundational work as our full Concierge Service. Our industry experts crystalize your advisory firms’ vision and goals, and create an Action Plan customized for your specific needs. At the end of this limited engagement, you will be ready to enter the marketplace with a clearly articulated value proposition.
The RIA Match Concierge Consulting Jump Start consists of 4 one-hour phone calls:
- Discover and Assess
- Map goals and objectives
- Articulate strategic vision
- Formulate action plan
Pricing: $1,500 ($250 per hour for additional time.)
Resources: RIA Match FAQ
Platform Prep
Added on January 2020 in M&A Issues
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RIA Match Concierge Consulting Platform Prep
High-touch support for your firm’s succession planning and growth goals
RIA Match Concierge Consulting Platform Prep provides expert guidance and a consultative approach to create a roadmap to reach your succession planning and growth goals.
Concierge Consulting Platform Prep service provides the same foundational work as our full Concierge Service. Our industry experts crystalize your advisory firms’ vision and goals, and creates a guided Action Plan customized for your specific needs. Then you conduct the search. This new service level fits between the full white glove concierge service and the self-serve RIA Match platform.
The RIA Match Concierge Consulting Platform Prep Service consists of 2 calls
- Initial Discovery Call
- Optimized RIA Match profile
- Platform Action Plan
- Deliverables Call with:
- Review and delivery of Platform Action Plan
- Draft Content for the My Story section of your profile
- Draft correspondence to improve response rates
- Availability for future follow-up consultation and support; additional fees will apply.
Pricing:
$500
Resources: RIA Match FAQ
Biggest advisor moves of 2019: $62B in mega recruits
Added on January 2020 in M&A Issues
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Summary: The stats alone are impressive. More than 20 mega teams — those managing $1 billion or more in assets — switched firms last year.
RIAs: Shopping for M&A deals? Better get your house in order first.
Added on December 2019 in M&A Issues
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Summary: No, that's not a premise for a TV sitcom – it actually describes my family's life-changing leap from city to country six years ago. The implications of that transition (which, I assure you, persist) often come to mind as I see the unprecedented number of RIAs taking their own major leaps into transformational mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
