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Summary:When preparing to sell your practice, understand that transitioning from the business will require years of time with no shortcuts. There is a strong correlation between the amount of time one gives to succession and the seller’s satisfaction with the price and outcome of the exit.Don’t let a lapse in time commitment hurt your succession plan and diminish the value of the sweat equity you have accrued.
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Summary: If 2013 was the year financial advisors started thinking about their succession plans, this is the year to start the actual planning. One of the biggest (and possibly most common) missteps in succession planning is procrastination. While the average age of the advisor continues to rise (mid-50s and counting) the competition for talented young planners has become fierce and the idea of M&A seems more and more attractive.
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Summary: Running up against the limits of a recruitment strategy based on swiping advisor talent from their competitors, leading wealth management firms are trying a new ploy: Growing their own. With so many regionals, wirehouses and independents intent on poaching top talent in recent years, there has been little to no emphasis on cultivating a new generation of advisors.
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Summary: To really grow, a financial advisory business needs to find ways to become more efficient. Those ways often involve new technology and systems to make their expanding ranks of advisers more effective at tending to clients and their money, and bringing in more of both.
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Summary: When most owner-advisors talk to me about succession planning, the first thing they tell me is the value of their business (based on a recent valuation or a model formula). Then they spell out their plan for how the partners should pay for it. They think succession is about the numbers, and what they are usually looking for is a spreadsheet for how it's going to work. When it comes my turn to talk, I tell them that's all very nice and ask, “What have you done to groom your successors into leaders?”
