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Summary: I’ve been watching, with increasing dismay, the trend of non-financial planners taking over ownership of planning firms. We have private equity firms buying financial services firms, and financial services firms that are either going public or promising to as part of their rollup pitch to independent advisors. The distress became especially acute when Focus Financial Partners went public and raised just over $600 million from its new shareholders.
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Summary: Annually we report on our subscriber data to provide insights to advisory firm principals as they refine their firm's succession and strategic growth plans. A completed RIA Match profile includes comprehensive information from up to 72 data points. This aggregrated data offers insights from over 4,500 subscribers. Download the Subscriber Infographic where we provide a snapshot of the advisor types, trends and goals. Be curious and communicate with your matches!
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Summary: The deadline for comments on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s sweeping advice standards package for brokers and advisors ended Tuesday, and at midday, comments were still streaming into the agency.
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Summary: Diversity is​ viewed in very different ways by readers of InvestmentNews. This came into sharp focus when reading the responses to a survey on diversity we conducted in July as a sounding board for this week's issue.
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Summary: After the historically low levels of volatility seen in 2017, many investors became accustomed to a lack of bumps in the market. However, the type of predictability simply has not held true so far in 2018.
