From Financial Planning
Added on November 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Thinking of selling an RIA firm? Make sure it's tech-savvy and up to speed on social media, digital platforms and automated investment advice.
From Think Advisor
Added on November 2015 in Form an RIA
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Summary: Financial advisors beware: Your firm’s compliance department is watching you, surveilling your personal brokerage accounts and possibly monitoring your Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages. A new survey from Compliance Solutions at Charles Schwab found that compliance officers spend approximately 11 hours per week monitoring and surveilling employees’ brokerage accounts, and half are also watching employees’ social media pages.
From WealthManagement.com
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Summary: Despite how much time and energy is spent writing, talking and thinking about the rise of online financial advice, it's still a fairly misunderstood topic, according to the Tiburon Research Group. Everyone seems to have a different definition of “robo-advisor,” and they lead to huge differences when determining the impact online advice has on the wealth management industry.
From Think Advisor
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Summary: As the independent advisory business transitions from small business to the next level, firm owners need to transition, too. We’ve written a lot over the years, about how, as firms grow, owners need to become good people managers. They also need to become good leaders; and one of the most critical times for owner-advisors to step up and be a leader is when they or their employees make a mistake or when some new initiative doesn’t do as well as expected.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: Eric Hehman knows handing over the reins of a beloved advisory business isn't easy, but he believes founders should keep in mind that it's no cakewalk for the successor either.
