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Barclays Financial Advisers Split, Forming $3 Billion Independent Firm

From Wall Street Journal
Added on July 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: A half dozen financial advisers from Barclays PLC’s U.S. wealth-management group, including its former head, have left the firm to form a multi-billion-dollar independent practice with national ambitions.

Summer Reading List: Top Advisor Picks

From Financial Planning
Added on July 2015 in Thought Leadership
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Summery: Summer has finally arrived, ushering in some welcome rest – and hopefully some time for a good book. Advisors and other wealth management execs share their top picks for planners. These titles cover all the bases, from practice management and leadership development to behavioral finance and personal finance.

Young advisers want a future, not handouts

From InvestmentNews
Added on July 2015 in Join an RIA
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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.

What it means to move from a practice to a business

From InvestmentNews
Added on July 2015 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: There comes a time in every growing advisory firm's life when the owner has to stop managing a practice and start running a business. Adviser Gerard Klingman explains his process for shifting to professional management

For 3 Financial Planning Students, Here's What the Industry Looks Like

From Think Advisor
Added on July 2015 in Join an RIA
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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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