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By Mindy Diamond – What makes a big team move? What could be the catalyst powerful enough to make advisors managing more than $1B in assets leave the comfort of a very familiar nest to undertake the herculean effort of changing firms? Could the money alone be a powerful enough motivator? Everyone reads about a big move when it happens but what the press reports is usually only a select snippet of the reasoning behind it.
By Mindy Diamond – What makes a big team move? What could be the catalyst powerful enough to make advisors managing more than $1B in assets leave the comfort of a very familiar nest to undertake the herculean effort of changing firms? Could the money alone be a powerful enough motivator? Everyone reads about a big move when it happens but what the press reports is usually only a select snippet of the reasoning behind it.
By Mindy Diamond – “I love being an advisor and have built a great practice. My business generates more than $3mm in annual fee based revenue and it affords me a lifestyle far better than I ever imagined. I have a top notch staff and wonderful clients with an aggregate $550mm in assets under management.” Perhaps change the stats but I’m betting that this sounds familiar to you- and what a wonderful position to be in.
By Mindy Diamond – It started as a trickle just after 2008 when as a whole wirehouse advisors became disenchanted with their firms and exceedingly mistrustful of the folks who ran them. Teams of advisors like The LLBH group, formerly of Merrill Lynch in Westport, CT and The Nick Bapis Group, formerly of Morgan Stanley, chose to forego the outsized transition checks being offered them from competitor organizations and go some version of independent with firms like Focus Financial Partners and HighTower Advisors, respectively.
By Mindy Diamond – Banyan/Boston Private deal makes every financial advisor pay attention.
By Mindy Diamond – As a firm that works with top of the food chain advisors, we have not seen a slowdown at all. The statistics representing total advisor moves may show that fewer advisors have made moves in 2014 vs. the same period of time last year, but make no mistake, the momentum is great.
By Mindy Diamond, Forbes.com – Meet Tim Kneen and Clayton Hartman just once and you would know that they were never meant to be wirehouse advisors. This billion dollar Colorado based duo, generating almost $8 million in annual revenue, with combined industry experience of not quite six decades left UBS in mid-January to form their own wealth management firm. It was the shot heard around the industry. Such a high profile move will always attract attention, but when a team like Tim and Clayton’s goes independent, it is particularly compelling.
Diamond Consultants has created a proprietary tool that helps sophisticated financial advisors through the decision making process when considering a change of firm or model. The tool is depicted as an infographic and is called “Strategic Exploration and the Road to Taking Control of Your Professional Destiny.” Mindy Diamond, President...
