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The Most Valuable Advice for Advisors and Business Owners

The Most Valuable Advice for Advisors and Business Owners

An annual digest of the 2022 season’s most ground-breaking commentary for financial advisors and business owners on topics including autonomy, change, clients’ needs, succession, next gens, growth, and much more.

From $30mm to $55B: The Strategic Vision Behind Creative Planning’s Extraordinary Growth

From $30mm to $55B: The Strategic Vision Behind Creative Planning’s Extraordinary Growth

What’s driving the acquisition appetite of mega-RIAs? Peter Mallouk of $55B RIA Creative Planning has been driving inorganic growth like never before. He talks about his latest deals, his formula for growth, tips for buyer and sellers, and more.

Industry Update: Why Rockefeller, First Republic and Other Boutique Firms Are Attracting So Many Top Advisors

Industry Update: Why Rockefeller, First Republic and Other Boutique Firms Are Attracting So Many Top Advisors

The 3rd of a 3-part series on the landscape of the wealth management industry explores today’s boutique firms – a quasi-independent model – focusing on the top 2 firms in particular: Rockefeller Capital Management and First Republic Wealth Management.

Industry Update: A Deep Dive into the Wirehouses and Regional Firms

Industry Update: A Deep Dive into the Wirehouses and Regional Firms

Beginning her deep dive into the ever-changing landscape of the wealth management industry, Mindy Diamond explores the defining characteristics of wirehouse and regional firms, how they’ve changed in recent years, and much more.

Inside Baseball on Building and Growing an Independent Firm

Inside Baseball on Building and Growing an Independent Firm

Mega-RIA firms are setting the pace of massive growth through ambitious acquiring practices and smart recruiting. Marty Bicknell, of Mariner Wealth Advisors, talks about his firm’s successes, shares advice for firm owners and breakaways, and more.

How These 3 Firms Carved a New Path and are Changing the Wealth Management World At Large

How These 3 Firms Carved a New Path and are Changing the Wealth Management World At Large

3 “ex-wirehouse-turned-independent-industry-leaders” in a rare single forum: Shirl Penney of Dynasty Financial Partners, Jim Dickson of Sanctuary Wealth and Rich Steinmeier of LPL Financial. They join Mindy Diamond to share an “insider’s view” of the wirehouse world, wealth management, independence, and more.

Looking at M&A from the Seller’s Side of the Table

Looking at M&A from the Seller’s Side of the Table

Jeff Concepcion of Stratos Wealth Partners shares why he chose Emigrant Partners as a capital partner, what independent firm owners need to do when preparing for an acquisition, how he grew his firm from zero to $14B AUM in just 12 years, and more.

Looking at M&A from the Acquirer’s Side of the Table

Looking at M&A from the Acquirer’s Side of the Table

Part 1 of 2 on M&A: Karl Heckenberg, president and CEO of Emigrant Partners, discusses how the firm’s value proposition, plus the well-established clout of the Milstein family, is representative of a “new breed of acquirers” in the RIA space.

Back to Basics on Leadership, Business Management and Succession

Back to Basics on Leadership, Business Management and Succession

Ben Harrison from BNY Mellon’s Pershing discusses the role a custodian plays in the lifecycle of an independent business, taking over for retiring industry icon Mark Tibergien as the head of Pershing’s RIA custody unit, the COVID-19 crisis, and more.

Industry Update: The Bull Market for Advisors, Where They’re Moving to and Why

Industry Update: The Bull Market for Advisors, Where They’re Moving to and Why

In this segment of Industry Update for Financial Advisors, Mindy Diamond takes a look at where advisors are going, how movement is fueling the landscape’s evolution, and what’s serving as a “barometer” of change for the industry at large.

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