Growth Recap for Financial Advisors

Topics Designed to Get You Thinking & Growing

Curated Articles

• The Independent Alpha: Making the Breakaway Math Add Up - Advisors breaking away for independence know what they are giving up, so how can they justify making this leap? The answer starts and ends with growth. Read->
• How Making Yourself Indispensable Can Drive More Value to Your Bottom Line 5 ways financial advisors can build better relationships with clients and prospects. Read->
• Why you need to define your “True North” - Developing your own guiding principle will ensure you stay focused on the big picture, not individual items in a vacuum. Read->
• What’s the ‘Real’ Value of a Financial Advisor’s Business? - A still red-hot RIA M&A market has many employee advisors pondering what their business could be worth on the open market. Here are 3 valuation scenarios to address that curiosity. Read->

Podcast Episodes to Inspire Growth

• From $80mm to $1B: How Authenticity and Humor Helped to Drive an Ex-Wirehouse Advisor’s Growth - Marc Horner discusses how his leap to independence allowed him to think and act more creatively, connect with clients and prospects on a new level, and ultimately grow his business in ways he could not in the wirehouse world. Listen->
• Summit Trail’s Jack Petersen on How Their Blockbuster Break Created a $16B Firm Designed to Serve the Unique Needs of UHNW Clients - The Barclays breakaway discusses his 2015 landmark leap with 5 partners, 3 offices, and $3B in AUM, plus shares why he feels UHNW clients are best served in independence, what they do to drive extraordinary growth, and much more. Listen->
• Innovative Ways the Best Independent Firms Fuel Growth: A Special Industry Update - Independence allows advisors to create an unlimited menu of innovative value-add services for their clients. And as the industry landscape expands, employee advisors are finding ways to get in on the action. Learn specific examples of the various services offered by some of the industry’s leading independent firms. Listen->
• Industry Update: What Financial Advisors Need to Know About Growing Through Recruitment and M and A - One of the major motivations for advisors who choose independence is to build an enterprise via recruitment and M&A. But inorganic growth opportunities are not exclusive to independent firms. Although more limited, wirehouse advisors have options too. Listen->

Featured Tool

MaxCeV? How to Maximize Your Career Enterprise Value - This formula seeks to provide a process by which an advisor can “calculate” the sum total of 4 key factors—to conceptualize what their career enterprise value really is and how to achieve it. Download->

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