When Is The Best Time To Get A Practice Valuation?
ASK THE EXPERTS: When is the best time to get a practice valuation? A: The best time to get a certified practice valuation for your wealth management business depends on your specific circumstances. However, it may be beneficial to consider getting one: Before a sale or merger: This helps to determine the value of your […]
Who Will Be The Most Watched BD In 2023
Last November, major brokerage firms started announcing their compensation plans for the year ahead. While most remained relatively unchanged, with a few minor tweaks here and there, Merrill Lynch gave their comp plan its first major overhaul since 2009, stating the industry shift to advisory business as a big motivator for these changes. The biggest […]
What’s Your Why?
With every decision we make, there’s an underlying factor that drives our actions. A simple three-letter question that while not always acknowledged, holds a whole lot of power… why. While your why may seem less critical when it comes to decisions like whether to work out or read a book, it is a huge motivator […]
FINRA Expands Focus In 2023
FINRA recently published its annual Examination and Risk Monitoring Program letter, which serves as a compliance guideline for firms. As part of this report, they’ve announced that their enforcement priorities for 2023 will include new areas of focus and priority. In addition to their new areas of focus, which include fixed-income product pricing mistakes and […]
Recruiting Wire Review: 2022’s Top BD Winners (Net)
From war to Wall Street woes, 2022 was a year of challenges and big question marks across our economy and the globe. Despite all of that advisors still sought out new opportunities and potential by moving to a new firm. In this post we’ll take a look at the biggest recruiting winners on the BD […]
Curious About 2023 Comp Plans?
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Considering a move in 2023? Start here.
Pre-Transition Keys Setting the Stage Critical Letters to Draft There’s a lot of prep work that goes into a successful transition. You have to put in the hard work and careful consideration if you want your transition to go smoothly, it won’t just happen at the snap of a finger. After completing your due diligence […]
Tis The Season
For advisors that are thinking about making a move, the special gift on their wish list may be any number of improvements to client services, technology, infrastructure, and payouts. But one thing is for certain, a large majority of advisors that made a move in 2022 were motivated by growth potential—according to our 2022 Advisor […]
Top 3 Things We Learned At The Market Counsel Summit
There Are Opportunities in The Gaps Market Counsel President/CEO Brian Hamburger started off the event with a curious thought, that the “enjoyable client experience may not be scalable.” That technology, as great as it is, can only do so much and at the end of the day, it is the advisor who truly makes the […]
Market Counsel broke advisor conferences forever…and why that’s a good thing
Our marketing guy Marc Sanders parachuted into the Market Counsel Summit in Las Vegas this week to conduct some interviews for the next episode of The FA Show, our collaboration with AdvisorHub, and he came away convinced that Brian Hamburger, and his team had pulled off something incredible…they created a safe space for one of […]