The independent model may be attractive for its high payout, but setting up your own office can be difficult—and costly.
“It’s like moving across the country, from New York to California,” says Philip Palaveev, owner and CEO of The Ensembl...
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It’s easy to estimate the out-of-pocket expenses of setting up your own shop. It’s harder, but more important, to predict the opportunity costs.
Fewer advisors are pursuing or holding designations this year, according to WealthManagement.com’s 2013 AdvisorBenchmarking RIA Trend Report. Percentages declined for all Series licenses, except the Series 6, with the Series 65 garnering atten...
With activity down and clients more risk-averse, UBS posts slower third quarter
The broker protocol may make it much easier to go independent and take your clients with you, but not every firm is part of it. Here’s why.
Maintaining its place as the biggest advisor force on the Street, Morgan Stanley reports solid returns on wealth management stake
The adage to “invest when there’s blood in the streets” could easily apply to aggregators of registered investment advisors in the period after the 2008 crash. For firms with national aspirations and hunger for scale, the fields were rich with...
