business valuation

Many firms facing increased overheads and infrastructure costs in the next few years are considering acquisition or merger strategies as a survival or growth strategy. Generally there appears to be 5 main reasons that advisers…

Given some of the trends in financial services there must be serious questions about how to accurately value a practice of a financial adviser. The short answer to what is an accurate value of any…

It is a little ironic that many professionals in the business of advising people how to get better ROI do not do what they should to get a better return on one of their own…

Everyone has heard of the Pareto Principle by now, but are you actually using it to improve profit…or improve service….or should we saying it actually “improves service which improves profit”? It is the latter. Undoubtedly.…

The irony of adviser succession discussions is how few of the advisers considering the topic seem to consider how to get a better return on what is often their biggest investment – their practice. Sellers…

That word “process” is just deadly for so many advisers today that too many won’t have bothered reading this far…but process creates profit. “Process” has become associated simply with compliance in delivering financial advice, but…

When considering advisory practice marketing the primary focus from most advisers is “How much should I spend to get a new client onboard?” It is a single marketing focus; just one marketing target. You need…

An ongoing challenge for advice firms is balancing client time with all the practice development work necessary to have a better business. There are after all only so many hours in a day, but then…