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Several firms are increasing the revenue as which an advisor reaches the top payout of the grid
.@WellsFargo raises the bar for advisors to qualify for top take-home pay. #financialplanning #wealthmanagement #financialadvisors
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Many of the fastest growing financial advisors I know under 40 were 10 year overnight successes.
their paths typically looked something like this..
Investors are watching this LPL/commonwealth deal crumble and they’re taking notes.
What is the value of a firm that doesn’t own client relationships and pays most of the revenue out to advisors?
I think it’s less than most assume.
LPL shares freefall more than 15% after investors aren't appeased by answers to hard-hitting questions about next act after Commonwealth, or by CEO humor during the quarterly analysts' call riabiz.com/a/2026/10/29/lpl-…
RIAs with less than $100M in AUM at Fidelity have 244 days to figure out their next move.
They can find another firm to join or merge with to get above the $100M threshold.
Or they can find a new custodian and move their clients there.
I've only heard from a handful of firms affected by this so far.
My guess is a lot more will start figuring out their plan after the first of the year.
Everyone has been saying the mega RIAs are starting to look alike.
I think they heard it.
Mercer just finished rolling out its proprietary Aspen Investing platform across more than 43,000 client accounts.
It brings portfolio management, private markets and tax management together in one system.
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The way a firm pays its financial advisors matters. A lot.
Incentives drive behavior.
Pay an advisor a salary and they're going to think differently than someone whose income depends on how much revenue they bring in.
For the pure salary advisor, more clients just mean more work for the same pay.
Pay someone big bonuses to bring in new assets and that's probably where they're going to spend most of their time. Not servicing existing clients.
I think compensation design is one of the biggest drivers of firm culture.
Ameriprise has lost some big teams this year, with estimates putting the assets at $12B+.
Now Bank of America has double downgraded the stock.
Ameriprise is offering retention bonuses to try to stop more advisors from leaving.
But there's a problem with that strategy.
If you give some advisors bonuses to stay, what happens when everyone else starts asking for one too?
You could end up paying a lot more to keep advisors who weren't planning to leave in the first place.
And if advisors are leaving because they want ownership or more control over their business, a retention bonus might not be enough to keep them around.
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Sorry guys, we’re still doing paper checks for rollovers 🤦♂️
The IRS is finalizing new IRA rollover guidelines, but financial advisors and custodians say the proposed rules don't go far enough to eliminate paper checks and manual delays. #retirementplanning #financialadvisors #financialplanning
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I often hear claims that flat fee advisors are taking market share from AUM advisors.
The data I’ve seen actually shows the opposite.
This is going to piss off some financial advisors, but consumers deserve the blunt truth.
There are advisors charging AUM fees who do very little to justify what they charge. Their clients are overpaying.
But 99% of the best advisors I know also charge AUM fees, and their clients get far more value than the fee they pay.
Both things are true.
What's getting old is the number of flat fee advisors whose entire marketing strategy seems to be convincing people that every advisor charging AUM is ripping off their clients.
It's not true, and I think it does real harm to the industry and, more importantly, consumers.
The fee structure is irrelevant. What matters is how much you're paying each year and what you're getting in return.
If you have significant wealth and a complicated financial life, exceptional advice is going to cost a pretty penny.
Changing how the fee is calculated doesn't magically change the input cost of delivering the service.
The margin of profit on top of the input costs is determined by demand.
Advisors in high demand are naturally going to command higher fees as their capacity depletes.
It doesn't matter what fee model they use.
There are AUM advisors charging 1.50%. There are flat fee advisors with minimum fees in the six figures.
Neither fee structure tells you whether you're getting a good deal.
Look at what you're paying. Look at what you're getting. Judge it on that.
This is going to piss off some financial advisors, but consumers deserve the blunt truth.
There are advisors charging AUM fees who do very little to justify what they charge. Their clients are overpaying.
But 99% of the best advisors I know also charge AUM fees, and their clients get far more value than the fee they pay.
Both things are true.
What's getting old is the number of flat fee advisors whose entire marketing strategy seems to be convincing people that every advisor charging AUM is ripping off their clients.
It's not true, and I think it does real harm to the industry and, more importantly, consumers.
The fee structure is irrelevant. What matters is how much you're paying each year and what you're getting in return.
If you have significant wealth and a complicated financial life, exceptional advice is going to cost a pretty penny.
Changing how the fee is calculated doesn't magically change the input cost of delivering the service.
The margin of profit on top of the input costs is determined by demand.
Advisors in high demand are naturally going to command higher fees as their capacity depletes.
It doesn't matter what fee model they use.
There are AUM advisors charging 1.50%. There are flat fee advisors with minimum fees in the six figures.
Neither fee structure tells you whether you're getting a good deal.
Look at what you're paying. Look at what you're getting. Judge it on that.
"Fee only" was one of the biggest selling points in the RIA space for the past 10 years.
Now fee only firms are losing market share to hybrid firms.
What happened?
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Business owners dramatically underestimate the impact of losing a top performer.
One departure can easily turn into a domino effect with the rest of the staff.
If I were a young financial advisor, I'd spend most of my time on two things.
Finding a prospecting niche that isn't crowded.
Trying as many different ways as possible to bring in clients.
You only need to find one thing that works to completely change your career.
If you can bring in clients consistently, you have options.
Almost any firm would want to talk to you. You can negotiate a better deal, join a platform and keep 90% of your revenue, or eventually start your own firm.
You get to call the shots.
But if you can't bring in clients, you're always going to depend on someone else to provide them.
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Ameriprise spent big on retention bonuses. It still lost $12B in assets this year.
Mariner’s debt is about to hit 6.7x EBITDA.
And an RIA IPO could be one to two years away.
We dive into these stories and more in tomorrow’s Advisor Market Report.
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How far will the RIA rollup trend go?
Will we see a mega RIA IPO?
Some think we could see it within the next year or two.
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Ameriprise spent big on retention bonuses. It still lost $12B in assets this year.
Mariner’s debt is about to hit 6.7x EBITDA.
And an RIA IPO could be one to two years away.
We dive into these stories and more in tomorrow’s Advisor Market Report.
advisormarketreport.beehiiv.…