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Control Your Future with the Right Support

Is your broker-dealer more focused on their bottom line? Have you considered associating with an independent RIA for greater success and satisfaction?

Our partners use innovative models to streamline operations and boost your profitability. They help you mitigate conflicts of interest and excessive administrative client fees —big focuses for regulators.

Keep Your Commission Business—Without Compromise

Keep your commission business while benefiting from a strong RIA model. Many independent RIAs(IRIA) support a direct broker-dealer relationship, ensuring better value for your commission clients that lowers costs, increases revenue, reduces compliance risk-- while you maintain the full client relationship.

Grow Your Practice on Your Terms—Without the Stress

Whether you’re looking for introductions to top BD/RIA partners or want to launch your own RIA for maximum flexibility, we have you covered.

Our independent RIA partners provide the technology, compliance, and consulting support you need to run a successful, future-proof firm—with less administrative hassle.

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OUR PROCESS

Discovery Meeting: What's working? What's not? Deeper dives can lead to better experiences. Our long track record helps advisors evaluate and implement successful change.

Your Best Options: Leverage innovative partner models and service providers aligned with your practice. We find your best fit business models with you today- while keeping an eye on tomorrow.

Evaluation Time: Evaluate compelling options. Review qualified partners, choose introductions, and engage like-minded partners.

Connections: Meet with vetted partners. Most of our clients find their fit after 3 introductions. We stay in contact with you from initial consultation through transition and beyond.

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Which RIA model is best for me?

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Hybrid RIA

Many BDs have a culture of fee and expense disclosure, instead of focusing on the best interest of clients and advisors.

Fees to access turnkey asset management platforms and institutional custodians are highly profitable for BDs- and involve minimal or limited maintenance activity after account set-up. Advisor and client fees significantly contribute to forgivable loans, especially fees from advisory and cash accounts, and regulators have taken notice. However, with the right partner you can enjoy a broader and better cost environment. Many BDs, often smaller and niche-focused ones, offer very competitive pricing, more flexibility, greater independence, and a more engaged service experience overall.

Tuck-in RIAs provide essential structure and functionality to run your independent practice. For a reasonable all-in fee they provide essentials such as compliance, supervision, technology, operational support, and more. Many have niche focuses that may align well with your business model.

If you don’t want to run a business on top of a business (managing your own RIA is a lot of work, effort, and responsibility) this is one of the most compelling options.

Partnering with a good tuck-in RIA frees you to spend more time with clients, can save clients from excessive and needless admin fees.. You can net more revenue and enjoy a higher level of independence, flexibility, and service.

Wirehouse and bank advisor friendly Tuck-In RIAs

Affiliate with an RIA firm or BD-RIA to do the heavy lifting. Common scenarios include W-2 employee or captive advisors breaking away from wire houses and banks. Amenities often include office space, equipment, staff, technology, practice management, and potentially large upfront forgivable notes.

Payouts are likely significantly lower to cover these costs, 40% range is common. You may be required to promote your affiliates' brand and be asked to sell all, or a majority ownership of your practice, by contract.

Selling more than 50% equity ownership of your book may give the buyer control over your business, and partner contracts are often long term.

If this is your best fit, and you're captive status, play it safe and hire a securities attorney to review contracts, so you know exactly what you're signing. This small investment will cover your bigger investment, your practice. Better to spend $5,000 now than $50,000+later.

A hybrid RIA enables advisors to run their commission business through an approved external BD relationship.

Maintaining a BD relationship allows comprehensive investment solutions that may promote client retention and attract new ones. Many external BDs pass through 100% payout on your RIA business if you generate sufficient transactional revenue.

Maximize your client investment choices with more solutions available as RIAs now offer alternative investments, variable, and fixed insurance on a fee basis.

For the most independent advisor, who will need to register their firm at the state or federal level. If you're fiercely independent and have the assets and staff to make it work, this could be a good option for you. You receive 100% payout and are responsible for everything: compliance, technology, administrative support, etc.

We introduce compliance and practice support relationships to do the heavy lifting for you, making this option more attractive. This includes registration, agreements, advertising, websites, written policies and more- almost everything except placing trades.

Net revenue from a turnkey RIA versus the costs of running your own RIA is often a financial break-even for advisors in the $500K revenue range. This let's you shed significant responsibility, time, and liability, and focus more on your business.

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