To My Fellow WSR Community Members:
I sometimes wonder if Charles Darwin were to examine our industry today, would he see in us the constant striving to adapt and improve that he discovered in the finches of the Galapagos Islands? Though of course I can’t speak for one of history’s greatest minds, I like to think he would find an evolving ecosystem in wealth management.
Just like a living ecosystem, the creativity and energy that emanates from our industry solves problems, frees our time for more productive tasks, forges new avenues for investment and tax planning, creates new partnerships, alliances and mergers that tweak already high-performing firms to achieve the next level, and ultimately improves our clients’ quality of life.
This week we bring you several stories reflecting just this type of creative innovation – in real estate investing, family office technology and workflow management – as well as our roundup of this month’s top M&A, recruiting, strategic partnerships, promotions and people moves in our industry.
This Week’s Issue
Here’s what we have for you this week:
- In Newsmakers Roundup, our monthly Transitions, Transactions & Promotions column covered a wide array of activity. This includes Commonwealth Financial Network recruiting Strategic Financial Solutions from Principal Securities, Integrity Marketing Group agreeing to acquire Gladstone Wealth Partners, Reverence Capital and Advisor Group each taking an equity stake in Signature Estate & Investment Advisors and SFA Partners naming Bryan Yvon as Director of Business Development.
- Is your family office equipped to capture future growth? In the Digital Domain, Nicole Eberhardt, Chief Strategy Officer forLedgex, explains why family offices serving ultra-high-net-worth clients fall into a technology gap at a time when the number of UHNW clients is growing quickly and how advances in beneficial ownership technology can help close that gap.
- Has your firm outgrown its CRM workflow functions? Also in our Digital Domain section, Meghan Rutherford, the Customer Training & Onboarding Manager at Hubly, addresses the steps advisory firms should take when choosing a workflow management software provider.
- In our Investment Solutions & Gatekeepers section, Edward Fernandez, President and CEO of 1031 Crowdfunding, explains how clients can use Delaware Statutory Trusts to invest in real estate, DSTs’ potential advantages and disadvantages, what type of client DSTs suit and how an advisor can get started providing DST solutions to clients.
In case you missed it, last week we brought you the latest move by Protective Life’s Concourse Financial Group, which recruited $500 million HNW-focused Key Group Management, with nine professionals across New Jersey, Massachusetts and Arizona, in our Words in Edgewise section.
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Have a great week!
Cheers!
Larry Roth
CEO
Wealth Solutions Report
