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Summary: When going independent, should financial advisors really go it completely alone? If hiring full-time advisors and other workers isn't an option at the outset, outsourcing, employing virtual employees and using cloud-based services could be good alternatives.
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Summary: Before going independent, financial advisors should make sure make that they know the fine points of the compliance rules and regulations that they will encounter.
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Summary: The promise of a seamless technology integration in which advisers get up to speed quickly and use all of the software programs and data available to them with ease isn't a reality at most advisory firms. Not yet, at least.
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Summary: Financial advisors who are thinking about going independent have many issues to consider, from whether an independent environment is right for them, to what kind of independent model best fits their business and how it will affect their work/life balance.
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Summary: There are many reasons why financial advisors leave big firms such as Merrill Lynch or Wells Fargo and go independent. Two veteran industry recruiters – Howard Diamond, managing director and general counsel of Diamond Consultants of Chester, N.J., and Mark Elzweig, president of Mark Elzweig Co. of New York – discussed some of the top reasons advisors venture forth on their own.
