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Tiburon May Research Reports

Tiburon Strategic Advisors, a market research & strategy consulting firm serving a wide variety of financial institutions and investment managers, is pleased to announce its May research report releases, increasing Tiburon’s library of research reports to 41 reports. Every two months, Tiburon releases at least one research report that provide relatively comprehensive top-down overviews of specific product or service areas, markets & distribution channels, financial advisor issues, and/or strategic corporate issues. These new reports generally have thoughtful storylines, accurate & up-to-date data, and growing appendices (profiles of industry competitors). In this cycle, Tiburon is pleased to release a new comprehensive research report addressing:

Please click the image above to visit Tiburon's web site to see the table of contents for Tiburon's 41 currently published research reports

  • Consumer Wealth, Liquefaction, & the Retirement Income Challenge: The Impact on the Decline in Home Equity

Along with publishing the more comprehensive reports above, Tiburon also regularly seeks to publish initial versions and/or make minor updates to existing reports so as to create something to build upon and /or to make existing reports more useful to Tiburon clients. While these versions may lack the comprehensiveness of other Tiburon research reports, they may be useful to select Tiburon clients. For instance some clients utilize select parts such as a history chapter or a company’s profile of some reports. Many of these reports will be more comprehensively addressed later this year. By way of this email, Tiburon is also releasing an additional ten initial and/or updated Tiburon reports:

  • An Initial Synopsis of Key Driving Factors
  • An Initial Overview of the Institutional Markets
  • An Initial Overview of the Mutual Funds Industry
  • An Initial Overview of the Hedge Funds Industry
  • An Initial Overview of the Independent Reps & Independent Broker/Dealers Market
  • An Initial Overview of the Fee-Based Financial Advisors (RIAs) Market
  • Financial Advisor Benchmarking & Best Practices
  • Financial Advisor Sales & Marketing Strategies
  • An Initial Synopsis of Financial Services Industry Investment Opportunities
  • An Initial Overview of the Consulting Industry: Defining Good Business Advice

Consumer Wealth, Liquefaction, & the Retirement Income Challenge: The Impact on the Decline in Home Equity

The purpose of this report is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the vast amount of consumer wealth, the perceived baby boomer savings crisis (or retirement income challenge), and baby boomers’ likely pending liquefaction. The report outlines the numbers of consumers & consumer households, summarizes their financial concerns & savings goals, and analyzes the case made for baby boomers’ perceived savings crisis, including the decline in pension plans, the social security & medicare industry’s challenges, and the low consumer savings rate. The report also addresses the key pending liquefaction, whereby baby boomers will likely roll over retirement plan balances, cash in stock options & restricted shares, downsize houses, and sell private businesses. This is the third draft of Tiburon’s research on this topic; at this point, it is fairly well developed.

Tiburon’s first draft of this report was published in 2005. That draft was combined with Tiburon’s financial advisor sales & marketing report. It outlined the number of consumers, their wealth, potential target markets, and sales & marketing strategies.

The second draft of this report was published in 2007; it was unbundled from Tiburon’s equally good financial advisor sales & marketing research report. That version updated all of consumer wealth data using the first quarter 2007 Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report. That version also outlined Tiburon’s refined views on the perceived savings crisis and the pending liquefaction.

This is Tiburon’s third draft of this report. This draft updates all of the consumer wealth data using the fourth quarter 2007 Federal Reserve Flow of Funds report, fleshes out the specific challenge posed by the decline in baby boomers’ home equity, and incorporates dozens of useful analysis, as well as tightening the storyline.

Tiburon Research Reports

Tiburon has created its series of research reports to help educate its clients in a low-cost way on a wide variety of topics in the brokerage, investments, private banking, and wealth management markets. The majority of Tiburon's research reports are written for executives at financial institutions; a few reports are written specifically for financial advisors. The financial institutions series contains macro-industry reports that cover topics such as the mutual funds industry, the hedge funds industry, the full-service brokerage firms industry, and the fee-only financial advisors industry. Reports in the financial advisors series are more tactical, including topics such as A Comprehensive Overview of Product Usage, Business Models, & Best Practices of Fee-Only Financial Advisors, and Trends in Succession Planning, Firm Valuations, & the Acquisition Market for Financial Advisors.

These ~300-400 page reports follow an easy-to-digest format while providing detailed facts and analysis that aid in the development of an understanding of leading product areas and market segments, including recent developments, competitor rankings, and leading competitors' strategies. The firm attempts to position its reports as reference documents, and not as short-term newsworthy editorials. While Tiburon has been repeatedly told that its research reports are worth much more, they are priced at just $5,000 each because Tiburon believes that the information should be shared widely and that sharing the research will lead to market research & strategy consulting projects over time.

Reports can be sent immediately as PDF documents electronically. Bound copies can be printed and mailed for an additional $1,000 each. Tiburon plans to continually update these reports and publish additional reports in the future; please let the firm know if there are topics that you desire to see covered.

Tiburon Research Report Retainer Program

For firms interested in multiple reports, the Tiburon Research Report Retainer program is a significant value. Tiburon's Research Report Retainer Service, helps many of it's largest clients to consolidate their research needs & budgets. This is a great opportunity to follow Tiburon research closely and significantly add to your firm's research library.

The Tiburon Research Report Retainer Service offers access to all Tiburon research reports published in a calendar year in addition to the 41 research reports currently published. Tiburon expects to publish about 40 new reports in 2008. All will be proactively delivered and can be widely shared inside a firm, for just $25,000.

To subscribe to Tiburon Research Report Retainer Program, please contact Sarah Sage at: SSage@TiburonAdvisors.Com or 415-789-2540.

Existing Tiburon Research Reports

Tiburon has published forty-one research reports to date:

Key Driving Factors Reports
Product & Service Reports
Market & Distribution Channel Reports
Financial Advisor Issue Reports
Strategic Conclusions
Reports

Summary Report

  • Key Driving Factors

Key Driving Factors
Reports

  • Consumer Wealth
  • Institutional Markets

    Summary Report

    • Products & Services

    Financial Products Reports

    • Mutual Funds
    • Separately Managed Accounts
    • ETFs & Indexing
    • Hedge Funds
    • Venture Capital & Private Equity
    • Real Estate
    • Wine Investments
    • Other Alternative Investments

    Wealth Management Services Reports

    • Insurance Products
    • Estate Planning & Charitable Giving Services

    Summary Report

    • Markets & Distribution Channels

    Financial Advisor
    Channels Reports

    • Retail Banks Market
    • Full-Service Brokerage Firms Market
    • Online Financial Services Market
    • Independent Reps & Independent Broker/Dealers Market
    • Fee-Based Financial Advisors (RIAs) Market
    • Insurance Agents Market
    • CPAs & Tax Pros Market
      • Upscale Channels (e.g., Private Trust Companies, Boutique Brokerage Firms) Markets

      International
       Markets Reports

      • English Speaking Countries Markets
      • Europe, Middle East, & Africa Markets
      • Asia Pacific Markets
      • Latin America Markets
      • Offshore Markets

      Summary Report

      • Financial Advisor Benchmarking & Best Practices

      Building a Business Issues Reports

      • Financial Advisor Sales & Marketing Strategies
      • Financial Advisor Technology Developments
      • Financial Advsor Business Plans & Networking
      • Financial Advisor Mergers & Acquisitions

      Tiburon Benchmarking Reports

      • Independent Rep Best Practices
      • Fee-Based Financial Advisor (RIA) Best Practices
      • Tax Pro Best Practices

      Summary Report

      • Financial Services Industry Investment Opportunities

      Strategic
      Conclusions Reports

      • Financial Services Industry Mergers & Acquisitions

      Strategic
      Thinking Reports

      • Consulting Industry
      • Strategy Frameworks for Financial Institutions

      More Information

      To learn more about Tiburon's recently published research reports and address your company's research needs for 2008, please contact Sarah Sage at SSage@TiburonAdvisors.Com or 415-789-2540.

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      Tiburon Strategic Advisors

      Tibuorn Strategic, based in Tiburon, CA, was formed in 1998 to offer market research & strategy consulting services to all types of financial institutions and investment managers:

      • The firm has served over 300 corporate clients and completed over 1,100 projects since its founding, and today, its knowledge base includes mutual fund distribution, separately managed account programs, alternative investments, wealth management, insurance products, banking services, the fee-only financial advisor market, the CPA firm market, the family office market, and various international markets.
      • Tiburon holds a series of CEO Summits semi-annually for its executive-level clients. The next CEO Summit is scheduled for October 14-15, 2008 (San Francisco, CA) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in San Francisco, CA. 2009 dates are April 9-10, 2009 (New York, NY), and October 7-8, 2009 (San Francisco, CA). Attendance is by invitation only and attendance at each Summit is limited to 100 senior industry executives. Visit the CEO Summits section of Tiburon's web site for details on current and past CEO Summits, including attendee lists, meeting agendas, and highlights. Please contact Tiburon's Managing Principal Chip Roame at CRoame@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2541 if you are a Tiburon client and have an interest in attending a future Tiburon CEO Summit.
      • Tiburon has published forty-one ~300-400+ page research reports, which offer detailed analyses of growing business segments; each is available for $5,000; these reports can be ordered by contacting Sarah Sage at SSage@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2540.
      • Tiburon offers an annual research report retainer service, whereby dozens of clients receive all Tiburon reports published within a year for $25,000; clients can subscribe to Tiburon's 2008 Research Report Retainer by contacting Sarah Sage at SSage@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2540.
      • Tiburon also offers a database access program, whereby it shares its 300,000+ person industry executives contacts database with dozens of clients for $25,000 per year (distributed quarterly); clients can subscribe to Tiburon's Database Access Program by contacting Sarah Sage at SSage@TiburonAdvisors.Com or (415) 789-2540.
      • Tiburon offers thirteen online business benchmarking tools that are available to all types of financial advisors in an effort to help them benchmark their business practices and build more successful businesses. The sites include www.BrokerBestPractice.Com for wirehouse & regional brokers, www.FABestPractices.Com for fee-only financial advisors, www.IndependentRepBestPractices.Com for independent reps, and www.PrivateBankerBestPractices.Com for private bankers. Almost 5,000 advisors have used these tools. By completing one of the online surveys, financial advisors can access a FREE copy of the relevant comprehensive Tiburon research report, which summarizes and analyzes the collective results.
      • Tiburon's weekly research releases, like this one, are emailed for free to interested industry executives, media representatives, conference planners, and individual financial advisors. Over 55,000 industry executives now receive these releases. Feel free to sign up to receive future research releases at Tiburon's web site (www.TiburonAdvisors.Com) if this release was passed to you by a colleague and you would like to receive them directly in the future.
      • Tiburon plans to expand its workforce in 2008-2009. Specifically, the firm plans to add two-to-three incremental principals (the most senior role at the firm) and several more research managers in 2008-2009.
      • Tiburon has built three executive programs (CEOs-in-Residence, Financial Advisor Roundtable, and Consulting Fellows) in an effort to bring the experiences of additional senior level industry executives to Tiburon clients. Feel free to contact any of the members of Tiburon's executive programs directly or ask that they be included in any ongoing TiburonTiburon has built three executive programs (CEOs-in-Residence, Financial Advisor Roundtable, and Consulting Fellows) in an effort to bring the experiences of additional senior level industry executives to Tiburon clients. Feel free to contact any of the members of Tiburon’s executive programs project.
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