The purpose of this report is to provide readers with an initial understanding of the fee-based financial advisors (RIAs) market, the fastest growing financial services market & distribution channel. The report goes to painstaking efforts to define this market, which is often improperly defined and measured by others. A parallel report published by Tiburon, called A Comprehensive Overview of the Product Usage, Business Models, & Best Practices of Fee-Based Financial Advisors, provides extensive bottom up analysis of the specific actions of fee-based financial advisors. This report provides a top down view of the market. This is the second draft of Tiburon's research on this topic... More

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