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Date Published: August 24, 2021
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The purpose of this research is to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the key steps to financial advisor succession planning. The research starts with a context setting chapter addressing the importance of succession planning, the propensity to have succession plans, and the challenges surrounding succession planning. The core of this research then offers a step-by-step succession planning approach. This research compliments Tiburon's research on Financial Advisor Mergers & Acquisitions, which focuses on past transactions, and its research on the Financial Advisor Sale Process, which provides a step-by-step process for selling a financial advisory business, and together these three topics support Tiburon's research on Financial Advisor Succession Planning, Acquistions, & the Sale Process.

This research starts with some context setting around financial advisor succession planning, including:

• Succession Planning Importance
• Succession Planning Propensity
• Succession Planning Challenges

This research addresses the key historical phases of financial advisor succession planning, including:

• Haphazard Phase
• Clarification Phase
• Maturization Phase

This research offers a step-by-step process for financial advisor succession planning, including:

• Clarify Objectives
• Obtain Preliminary Business Valuation
• Consider Alternatives
• Execute Fallback Business Continuity Plan
• Execute Succession Plan

And this research makes several future predictions for financial advisor succession planning, including:

• Financial Advisor Succession Planning to Demand More Attention
• Wirehouses, Regional Broker/Dealers, Independent Broker/Dealers, & Custodians to Treat Issue as Crisis or Opportunity