Cost: Complimentary

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Time: 1 pm ET | 10 am PT

Editorial Webcast Sponsored by:

It’s a promising time for financial advisors to expand their wealth management business as more investors look for help with portfolios, retirement plans, legacy concerns, tax planning and other key issues. Plus, the big shift to the RIA model – the fastest growing segment of the overall advisory business – means advisors have more choices in how they want to operate, as well as lots of flexibility and resources.

The RIA industry jumped by over 2% in 2022, and it now includes some 15,110 fiduciary investment advisors managing $114 trillion in assets for nearly 62 million clients, according to the Investment Adviser Association and National Regulatory Services.

“Over the past five years, over 22 million more individuals have engaged an investment advisor for asset management — a rate of growth in both the number of individual clients and assets of roughly 12% per year,” according to IAA President and CEO Karen Barr.

Join this complimentary webcast to discover cutting-edge approaches and strategies for advisors on being fully independent. You’ll learn:

  • What it means to “build a growth culture” within an RIA and how you can do it

  • What some key mistakes are in the RIA business and how to avoid them

  • What the key industry topics in the business are today and why you don’t want to ignore them

  • Developing the next generation of independent advisors

  • What’s driving M&A deals in the RIA industry and how to ensure they’re successful

Speakers:

Janet Levaux | Editor in Chief | ThinkAdvisor & Investment Advisor

Janet Levaux, MA/MBA, is the moderator of this webcast. She’s covered the financial markets since 1991 and advisors since 2005. Janet studied at Yale, Johns Hopkins SAIS and St. Mary’s College of California. She’s also lived and worked in Asia, Europe and Latin America, raised two sons, and won a Neal Award for top news coverage in 2020.
Gordon Ross | Chief Client Officer | Dynasty Financial Partners

Gordon Ross and the relationship management team are responsible for the ongoing partnerships with the Dynasty Network advisors. Prior to joining Dynasty, he was a relationship manager at BBR Partners in New York. Before that, Gordon was at Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management, where he helped manage the personal client book of the COO. He began his career at Bestinvest Brokers in London, one of the UK’s leading private client investment groups. He received BA in economics from Durham University (UK) and MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jarrod Upton, CFP®, MBA, MS | COO and Senior Consultant | Herbers & Co

Jarrod Upton brings over 17 years of experience in management strategy, client experience, operations, training, and consulting of advisory firms from start-ups to multi-location/multi-billion advisory firms to provide solutions that impact positive growth. He previously served as VP, Centralized Services and Financial Guidance of United Capital, a multi-billion-dollar, fee-based national RIA, where he was responsible for centralized operations strategy, functionality and for developing and advancing guidance and financial planning initiatives.
Emily Wilcox | Chief Operating Officer | Practifi

Emily and her team established Practifi’s stateside business and operations, and their work has been instrumental in solidifying Practifi’s brand identity in the U.S. as a competitive, RIA-focused solution to manage the complexities of modern client relationships along with the needs of compliance and operations officers. Emily and her team also led the creation of PractifiU, an on-demand training experience tailored for Practifi’s users.

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