ACHIEVEPOSITIVE OUTCOMES
With the rapidly evolving RIA landscape, it is even more critical than ever to anticipate and address change.
Change must be strategic and include broader trends like M&As and the potential of AI/machine based learning to help ensure successful business outcomes over time. We work with our clients to reimagine and reposition their business for ideal growth.
Our Capabilities
COMPENSATION & EQUITY DESIGN
Compensation, organizational structure and firm equity are key structural challenges for many successful and growing firms. The independent advisory space is dynamic, and compensation plans that worked for the firm in the past may not work to drive the next level of growth. Many firms get themselves into what we call trouble mode, a misalignment of interests of owners and key contributors.
We work with RIAs to help activate growth and/or rationalize compensation to strategic objectives. We review and analyze current compensation structures and develop an ideal customized plan. We can help with key initiatives, including better defining organizational structure and installing accountability.
We prove our concepts quantitatively through a financial model and provide detailed requirements to implement the plan. We also possess a level of benchmarking data not available through broad industry surveys. This expertise results in a plan that squarely addresses your firm’s objectives and takes out the guesswork of building a plan.
STRATEGIC PLANNING
We provide you with insight and collective wisdom to create a customized plan that help transform our clients’ firms into a sustainable business or recast their strategic direction.
Our plan designs are based on your firm’s growth goals and serves as the blueprint for building its future. The comprehensive plan delineates a clear and detailed path for growth as well as forecasts the firm’s potential upon implementation.
We are relentless advocates of the mantra “What is written down gets done.” We believe that any idea without a structure, an owner and a delivery date is not an actionable plan, it’s just a dream. We often are asked to facilitate partner meetings or act in an advisory board capacity as well.
Our years of experience shaping the future of top advisory firms affords us not only the intellectual capital but also the confidence to think creatively in your best interest.
SUCCESSION PLANNING
Our knowledge of the challenges of transitioning a business to internal stakeholders offers us the perspective and skills to make an optimal succession plan. Most significantly, we can efficiently work through the emotions of selling an owner’s “life’s work” to help satisfy owner needs as well as those of team members and next gen owners are thoughtfully considered.
Although succession planning often charts a path for owners navigating exit planning, it also affects business continuity, which is equally as important. We therefore provide a feasibility assessment for internal or external succession, work through the structure of a potential plan, and provide a market-based valuation and implementation plan.
While many industry providers offer the promise of succession planning, few offer our depth of expertise to effectively structure a transaction that contemplates the future implications of the plan.
THINK AHEAD
When transitioning to a new independent advisory model, you will need to juggle many moving parts and make significant decisions that will impact the future of your business. As a wealth management team in transition, you can benefit from a trusted and experienced partner who guides you in setting up your new business for the future, from the start.
We take an unbiased approach. We work only on your behalf. We stand behind our objectivity, resulting in an optimal solution for founders, your family and your clients.
AT AGS, we help you:
- Identify the ideal model, even if that means not transitioning at all
- Structure a platform search to identify the right partners
- Design compensation and partner equity
- Project manage the transition so you can focus on client transition
