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RIA Recruiter, Dealmaker Kreuter Rolls Up Divisions Into Gladstone Group

Wealth Management

Recruitment shop D.A. Kreuter Associates and its Gladstone M&A, valuation and consulting divisions will now be the collective Gladstone Group.

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#FA Success Ep 333: Scaling A Small-Business-Owner Boutique To A $31M Retainer-Based Valuation, With Jim Dew

Nerd's Eye View

What's unique about Jim, though, is how he has scaled his retainer-based boutique firm to more than $7 million in revenue, a $31 million enterprise valuation, and is growing organically at a 40% growth rate, by providing a high-touch comprehensive advice offering for his business owner niche clientele.

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The Succession Conundrum: How Advisors Can Balance Legacy and Liquidity

Diamond Consultants

As a result, its often incumbent upon the retiring advisor to either accept a discounted valuation for the book and/or show a great deal of flexibility in how their next gen ultimately takes the reigns of the business. It also puts money in the pocket of the next gen because they would receive a portion from the recruiting deal.

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What’s the ‘Real’ Value of a Financial Advisor’s Business?

Diamond Consultants

Here are 3 valuation scenarios to address that curiosity. Focus Financial Partners, the largest investor in the independent space, is being taken private at a $7B valuation. Prolific RIA acquirer CI Financial recently monetized a stake in their business at a $5B valuation. Those are some eye-popping numbers.

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10 Thursday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Bloomberg ) • AI’s Winners, Losers and Wannabes : An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost! The Honest Broker ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Ilana Weinstein, founder and chief executive officer of IDW Group , the top recruiter of fund managers and traders for many of the largest hedge funds.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

The Big Picture

And then in 1982, Dean Witter recruited me to join them and to really start managing what was their fledgling hedge fund practice, which was really with CTAs back in that era, and then evolved into, you know, more macro style funds. And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down. But we’re not there.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

And so I had actually interviewed for a couple of things when I got a call from a recruiter about Diamond Hill, I had actually never been to Columbus, Ohio before I went there to interview. And so when the recruiter called me, I said, you know, it sounds really interesting. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration.