Part 3: Sentiment Toward Asset Classes Under Consideration in Coming Year
Section 2: Economic & Advisor Business Outlook In prior years we have observed that advisors were increasingly willing to utilize alternatives in client portfolios. However, while alternatives...
View ArticlePart 4: Expected Growth Rate of Advisory Business Over the Next Year
Section 2: Economic & Advisor Business Outlook The continued economic recovery and equity market performance has kept growth expectations relatively constant compared to prior surveys. read more
View ArticlePart 5: Key Drivers of Growth in the Next Five Years
Section 2: Economic & Advisor Business Outlook Referrals from existing clients were, by a wide plurality, again the leading driver of sustained growth this year, coming in at 43% of respondents,...
View ArticlePart 6: Biggest Threats to Advisors' Business
Section 2: Economic & Advisor Business Outlook The top four threats remained the same as last year: finding new clients, increased compliance demands, government overregulation, and volatile/flat...
View ArticleSection 3 Alternative Investments: Key Takeaways
WealthManagement.com Browse the key takeaways on Alternative Investments.read more
View ArticlePart 5: Providers Most Closely Associated with Alternative Investments
Section 3: Alternative Investments Given the specialized nature of many alternative investment strategies, the industry tends to be more fragmented than mutual funds and ETFs. read more
View ArticlePart 4: Measuring Risk
Section 3: Alternative Investments Advisors were asked to compare their specific risk indicator usage this year to what they used two years prior. read more
View ArticlePart 3: Objectives for Alternatives
Section 3: Alternative Investments The leading reasons for steering clients toward alternatives remain diversification, risk management and volatility reduction. read more
View ArticlePart 2: Usage of Alternatives
Section 3: Alternative Investments Given that most advisors serve relatively diverse demographics, it is expected that alternatives would likely not be suitable for all of their clients. read more
View ArticlePart 1: Advocating Alternatives
Section 3: Alternative Investments For both years we analyzed the response of advisors with AUM above $25 million – those more inclined to use alternatives – and the majority indicated that they...
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AVAILABLE NOW: Section 3 Alternative Investments
In this chapter we present key findings and insights from our survey questions on alternative investments, including how and why they are used, client comfort with the asset class, and the most popular...
View Article2014 RIA Trend Report: Key Takeaways
Content Source: 2014 Advisor Benchmarking ReportFor more than a decade, the AdvisorBenchmarking RIA Trend Study has provided the financial advisory community with analyses of advisor performance and...
View ArticlePart 1: Focus When Selecting Potential Clients
Section 4: Marketing and Client Relations While many advisors might have specific criteria on which they screen for new clients, the amount of wealth is still the predominant dimension on which RIAs...
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Section 4: Marketing and Client Relations
In this section we present key findings and insights from our survey questions on marketing and client relations, including marketing methods, the use of social media, target market categories and...
View ArticleSection 5: Financial Performance Download
Content Source: 2014 Advisor Benchmarking ReportDownload a full PDF version of Section 5: Financial Performance from the 2014 RIA Trend Report. read more
View ArticlePart 6: Advisor Compensation
Section 5: Financial Performance While compensation is a large part of the outcome from good business practices and strong portfolio performance, it hasn’t received as much attention from analysis of...
View ArticlePart 5: Net Profits and Profit Margins
Section 5: Financial Performance The observed revenue and expense trends indicate strong operating leverage and paint a very positive picture for advisory practice profits.read more
View ArticlePart 4: Expenses
Section 5: Financial Performance RIA respondents report median expense growth for their practices of only 5% in 2013, a rate of increase well below those of assets under management and revenue.read more
View ArticlePart 3: Revenues
Section 5: Financial Performance The median advisory practice revenue reached $500,000 in 2013, an increase of over 13% year-over-year and an all-time high for our survey.read more
View ArticlePart 2: Assets Under Management
Section 5: Financial Performance When we segregate assets under management into ranges, we observe an upward movement from the lowest range to the next two tiers.read more
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