Growth strategies

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The No. 13 IBD has added 183 advisors through its recruiting efforts in the past two years.

The newly merged practice became the seventh largest at the No. 18 IBD.

If you want to eventually sell your practice for a big pay day (and not everyone does), aim for annual growth of 15%.

Two Securities Service Network advisors have purchased 15 firms over a decade, and they plan to buy several more this year.

After acquiring four firms’ assets, the industry giant still faces big challenges ahead.

An advisor who is a former ballplayer set ambitious goals for 2021 with an alternate take on the hybrid strategy.

As advisors grow their firms into bona fide businesses, they may sour on the profession —unless they scale back, Michael Kitces writes.

Here's four reasons your business might be struggling and what you can do about it.

More than $34 billion in client assets moved into the No. 1 IBD’s fold in the first part of the acquisition.