Welcome back to the forty-third episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast!
My guest on today’s podcast is Marty Kurtz. Marty is the founder of The Planning Center, an independent RIA based in Moline, Illinois, that – as the name implies, quite deliberately – provides comprehensive financial planning for clients, along with investment management for more than $700 million of client portfolios.
What’s unique about Marty’s business, though, is that he’s already in the midst of executing a succession plan that will ultimately wind down his ownership and management of his 26-employee and now multi-partner firm. In other words, while a lot of advisors talk about succession planning, Marty is actually living the process.
In this episode, we talk in depth about succession planning, and the real-world challenges that crop up in trying to facilitate an internal succession plan, from the difficulty in finding an “appropriate” valuation for the firm, the dynamics that emerge between founders and the next generation of advisors that want to take over the business, and why founders need to recognize the trade-offs that often exist between maximizing the dollar value of the business by selling to a third-party, and maximizing the longevity and sustainability of the business itself by selling internally.
From there, we also talk about how The Planning Center is shifting away from the AUM model to a unique retainer model that charges clients 1% of their income plus half a percent of their liquid net worth, how Marty jump-started the growth of the firm in the early years with a strategic partnership with a local accountant (and how they structured – and had to later change – the revenue-sharing solicitor agreement), and the unique household cash flow planning technique that he uses as the First Step of the financial planning process with every client.
And be certain to listen to the end, as Marty provides his advice to those who are looking to become successors in a firm about the conversations they need have – and drive, if necessary – with their founders to ensure the succession plan really happens. And Marty talks about the new business he’s helping to create – called Turning Point – that helps experienced advisors who founded firms and are looking to sell to figure out what they really want and need, deep down, to make the succession plan a success.
So whether you’re curious to hear the successsor’s perspective on executing a succession plan, or are looking for ideas of new and innovative non-AUM advisory firm business models, or simply want to learn how one advisor built success with a focused strategic alliance with an accounting firm, I hope you enjoy this episode of the Financial Advisor Success podcast!
source https://www.kitces.com/blog/marty-kurtz-planning-center-podcast-internal-succession-multi-partner-retainer-turning-point/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marty-kurtz-planning-center-podcast-internal-succession-multi-partner-retainer-turning-point
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