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Welcome again to the 351st episode of the Monetary Advisor Success Podcast!
My visitor on right this moment’s podcast is Jessica Polito. Jessica is the Founder and Principal for Turkey Hill Administration, a mergers & acquisitions consulting agency that assists monetary advisors with the sale, acquisition, integration, or merger of their companies.
What’s distinctive about Jessica, although, is how she has constructed a observe serving to monetary advisors and their companies navigate the intricacies of shopping for, promoting, or merging their companies by deeply understanding their enterprise expectations, educating them on the transaction course of, valuing their agency to allow them to get one of the best deal for them, and guiding and offering counsel to them by the transaction course of… whereas doing so with out the battle of an funding banker’s success payment.
On this episode, we speak in-depth about how Jessica leveraged her funding banking expertise in wealth administration mergers and acquisitions to construct her personal enterprise the place she might present extra unbiased M&A recommendation, why and the way Jessica developed her flat-fee recommendation mannequin for mergers and acquisitions to, just like the evolution of fee-only RIAs, be capable of show that her providers will not be incentivized by simply getting a sale on the finish and that she is actually offering recommendation she feels is finest for her shoppers, and the way Jessica helps her advisor shoppers parse by a seemingly overwhelming variety of potential consumers and perceive how one can negotiate the phrases of their agreements in order that they’ll discover the precise deal for them that aligns with their enterprise objectives.
We additionally discuss why Jessica cautions her shoppers and advisors contemplating promoting their agency to not base their asking value compared to the acquisition value of different companies as with out context on how the value and extra importantly the phrases have been determined, why Jessica counsels that advisors who wish to retire in 3-5 years want to begin not simply getting ready for a sale however truly starting the transaction now (as a result of it may well take a number of years to finalize a deal and wind down the post-sale retention contingencies), and why Jessica feels advisors contemplating a sale within the extra distant future ought to truly spend much less time attempting to undergo the laundry checklist of updates to their companies to extract the highest worth and will as an alternative concentrate on merely doing what is true for his or her enterprise that retains it on a wholesome progress monitor (as a result of that’s what will make their enterprise most engaging, at any time when the time involves promote).
And be sure to take heed to the top, the place Jessica shares why, as a result of she works on her personal, she is intentional in regards to the variety of shoppers she works with at any given time in order that she will be able to each present devoted service and protect time to spend together with her household, how Jessica handled imposter syndrome and the concern of being in comparison with bigger establishments with longer histories by investing into growing and sharing her personal thought management by podcasts, movies, and conferences, and why Jessica defines success in another way for her skilled and private lives in that professionally, success is a shifting goal (as a result of she feels that with out new objectives she could turn into complacent and restrict herself), whereas personally, success is constant to construct her enterprise (particularly in a male-dominated business) and take possibilities in order that her youngsters can see that she stored attempting even when that meant she may fail, and finally that she made one thing she is happy with.
So, whether or not you’re considering studying about how Jessica helps advisory agency homeowners kind by the ‘noise’ of various proposals to seek out viable potential offers, how Jessica discerns when to make use of an EBITDA or a income a number of to worth companies or practices, or what different ‘high-quality print’ Jessica feels is necessary to know earlier than partaking in an M&A deal, then we hope you get pleasure from this episode of the Monetary Advisor Success podcast, with Jessica Polito.
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