Landing Durability
Do advisors who join a firm actually stay? Two lenses on the same question - early-exit share and six-month cohort durability - counted only among advisors with five or more years in the industry, so these figures describe the experienced-advisor population separately.
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Longer-tenured departures
Lowest early-exit share among ranked firms - departing advisors had typically been there for years.
Departures skew recent arrivals
Highest early-exit share among ranked firms - departures cluster among advisors who joined recently.
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- Landing durability
- Whether advisors who join a firm actually stay. Measured here two ways: the early-exit share of a firm's departures, and the six-month durability of its arrival cohort. Both are counted only among advisors with five or more years in the industry at the move date.
- Early-exit share (experienced advisors)
- Among a firm's departures in the window, the share whose tenure at that firm was under 12 months. A higher share means recent arrivals account for more of the observed departures. Shown for firms with 5 or more experienced departures; ranked at 20 or more.
- Six-month cohort durability
- Of the experienced advisors who joined a firm in the first six months of the window, the share with no observed move to another firm within 183 days of arriving. Every cohort member is observed for exactly 183 days. No recorded second move does not establish continued employment or longer-term retention. Shown for cohorts of 15 or more; ranked at 25 or more.
- Experience filter
- Only moves by advisors with five or more years in the industry at the move date enter these figures. This limits the comparison to a defined experience cohort; it does not establish whether a transition succeeded.
- This window
- All advisor moves reported in the last 12 months - a rolling trailing-12-month view. The exact dates appear in the header above.
- What counts as a move
- Any registered investment-adviser representative whose firm registration changed during the window. It is a count of registrations, not vetted client-facing advisors, so it can include non-producing registrants such as home-office or supervisory staff.
- Directional
- These figures describe broad patterns of advisor movement, not audited counts. Use them to spot trends and questions worth exploring, not as a precise scorecard.
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