Services for financial advisors

Clear guidance for whatever comes next.

Continuum helps financial advisors evaluate platform changes, practice transactions, and succession decisions without reducing the conversation to a recruiting pitch or a headline number.

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Financial advisor recruiting and consulting

Do not choose a service yet. Start with the decision.

Financial advisor recruiting can mean more than finding a new firm. It can include comparing broker-dealers and RIAs, pressure-testing transition economics, evaluating a buyer, or building a succession path before timing narrows your choices.

Continuum begins with your practice, clients, team, goals, and constraints. Then we determine which paths deserve the work - including the possibility that staying where you are is the right answer.

Start here

What decision keeps resurfacing?

You do not need a plan, a shortlist, or an offer. Bring the unresolved question; we will clarify the realistic paths and tradeoffs.

How our recruiting model works

One conversation can clarify Which path deserves a closer look?

01 Stay Pressure-test the case for change 02 Core recruiting engagement Compare BD, RIA, and hybrid models 03 Transaction Buy, sell, merge, or find a partner 04 Succession Build continuity before timing decides

Private Confidential from the first question Permissioned Nothing is shared without your approval Objective Staying put remains a valid outcome

“Is my current broker-dealer or RIA still the right home?”

Platform search

Compare aligned BD, RIA, and hybrid options across compatibility, operations, economics, and long-term flexibility.

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“What is my practice worth, and who is the right buyer or partner?”

Mergers & acquisitions

Evaluate enterprise value, transaction structure, buyer alignment, diligence, negotiation, and integration risk.

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“How do I protect my clients, team, and value when I step back?”

Succession planning

Develop internal, external, phased, and continuity options while you still have time and leverage.

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The 6C Alignment Framework

One disciplined way to compare very different options.

Platforms, buyers, partners, and successors are measured against the same six dimensions so the loudest offer does not become the default answer.

Explore the 6C Framework

CultureLeadership, autonomy, values, and the lived experience.

CommunityPeers, collaboration, development, and support.

CompatibilityAlignment with your clients, practice model, and goals.

CapabilityTechnology, service, compliance, and execution.

CompensationTotal economics, structure, costs, and tradeoffs.

CapitalGrowth, equity, financing, and succession options.

Confidential explorationNo firm is contacted and no information is shared without your explicit approval.

Comparable evidenceEach viable option is evaluated against the same priorities, economics, and risks.

Practical follow-throughWe support diligence, negotiation, transition planning, and the work required after a decision.

Not sure which path aligns?

That is normal. A private 30-minute call is enough to sort the immediate question from the longer-term decision.

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A confidential next step

Clarity is useful - even when the answer is to stay put.

Bring the question in front of you. Rick will help identify the right workstream, the evidence that matters, and the next useful step.

Independent guidance
100% confidential
No cost to advisors

Rick KerstiensCo-Founder & CEO

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