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Evaluating Your Affiliation: The 5 Most Critical Factors for Advisors

Evaluating Your Affiliation: The 5 Most Critical Factors for Advisors

Update: 2025-07-10
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In this episode of The Rare Advisor, host Aaron Grady is joined once again by Steve Phillips, Chief Practice Management Officer at USA Financial, to explore the five most important factors every financial advisor should consider when evaluating their current or future affiliation. From control and flexibility, compensation, compliance, and technology, to the often-overlooked need for real growth and practice support—this conversation goes deep into what it really takes to build your ideal financial practice in an era of mergers, acquisitions, and industry consolidation. If you're a financial advisor seeking the right fit, this episode will help clarify what truly matters.

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The RARE Advisor is a business model supercharged by Recurring And Repeatable Events. With decades of experience coaching successful advisors, your host, along with other leaders in the industry, discusses what it takes to grow a successful practice. With the aim of helping financial professionals and financial advisors take their business to the next level, this podcast shares insights and success stories that will make a real impact. Regardless of the stage of your practice, The RARE Advisor will provide thoughtful guidance, suggestions for developing systems and processes that work, and ideas for creating an authentic experience for your clients.

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Evaluating Your Affiliation: The 5 Most Critical Factors for Advisors

Evaluating Your Affiliation: The 5 Most Critical Factors for Advisors

Aaron Grady