RIA - CLG Wealth Management

The Right RIA Partner

Choosing a partner to help you run your business is about more than results. You need a partner who keeps you at the center and moves you forward by being proactive, innovative and responsive.

CLG is focused solely on your success. We offer RIA support built around you and your clients’ needs. We surround you with a dedicated team, advanced technology and the proven services you need to make your financial management offering a success. You can take advantage of our broker-dealer offerings such as the research and due diligence, financial strength and more. Learn more…

When choosing a custodian, exceptional custody services aren’t the end goal — they’re the price of entry in the marketplace. That’s why CLG partners with Fidelty, a top provider of retirement plans. Together, we offer you the right mix of product, technology and resources to give you the business edge. You’ll work with a dedicated team of experienced professionals who have extensive experience and take pride in their commitment to support your needs — and those of your clients.

Practice Management

CLG’s practice management resources focus on the following:

Business Planning
Helping to pursue desired business model, ultimately realizing value through succession

Human Capital
Hiring, training, and team building, as well as performance management and culture development

Business Development
Building brand, forming strategic alliances, targeted marketing and niche creation

Operations Optimization
Institutionalizing technology, services and time management, as well as client-base analysis and segmentation

Sales Development
Supporting growth objectives by optimizing sales experience and promoting value of relationships with clients

Technology

Technology boosts efficiency and choosing smart solutions can help you enhance your business and enrich your overall client experience. Our RIA technology platform is designed to help you do just that, and help you figure out the technology footprint that makes the most sense for your business.

Fidelity’s WealthCentral^® is an entirely web-based, turnkey custody platform that seamlessly integrates multiple technology solutions to make it easier to do business.

Orion’s innovative technology platform includes client experience tools, tax-intelligent rebalancing, efficient billing, integrated planning, and automated compliance monitoring, all aimed at empowering advisors to improve productivity and strengthen client relationships.

Redtail is a web-based, full-featured and easy-to-use client management solution designed specifically for financial professionals. Packed with new features, office automation, and of course it integrates with all the best technology.

Operations

We are a network of dedicated people, proven processes and state-of-the-art technology behind your business. By partnering with CLG, you gain direct access to our custodian. You can work through the CLG team or go directly to our custodian Fidelity for any follow up.

Compliance

Compliance should be proactive, not a reactionary nuisance. With all the regulatory changes in the industry, it’s good to have a team proactively looking out for your business to help protect its reputation. It’s even better when that team understands your side of the business firsthand.

We work with you as a partner in pursuing your business goals while minimizing risk along the way. We work with third-party partners like Advanced Regulatory Compliance, Inc. (ARC), a national full-service investment advisory compliance consulting firm backed by its association with The Law Offices of Patrick J. Burns, Jr., P.C., a securities law firm.

Together with companies like ARC, we help advisors with their ever-increasing compliance obligations in a challenging regulatory environment. We provide practical solutions to complex compliance issues with services such as registrations, mock audits, annual reviews, due diligence/verifications, compliance technology solutions, and compliance support and consultations.

Advisor Development

We want our financial advisors to be leaders within their industry. Part of our focus at every stage of your business development is sharing our thought leadership and ideas, solving problems together, networking with professionals in our industry, and prompting further creativity and innovation.

Here are just a few of the areas we help in your professional development:

Knowledge Sharing

Gain important information and insights from our professionals, resources and tools to build a rock- solid, profitable business.

Education

Our innovative training programs are designed to help you make the most of client relationships, better prospect opportunities and help you stay updated on the latest market news, products and client services.

Mentorships

Learn directly from our experienced advisors who are here to guide and mentor you on a variety of subjects, skills and ideas.

Networking

Tap our vast network built over the years in the industry and connect with colleagues, industry professionals and prospects.

Events

Participate in events throughout the year to build your network, knowledge and experience. Choose from day-long Business Building Summits, weekend retreats for top advisors, conference calls and sales meetings, networking events, workshops and trainings sessions, and more.

Succession Planning

Whether you are looking for a comprehensive exit strategy or want to structure a path to gain more freedom in how you use your time, we have a multi-tiered approach to creating a well-defined succession plan.

Continuity Planning

Before we help you prepare for the future, you must be covered for the present. We help you create an effective continuity plan to minimize disruption to your business and clients. We can also assist in ensuring your family is protected if you are unable to continue running your business.

Practice Valuation

We help you conduct an objective and realistic business valuation that carefully examines your expenses, your cash flow, and unique characteristics of your business model. We’ll help you arrive at an opinion of value based on objective facts and actual data from similar transactions, so you can make realistic plans and negotiate from a more informed position.

Identifying Successors

We are uniquely positioned to help you groom successors within your own business, sharpening their professional skills, and strengthening their business management capabilities. We can connect you to a deep bench of established financial advisors seeking to grow by mergers or acquisitions or introduce you to potential successors through our strong network of established industry relationships.