Top tips: Selling your business

Top tips on selling your business

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David Hesketh, M&A manager at Perspective Financial Group, gives his top tips on selling your business.

The countdown to the new RDR environment is well underway as we move towards the end of 2012 and the fundamental shift in the IFA world that this will bring. There is no doubt this is a significant period in the life of all IFA firms and there will be many business owners and individual advisers who have yet to decide which route they want to take. Unfortunately time is certainly not on your side, especially when we consider the qualification requirements and therefore ‘decision time’ is certainly upon us. Many IFA firm owners might look at the road-map to RDR and what is required of ...

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