Career-Transition Partnership - For Financial Advisors Approaching Retirement
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wealthbridge financial groupPhoenix (AZ)
Personal Financial AdvisorsPortfolio Management and Investment Advice
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
Alternate titles: Financial Advisor Retirement Transition
Sell Your Book of Business
Financial Advisor Succession Partnership
Advisor Book Acquisition
Location: United States (nationwide; in-person client continuity preferred in the advisor’s existing market)
Engagement Type: Book acquisition or continuation partnership (structure is flexible: sale, earn-out, gradual transition, or reduced-role continuation). For advisors continuing in a reduced-role production capacity, the ongoing classification is W-2 Statutory Employee of National Life Group (Internal Revenue Code)
3121(d)(3)(B) — full-time life insurance salesperson classification, Form W-2 Box 13 "Statutory employee" checked with commission-based compensation. Pure book-sale structures without a continuation role do not involve an employment relationship
About WealthBridge Financial Group
WealthBridge Financial Group is a wealth management firm with over 175 years of history helping clients navigate life’s financial complexities with confidence and clarity. Our mission: To Do Good - in our communities and for the families we serve . We Are Change Navigators. Specialties: Premium Financing, Digital Marketing, CPA Alliances, Advanced Planning . We are expanding across Arizona. Backed by National Life Group (A+ AM Best); securities and investment advisory services through Equity Services, Inc. (FINRA/SIPC). People. Impact. Outcome. Who this is for: This is a conversation for financial advisors who are planning to retire, reduce their practice, or transition to a reduced-role capacity within the next 12-60 months, and who want a clear path for the continuity of their clients’ service after they step back. Typical candidates:
Advisors 55-75 years old with an established book, no internal successor, and a desire to protect client relationships on exit.
Practices with meaningful annual production looking for acquisition or earn-out. Advisors facing family or health transitions who need a credible continuity partner.
Advisors whose captive firm does not offer a clean succession pathway.
What WealthBridge provides
Book acquisition or earn-out structures. Flexible deal structures - outright acquisition, multi-year earn-out, gradual transition, or a reduced-role continuation where you stay partially engaged on your terms.
Client continuity. Your clients are served by WealthBridge advisors who already operate on a comprehensive planning framework (the 7 planning areas). Clients experience continuity, not disruption.
Confidential valuation. We provide a book valuation based on product mix (life vs. annuity vs. advisory), persistency, trail economics, and AUM. Valuations use industry-standard methodologies referenced during the Discovery conversation.
Legacy protection. Your client relationships carry forward under WealthBridge’s service standards. You remain named in ongoing communications during transition where appropriate.
Optional reduced-role continuation. If you want to remain licensed and work a handful of longtime relationships while WealthBridge handles the rest, we can structure that.
What we look for
An established book of business (Life insurance, annuities, advisory, or a combination).
Good compliance history - clean U4/U5 or a willingness to disclose and discuss.
Client relationships where continuity of service would be welcomed.
A realistic exit timeline (12-60 months is typical).
The 4-step conversation
Confidential exploration
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Before you apply
Applying takes about a minute. These four things decide how fast it moves after that.
Your profile is current
It's what we read first. Occupations, seniority and locations matter more than a long history.
Two examples you can talk through
Not a portfolio — just two pieces of work where you can explain the decisions and what you'd change.
A number in mind
What you're on now and what would make you move. We negotiate better when we know both.
Your notice period
Employers plan around it, and it's the question that stalls offers most often.
Once you apply, someone reads it and calls you before anything reaches the employer — usually within two working days.
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