FA Match debuts digital recruiting platform for financial firms

FA Match has finally debuted, and hits the market as a digital recruiting platform that links RIA firms, banks, wirehouses, and independent broker-dealers professionals looking to advance their careers.

Available across the industry, FA Match’s Mutual Match tech helps advisors to discreetly search for job opportunities and build relationships with deserving firms on the basis of mutual compatibility.

FA Match creates a unique advisor profile for each candidate, which includes qualitative and quantitative search criteria based on location, employee benefits and service offerings. Firms who wish to join the platform and seek candidates have the ability to filter advisors by revenue, AUM, years of service, professional licensing, breakaway status and more. There is no monthly cost for either party to use the platform – rather, firms pay an industry-standard fee completely contingent on FA Match’s promise to place quality candidates.

“From top to bottom, FA Match is centered around the advisor. It’s discrete, it’s smart, and most of all, it allows advisors to navigate quality career opportunities on their own terms with no strings attached,” said CEO Ryan Shanks, who also founded Finetooth Consulting in 2006, one of the industry’s leading advisor recruitment firms. “With FA Match, we’ve intentionally flipped the recruiting process on its head – because when advisors have full control of the process, firms benefit from higher-quality, intentional searches that yield better results for the future of their business.”

Once advisors and firms show mutual interest, FA Match discloses identifying information about the advisor with their permission and continues as a liaison between both parties. From organizing the initial conference bridge, to transcribing and emailing the call notes, FA Match streamlines the administrative tasks to ensure that both parties’ valuable time is best spent on the relationship at hand.

In addition to connecting advisors and firms together, FA Match is a digital solution for traditional recruitment agencies looking to scale and grow their search capabilities.

“The fact of the matter is, our recruiting industry has been plagued by bad apples who have given us a reputation for inflated egos, secret alliances and no-guarantee pricing models,” continued Shanks. “Our mission is to eradicate these practices that are doing nothing but slowing our industry down. We believe that by working hand-in-hand with our trusted recruiting friends and partners, we can all come together to positively impact the future of the advisor landscape.”

FA Match secured $500,000 in its initial round of seed capital funding, led by Mass Mutual along with other influential strategic investors from the financial technology community. The funding was raised to help reach and drive adoption among advisors, firms and recruitment agencies alike. FA Match launched its beta software in October 2018, adding 14 financial firms onto the platform, including Atria Wealth Solutions.

“We are very excited about Atria’s partnership with FA Match,” said the $50 billion wealth management firm’s chief growth officer and founding partner, Kevin Beard. “As the industry evolves, advisors are reimagining what the right home for them looks like – they are focused on finding a firm like Atria that can support them in their growth while elevating the client experience. FA Match helps advisors make the best choice for aligning their practice with the best firm to achieve their goals. We think FA Match will lead Atria to more actionable meetings with the right candidates. We see great things ahead for this partnership with Ryan and his team.” 

SOURCE FA Match
Edited by K. Fanning

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