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Continuum Search Group provides platform-agnostic recruiting and advisory services to financial advisors exploring career transitions. These terms outline the nature of our services, our business model, and important disclosures.
By engaging with our services, you acknowledge and agree to these terms. Last updated: January 2025.
Recruiting Services: Continuum Search Group provides recruiting, advisory, and transition support services to financial advisors. We help advisors evaluate career opportunities across broker-dealers, RIAs, and other financial services platforms.
No Fiduciary Relationship: We are not acting as your fiduciary, attorney, tax advisor, or financial planner. We recommend consulting with independent legal, tax, and financial professionals before making any career transition decisions.
Platform-Agnostic Approach: While we maintain relationships with multiple financial services firms, we are not affiliated with or owned by any single broker-dealer or RIA. Our business model is designed to prioritize advisor alignment over firm preferences.
No Advisor Fees: Advisors never pay Continuum Search Group for our services. Our compensation comes exclusively from the firms where advisors choose to transition.
Firm Compensation: When an advisor successfully transitions to a new firm through our services, that firm compensates us with a placement fee, typically calculated as a percentage of the advisor's trailing 12-month production (generally 6-8%).
Transparency: This compensation structure does not create conflicts of interest in our recommendations, as our fee structure is standardized across firms. We are incentivized to find the right long-term match, not simply to facilitate any transaction.
Advisor Privacy: We treat all advisor conversations, data, and exploratory discussions as strictly confidential. We will never contact your current firm or disclose your interest in exploring opportunities without your explicit written permission.
Information Sharing: We only share your information with firms you have explicitly approved for introductions. All initial conversations can be conducted anonymously until you are comfortable proceeding with specific firms.
No Guarantees: We cannot guarantee specific outcomes, compensation packages, or transition success. Firm decisions, regulatory approvals, and client retention are outside our control.
Economic Modeling: Financial projections and economic modeling we provide are estimates based on available information and assumptions. Actual results may differ materially from projections.
Regulatory Compliance: Advisors are responsible for ensuring their transition complies with all applicable regulations, including FINRA rules, state securities laws, and contractual obligations. We recommend consulting with legal counsel.
Information Accuracy: While we strive to provide accurate information about firms, platforms, and opportunities, we cannot guarantee the completeness or accuracy of all information. Advisors should conduct independent due diligence.
Accurate Information: Advisors agree to provide accurate information about their practice, production, and circumstances to enable effective evaluation and matching.
Legal Compliance: Advisors are responsible for complying with all contractual obligations with their current firm, including non-solicitation agreements, notice periods, and protocol requirements.
Independent Judgment: All career decisions remain solely with the advisor. We provide guidance and support, but advisors must exercise independent judgment in evaluating opportunities.
Continuum Search Group's liability is limited to the direct services we provide. We are not liable for indirect, consequential, or punitive damages arising from career transitions, including but not limited to:
For questions about these terms or our services, please contact:
Continuum Search Group
Email: rick@continuumsearchgroup.com
Important: These terms are provided for informational purposes and do not constitute a binding contract until both parties execute a formal engagement agreement. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time.