Welcome to the fourth in a series of industry content from Panoramix designed to help advisors succeed in a more challenging operating environment.

Unfortunately, setting up a new RIA firm has many pitfalls and traps that advisors can fall into as this is a new area where they may not have all of the information they should and it truly has been a DIY (do it yourself) endeavor.

To help advisors in their RIA set ups, we have identified the top 5 areas that advisors need to make savvy, smart decisions to avoid making mistakes and costing themselves time and money.

When setting up a new RIA business, there are a lot of decisions to make and it can be overwhelming. Sometimes you might not know the ramifications of some of those decisions until months later. As technologists and RIA business analysts, we have worked with a lot of advisors just starting out or breaking away, and we have compiled a list of the top 5 things that advisors must manage when starting out.