Succession Planning for Registered Investment Advisors

A system for matching registered investment advisors based upon succession planning objectives, the system comprising a server computing device configured to:

• receive a matching request from a first client computing device, the request including an identity of a first registered investment advisor and a succession planning track assigned to the first registered investment advisor;
• generate a list of one or more other registered investment advisors based upon the succession planning track assigned to the first registered investment advisor, wherein the list includes an identity for each of the one or more other registered investment advisors;
• transmit the list to the first client computing device;
• receive a selection of a second registered investment advisor from the list;
• and
• transmit a notification to a second client computing device associated with the second registered investment advisor.

A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for matching registered investment advisors based upon succession planning objectives, the computer program product including instructions operable to cause a server computing device to:

• receive a matching request from a first client computing device, the request including an identity of a first registered investment advisor and a succession planning track assigned to the first registered investment advisor;
• generate a list of one or more other registered investment advisors based upon the succession planning track assigned to the first registered investment advisor, wherein the list includes an identity for each of the one or more other registered investment advisors;
• transmit the list to the first client computing device;
• receive a selection of a second registered investment advisor from the list;
• and
• transmit a notification to a second client computing device associated with the second registered investment advisor.