Transforming Your Wealth Program with LPL Focus Insights

Focus is LPL Financial’s annual flagship conference that provides financial professionals the opportunity to learn from acclaimed leaders, influencers, and peers. At this year’s event, LPL Financial debuted an improved experience for institution leaders. Our carefully curated programming featured breakout sessions dedicated to top-of-mind issues for today’s wealth management executives: growth, efficiency and transformation.

With over $500M in technology investment in 2024 alone, LPL continues to advance from an independent broker-dealer into a full-stack, consultative wealth partner. This transformation is driving over 350 product enhancements annually, including:

• Personalized advisor tools
• Streamlined onboarding
• A unified wealth platform integrating trust, brokerage, and advisory services

Today, we support 1,100+ institutions* managing $1.9T in brokerage and advisory*, and we’re just getting started.

We’re committed to empowering our community of leading institutions with both technology and actionable insights — a mission that underpinned the development of this year’s Institutions breakout sessions geared towards program leaders and wealth executives.

Here are important takeaways from this year’s sessions:

1. Attract and retain top advisor talent: The advisor talent gap is no longer a future concern — it's impacting our industry now. Building a strong recruiting strategy and a thoughtful succession plan is essential to driving growth and creating the economic opportunity needed to attract, retain, and reward a multigenerational team of advisors. Hear our client's success stories.
2. Guide growth through the right KPIs: Setting clear goals using key performance indicators such as Net New Asset Growth and Return on Assets can help program leaders drive growth and align with their institutions’ objectives.
3. Drive increased efficiency: More institutions are leaning into managed institutional relationships to unlock results to scale smarter. See how LPL can help.
4. Find new growth levers like financial planning: Active planning can be a powerful growth engine, driving stronger client outcomes and business growth. With proven frameworks, pricing strategies and real-world insights from experienced peers, institution advisors can deliver more value and stand out in a competitive market.
5. Turn operational challenges into opportunities: Common roadblocks like staffing gaps and time constraints can be addressed with scalable strategies that pave new avenues for progress.
6. Enhance your client experience through technology: Leveraging tools to optimize the trading processes, customize proposals creation and streamline operations are critical to saving advisors time to focus on what matters most: fostering stronger relationships with clients. Watch clients talk about LPL tech solutions.
7. Prepare for evolving regulations: Working with the right partners can help institutions navigate anticipated overhauls in bank merger rules, emerging fintech and AI oversight proposals, and retirement-related tax changes,

As the industry continues to evolve, institutions need a partner who can deliver both the strategic insight and scalable solutions to meet today’s challenges — and tomorrow’s opportunities. The conversations, insights, and connections from Focus 2025 are just the beginning, and we look forward to continuing this momentum together.