Why Advisors Lose Clients During Transitions

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A 20-minute walkthrough is enough to show you whether this works for your book.

Running many advisor transitions at once invites duplicate ACATS submissions that reject and stall accounts. Here is why duplicates happen, what the system does when an account is already in an open transfer, and the controls that stop double-submission before it costs you days.

An advisor's book spread across three custodians does not move as one transfer. Here is how to sequence a multi-custodian transition: which custodian to onboard first, how to batch the repapers, and the ordering that protects AUM instead of scattering your team across three front

ACATS moves whole shares and leaves fractions behind. Here is exactly why fractional shares and dividend-reinvestment positions do not transfer cleanly, how the residual sweep works, and the pre-submission steps that keep them from stranding client assets during a repaper.