LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LPLA) Q3 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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Kyle Voigt: Great. Thank you. And then just for my follow-up just on the liquidity in succession solutions, that you’re now opening that externally. I guess is there any way to frame how meaningful that could be relative to the size of the capital deployed internally that you disclosed so far? And then second part of that question, and I know this topic comes up from time to time, but curious if you give us any updated thoughts on potentially offering your broader business solution suite externally?

Dan Arnold: Yes. So look, I think – let me take the strategic part of that and then I’ll turn it over to Matt to ask your capital or to address your capital question. So look, the liquidity and succession solution that we came up with was on the premise of solving a big need, right? A third of advisors potentially requiring over the next 10 years, certainly a relevant problem to solve. And the team did a great job of coming up with a differentiated creative solution that has ultimately been very appealing to existing LPL advisors that were facing that same problem and challenge. And I think because of its differentiated nature it made sense for us to take those learnings and insights and then go potentially offer that outside of our platform in doing that high probability to those assets.

And if we offered it to the external marketplace, would then move to the LPL platform, that would be the concept as another way to motivate them to move to our platform. Because of the demand and the interest that we’ve generated internally because of the learnings that we’ve had just in the basically 45 days we’ve been in market around it. We think it’s going to have some interest and be broadly appealing to the outside marketplace. We’ll learn more hard to size right now because we just don’t have enough data to support that. But we do think it’s appealing in another way to attract assets to the LPL platform and be a smart deployment of capital in order to do so. So that’s kind of where we are now in that journey. More to come as we learn more.

But at least that’s how we think about it strategically. With respect to our other services that we may offer outside of the platform. I think we continue to have set that aside as a future possibility. We continue to see opportunity internally on with respect to our growing number of advisories on the LPL platform and innovating on new solutions and expanding that portfolio set versus broadening the distribution outside of the LPL platform. So think about that as our near-term focus, continue to add more services and in supporting our growing platform here. I do think it’s a relevant question at some point to ask. Could you logically apply that outside of our advisory base, you want take that?

Matt Audette: Yes, Kyle, I think that, I mean the headline is that we, I wouldn’t see any different level of capital deployment taking it external other than to highlight when you’re taking this external, you’re really doing two events. There’s a recruiting event as well as the LNS transaction of putting succession solution. So think about from a capital deployment standpoint, a good frame would be that knowing that those two things would be occurring. But I think the headline point is that nothing from a capital standpoint that would be different than we talked about before. These are relatively small amounts of capital deployment on an individual level. It’s more about as Dan was covering the strategic connection and of this capability from an advisor standpoint and our long-term growth.

Kyle Voigt: Great. Thank you both.

Operator: And this concludes today’s conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.

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