
The Diamond Podcast for Financial Advisors Bringing Investment Banking to Advisors: How Elite Teams Get the Clarity They’ve Been Missing
Overview
Advisors are now weighing options once reserved for institutional executives. This conversation examines how a collaborative initiative between Diamond Consultants and Dynasty Investment Bank delivers objective, investment-banking-level analysis to help advisors evaluate value, control, and long-term outcomes with clarity.
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About this episode…
For the largest and most sophisticated advisory teams, the industry has reached an inflection point. Private equity continues to reshape valuations and deal structures. Retire-in-place programs at the wirehouses have become meaningfully more competitive. And multi-billion-dollar teams increasingly find themselves evaluating not just where to go next, but why—and what each option means from both a strategic and financial perspective.
Yet one thing has become clear: Most advisors have never had access to true investment-banking-level analysis around value, liquidity, and long-term economics.
As a result, they’ve been making the biggest decisions of their careers with incomplete or incomparable information.
That gap is exactly what inspired the creation of the Breakaway Investment Banking Initiative—a joint effort between Diamond Consultants and the Dynasty Investment Bank designed to bring objective, institutional-grade financial insight into the advisor decision-making process.
Sam Anderson, Chief Capital Officer and Co-Head of Dynasty Investment Bank at Dynasty Financial Partners, joins Louis Diamond to discuss the backstory and how this collaborative initiative can benefit elite advisors and teams, including:
- The breakaway landscape—and what’s changed in recent years.
- Private equity—and how it has influenced expectations.
- Autonomy vs. economics—and how to resolve the often-competing priorities.
- Short-term liquidity—and what its potential impact could be on long-term value.
It’s an objective, candid look at the strategic and financial considerations that shape the biggest decisions large advisory teams will ever make—and how the Breakaway Investment Banking Initiative is designed to provide greater clarity to help advisors make critical decisions.
Dynasty Investment Bank services are offered through Dynasty Securities, LLC, a broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC and a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynasty Financial Partners, LLC.
Want to learn more about where, why, and how advisors like you are moving? Click to contact us or call 908-879-1002.
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Sam Anderson
Chief Capital Officer, Co-Head of Investment Banking
Sam Anderson is the Co-Head of Dynasty Investment Bank at Dynasty Financial Partners LLC. Prior to joining Dynasty, Sam was Senior Managing Director and a member of the Management Committee at Medley Management Inc. Prior to joining Medley, Sam was Head of Commercial Finance M&A within the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Sam was a member of the Investment Banking Financial Services Group at Bank of America. Prior to his time at Bank of America, Sam held various positions at Citi Smith Barney.
Sam is from New Portland Maine, a graduate of Bates College where he received his BA in Economics and was Captain of the Bates NCAA Division I alpine ski team. Sam currently lives in Vail Colorado with his wife Lisa and their three children. Sam and family are active in numerous local charities with a focus on youth sports.






