This is an archive of It’s Your Money and Your Life, the KFMB show Joe Vecchio and Richard Muscio recorded from 2011 to 2018. Leaving these interviews up is not an endorsement of anyone on the tapes, or of any financial advice from those years.

Richard Muscio Reveals Three Imperative Principles of Great Business Succession Planning

September 12, 2012



In his his most recent talk to financial planners, Richard Muscio asserts that solid, strategic, business planning should not be founded only on the precise drafting of documents and the most efficient number-crunching techniques in relation to reducing income taxes and wealth transfer taxes. Instead, business planning succession should focus on valuation, collaboration, and governance as the three imperative principles needed to ensure successful succession planning, whether for a large or a small business.

What type of family business are you planning for? Do we have a business-first family or a family-first business?”