Empower is already the second-biggest U.S. plan provider by number of participants, behind Fidelity. The deal will add $314 billion in assets among 4,300 plans, boosting Empower's size to $1.4 trillion among 71,000 plans.
Former Voya, Nuveen exec Mike De Feo will head the company’s new business line.
The Massachusetts Securities Division discovered the alleged illegal activities while investigating a complaint of exploitation of senior citizens.
The actively managed ETF offers the narrowest of investment themes: a leveraged play on Bitcoin with the added twist of being easy on the planet.
The latest cash influx adds to more than $42 million in prior funding rounds and seed capital. Vestwell will also be a retirement plan record keeper available through Morgan Stanley’s workplace business.
The pandemic has created concerns about retirement security among millennials and Gen Xers.
Two of the advisers came from VCB Financial Group and one joined from Merrill Lynch.
The $3 billion Baltimore-area firm says it will use the funds to invest in its platform, expand its team and develop a national footprint through M&A.
The acquisition will leave Empower with a $1.4 trillion defined-contribution business with about 71,000 plans.
According to its stewardship report, the asset manager supported 35% of 843 shareholder proposals that it voted on in the recent proxy season, compared with 17% in the previous year.
Dollar giving was up 13% in fiscal 2021, while the number of grants rose 24%.
Four reps from Merrill Lynch join Janney, along with six advisers in two groups from Wells Fargo.
UBS in the Americas appears to be focusing on recruiting giant teams of private banking advisers as it continues to see experienced advisers walk to competitors.
The capital to purchase the $4.4B Los Angeles-based RIA came from private equity firm Leonard Green & Partners.
Los Angeles-based PBC Private Wealth will use LPL’s strategic wealth services, a unit that supports breakaways.
The acquired business was the pension administration arm of Friedman, a New York-based CPA firm.
The upstarts will focus on a particular niche of the marketplace they feel is underserved, such as advisers with foreign clients or advisers focused on a particular investment approach.
The wealth management business saw $25 billion of inflows of net new fee-generating assets across all regions and also made $7 billion in net new loans to rich clients in the quarter.
In a reversal of the reopening trade that has powered this year's equity rally, cyclical companies bore the brunt of Monday's sell-off.
Some firms mistakenly trim expenses too aggressively to lower their costs and maximize their earnings to attract buyers. It may seem counterintuitive, but the opposite approach can make a firm more desirable.
