Mariner Wealth Advisors buying $256 million Pittsburgh-based firm

Mariner Wealth Advisors buying $256 million Pittsburgh-based firm
Executive Wealth Counselors will assume the Mariner name when the deal closes at the end of the month.
SEP 20, 2022

Mariner Wealth Advisors, an Overland Park, Kansas-based wealth firm advising on $60 billion, is acquiring Executive Wealth Counselors, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based firm managing $256 million.

The acquisition, terms of the which were not disclosed, is scheduled to close Sept. 30, Mariner Wealth said in a press release Tuesday.

Executive Wealth Counselors was founded in 2007 and currently has four associates, including three advisers. It is headed by owner Louis Valli and will adopt the Mariner name.

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