As the week draws to an end, another three firms have announced the addition of advisors to their respective headcounts.
The most explicit independence‑driven move among the three is the decision by Wilson Peak Wealth Management to join LPL Financial’s broker‑dealer and RIA platform while aligning with Private Advisor Group for infrastructure and supervision.
Based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Wilson Peak is led by financial advisors Jeffrey J. Wilson, CFP, and Michael Sadowski, CFP, who reported serving approximately $150 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets before the transition from Wells Fargo Advisors.
By structuring the move around both LPL and Private Advisor Group, Wilson Peak is effectively splitting the functions of scale and oversight. LPL provides the multi‑custodial product platform and core technology, while Private Advisor Group supplies centralized compliance, practice‑management and operational support that many smaller offices struggle to build on their own.
Raymond James, meanwhile, has recruited a Missouri‑based financial advisor managing roughly $175 million in client assets to its employee advisor channel, Raymond James & Associates. Financial advisor Janet Bone, CFP, focuses on local markets outside the coastal metros, where long‑standing community ties can still be a differentiator.
Raymond James added two other advisors this week, one to its employee advisor channel and one to its independent advisor channel.
Finally, at TritonPoint Partners, its new addition marks another step in the firm’s push to build a network of independent advisory teams in the US Northeast. The firm is powered by Dynasty Financial Partners.
Jonathan Amoia has joined the firm as Managing Director and founder of Advocate Wealth, joining a structure that centers on shared ownership among partner firms, with centralized infrastructure and support sitting behind local practices. The move broadens TritonPoint’s coverage of high‑net‑worth and business‑owner clients in the region, adding another multi‑advisor team to a platform that has been built around combining advisory equity stakes with a common operating framework.
Chicago-based Mesirow Fiduciary Solutions adds flexPATH's plan-level outsourced fiduciary book, boosting its retirement market reach to $164 billion.
Also, Raymond James's employee advisor channel adds breakaways from Wells Fargo and Stifel, while UBS welcomes an ex-Morgan Stanley duo in Indiana.
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