Creative Planning, an Overland Park, Kansas-based registered investment adviser managing $48 billion, has acquired Starfire Investment Advisers, a Southfield, Michigan, RIA managing $530 million.
Starfire was founded 29 years ago.
The deal is Creative Planning's eighth acquisition this year, and follows last Tuesday's announcement that it had acquired another firm located in Kansas, $700 million Sunrise Advisors.
Two RIAs expand their geographic footprints with deals in New York's Capital Region and coastal Alabama.
A 27-year Merrill veteran, Florida advisors, and a trio of New Jersey advisors just moved to new platforms.
Broker-dealer expands its model portfolio platform with modular building block strategies designed to give advisors greater customization at scale.
The mega-RIA with roughly $160 billion in client assets remains firmly in acquisition mode amid rumors of private equity giants vying to scoop it up.
Record annuity demand for principal protection collides with the most hawkish Fed dissent since 2016.
Northern Trust’s Ken Lassner shows advisors how to convert volatility into after-tax portfolio gains
Dan Biagini of American Equity says the steady decline of pensions, longer lifespans and a reset in interest rates are rewriting how advisors build retirement income
