Mariner Wealth Advisors, an Overland Park, Kansas-based wealth firm managing $55 billion in assets, has acquired Granite Investment Advisors, a Concord, New Hampshire-based registered investment adviser.
Simultaneous with the acquisition, Martha Cottrill and Ed Taylor, previously with Taylor, Cottrill, Erickson & Associates, also in Concord, joined Mariner. The two advisers and Granite collectively add $1.3 billion in assets under advisement to Mariner.
Terms of the arrangements were not disclosed.
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