The platform, called the SS&C Advent Insurance Marketplace, allows advisers to access a range of fee-only products through Black Diamond Wealth Platform and DPL's proprietary Product Discovery tools.
The Boston-based firm will acquire Calabasas, California-based Legacy Wealth Partners.
Those 62 and older profit from cost-of-living adjustments even if they're not yet collecting benefits.
The model provides simplicity, with a single investment lineup, and also offers record-keeping pricing advantages.
The addition of Budros Ruhlin & Roe will give the Toronto-based aggregator a total of $74 billion in U.S. wealth management assets.
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The company unveiled a new tool, called My Financial Plan, that is certainly akin to the work done by financial advisers, but is stressing publicly that it is not eying an avenue back into the wealth management business.
The company maintained its healthy recruiting pace over the first two quarters of the year even as losses continued to mount among its wirehouse competitors.
Robert Batick moves from Westport Capital, while Norman Coates made the switch from LPL Financial.
As a rookie adviser, Vidal Peoples met a doctor in need of comprehensive financial planning. He taps into the kind of professionals whose incomes can skyrocket but are also saddled with mountains of student loan debt.
Avan recently became SVP and head of global women's and under-represented talent strategy, global human resources for Bank of America.
UN-backed panel on climate change warns time is running out to stop global warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The rise of $1-billion-plus mega RIAs in the space, fed by an influx of private capital and deal-making, is a further sign of the business model’s maturity.
Inflows to the accounts rise to $4.7 billion during the quarter, from $3.7 billion in the first three months of the year.
The leading TAMP by assets is racking up the number of advisers on its platform and new accounts are opening at a faster pace than prior quarters, said CEO Bill Crager in an earnings call.
The advisers are based in Virginia and the Carolinas; there's also one rep joining Janney from Wells Fargo.
The effort, WA Cares, is the first of its kind in the US and could serve as a model for other states.
Athene will provide benefits to about 18,000 participants in Lockheed’s pension plan. The deal follows a 2018 agreement between the two companies in which Athene assumed $800 million in obligations tied to around 9,000 retirees and beneficiaries of the aerospace giant’s pension plan.
Serafini Financial Group managed $853 million before the transaction.
