Why Ric Edelman is going private
Edelman Financial Group isn't big enough to develop the liquidity and attention of analysts needed for institutional investors to trade the stock, Edelman says.
If there is a lesson in Ric Edelman's decision to take his advisory and planning firm private, it may be that the RIA business is still too much of a cottage industry to merit public ownership.
Last week, when he announced that The Edelman Financial Group Inc. will be acquired by private-equity fir
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