Spike in trading and share price fuel speculation that B-D parent is acquisition target.
Fiera Capital pays $125M for Bel Air Investment Advisors, also buys N.Y. manager Wilkinson O'Grady.
With two major mergers already in the books this month, advisers in the midst of selling their practices are going all-out to complete those deals and avoid looming tax hikes
Beacon Pointe to buy Wealth Management Network on Monday; a trend?
Cetera has hired Steve Dunlap, an executive at Bank of New York Mellon's Lockwood Advisors, to replace Barnaby Grist, who is leaving at the end of the month.
RIAs continue to surge while full-service brokerage firms sputter
New partnership has $400 million in assets, more than 200 clients.
Deloitte report says innovations in pricing, products and services can bring this crowd back.
If the full-service corporate RIA model is the mainland and the independent RIA-only model is an island, the open architecture of the RIA hybrid could be considered the bridge between the two.
'Serial' buyers - firms doing three or more deals - becoming more common.
Latest deal increases roster of partner firms to 27
Fourth quarter flurry helped boost numbers over 2011 tally but just barely.
LPL enjoyed a solid financial quarter, but their adviser recruiting remained sluggish. Is there an end in sight for this slowdown?
Advisers too busy adding clients and assets to pursue transactions.
Advisers on the east coast hunker down ahead of Hurricane Sandy, described by meteorologists as a 'once-in-a-century' storm.
