Dave Welling, Mercer Advisors’ CEO, says the key to succeeding at RIA M&A is what happens after the deal has been struck.
'There's more net new RIAs being created every year, so consolidation is still a long way from playing out,' Bob Oros says.
The Indianapolis advisory practice, which includes a five-decade industry veteran, is Sanctuary's third big firm in the area.
Expressive Wealth, led by women, takes an approach that includes having a clinical psychologist on staff.
Two partner firms combine to provide enhanced services for clients and team.
The partner-owned national RIA’s merger with a $279M advisor duo marks its first expansion into Boulder.
The RIA is expanding its capabilities in retirement planning by buying with a Rochester, New York-based practice formerly with LPL.
It's highly unusual in the securities industry for a broker-dealer to put up such resistance to a regulator like the SEC.
Mergers on both sides of the border are being driven by private equity firms pumping money into RIAs.
The companies 'explicitly agreed not to hire or recruit each other’s asset and wealth management professionals,' according to a lawsuit.
Based in New Jersey, newly launched Drucker Wealth oversees $750 million in assets for more than 800 clients.
The RIA industry faces challenges related to changing demographics and rising expectations, Duran says.
The RIA’s first M&A transaction in Maryland sees it snap up Keeney Financial Group, a 10-member team.
The acquisition of the Seattle-based multifamily office deepens the national RIA’s UHNW presence in the Pacific Northwest.
The rapidly growing firm has added RIAs in New York and Michigan to its national footprint.
‘We are going down a path of trying to change this paradigm of financial advice.’
'Wealth management deals held pretty firm last year compared to all other areas of investment banking,' one banker notes.
The San Francisco-based firm is adding a Connecticut-based practice from Hightower.
The agreement to merge GW & Wade's $10.4 billion practice with The Colony Group marks another major step in the wealth network’s new hub strategy.
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