The 35-year-old co-founder of AdvicePay and XY Planning said he got the AdvicePay board's blessing late last year to make the transition.
Falls Church, Virginia-based Washington Wealth Advisors is led by Maura Schauss and Todd Youngdahl.
Both TC Wealth Partners and the firm it purchased, EFG Advisors, are based in the suburbs of Chicago.
Look for independent broker-dealers flush with interest-rate revenue to emerge as credible threats to the mergers-and-acquisitions status quo.
As a consultant, Duran will focus on Goldman’s effort to become a leading custodian to RIAs, working with the head of Goldman’s RIA offering, Padi Raphael.
The product can benefit any investor with a taxable account, not just the wealthiest clients, says a panelist at the ETF Exchange conference.
The independent registered investment advisor has partnered with Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions for its custody services.
As it enters its fifth year, Investor.com has been redesigned to make it easier for investors to digest a financial firm's disciplinary history and conflicts.
Spreading fixed-income exposure over several years of maturities provides predictable income in an unpredictable economic environment.
As portfolio management becomes increasingly commoditized, advisors make the case for managing assets in-house and promoting that to clients as a unique value-add.
PE firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice offered $53 per share for the RIA aggregator, adding fuel to the 24% rally in Focus' shares so far this year.
But it hasn't been all wins for the firm's efforts to compete in a market dominated by brokers like Charles Schwab Corp. and Fidelity.
Smaller firms can still flourish amid the rampant M&A activity, but they need to employ targeted client development and strategic outsourcing.
Legacy Financial Planning has offices in Rochester and Oswego, New York, and Naples, Florida.
The 90-year-old active management complex is launching 12 model portfolios that combine its active mutual funds with ETFs from Schwab, Vanguard and BlackRock.
Robert Levitt has traded Florida for the French Riviera, where he sees a wide-open market in the 250,000 Americans living there who need financial advice.
With the cryptocurrency's price up 40% so far this year, a new report shows a doggedly bullish outlook among investors and advisors willing to look past extreme volatility.
The advisor, Anthony B. Liddle, 40, was barred from the securities industry last June by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.
Meanwhile, though, some RIA buyers are 'dancing' to get necessary capital to do deals, says Dan Seivert of Echelon Partners.
According to data collected from 14,000 RIAs, 80% are using digital client onboarding tools.
