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Sanctuary Partner Launches $400M RIA; Wealth Enhancement Snags $164M Firm
Mergers and acquisitions and advisor recruiting have stayed strong this summer in the registered investment advisor…
RIA Holding Company Aspen Standard Wealth Acquires $1.1B Boston Firm
Aspen Standard Wealth, a new holding company taking majority stakes in registered investment advisors, has acquired another…
How should an RIA create a marketing plan?
This is the 12th installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on…
Merchant Invests in Trust Company to Bring Those Services to RIA Network
Merchant Investment Management, a New York-based investment firm that provides growth capital and other support to independent…
Arax Investment Partners Pens 3rd $1B RIA Deal In 2025
Arax Investment Partners, a wealth management platform backed by private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners, has…
Touchstone Investments Revamps RIA Strategy with Key Leadership Hires
Touchstone Investments, a Cincinnati-based fund manager and subsidiary of Western & Southern Financial Group, is boosting…
How EBITDA multiples are misleading RIA sellers in wealth
Marc Schechter says it was right about the time the RIA he ran hit $1 billion…
RIA Tempo Wealth Launches with $650M, Executive Focus
Three financial advisors who took a years-long approach to setting up their own registered investment advisor…
Savvy Kicks Off Strategy to Lure Larger Teams With $270M RIA
Savvy Advisors, the registered investment advisor arm of platform provider Savvy Wealth, has added an advisor…
PE-Backed Lido Keeps Acquiring With $850M Utah-based RIA
Lido Advisors, a Los Angeles-based $30 billion registered investment advisor backed by private equity, has acquired…
Father-Son Duo Leave $5.4B Wealth Division to Form RIA
A father-son duo has left First Foundation Bank’s private wealth division, which has $5.4 billion in…
AssetMark Appoints Phill Rogerson to Lead RIA Channel Expansion
Concord, Calif-based AssetMark, a turnkey asset management platform and technology provider, has appointed Phill Rogerson as…
Cresset Shuffles C-Suite, Elevating Leader From Acquired RIA to CIO
Cresset, a Chicago-based registered investment advisor with more than $65 billion in client assets, has changed…
Why a Silicon Valley RIA sought AI notetakers
Welcome to “Show Me Your Stack,” a series from Financial Planning in which we interview those…
Bay Area Advisor Departs Commonwealth to Start Own RIA
Adam Spiegelman, a financial advisor based in Alamo, Calif., with about $400 million in assets under…
More Advisors Affiliating With RIA Consolidators
As mergers and acquisitions activity in the registered investment advisor space continues to break records, the…
$2.2B RIA Resonant Merges with Tax Firm QBCo
Resonant Capital Advisors, a $2.2 billion registered investment advisor based in Madison, Wis., is joining the…
SEI To Buy Majority Stake in RIA Network $37B Stratos
SEI, the Oaks, Pa.-based fintech and management accounts provider overseeing about $1.6 trillion in assets, has…
Innovative CPA Group Launches RIA To Capture Client Wealth Management Demand
The Innovative CPA Group, a Shelton, Conn.-based accounting firm, is taking a page from large registered…
Schwab Survey Reports Surging RIA Growth, But Capacity Challenges Emerge
The registered investment advisor space saw strong growth in 2024, but success may also be causing…