Unique branding, strategic outsourcing for RIA growth

What do a Colorado farm kid turned succession planning attorney, an Atlanta-based flat-fee planner for “elder…

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…

Creative Plannings Snag Hawaii RIA; $5.1 True North Expands in SF

Creative Planning Adds $430M Hawaii-based RIA Creative Planning, the mega-registered investment advisor based in Overland Park,…