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,…

M&A Consultancy Gladstone Launches $500 RIA Seller Service

The market for registered investment advisors is so hot that all potential sellers need is $500…

Merchant Taps Ex-Ficomm, United Capital Exec to Bolster RIA Collaboration

Merchant Investment Management, a New York-based investment firm that provides growth capital and other support to…

Reimagining the Wealthstack After Nine RIA Acquisitions

I came to Wealthspire Advisors from their Private Ocean Acquisition about three years ago. I was…

Former CBIZ CIO Launches New RIA With an Alts Focus

Financial advisor Anna Rathbun, who stepped down as chief investment officer of CBIZ Investment Advisory Services…

How financial advisors should pick an RIA custodian

This is the eighth installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on…

RIA Edge 100: Financial Symmetry’s Home-Grown Growth

When Bill Ramsay started his advisory firm over 23 years ago, it was supported by sales-based…

RIA industry snapshot displays growth of wealth management

Registered investment advisory firms topped previous records in many key business metrics in 2024, with assets…

Focus Partners Wealth Merges in $5.6B California RIA

Bordeaux Wealth Advisors, a $5.6 billion AUM RIA in Menlo Park, Calif., has merged with Focus…