Wealth Management

JUNE 26, 2025

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The Big Picture

JULY 16, 2025

At The Money: The Right Way to Spend Your Money in Retirement (July 16, 2025) One of the biggest challenges of retirement is actually spending your money! She joins Barry Ritholtz to discuss what you need to know about planning for retirement. She is the Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning at Morningstar.

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Wealth Management

JULY 17, 2025

Innovative CPA Group, which has been doing accounting and tax work since 2017, this month launched Innovative Asset Advisors Group, an RIA focused on investment management, financial administration, tax planning and preparation, and estate and trust strategies.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Which could prove to be a boon for the financial advice industry as more consumers are willing to entrust their assets to an advisor (while at the same time possibly making it tougher for some advisors to differentiate themselves primarily by how they put their clients' interests first?).

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Wealth Management

JULY 18, 2025

Resonant Capital Merges with Tax, Accounting Firm QBCo by Alex Ortolani Jul 18, 2025 1 Min Read SEC Chair Paul Atkins Alternative Investments SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully by Nicola M. One is training programs and peer groups.

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Abnormal Returns

JUNE 16, 2025

Podcasts Michael Batnick talks with Tim White and Danny Lohrfink of Wealth.com about trends estate planning. kitces.com) Josh Brown and Nick Sapienza break down a real-life case study of couple with $3 million in assets and a desire to retire. alphaarchitect.com) Advisers How to plan for purpose in retirement.

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Wealth Management

JULY 3, 2025

manages about $300 million in client assets. Jacob William Advisory has proactively recruited next-generation advisors as part of its business continuity plan. Dixon-James launched Resilient Wealth Management in 2020 and now manages about $250 million in advisory, brokerage and retirement plan assets.

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Wealth Management

JULY 1, 2025

billion in client assets, expanding Steward’s presence in the Bay Area. The RIA serves high-net-worth individuals and families in Northern California with portfolios exceeding $10 million in assets. Its affiliate company, Simplex Wealth Management, serves clients with $1 million or more in assets. Seo and a team of about 10.

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Wealth Management

JULY 9, 2025

Podcasts & Videos CE Webinars Research Newsletters Subscribe Subscribe News Related Topics RIA IBD Wirehouse RPA Insights & Analysis Regulation & Compliance Career Moves Recent in News See all fixed income data computer fintech WealthTech Former Citadel Quants Raise $36M for Fixed-Income Fintech Former Citadel Quants Raise $36M for Fixed-Income (..)

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Abnormal Returns

MARCH 10, 2025

kitces.com) Estate planning Estate plans are a big lift for everyone, including advisers themselves. kindnessfp.com) Why clients need to organize their digital assets for estate planning purposes. wealthmanagement.com) The number of cash balance plans are on the rise. abnormalreturns.com)

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Wealth Management

JULY 15, 2025

True North Expands in SF Deals & Moves: Creative Plannings Snag Hawaii RIA; $5.1B has acquired a team in Hawaii overseeing $430 million in client assets. Mosaic Pacific, founded in 2014, will grow Creative Planning’s footprint in the Pacific region and bring on board about six more advisors, along with compliance and support staff.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2025

Mark Evans Artificial Intelligence Conquest Planning Raises $80M to Accelerate US Expansion Conquest Planning Raises $80M to Accelerate US Expansion Jun 23, 2025 Sign Up for Newsletters Sign up to receive the latest insights, trends, and analysis.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 12, 2025

What Are the Best Asset Classes for Active Management? Low-cost passive wrappers work well for core equity investing, but certain asset classes are more conducive to active management. The industry’s heyday came in the 1980s and ’90s, when stocks soared and rockstar mutual fund managers like Peter Lynch raked in assets.

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Wealth Management

JULY 2, 2025

Let’s say your planning tool doesn’t integrate with your CRM. An AI agent observes your behavior, interprets unstructured notes, and programmatically updates the CRM with relevant action items, family data, asset allocation, and risk metrics—all without middleware. No problem.

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Wealth Management

JULY 18, 2025

Resonant Capital Merges with Tax, Accounting Firm QBCo by Alex Ortolani Jul 18, 2025 1 Min Read SEC Chair Paul Atkins Alternative Investments SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully by Nicola M.

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Abnormal Returns

JULY 21, 2025

(morningstar.com) Frazer Rice talks with Brandon Rains of the Rains Law Firm about the challenges of estate planning. trillion in assets. kitces.com) How optimism affects planning for retirement. thinkadvisor.com) Why succession plans matter. citywire.com) Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is done fighting crypto.

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Wealth Management

JULY 15, 2025

billion in client assets in 2025. Is a Roth Conversion Worth It for All Clients? The firm’s founders are two second-generation advisors breaking away from Raymond James along with their fathers. I wouldn’t be in this business without my dad,” Hack said.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

You can't do this in isolation, you need a team," said Terranova, senior managing director at Virtus Investment Partners, when asked by WealthManagement.com Executive Editor Diana Britton about who he uses as his advisor to handle tax and estate planning and more. “I

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Wealth Management

JULY 1, 2025

Boston-Area RIA by Diana Britton Jul 1, 2025 2 Min Read Investment Related Topics Alternative Investments Digital Assets Equities ETFs Fixed Income Investing Strategies Mutual Funds Real Estate SMAs Recent in Investment See All Alternative investment visualization with stacks of coins and percentage signs.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Will More Wealth Advisors Gravitate to 401(k) Plans? Edward Jones has over $50 billion in assets in its UMA business. In April, it announced that private assets would be part of that business. Natixis, however, will continue to provide direct indexing services to Edward Jones. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Wealth Management

JULY 15, 2025

True North Expands in SF Deals & Moves: Creative Plannings Snag Hawaii RIA; $5.1B According to JPMorgan, Calcote worked with about 269 households managing approximately $206 million in client assets. JPMorgan claimed that on June 4, Calcote called her supervisor to tell him she was resigning.

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Wealth Management

JULY 2, 2025

Related: Planning for Older Clients and Those with Disabilities Many GRATs include a so-called “swap” power in which the grantor is permitted to substitute assets of equivalent value with the GRAT. Handler is a partner in the Trusts and Estates Practice Group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Quintiles Transnational Corp.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 17, 2025

Mariner is seeking to bolster its independent registered investment advisor channel by hiring Rob Sandrew to oversee the division, which includes more than 1,100 advisors and about $40 billion in client assets. Sandrew joined the RIA in 2016 and helped it grow from about $3 billion in client assets to more than $21 billion.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 25, 2025

But we’re a financial planning-based firm, which creates some simplicity in how we allocate assets. They do have a lot more bells and whistles. Depending on your firm type, you may need those bells and whistles.

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Wealth Management

JULY 10, 2025

Podcasts & Videos CE Webinars Research Newsletters Subscribe Subscribe News Related Topics RIA IBD Wirehouse RPA Insights & Analysis Regulation & Compliance Career Moves Recent in News See all Morgan Stanley office door Industry News & Trends Court Strikes Down Morgan Stanley Appeal in Deferred Compensation Class Action Lawsuit Court (..)

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Podcasts & Videos CE Webinars Research Newsletters Subscribe Subscribe News Related Topics RIA IBD Wirehouse RPA Insights & Analysis Regulation & Compliance Career Moves Recent in News See all handshake hurdles M&A Understanding the Client Retention Hurdle in RIA Sales Understanding the Client Retention Hurdle in RIA Sales by Derek (..)

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Abnormal Returns

APRIL 21, 2025

(kitces.com) Peter Lazaroff talks with Christine Benz about the most overlooked parts of a retirement plan. thinkadvisor.com) The biz How Vanguard could integrate private assets. riabiz.com) The battle over online estate planning is only heating up.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

Reassess Your Team’s Role Your team is one of your most critical assets—and often one of the most overlooked areas in a mid-year evaluation. If you find more friction than momentum, it may be time to rethink what’s possible — not to chase change, but to ensure you’re set up to thrive.

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 15, 2025

Misty is the owner of Sound View Financial Advisors, an RIA based in Walpole, Massachusetts, that oversees $46 million in assets under management for approximately 100 client households. Welcome to the 446th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Misty Lynch.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

Austin-based Kestra oversees about $142 billion in client assets through its companies, including independent broker/dealer Kestra FInancial, through 1,800 advisors, according to its websites. Bluespring made a similar move in March 2024 to merge two firms into a $1.4

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Each discussed how providing a more holistic approach to distribution-phase planning in their practices can amp up organic growth for advisory firms. Today, firms are using it to quickly build proposal decks and help advisors consolidate held-away assets. Now, two years in, it has built AI agents to automate document processing.

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Wealth Management

JULY 18, 2025

Resonant Capital Merges with Tax, Accounting Firm QBCo by Alex Ortolani Jul 18, 2025 1 Min Read SEC Chair Paul Atkins Alternative Investments SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully SEC’s Atkins Says Changes to 401(k) Plans Must Be Reviewed Carefully by Nicola M.

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Wealth Management

JULY 22, 2025

Related: Rise Growth-Backed Bleakley Rebrands to OnePoint BFG Wealth Partners Wood had previously advised on client assets of about $502 million and said communication and planned moves for those clients were going well so far. As of June, Steward Partners had over $40 billion in total assets, 590 partners, 296 advisors and 73 offices.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

In this episode of the RIA Edge Podcast, Jalina Kerr of Charles Schwab shares how the most adaptive firms are expanding beyond portfolio management, into areas like estate and tax planning, which have far more profound impacts on client outcomes than marginal tweaks to an allocation model or changes in asset managers and investment funds.

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Yardley Wealth Management

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Benefits of Waterfall Wealth Management Managing significant assets can be complex. Key benefits include: Ensuring essential financial obligations are met first – Taxes, estate planning, and retirement savings take precedence. Strategic long-term planning – Provides a roadmap for surplus wealth allocation.

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WiserAdvisor

JUNE 13, 2025

Keeping it safe, growing it wisely, and using it to support your future takes careful planning. It plays a crucial role in helping people achieve financial stability, prepare for retirement, and leave a lasting legacy for their families. Yet even the best financial plans can stumble. Take the year 2022, for example.

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Harness Wealth

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Fully Utilize Tax-Advantaged Retirement and Savings Accounts There are multiple steps you can take using retirement accounts to reduce your taxable income. Review the following strategies to see what works best for you as the year ends and as you plan for next year. GET STARTED 1. For those over 50, the limit is $8,000.

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