Prime Capital Investment Advisors Buys Cornerstone Comprehensive Wealth Management
Wealth Management
MARCH 9, 2023
With $400 million in assets, Cornerstone is the 15th acquisition in PCIA history and builds on roughly 500% growth in just five years.
Bluespring Merges Two Texas-Based Firms to Create $1.4B RIA
Wealth Management
JUNE 10, 2025
RIA SilverStar Wealth moves from being a Kestra-affiliated firm to being part of Bluespring’s Texas-based LifeBridge Financial Group. RIA SilverStar Wealth moves from being a Kestra-affiliated firm to being part of Bluespring’s Texas-based LifeBridge Financial Group. RIA Bluespring Merges Two Texas-Based Firms to Create $1.4B
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Mariner Hires M&A Lead Rob Sandrew to Oversee $40B Independent Channel
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. AUM from UBS RBC Attracts Three Advisors Totaling $1.1B The Bahnsen Group Names President, CFO $7.5B
World Investment Advisors Acquires $3.5B Raymond James Team
Wealth Management
JULY 17, 2024
Fresh off a rebrand, World Investment Advisors adds Boston Harbor Wealth Advisors, as it continues to build out its wealth business.
Equitable Buys Bank Subsidiary Penn Investment Advisors
Wealth Management
AUGUST 19, 2022
The $600 million acquisition advances Equitable’s wealth management growth strategy.
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Abnormal Returns
JANUARY 13, 2025
(riabiz.com) The biz A Q&A with Dave Welling CEO of Mercer Advisors about their new equity partner. citywire.com) Mariner Wealth Advisors has purchased institutional consultant Cardinal Investment Advisors. kitces.com) 9 questions for Bob Veres about future of wealth management. 199A deductions.
World Investment Advisors Launches Managed Account Platform
Wealth Management
MARCH 25, 2025
The RIA aggregator will offer both in-house and third-party investment strategies on the platform, which will be led by former Vestmark product lead Lauren Yeaton Hunt.
An Investment Advisor Takes Another Look at Life Insurance
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
A sensible move for both the firm and its clients?
Arax Adds $4B Michigan-based RIA
Wealth Management
JUNE 2, 2025
Schechter Investment Advisors, a boutique wealth advisory firm based in an affluent Detroit suburb, will join Arax Advisory Partners, significantly increasing the RIA networks client assets.
RIA Industry Hit Record Number of Firms, Client AUM in 2024
Wealth Management
MAY 30, 2025
The Investment Advisor Industrys annual report showed an all-time high of 15,870 SEC-registered advisors overseeing a 12.6% increase in assets to $144.6 as of the end of 2024.
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Prime Capital Investment Advisors Adds Goldman Sachs as Custodian
Wealth Management
MAY 17, 2023
After growing nearly 800% in five years, PCIA plans to move about $1 billion in client assets to Goldman Sachs to improve custodial services and access.
Prime Capital Investment Advisors: If It’s Not In Salesforce, It Didn’t Happen
Wealth Management
MAY 9, 2024
CFO Brian Dillbeck explains how deep integration within the CRM of the $24.4 billion AUM firm makes client data easy to access.
How to Find a Fiduciary Financial Advisor
Darrow Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Looking to find fiduciary financial advisors and wealth managers? Only fiduciary advisors are legally bound to act in your best interest at all times. Here are five ways you can find a full-time fiduciary financial advisor. What is a fiduciary advisor?
Schechter Investment Advisors: Long-Term Allocators With Direct Indexing at the Core
Wealth Management
MAY 9, 2024
Aaron Hodari, the chief investment officer at Schechter, provides a peek inside the $3.45 billion RIA’s moderately aggressive model portfolio.
Abry Partners Takes Minority Stake in Prime Capital Investment Advisors
Wealth Management
JULY 12, 2023
Executives say the funding will fuel the next stage of growth for PCIA, which has already expanded assets by some 700% since early 2018.
Advisor Who Fled Feds With Underwater Scooter Pleads Guilty to $35M Ponzi Scheme
Wealth Management
MAY 19, 2025
The DOJ claimed that Matthew Piercey touted his bona fides as an investment advisor but stole millions from clients, contending federal investigations against him were merely payback.
Prime Capital, Pensionmark Rebrand
Wealth Management
JULY 12, 2024
Effective immediately, Prime Capital Investment Advisors will become Prime Capital Financial, while Pensionmark rebrands to World Investment Advisors, a nod to its parent company.
How to Find a Fee-Only Financial Advisor
Darrow Wealth Management
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
When starting to search for a financial advisor, investors may not realize the different types of advisors out thereand theyre not all trying to sell you something. If youre looking for a fee-only financial advisor or wealth manager, its probably because you know fee-only advisors don’t sell products.
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More Firms to Pay $79M To Settle SEC Off-Channel Communication Charges
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
The firms, ranging from broker/dealers and dual registrants to affiliated investment advisors, include Interactive Brokers, Nuveen Securities and Baird, among others, and are similar to 2022 charges against Wall Street firms resulting in $1.1 billion in collective penalties.
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Private Credit Sells Funds for Small Investors as Big Ones Balk
Wealth Management
AUGUST 2, 2024
Interval funds are being pitched to registered investment advisors as an easy-to-sell entry into direct lending.
Bluespring Acquires $1.35B Rodgers & Associates
Wealth Management
JULY 31, 2024
Rodgers & Associates Wealth Advisers, a Lancaster, Pa.-based based registered investment advisor with over $1.35 billion in client assets and 25 employees.
Captrust Reaches $1T in Client Assets
Wealth Management
JULY 30, 2024
The milestone validates Captrust’s business model and growth of the registered investment advisor space.
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$1B New Jersey Firm Leaves Osaic for LPL Financial
Wealth Management
JULY 24, 2024
Investment Advisors Financial Group sought more autonomy, which led them to the IBD. It’s the latest team to leave Osaic after the firm’s rebranding from Advisor Group.
Twenty Years Later, Los Angeles Advisor Returns to SEIA
Wealth Management
DECEMBER 4, 2024
The recent SEIA acquisition brings Canon Price, founder of $300 million AUA RIA Beverly Investment Advisors, back to the firm where she started her career three decades ago.
A Boomer Couple Interviews Investment Advisors
Wealth Management
MARCH 8, 2023
Listening to what they say and watching for how they say it.
Goldman Sachs’ Adam Siegler to Lead Firmwide RIA Strategy
Wealth Management
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Despite Goldman Sachs’ sale of its Personal Financial Management unit, the Wall Street firm says it’s doubling down on serving registered investment advisors. “We We don’t want to compete with RIAs. But we want to serve RIAs,” said a Goldman Sachs exec.
Mariner Adds $292B Institutional Consulting Firm
Wealth Management
JANUARY 9, 2025
Cardinal Investment Advisors, an institutional consulting firm, will expand upon Mariner Institutional, a new division seeded last year when the RIA acquired two firms with that focus.
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TLT Flow Analysis: A Deep Dive Into Demand for One of 2023’s Most Popular ETFs
Wealth Management
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Much of these inflows into TLT can be attributed to a combination of ETF model providers and the registered investment advisor community.
Unlicensed Advisor Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for $4M Ponzi Scheme
Wealth Management
JANUARY 11, 2023
Charles Richard Burgess will go to prison for more than six years for fleecing investors of more than $4 million, while pretending to be a registered investment advisor.
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The Big Picture
MAY 11, 2023
This is the next generation of the wealth management industry, and they showed up in droves because they want to be cutting-edge and stay ahead of the curve. Our 2022 FP had attendees from all over the country and the world, with an average age far younger than the typical financial conference.
Osaic Picks Up $360M Midwest Team From Cetera
Wealth Management
MARCH 7, 2024
Cornerstone Advisors, a Baxter, Minn.-based based team with about $360 million in client assets, joins from Cetera Investment Advisors.
UBS Client Says His Wife Moved In With Their Wealth Advisor. It Got Messy
Wealth Management
MARCH 19, 2025
financial firms: when brokers or investment advisors have personal or intimate relationships with their clients. The drama spotlights an issue that has long bedeviled U.S.
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Mindy Diamond on Independence: Two Perspectives on Private Equity and RIAs
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Mark Copeland, founder of Signature Estate & Investment Advisors and Ben Prigal, vice president of Reverence Capital Partners, discuss the value of partnership between private equity and RIAs.
Adviser links: time and space
Abnormal Returns
OCTOBER 21, 2024
(youtube.com) The biz Schwab Advisor Solutions will look to boost revenue, just not through custody fees. riabiz.com) XYPN Planning Network has launched a new registered investment advisor corporate affiliation model, Sapphire. thinkadvisor.com) Advvvisortech Vanilla just raised a new round of capital.
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Adviser links: a sobering reminder
Abnormal Returns
APRIL 28, 2025
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Pennsylvania Advisor Sentenced To 5 Years For $7M Scheme
Wealth Management
AUGUST 10, 2022
Lee Weiss previously pleaded guilty to investment advisor fraud related to a Ponzi-like scheme involving his firm Family Endowment Partners.
SEC Freezes Assets of Former Advisor Charged With Stealing $4M From Client
Wealth Management
MARCH 29, 2023
The Department of Justice also charged Surage Roshan Perera of wire fraud, investment advisor fraud and money laundering, for allegedly defrauding an unnamed investor.
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Buy This, Sell That? Please Don’t…
The Big Picture
APRIL 6, 2023
Ritholtz Wealth Management is a registered investment advisor or RIA. Many experts agree that industry followers should keep a keen eye out for further strategic moves taken by prominent financial institutions like Ritholtz Wealth Management.” That’s not how we invest capital. No, you shouldn’t.
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RIA Roundup: Retirement Plan Biz Brings $5.6B AUM to OneDigital Investment Advisors
Wealth Management
APRIL 14, 2023
OneDigital acquired Huntington National Bank’s 401(k) and retirement plan business this week, while Clearstead Advisors picked up local firm CLS Consulting. The Mather Group and NewEdge Wealth both announced key hires.
A Boomer Couple Goes Virtual Window Shopping for Advisors
Wealth Management
MARCH 21, 2023
Key elements of a good investment advisor website.
A Boomer Couple Goes Virtual Window Shopping for Advisors
Wealth Management
MARCH 21, 2023
Key elements of a good investment advisor website.
Mariner Expands Portfolio Offerings with Latest Acquisition
Wealth Management
AUGUST 2, 2022
Heber Fuger Wendin Investment Advisors, with $8.6 billion in assets, brings to Mariner its client roster of community banks and credit unions.
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Two Ohio RIAs Merge, With Merchant Backing
Wealth Management
AUGUST 2, 2022
Beachwood, Ohio–based RIAs MGO Investment Advisors and One Seven have merged, with Merchant Investment Management taking a minority stake in the new entity.
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