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Adam Birenbaum: 'We try to be humble and try to be calm and collected.'

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice 'likely bumped up multiple by a few turns' on Focus Financial valuation with self-merging binge that's gathering steam with $6.6B AUM GYL deal

The esteemed New York City PE firm gave Michael Nathanson and Adam Birenbaum great powers to buy, and they are encountering little resistance -- and much unlocked value -- to wholesale restructuring

November 7, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Adam Birenbaum: I believe with this we are a very attractive solution for other Focus Partner firms.

Adam Birenbaum's calls 'Colony' deal -- to create $100-billion super-RIA -- a 'mandate,' but it's also likely a 'prelude' to larger strategic objective, M&A expert says

The 46-year-old CEO of Buckingham Wealth's 'long game' approach keeps paying dividends; it comes down to his approach to relationships

May 7, 2024 at 5:04 AM

Adam Birenbaum, flanked by Michael Kitces (left) and Jeffrey Levine: 'This is literally maybe the largest talent story ever in our little independent RIA industry,' says Birenbaum
March 12, 2020 at 1:45 PM

Adam Birenbaum (left) is already rolling up Alex Pott's longtime TAMP clientele in the months following their merger.

Rudy Adolf's Buckingham meal ticket looks golden after the $35-billion RIA/TAMP absorbs Dan Goldie's $1 billion Loring Ward book and margins leap from 25 basis points to more like 70

The New York-based roll-up's gain is offshoot of Loring Ward deal where Goldie is the biggest client but was too big to buy until Focus capital could be tapped

March 9, 2019 at 3:28 AM

[Adam Birenbaum and] (r.) Alex Potts: We're not DFA. We happen to use a lot of their solution.

Unseen factors drove the BAM, Loring Ward $50B merger; 18-month warming, light Focus Financial touch, led to reverse merger in spirit and birth, CEOs reveal in exclusive interviews

Buckingham CEO Adam Birenbaum desperately needed a TAMP CEO; Loring CEO Alex Potts needed a succession system for his TAMP clients

October 12, 2018 at 6:12 PM

Adam Birenbaum: It would be impossible to imagine us making this happen were it not for our colleagues at Focus Financial Partners.

Focus Financial buys $17 billion DFA TAMP for $235 million through its $3.6 billion DFA TAMP

The RIA roll-up adds Loring Ward to BAM with 50% cash down and the rest with Focus common shares

September 28, 2018 at 2:44 AM

Adam Birenbaum: We haven't scratched the surface.

Buckingham becomes KKR-fueled, check-listed M&A 'machine' that now feeds on BAM TAMP clients

The Focus Financial-owned DFA RIA faces hazards of going '100 miles per hour' but Buckingham CEO Adam Birenbaum has no fear

March 2, 2018 at 9:28 PM

If Focus Financial has an IPO, the vultures may feast first, best.

Report: Focus Financial is preparing SEC paperwork for its initial public offering -- but is it jumping the gun?

With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges

July 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM

Sukanya Kuruganti did M&A for Citi and Barclays but has now joined Focus Financial as part of a series of M&A hires.

Focus Financial doubles down on financial engineering by making five hires -- four of them deal hounds

With $325 million in revenues and a big line of credit, the New York roll-up machine is playing to its M&A strength

May 21, 2015 at 8:57 PM

Alex Murguia rolled up his sleeves after the product fit wasn't quite right initially.

Why a $25 billion RIA just went with Alex Murguia's startup's financial planning software

The Buckingham Companies chose inStream to overcome the 'dead' plan problem

November 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Abby Johnson interviewed by NPR's Tom Ashbrook: Lean on Fidelity.

Abby Johnson tells RIAs to have all employees, up and down the chain, think client thoughts at Fidelity's 2014 Executive Forum

Advisors -- many with assets in the tens of billions -- were on hand along with New Yorker writers, NPR and other super-thinkers

May 19, 2014 at 1:51 AM

Frank Troise says he sold his company for $6 million, signed on Loring Ward, The BAM Alliance and seven top hedge funds to receive his referrals.

How Frank Troise is looking to shoot the 'Google Love' moon -- with DFA, VC, crowd-sourcing and M&A aspects -- and why some critics see it as an elaborate salvage sale

The original referral model, MyFreeRetirementReport.com, proved suboptimal when brokers allegedly failed to pay up, and now industry leaders are leery of the new model's practical and regulatory viability

October 27, 2013 at 6:52 PM

Jeffrey Maggioncalda: I think it becomes harder and harder for a product solution to replicate this holistic service solution that we put into the marketplace.

Financial Engines more than doubles its share price by defining a niche in the 401(k) market between target date funds and RIAs

Wall Street is seeing things Jeff Maggioncalda's way for now, as new DOL regs make plan sponsors more certain they want participants advised inexpensively but not cheaply

October 1, 2013 at 5:12 AM

Rudy Adolf: The partners and management gave up their majority ownership. It is not an issue whatsoever.

Partners at Focus Financial check their egos at the door to secure $216 million of hard cash

Polaris, Summit and CEO Rudy Adolf sell a portion of their stake in the big aggregator to Centerbridge Capital Partners -- and it puts them in a minority position for the first time

July 16, 2013 at 1:49 AM

Karl Thunemann: Tibergien stops me and says, 'I want to be very emphatic about this. There is nothing wrong with a solo practitioner. Nothing at all.'

Investor Karl interviews Mark Tibergien -- guru, author, chief -- who tells why solo practices are far from extinct

The gospel of RIA says these days that big and complex is The Way, but the Pershing Advisor Solutions chief proves an unexpected champion of the mom-and-pop advisory shop

July 3, 2013 at 4:31 AM

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