Articles tagged "Bob Oros"
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Hightower's 'one-plus-one-equals-five,' off-script, catch-up purchase of $250 billion AUM RIA will sponge up referrals and help centralize investing for 642 advisors
The $156-billion rollup's CEO, Bob Oros, says the deal for NEPC, a $1.7 trillion AUA pension consultant and OCIO, culminates four-year search for 'centralized' investments capability. But does it tick off the 'alts' box?
October 25, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Tuning its 'machine' business model, Hightower Advisors just hired an ex-Carlyle due-diligence maven for alts investing to offer an alternative to the CAIS and iCapital standard inventory
The $141-billion AUA Chicago aggregator sees a big future of $50-million-and-up UHNW clients, and it want to maximize RIA access to premier alts managers.
August 2, 2022 at 2:24 AM
Hightower Advisors brings a high-end slice of RIA custody in-house by retrofitting a Texas bank and poaching a Schwabie
The Chicago RIA rollup reports regular wins of UHNW as it hits $100 billion of AUM and holding assets in trust can build on that ultrahigh niche, CEO says
July 22, 2021 at 8:27 AM
Hightower Advisors pairs 'Moss Adams' whip-crack training with latest (reported) $600 million Goldman Sachs-led capital raise to give organic, and inorganic, growth a better chance
ex-Mark Tibergien protégé, Philip Palaveev, designs failable two-year management program for Hightower advisors, using Fidelity G2 Leadership Institute as a template -- and his marathon career as the teachable metaphor
November 2, 2020 at 10:32 PM
After becoming a 'Zoom' maestro, Bob Oros spurred Hightower Advisors to close a $1-billion deal a week -- surpassing 2019's total in just over a month
CEO Elliot Weissbluth's replacement spent a year doing housekeeping -- then learning digital due diligence under the sword of COVID-19. But now Oros is loaded with fresh Thomas H. Lee capital, and RIAs like doing business with him
September 4, 2020 at 8:51 PM
HighTower spent at least $100 million to buy the love [and revenues] of its own advisors, a key sign an IPO or sale is taking shape, industry observers say
The Chicago roll-up paid top dollar to get virtually all its partners on board and to keep all dealing on the down low as it completes conversion to RIA roll-up from boutique wirehouse mode
June 10, 2019 at 11:20 PM
New-look Hightower hires Abby Salameh and takes a 'Hurley-style' stake in a $4.8 billion DFA RIA
The Chicago roll-up gets a chief marketing officer who gets RIAs as it becomes part-Dynasty, part- Fiduciary Network in adopting a very 2019 deal structure for LourdMurray
May 3, 2019 at 7:11 PM
As Bob Oros-led HighTower reboots, it bags an ex-Goldman RIA, hires two, makes a CMO imminent, and clarifies mission
The new CEO will need to somehow weave together the debris of the first roll-up run and the new one to the satisfaction of RIAs and the hundreds of people already inside the HighTower umbrella
March 20, 2019 at 11:32 PM
Bob Oros starts his CEO life at HighTower Advisors with a town hall meeting and clear authority
The former Fidelity RIA chief now runs his formerly largest RIA client, from Chicago, and with Elliot Weissbluth as chairman, 'inorganic' asset and 'evangelist'
January 8, 2019 at 3:09 AM
John Clendening tells analyst who asks about Bob Oros's H.D. Vest departure: 'You can read into that whatever you want to.'
Blucora's CEO was evasive but, for sure, his firm's shares plunged near 40% in the past month after its IBD revenues ticked up only 6%; Oros may never have moved to Texas from Boston CEO
October 31, 2018 at 11:21 PM
How a Schwabian picture is emerging as Bob Oros joins John Clendening as chief of 4,500 underachieving HD Vest reps
Ex-Schwab retail chief Clendening makes the ex-Fido RIA chief his new CEO -- with ambitious plans in an atmosphere of revenue-sharing, variable annuities and commission sales
January 24, 2017 at 12:17 AM
Fidelity begins search for new RIA national sales manager as Bob Oros goes millennial, vacating a prized position
The kids pioneered the mindset but now the Oroses of the world grab quality-of-work, make-a-difference opportunities that their experience allows them to command
January 14, 2017 at 1:51 AM
How Fidelity's robo for RIAs 'leapfrogged' rivals -- and why the landing might not stick
Fidelity weaves in eMoney wizardry to its super-bot but Geode's presence as de facto CIO stops some RIAs in their tracks
October 26, 2016 at 5:39 PM
Tiburon CEO Summit goes high as talk turns to FANG factor on days one and two
The once-dismissed prospect that Facebook, Amazon and Google could enter wealth management was back on the front burner as advice business chiefs gathered and Google contributed to a panel
October 12, 2016 at 10:44 PM
After years of work to gain parity with Schwab RIA custody, Fidelity is ready to show fruits of its $250 million move to gain an edge
With ex-Schwabbie Bob Oros in RIA charge, Mike Durbin as leapfrogger-in-chief, and Sanjiv Mirchandani at the big desk, the Boston-based custody division is set to launch its new technology platform
