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The 2014 RIA hype frenzy may have peaked when suddenly Tony Robbins was everywhere.

Why the RIA business starts 2016 without its swagger: 2014 and 2015

What's hot right now? Almost nothing and nobody. But it might be a 'healthy correction' of equilibrium

January 11, 2016 at 11:42 PM

Dina DiLorenzo: We are going to have a revenue sharing relationship for a period of time

With 'revenue sharing' as primary consideration, Guggenheim transfers its in-house RIA to HighTower

HighTower gets a substantial bounty of fee-generating assets and clients and Guggenheim avoids having to scale up

July 29, 2015 at 8:20 PM

Rudy Adolf: There is no equivalent proposition to Focus available in Canada.

Roll-ups are off at an acquisition clip in 2015 as $2 billion washes over the transom in a single week

Focus follows Dynasty into Canada as the three big aggregators toggle between organic and inorganic growth

April 17, 2015 at 6:20 PM

Joe Duran: We think this is the closest example to what Dimensional Fund Advisors does.

United Capital chases DFA's MO, trains '1099 advisors' and co-opts Starbucks brand guy

The multitasking Newport Beach-based national RIA also announced closing on two more RIA purchases with about $625 million of AUM

April 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM

Ajay Gupta: I knew the book was going to be a success. I didn't know that three months later it would be on its ninth printing and still be a New York Times bestseller.

Swamped by Tony Robbins' referrals, Ajay Gupta launches national venture with Jemstep and United Capital as notable partners

The UBS breakaway mentioned in the self-help guru's book is now calling on RIAs nationwide to share the referral wealth

March 18, 2015 at 7:41 PM

Matt Brinker: It wasn't technically a transaction for various reasons.

How United Capital's unconventional rolling up of a $2 billion RIA reveals how close the roll-up model is to extinction

Joe Duran's Newport Beach firm does cryptic non-transactional acquisition as Focus Financial becomes a tuck-in machine and HighTower sells de facto franchises

March 3, 2015 at 6:43 PM

Jeff Colin built his RIA to $5 billion in 10 years with DFA, Goldman Sachs and myCFO all part of the recipe.

AMG is suddenly among the RIA roll-up elite after the Baker Street deal pushes it past $25-billion of AUM

After adding the $5.2-billion San Francisco firm, John Copeland's Florida-based skunkworks is smelling sweet

February 5, 2015 at 7:07 PM

Gail Graham: We firmly believe that the Guidebook is to financial planning what the smartphone is to the telephone booth.

United Capital unveils its killer electronic app but boomer clients still say: Paper, please

The $10.5-billion RIA spent millions of technology but client habits may delay use of the electronic version

October 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM

Being heedless of competitors is dangerous but crying wolf has its own perils.

Why Joe Duran is dead wrong on 2015 marking the end of the Golden Era of the RIA

The serial entrepeneur's column in InvestmentNews forgets that RIAs are also advancing and that the 'new competitors' carry baggage and have fatal shortcomings

September 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM

Joe Duran: What we've done is incredibly rare.

Joe Duran explains United Capital's 100% revenue growth to $100 million since 2012 and the firm's complex plan to grow faster

In an overdue catch-all, catch-up the CEO of the $10-billion RIA tells of $4 billion of deals in the works and up to 15 de novo offices

September 2, 2014 at 3:05 AM

Ryan Marcus: I said, I don't care what it takes.

Fresh off an RBC exit, Ryan Marcus lands with Joe Duran

The recently departed face of RBC's RIA custody will tackle the Northeast corridor of the US for United Capital

August 19, 2014 at 10:42 PM

John Thiel: People are looking for advisors who understand that the retirement conversation isn’t about a math equation.

How Merrill Lynch Clear looks so impressively RIA-like and what shows how deceptive looks can be

The big iPad-laced and rhetoric-laced wirehouse initiative toward goals-based investing may have selling insurance as its primary goal

June 18, 2014 at 5:54 PM

Rush Benton: We're not afraid to take on a firm that is looking to sell.

Are 'for sale' the dirtiest words in the acquirers' lexicon? M&A mavens debate the point at a Philadelphia event

If 'Secrets of Successful Acquirers' didn't live up to its scandalous billing, some sparks did fly at Gladstone's annual confab

May 20, 2014 at 6:13 AM

Zohar Swaine: I couldn't help but wish for the inclusion of more technologies applicable to the wealth management space and RIAs in particular.

How the RIA business made a dent at the 2014 Finovate conference in San Jose

Personal Capital and Motif presented and United Capital was there in force

May 2, 2014 at 6:20 AM

Chris Housen: I wasn't looking for a marriage. I wasn't even looking for a date.

Housen deal shows Marty Bicknell can make it in Jersey -- by word of mouth

The Kansas-based serial buyer's Mariner, now with $9.5 billion of assets, is knocking down big down-to-earth deals

May 1, 2014 at 6:56 AM

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