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Registered Rep.
November 26, 2010
Charles Paikert |
RIA M&A Deals On Track To Top 2009 Total The number of mergers and acquisitions completed in the registered investment advisor business through the third quarter of this year is near full-year totals for 2009, according to data from Schwab Advisor Services.   |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2009
Donna Mitchell |
M & A: Who's Buying? Forget the dearth of capital afflicting the rest of the financial industry: RIA firms have access to plenty of money for mergers and acquisitions. |
Registered Rep.
August 18, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Market Turmoil Could Slow Advisor M&A Two industry experts expect merger and acquisition activity involving registered investment advisors will drop this year if the current volatility in the stock market stretches into the coming months. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Where the Sellers At? RIAs are Holding Out for Better Deals Schwab executives predicted a decline mergers & acquisitions between RIAs in 2009, as potential sellers hold out for a stronger market and a better deal. |
Registered Rep.
September 2, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Volatility Not Enough to Slow RIA M&A Deals The first half of 2015 saw a significant increase in merger and acquisition activity among registered investment advisory firms. |
Financial Advisor
September 2012 |
RIA Acquisitions Poised To Accelerate A growing number of large RIAs are preparing their firms for sale, and more than a few are retaining investment bankers to draw up the required financial documents any acquirer would demand, according to Schwab Advisory Services. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2010
Donna Mitchell |
Advisory Pulse Registered investment advisory firms, especially small ones, are returning to the bargaining table this year; in the first quarter, RIA firms completed 24 merger and acquisition deals. |
Registered Rep.
February 26, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Let's Make A Deal The RIA M&A market is poised for growth, but not gaudy growth. |
Registered Rep.
April 15, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
RIA M&A Deals Break Record in First Quarter Mergers and acquisitions seem to be crawling back to the top of RIA principals' to-do lists this year, as the first quarter's numbers show record activity. What is your practice worth? |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2011
Diana Britton |
RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2008 |
What Is Your Practice Worth? Plenty--If You Are Fee-Based Considering selling all or part of your book? Buyers don't seem to care about a business model, they are only interested in the present and future revenue streams. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2008
Stacy Schultz |
The Real Deal More than half of all registered independent advisory (RIA) firms bought or considered buying another advisory firm at least once in the past two years. |
Registered Rep.
July 5, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab Finds RIAs Posted Record 2010 Revenue, AUM Average profits surged 45 percent last year among registered investment advisors surveyed, but don't look for a repeat of this year. |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2015
Jerry Gleeson |
No Slowing RIA Growth In the financial advisory industry there are potential regulatory burdens, fickle investors, and crafty competitors -- but nothing has changed the relentless march of the registered investment advisor space since the 2008 crash. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2015
Megan Leonhardt |
Breakaway Advisors Moving More to Existing RIAs More advisors are looking to leave the wirehouses and brokerages by joining an existing registered investment advisory firm, rather than starting their own. |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Tibergien: Selling Your Practice? Offer a Growth Story Too many advisors see successful practice planning as a career endgame that allows them to sell and move on. That's the wrong way to look at it, says Mark Tibergien. |
Registered Rep.
July 29, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
RIAs Keep Up M&A Momentum RIAs continue to buy and sell their businesses this year as M&A deals in the industry reach record levels. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Schwab's Advisor Services Results Beg the Question: Has the Breakaway Brokerage Phenomenon Peaked? Has the great diaspora of breakaway brokers to Independence Land -- either independent b/ds or RIAs -- climaxed? |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013 |
Retirement Advisor Confidence Index: Worries Grow A drop in risk tolerance pulls down the latest index reading. |
Financial Planning
April 1, 2013 |
Retirement Advisor Confidence Index: Reality Check for Planners Advisor sentiment slips after a giddy start to the year, as clients sound a cautious note. |
Registered Rep.
July 16, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
A Mixed Second Quarter for Merrill, Schwab Second-quarter earnings results posted today by Merrill Lynch and Charles Schwab Corp. offered a mixed picture to financial advisors hoping for a stronger recovery. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
James J. Green |
Numerology: Fewer Assets, More Advisors Total assets managed by investment advisors shrank in 2008 but the number of SEC-registered investment advisors increased. |
Investment Advisor
September 2008
Kara P. Stapleton |
Catching up with... Steve Lundquist, recently appointed head of the Registered Investment Advisor channel for JPMorgan Funds, speaks about his business strategy. |
Registered Rep.
April 5, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Who will Aggregate the Aggregators? New RIA Consortium Advizent Thinks Big Two executives with deep roots in the registered investment advisor industry are looking to aggregate a broad swath of RIAs in the latest effort to squeeze better deals out of custodians and fund managers. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
Schwab RIA Unit Sees "Consistent" Growth Schwab Advisor Services is signing up advisor assets at a pace that tracks its historical average. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005 |
A Hit with the Rich The percentage of high-net-worth households naming a registered investment advisor (RIA) as their primary advisor rose to 46% in 2004 from 30 percent in 2001. The growth came at the expense of the wirehouses. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
If You Build It, Will They Come? RIA Consortium Says Branding Is Key Advizent wants to unite the fractured universe of RIAs, impose standards on the practitioners, get better deals from vendors and educate potential clients on the merits of the independent channel. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
James J. Green |
Schwab Cuts Costs for Its Advisors Charles Schwab Advisor Services announced a series of moves that will have the net effect of reducing costs to the RIAs that custody with Schwab. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2009
Conrad & Mitchell |
Indies' Gain Ground Registered investment advisor firms, independent broker-dealers and dually registered advisors are gaining market shares at the expense of wirehouses. |
Registered Rep.
November 13, 2015
Ryan W. Neal |
Despite Volatility, Advisor Confidence High The market volatility in the third quarter wasn't enough to shake advisor optimism. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Impact This! Schwabbies Descend Upon Vegas They didn't get to "Talk to Chuck," but attendees of the 2007 Schwab IMPACT conference did get a chance to talk to Walt Bettinger, president and chief operating officer, as well as Charles Goldman, executive vice president of Schwab Institutional in an afternoon Q&A session. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Donna Mitchell |
Hot Topics M&A activity peaked in 2010... Advisors in touch... Untapped business serving retiring boomers... |
Financial Advisor
November 2011
Evan Simonoff |
M&A Game Changer Leading custodians in the RIA space are offering acquisition financing to firms that do business with them. |
Investment Advisor
July 2006 |
Upgrades Pershing LLC announced healthy growth in the number of RIAs custodying client assets and trust accounts through its Pershing Advisor Solutions unit... Charles Schwab & Co. announced June 14 a broad reduction and simplification of pricing for its retail... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Fewer, But Bigger Breakaway Brokers Joining RIAs With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2009
Donna Mitchell |
Roame on RIAs Conversations about change in the registered investment advisory space are constant these days, thanks to volatile markets, new products and demographic shifts. What sort of future will these changes create for the industry? |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Money Managers Don't Get RIA Market A large number of money managers still haven't figured out how to tap the registered investment advisor market to sell their funds, according to research. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Robert F. Keane |
Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. |
Financial Advisor
April 2008
Evan Simonoff |
The Big Chill While the financial advisor community and their clients have avoided most of the mortgage-related problems, advisory firms' merger and acquisition activity is suddenly becoming a victim of fixed-income market paralysis. |
Registered Rep.
July 18, 2011
Jerry Gleason |
Schwab Gained Advisor Assets in Q2 Investor taste for trading fell off in the second quarter, but assets at Schwab Advisor Services continued to climb. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Want More Prospecting Time? Integrate Your Tech, Study Says The cost of inefficient technology integration at registered investment advisor practices may be more than you would think. |
Investment Advisor
October 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
Slight Growth in RIAs The universe of registered investment advisors grew only slightly during the past year. |
Registered Rep.
May 1, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
60 Seconds: Catherine A. Saunders Catherine A. Saunders was named about three years ago to lead a product sales drive to fee-based RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
March 20, 2012
Jerry Gleeson |
AMG Subsidiary Takes Majority Stake in Veritable, RIA with $10 Billion AUM John W. Copeland III, president of the subsidiary, AMG Wealth Partners, said all the top managers at Veritable would retain significant equity interest in their company and continue to manage it. |
Registered Rep.
April 30, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Says It's Going On Offense -- As If It Weren't Already The company is preparing to go on the "offense" to gain market share -- both in terms of winning client assets and recruiting breakaway brokers. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2006
Kristen French |
60 Seconds with Deborah Doyle McWhinney A short interview about the rivalry between the registered investment advisor (RIA) firms that Schwab caters to and Wall Street wirehouses. |
Investment Advisor
January 2010
James J. Green |
Numerology: Bright Future for Advisor M&A Activity M&A activity among RIA firms is poised for resurgence, as a new market environment emerges and the pool of potential buyers undergoes dramatic change. |
Registered Rep.
April 6, 2010
Kristen French |
Custodians In Race To Roll Out M&A Tools TD Ameritrade Institutional is rolling out a new online business valuation tool. |
