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Kurt MacAlpine: I’m very comfortable with the valuations we are paying and the quality of the businesses we are buying.

A hotshot Canadian CEO tears through the RIA market like the polar vortex, sweeping up $16 billion in AUM and ringing the bell on an NYSE listing that could fuel even more deals

Kurt MacAlpine plans to keep buying fast and fearlessly for CI Financial, but skeptics say frothy valuations and high debt are ratcheting up risk.

November 18, 2020 at 3:39 AM

Rudy Adolf: Quite frankly, discipline is our middle name, and this has made us the largest player in this industry.

Focus Financial CEO pumps brakes hard on M&A market, waiting for a return to 'normal' -- and buyers of Focus stock bid up price as debt ratio improves

Rudy Adolf sees RIA-seller supply catching up with serial-buyer demand soon enough and that his roll-up's discipline will pay dividends and restore its market leadership

August 25, 2020 at 3:39 AM

Charlie Paikert: In contrast to businesses that were forced to close their doors, there was never any decline in the demand for wealth management services.

Opinion: RIAs taking Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans fall well short of slam-dunk justifications in healthy industry -- especially if advisors leave them off the ADV

Dangled like free money and dressed up as AFLAC, the Payroll Protection loans triggered primal survival instincts and differing ideas of due care to clients, self and one's fellow man.

July 17, 2020 at 8:13 PM

Nick Blasi: The buyer is taking a substantial risk [in this environment] and should be allowed to protect themselves.

Suitcases of cash for RIA M&A deals are one COVID-19 victim, as RIA buyers leverage economic uncertainty to force more risk on sellers

Sellers are still getting paid at familiar sales prices, but some of the bad old days of 'earn-outs' are back, which delays the time when they can stop worrying about firm cash flow

June 24, 2020 at 2:05 AM

Brian Hamburger: I ask advisors if they’ve walked across the street to the bank.

Thanks to a minor explosion in minority-stake deals, RIA M&A is still sizzling but it may be seller beware

For the RIA principal who wants cash, control and chips off the table, it's M&A ambrosia; but sophisticated buyers may be extracting more value than sellers realize

May 27, 2020 at 5:01 PM

Stan Gregor: 'Ed is a thoroughbred and was brought in to help us expand'

Drawn out of his own startup, Ed Friedman lands at Summit Financial, tasked with raising the Merchant Investment-backed RIA's national profile

The ex-Hightower, ex-Dynasty recruiter joins Stan Gregor's early-stage RIA roll-up, with mighty backing and good momentum

May 15, 2020 at 10:18 PM

John Wolff says LPL might be tempted to offer Fortigent research to its retail brokers, diluting the value of a product that his firm "spends a lot of money on," and making it "less of a distinguishing factor."

What Fortigent advisors said in Santa Barbara, and what execs say may be next for the LPL-owned outsourcer

With Andy Putterman, Scott Welch and a big cadre of Fortigent's biggest customers living well together, a picture emerged

October 8, 2012 at 5:32 AM

Steve Prostano: [SFOs] still don't want to invest in the business.

How WilmerHale is positioning its $3.3B-AUA RIA as outsourcer and owner in a $750-billion market

Silver Bridge, backed by the high-power law firm and headed by a former JPMorgan Chase division president, is exploiting the need of single-family offices to gain scale without merging to become multifamily offices

June 25, 2012 at 4:55 AM

Gregory Curtis: You have to stick to your knitting even if it costs you business -- which it will.

An $18-billion RIA tacks on a $24-billion U.S. Trust cast-off as the grab for UHNW magnets continues

Harris myCFO continues a shrewd strategy of serving the very, very rich as it puts CTC Consulting into its arsenal

May 3, 2012 at 5:21 AM

Jim Steiner: I think it’s harder for RIAs to compete [in the UHNW market].

Wells Fargo targets tempting but treacherous UHNW market with Abbot Downing launch

With $33 billion of assets and legacy Lowry Hill and Calibre elements, the unit plans to hit the ground running and compete in a realm where RIAs are only starting to make a dent

April 2, 2012 at 2:29 PM

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