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Tony Salewski: Cetera's ability to recruit advisors moves the needle in a way that's the most attractive to grow ... There's so much we can do at the base that M&A is not the key part of the thesis.

After RIA private equity hot-shot Genstar's $1.7 billion purchase of ugly duckling Cetera, Robert Moore plans to take on LPL--not with acquisitions, but a recruitment storm

Genstar bought a majority share in Cetera in July for a rumored $1.7 billion; now Genstar MD Tony Salewski and ex-LPL President and Cetera CEO Robert Moore have put ramping up the rep count front-and-center in their plans to turn the long-troubled IBD ugly duckling into a market giant at LPL's expense.

August 15, 2018 at 12:35 AM

Mukesh Mehta and Charles Goldman are friends who have made a point of having dinner together a few times a year.

In poaching coup, Charles Goldman hires open-API wizard Mukesh Mehta to AssetMark from Cetera

The legendary chief information officer headed Schwab Institutional's efforts before shepherding in TD Ameritrade's legendary open API

March 15, 2017 at 8:09 PM

Ron Carson: I have never lost that continued drive to fix things that some might say were not broken.

One effect of Ron Carson's exit from LPL after 27 years: His firm disclosed the use of forgivable loans to the SEC

Carson Wealth Management is both an advisor and an advisor platform and Carson says neither he nor his firm 'took a check' in any form

March 3, 2017 at 10:46 PM

Louis Diamond: It’s a black eye to the new CEO, especially with all the rumors of a sale.

LPL fires $10 billion RIA in Kansas City with both parties happy to keep the rift's cause out of view

With fiduciary rules, the economics of RIA custody and LPL fresh off a CEO departure, Resources Investment Advisors Inc. with $4 billion of its own and $6 billion of affiliated assets, declines to say if it's found a new home

February 3, 2017 at 7:17 PM

Matt Sonnen: Ron said to me and is on record as saying that the brokerage business, that’s Cetera, is just an accommodation for clients.

The real Ron Carson story is that most assets went to Fidelity and TD Ameritrade where technology allows him to execute his vision

The big talk was the lateral move of some assets to Cetera but it was more a smokescreen for a breakaway

January 27, 2017 at 6:51 PM

Steve Dunlap: One of the things I was always so outspoken about was the engineering was great but the user-interface and the experience was something that could have been better.

Ex-Lockwood CEO Steve Dunlap takes on role at FolioDynamix after being a customer with a bone to pick

With new Actua ownership, Dunlap and capital, FolioDynamix CEO Joseph Mrak says his firm has Envestnet in its sights

January 29, 2016 at 9:04 PM

David Perkins: I've got people coming to work with a smile on their face again and they've got that swagger back.

After selling Hatteras Funds for $40 million last year, the original owner buys it back from scandal-torn RCS for $5.5 million

The 48-employee liquid alts firm just lost its giant distribution arm but manages to keep $1.8 billion of managed assets

November 23, 2015 at 6:47 PM

Allison Couch went home to AIG without much to say about it.

As a second woman executive exits Cetera, a third one gets a bigger title

Allison Couch heads back to AIG and Erinn Ford gets a presidency on the heels of Valerie Brown's departure

May 20, 2014 at 8:08 PM

Nicholas Schorsch: We don't want more product sales.

Nicholas Schorsch explains why buying Cetera makes him a white-hat magnate in a black-hat world

The RCS chairman says the whole purpose of buying IBDs is to diversify away from product sales

February 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM

Stuart Miller: Our time horizon is another 25 years. Theirs is three.

Cetera rebrands divisions in its own name, but $1-billion advisor defects to a rival startup

Cetera says the move will help advisors attract clients, but RMR Wealth Builders, seeing it as prelude to a sale, has signed on with IEP Financial

September 18, 2012 at 5:47 AM

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