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Bill Sowell: The advisors were innocent bystanders.

Cornered by custodial edicts, CONCERT exits RIA business in deal with Arkansas-based white knight

Bill Sowell's first order of business is to keep the advisor crew on board, using as one sop the familiarity of CONCERT's proprietary CRM

September 28, 2016 at 9:18 PM

Under founder and CEO Robert Jesenik, Aequitas Capital expanded into private equity, wealth management and consumer-, student- and commercial-debt companies.

The unbelievable series of missteps that sent Aequitas, its RIA clients and their investors, reeling

Firms as disparate as CONCERT Wealth and CliftonLarsenAllen seem to have gotten caught up in the implosion of Oregon-based Aequitas Capital Partners and plaintiffs' attorneys are yelling 'Ponzi'

February 26, 2016 at 6:47 PM

Bill Wostoupal: It is highly unlikely the IBD is going to help them put a private-labeled app in the Droid and App stores.

What Securities America and NorthStar Financial are up to with the creation of Arbor Point

The Cornhusker State companies found common ground in building a home for the burgeoning 'Goldilocks' category of not-too-RIA, not-too-IBD advisor

July 1, 2013 at 6:09 AM

Felipe Luna: We're seeing ... high-net-worth clients ... who want to be more aggressively involved in alternative investments.

How CONCERT is leveraging a full-service alternatives platform to boost its carriage trade clientele

CONCERT sees CAIS catering to the $200 million-plus set while its current alts provider tends to those who may like their hedge funds in mutual-fund wraps

August 21, 2012 at 8:32 AM

Rene' Nourse: Creating the brochure, I wanted to make sure there were women and people of color represented.

Seeing her small clients take Morgan Stanley's brunt, a 12-year Smith Barney vet decamps with $100 million after meeting with Schwab

Rene' Nourse joins CONCERT to avoid telling smaller clients that MSSB benefits were being taken away and to create a brand aimed at middle class urbanites

June 22, 2012 at 5:13 AM

Christopher Mason is keeping his assets at Fidelity: "They don't have quarterly earnings and they don't do stupid things."

Why one UBS advisor broke away even knowing that his former partner would keep the 401(k) assets

Christopher Mason is establishing Fontis as part of CONCERT but hasn't given up hope of selling his portfolio management skills on UBS' platform

May 17, 2012 at 6:26 AM

Leslie Ferrone was impressed with how Merrill overcame its problems with women advisors but was repelled when it couldn't overcome creeping bank culture.

She settled with Merrill Lynch over discrimination, loved Merrill again for years but then bigger problems arose

A lover of the herd, Leslie Ferrone couldn't stomach the bankification of her wirehouse

May 7, 2012 at 5:04 AM

Richard Saperstein: We wanted to keep our assets at one of the safest institutions in America.

Why some RIAs are jumping through hoops to custody assets with JPMorgan

After selling its RIA unit to RBC, its marquee name, sterling reputation and a new platform continues to draw advisors

April 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM

Danny Sarch: Some guys at Merrill have targeted this date for more than a year.

Merrill Lynch springs a 62-advisor, $13 billion asset leak in the first quarter

February was a cruel month for the wirehouse as payouts and retention bonuses came due; UBS came out smelling like a rose

April 17, 2012 at 5:25 AM

Felipe Luna: While the wirehouse model certainly has its detractors the one thing it does really well is it support the advisor on client-based activities and that's why they're so much more productive. That's the crux of our model.

CONCERT Wealth Management nabbed 12 wirehouse teams in the last 12 months and this wirehouse-lite is just getting started

The San Jose-based firm targets advisors with as little as $100 million and it doubled in size in the last year

September 27, 2011 at 4:32 AM

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