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United Capital extracts a 40-employee, mega-growth team from LPL

The big strategic buyer gets assets of Peak Capital Investment Services, a $600-million firm that has grown 12-fold in less than a decade

Author Brooke Southall November 2, 2011 at 10:05 PM
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Joe Duran: They're basically an RIA inside a broker-dealer platform, which is not a good idea.


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