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Focus Financial gets its first beachhead in HighTower's backyard -- buying an exhibit-A organic-growth RIA with a hankering to go inorganic

Vestor Capital was born in the 1980s as an accounting firm with a dream, and now Brian Baker wants more

Author Lisa Shidler October 12, 2012 at 3:10 AM
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Rudy Adolf: This is going to be a platform for smaller RIAs to join and also for brokers in the Chicago market.


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SS&C Advent
Portfolio Management System
Top Executive: Robert Roley

Focus Financial Partners, LLC
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Top Executive: Rudy Adolf

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Top Executive: David DeVoe



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