With Ascensus also in its portfolio, Aquiline is showing a penchant for taking dull, fragmented, unloved wealth-management niche businesses and rolling them up into sexier firms

The $6-trillion New York mega-manager buys 5% stake in the $2-trillion Chicago clearinghouse to get most-favored-vendor status in 'open architecture' environment

Putting a target on the back of MaxMyInterest, StoneCastle teams up with US Bank to bring 'sheer size' to RIA cash management

The liquid alts provider is a beneficiary of referrals from Lovell Minnick, which owns a stake, but will need to apply 'elbow grease' to marketing to keep pace with redemptions and the law of large numbers

The billionaire-owned New York bank eschewed the quick buck of a top-of-market sale to bet Karl Heckenberg can make Fiduciary Network function even better as its new CEO

eMoney founder joins AdvisorStream as director, a misnomer insofar as the 55 year-old is deeper involved than the show-up-for-croissants quarterly title suggests

Ralph Pahlmeyer will play to his firm's sifting strengths, seek enterprise deals and think more like a software executive

In 2018 Goldman Sachs has seen more than a dozen advisors jump ship over to form RIAs; Bicknell rejuvenated RIA shows off spring-loaded M&A; Focus Finacial shares take on water but weather storm

The Empower CEO will add 300 fiduciary advisors and apply a Canadian robo and Apex Clearing custody to de-clunk the underwhelming existing rollover

The pressure to create fireworks for a big, bright line-up of 'faculty' and attendees meant finding common cause with Dale Brown based on their lack common ground about how advisors should be regulated

Founded in 1994 by Anne Shumadine and Susan Colpitts, the Norfolk, Va.-baased RIA has $4.3 billion of assets to tuck into Brown Advisory with its more Old Boy culture

Like father, like daughter? Fidelity CEO Abby Johnson shows all the signs that she's determined to leave her mark on the family's $7.2 trillion financial dynasty

Roll-up model meets Wall Street analysts; T.Rowe Price’s latest report posits that 401(k) plans are a rocket for corporate profitability; and private equity firm Genstar Capital's deep pockets have so far failed to turn the tide in Cetera's bitter rivalry with LPL

The New York-based online broker will fuel Financial Engines with referrals and house the assets with Trust Company of America unit

The year-old non-profit groups 50 ultra-high-net-worth family offices into the Kore Alliance; and the Lightyear Capital-owned roll-up Wealth Enhancement Group makes its third acquisition this year bringing it closer to a $10 billion client assets target.

In very all-Silicon Valley deal, start-up's CEO Alap Shah got former myCFO director as customer then convinced him to back his venture to the hilt

The Brooklyn, Ohio firm doubles its assets to $144 billion, adding USAA's $69 billion to Munder, RS Investments, Harvest and other assets --Brooklyn where?

Heady bank M&A and AMG exit in Tarrytown deal; 1,000-employee private banking unit in San Francisco may fold into St. Louis Wells Fargo wirehouse

Its five-minute planning software is an off-shoot of a big brain -- and its timing is good in the 'race to vanilla'

The Ken Fisher disciple went six years at the NYC-based start-up before his co-founder Ralph Pahlmeyer took his place

Neal Simon is running for U.S. Senate as an independent, an unusual risk; he also took precautions to make sure his $6.1B RIA roll-up finds its feet regardless of the mood of the Maryland electorate

Matthew O’Connor takes the CEO helm of the giant LA-based active manager from Kevin Clifford with conviction not to jam the rudder hard but to be open to new markets

Walt Bettinger and Bernie Clark contended with 2018 technology that showed the RIA audience the -- sometimes awkward -- questions on a mega-screen