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Dan Seivert: It's so eye-opening to put it out to the audience.

After storming PIMCO, Dan Seivert puts LA on RIA map with high-aptitude Summit

Appropriating the bond giant's Newport Beach headquarters was a masterstroke that took the investment banker's 'deal' event to an RIA MBA cram course

September 22, 2017 at 9:51 PM

Leo Kelly: As HighTower grows, it has an agenda and a business strategy of its own and we have an agenda and a business strategy of our own

HighTower loses two teams comprising 33 people and $3 billion of assets over July 4th weekend, declines comment, then issues a 'smashing' press release

The teams, led by Leo Kelly in Maryland and Joel Guth in Ohio, say the Chicago roll-up 'has its own agenda' but that it served as a good stepping stone to becoming fully independent RIAs

July 7, 2017 at 9:16 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

Dan Seivert: While past years consisted mostly of RIAs, this year we expanded the content to attract a broader set of participants and executives.

Coming RIA custody fees and a new recruiting war catch the attention of deal hounds in Manhattan

At ECHELON event at NYAC, action items aplenty assaulted attendees -- especially with Apr. 30 looming

October 21, 2016 at 9:49 PM

Despite the 33-year age span, the newly independent partners say they work as an unusually copacetic team.

In search of a 'mind-set' shift, $2.2 billion Wichita team tunneled out of Morgan Stanley -- taking absolutely no chances with the guards

Despite the team's three-decade age span, the Morgan Stanley veterans shared a vision for a practice -- one without a roll-up, outsourcer or dictates from New York.

September 19, 2016 at 6:30 PM

Alan Zafran: Luminous nearly doubled assets in the past three-and-a half years under First Republic.

First Republic's $70B-plus RIA roll-up loses four top executives as its contract with Luminous team ticks down

Sources say another Great Hou-Sear Escape could be in the offing based on the team's clannish ways when it comes to technology

August 8, 2016 at 8:10 PM

Paul Pagnato: Elliot and Michael did the right thing.

After chats with Phyllis Borzi, a flagship HighTower team executes a 'deliberate' breakaway to form a $2.5-billion RIA

Citing post-DOL-rule concerns about serving their super-rich clientle and hungering for more alternative alternatives, Paul Pagnato and David Karp have ankled the captive brokerage world but are keeping ties to the Chicago roll-up

June 1, 2016 at 9:00 PM

Matt Sonnen: There were only so many off-hours trips I could make through the service elevator.

A breakaway artist confesses the 'mistakes' he made in ushering PBIG's Hou-Sear team

With its elevators, synchronized watches, office space hijinks and voice-over IP, Luminous Capital was a virtuoso Merrill Lynch defection but not to Matt Sonnen

March 1, 2016 at 5:56 PM

Matt Sonnen: I was employee zero at Luminous. I built the firm in the shadows outside of Merrill.

How the mastermind of the Luminous Capital breakaway is parlaying his cloak-and-dagger skills into 'Pure Financial Independence'

With his wife, Larissa, as sidearm, Matt Sonnen seeks to fulfill a niche for a service level between John Furey and Shirl Penney

January 19, 2016 at 8:38 PM

Matt Sonnen: I made a lot of mistakes along the way, and I hope I can help others avoid those.

Focus Financial goes after $100-million wirehouse brokers after hiring five employees suited to the task

The big New York aggregator will put the brokers through a one-year seasoning process before placing them in RIA foster homes

April 15, 2013 at 5:16 AM

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