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Todd Thomson: In the past 12 months, it's become more of a normal [hands-off] chairman role.

Executive shake-up and staff hiring binge change Dynasty Financial Partners' talent mix, with Todd Thomson, Scott Welch, Ed Friedman and 12 women as headliners

The St. Petersburg-based producer of 'synthetic RIA scale' will continue to aggressively hire and adjust its talent ranks as it readies for next growth push.

September 24, 2019 at 2:02 AM

Bob Miller's firm seeks a 'recapitalization, refinancing, sale, merger or other capital transaction.'

Seeking loan of $2 million, PCR discloses $12-million payment due in 2020 -- putting 'sale' on the table, offering memorandum shows

Private Client Resources, founded in 2000 projects it will break even next year but declines to say how it'll pay back mounting pile of loans

March 19, 2018 at 7:03 PM

Steve Braverman, co-CEO of Pathstone, downplayed any perception of Convergent advisors as damaged goods.

City National sells off salvaged remains of Convergent Wealth Advisors, but not before Convergent sheds nearly $7 billion of AUM

After a trifecta of traumas, Mark Hurley steps in to fund and help construct deal with Pathstone and PagnatoKarp; cuts a deal with four younger advisors to start segmented division

September 13, 2016 at 5:26 PM

Marion Asnes of the Idea Refinery [r.] with Nicole Newlin of Efficient Advisors: Until Big Data reveals all of their clients' habits and motivations, advisors will just have to work at winning their attention.

With a nod to OSJ power and DOL rumblings, Gladstone convenes 100 advisors in Philly

10 OSJs walk into a room and the rest is silence for 90 locked-out attendees

May 23, 2016 at 4:22 PM

Peter Giza: My take is that changing a significant portion of a firm's technology platform without changing operational psychology is a fail.

Some notes at MarketCounsel from the pad of a skeptical Peter Giza

The Wealthsite exec zeroed in on Sallie Krawcheck, and all things tech

December 15, 2014 at 5:55 PM

Steve Lockshin: I wrote a big check.

Tiburon CEO Summit extrudes big news: Betterment Institutional is born

Steve Lockshin lays out his plans for TAMP-like venture and how Michael Kitces, a public critic of the Betterment CEO, very much fits in

April 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM

Carrie Gallaway's team had to write a check to Morgan Stanley but sees a long-term play with Lebenthal.

What exactly lured a sparkling Morgan Stanley advisor and $1.2 billion to a retreaded brand name attached to a fledgling RIA

Carrie Gallaway and partner Andrew Stern got no signing bonus but the Lebenthal brand, and what Frank Campanale is building with Fortigent, Envestnet and BNY Mellon, attracted them

March 28, 2014 at 4:38 AM

Neal Simon: We decided to put our money where our mouth was and we hired a full-time [recruitment] person.

This MBA chose an RIA, now with $1.4 billion AUM, but as a business model, not as professional choice per se

Neal Simon says that -- Ric Edelman aside -- nobody is plotting expansion like him

February 14, 2014 at 5:26 PM

Ron Carson: I have an account at Betterment.

Why Ron Carson brought Steve Lockshin onto his team and how Betterment fits into their plans

The head of LPL's flagship RIA and Barron's top independent advisor of 2011 are pooling brainpower and embracing the possibility of deploying strategic robo-advice

January 28, 2014 at 7:03 AM

Jamie McIntyre: The out-of-pocket fees can be almost zero because we've embedded it into the investment management fees for research.

An LPL-ified Fortigent bursts back on the scene with new software, new pricing and a surge of growth

After a tense waiting period, the outsourcer is unveiling alternatives to six-figure research contracts and the launch of an online portal for all services

October 14, 2013 at 5:13 AM

Derek Bruton: The sales cycle has lengthened.

At the $50 billion mark, Derek Bruton discusses how LPL's hybrid unit became 'wildly successful' and why Fortigent helps put the $100-billion target closer still

Booming markets have slowed recruiting, but the IBD's RIA custody unit will only get better as it affords itself more and more of Fortigent brainpower

June 19, 2013 at 1:34 PM

Joe Piazza:  I have always felt that I was "interrupted" 10 years ago.

With big LPL backing, the Robertson Stephens brand revives to roll up advisors to the suddenly wealthy

Joe Piazza is taking the once-premium San Francisco investment banking brand and combining with Fortigent to lure brokers to a hybrid platform

March 12, 2013 at 6:24 AM

Dan Arnold: I'll reinforce there are no customer-facing roles [that will be cut].

LPL's RIA assets skyrocketed in 2012

Outsourcing is are still on the agenda though the CFO categorically denies advisor-facing jobs will be lost

February 6, 2013 at 6:47 PM

Christopher Giles: Folio offers us a competitive platform to grow into.

LPL signs on with FolioDynamix for rebalancing to boost its IBD offering and Fortigent's

The huge independent broker-dealer will wean advisors off its homegrown trading and rebalancing suite and stick with Fortigent for research and performance offerings

January 15, 2013 at 6:28 AM

John Waldron: We know that LPL is putting things in place so that it can focus on the ultrahigh-net worth market, but we wanted to be with partners who already have those services in place.

$1.2 billion RIA breaks it off with LPL as new beaux Fidelity and Pershing vie ardently for favor

Seeking support for its superrich clients, Waldron Wealth lets the big IBD down easy, retaining its subsidiary, Fortigent

November 7, 2012 at 7:40 AM

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