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Stephanie Link made a key hire to allow Hightower to deliver an alternative to vanilla alternative investments.

Tuning its 'machine' business model, Hightower Advisors just hired an ex-Carlyle due-diligence maven for alts investing to offer an alternative to the CAIS and iCapital standard inventory

The $141-billion AUA Chicago aggregator sees a big future of $50-million-and-up UHNW clients, and it want to maximize RIA access to premier alts managers.

August 2, 2022 at 2:24 AM

Elliott Weissbluth cashed out Hightower shares 'at a pretty darn good time.'

Elliot S. Weissbluth, Hightower Advisors mastermind, cashes out and vacates chairman role as Pershing's ex-CEO Lisa Dolly takes a board seat

The Chicago rollup's founder got paid better by doing the second-stage exit and the new cast on the Board also includes Bob Oros ascending to chair and Darrell Horn of Green Square Wealth Management joining

February 19, 2021 at 8:58 PM

Philip Palaveev: Spending time and resources to train the next generation [of leaders] is almost never unsuccessful.

Hightower Advisors pairs 'Moss Adams' whip-crack training with latest (reported) $600 million Goldman Sachs-led capital raise to give organic, and inorganic, growth a better chance

ex-Mark Tibergien protégé, Philip Palaveev, designs failable two-year management program for Hightower advisors, using Fidelity G2 Leadership Institute as a template -- and his marathon career as the teachable metaphor

November 2, 2020 at 10:32 PM

Bob Oros: These were not deals that were almost done and we were just waiting to sign the paperwork.

After becoming a 'Zoom' maestro, Bob Oros spurred Hightower Advisors to close a $1-billion deal a week -- surpassing 2019's total in just over a month

CEO Elliot Weissbluth's replacement spent a year doing housekeeping -- then learning digital due diligence under the sword of COVID-19. But now Oros is loaded with fresh Thomas H. Lee capital, and RIAs like doing business with him

September 4, 2020 at 8:51 PM

Eric Becker: "It's the evolution from Merrill to HighTower to being their own firm and innovators. I like that evolution.

PagnatoKarp learns going it alone has its limits, jumps into the arms of another serial buyer, Cresset, after declaring its independence from HighTower only four years ago

Cresset makes largest acquisition yet with $2.5 billion PagnatoKarp, lifting its assets to $9.5 billion, nearly triple just two years ago.

June 17, 2020 at 8:25 PM

Bob Oros is part of the reinvention that may revalue Hightower.

Thomas H. Lee Partners reportedly puts Hightower Advisors on the block, but an air of unreality surrounds the timing and premium price following two-year revamp

The Boston firm repeopled, rebranded, remodeled and then locked down its advisors with $100 million, paving the way for the next owner -- if the $2-billion price is right

February 21, 2020 at 11:50 PM

Laura Levesque: Fee pressures are considerable but defined contribution plans may pick up the slack.

The super-TAMP 'OCIO' category suddenly, finally looks mortal in 2019, says Cerulli report, but modest reinvention and price cuts could give it a new run

The outsourced chief investment officer industry exploded to almost $2 trillion globally and $1.4 trillion in the US, by striking a balance between TAMPs and consultants that propelled 20% growth without much fee pressure, the Boston consultant shows.

December 23, 2019 at 6:22 PM

Frank Wilkinson: If you're a consulting client and paying less in fees, how are you not concerned that the OCIO clients who are [spending] more are getting preferential treatment?

Oisin's Bits: Vanguard aborts banking effort, because it was more fixated on beating BoA than being itself, an analyst says; SEI is killing it in the Mercer/Russell realm by competing with a retrofitted TAMP-thingy

The $5.3-billion Malvern, Pa. monster finds its investors want it to stick to investing, not checking accounts and the Oaks, Pa. TAMP leader gets upmarket with no-conflict pitch and product fit and

March 22, 2019 at 11:22 PM

Bob Oros: We're going to look at firms we’ve historically looked at as large, and think they’re going to be the ones.

As Bob Oros-led HighTower reboots, it bags an ex-Goldman RIA, hires two, makes a CMO imminent, and clarifies mission

The new CEO will need to somehow weave together the debris of the first roll-up run and the new one to the satisfaction of RIAs and the hundreds of people already inside the HighTower umbrella

March 20, 2019 at 11:32 PM

Elliot Weissbluth: [Hightower] is actively engaging with a variety of opportunities.

HighTower gets a new CEO, to be revealed later, as Elliot Weissbluth moves upstairs

Elliot Weissbluth's move upstairs ends an era, as Thomas H. Lee's reign begins in earnest, and Mark Cabezas comes in as M&A head.

September 13, 2018 at 2:21 PM

David Pottruck: It’s time for new board leadership.
April 20, 2018 at 7:01 PM

Elliot Weissbluth: I'm used to Seal Team Six. It's quite lovely getting to know people and walking through the front door.

HighTower Advisors lands $4.5-billion RIA with help from bigger, better checkbook

The Chicago RIA roll-up adds 45-employee Salient with T.H. Lee omnipresent in shepherding the UHNW deal

April 17, 2018 at 3:25 PM

Neal Simon: The system is broken.

Fed up owner of $5.4 billion RIA prepares to run for U.S. Senate as independent

Neal Simon, CEO of Bronfman Rothschild and advocate of The Centrist Project, has exploratory committee in place and will decide by February

December 20, 2017 at 10:13 PM

Shirl Penney (2nd from r., flanked by Rich Gill, Marty Bicknell and John Furey): ​Breakaways should expect to 'pay a 25% settlement fee moving forward.'

An RIABiz advertising exec derives hard meanings from soft comments made by big shots at MarketCounsel Summit

Post-TD Tom Bradley, post-refinanced Elliot Weissbluth, post-divorce David Bach and Ric Edelman, post-protocol Shirl Penney and post-windfall Marty Bicknell were among execs who tipped their hands and hearts about where they are headed

December 12, 2017 at 2:18 PM

Brian Hamburger worked the phones until headliners signed on in droves.

After Brian Hamburger scores Greg Fleming, Tom Bradley, Elliot Weissbluth and other A-list whoppers, MarketCounsel Summit fees will rise

Speakers fresh off making RIA headlines, including ex-Morgan Stanley president who is launching Rockefeller-backed RIA, will address uncomfortable issues, which sends demand up; $1,000 tickets til Monday

November 10, 2017 at 11:09 PM

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