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Brian Amidei: We'll still be in the business, we will still service our client needs.

HighTower blindsides its own Palm Desert team with pink slips leaving pregnant questions in the arid air

The Chicago roll-up cites improprieties by its partner-employees but recruiters find the timing interesting as the team was actively seeking an exit

July 16, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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

Elliott Weissbluth: Liz and I are working the deal-making together. This isn't assigned downstream to a sales team

With a reminiscent fire, Elliot Weissbluth personally leads a new charge to buy RIAs

The CEO of HighTower, with a big assist from Liz Nesvold and a $150 million line of credit, is on the prowl for large practices

March 18, 2016 at 4:44 AM

Dina DiLorenzo: We are going to have a revenue sharing relationship for a period of time

With 'revenue sharing' as primary consideration, Guggenheim transfers its in-house RIA to HighTower

HighTower gets a substantial bounty of fee-generating assets and clients and Guggenheim avoids having to scale up

July 29, 2015 at 8:20 PM

Rudy Adolf: There is no equivalent proposition to Focus available in Canada.

Roll-ups are off at an acquisition clip in 2015 as $2 billion washes over the transom in a single week

Focus follows Dynasty into Canada as the three big aggregators toggle between organic and inorganic growth

April 17, 2015 at 6:20 PM

Joe Duran: We think this is the closest example to what Dimensional Fund Advisors does.

United Capital chases DFA's MO, trains '1099 advisors' and co-opts Starbucks brand guy

The multitasking Newport Beach-based national RIA also announced closing on two more RIA purchases with about $625 million of AUM

April 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM

Gib Watson: A lot of these challenges revolve around fragmented data.

Envestnet turns its guns on the 401(k) business

With a 57% stake in a new venture, the Chicago SMA supermarketer tackles a second TAMP gusher

December 9, 2014 at 1:35 AM

Tony Robbins will mostly give his generic speech to RIAs.

Tony Robbins prohibits reporters from covering his two-hour MarketCounsel speech

His PR firm says that no-coverage rules are part of his standard contract but the 11th hour heads-up today to journalists on legal points raises confusion

December 5, 2014 at 2:43 AM

Tony Robbins was offered an hour but demanded two.

Tony Robbins is set to crash the RIA party with two hours of testosterone

The maestro of motivators became a client of Brian Hamburger and now he is speaking at the lawyer's Vegas conference next month

November 12, 2014 at 1:45 PM

Elliot Weissbluth will play moderator with a strong robo viewpoint -- by Hamburger design.

Elliot Weissbluth will referee -- with a human bias -- a debate on robo-advisors starring Joe Duran, John Michel, and Jon Stein

MarketCounsel Summit also adds a second panel: Fortigent's Jamie McIntyre mediating Envestnet’s Jud Bergman, LPL’s Victor Fetter, and ActiFi’s Spencer Segal on an advisor support futurist theme

August 28, 2014 at 5:48 AM

Lars Knudsen: I think they're the best of the best.

HighTower Advisors shows its breadth of appeal by nabbing a 25-year RIA veteran with Moss Adams DNA

The Great Northwest's Triad Wealth Stewardship is now Bellevue Hightower and will stick with Tamarac after a long trial period

August 1, 2014 at 6:34 PM

Stuart DePina of Tamarac is Envestnet's RIA connection

Observations on the Envestnet Advisor Summit from the carsick seat of a Chicago taxi cab

Brian Hamburger relayed his thoughts on 36 hours at Jud Bergman's 'house' on the way to the airport

May 16, 2014 at 9:05 PM

Elliot Weissbluth: These are not simple lift-outs.

Elliot Weissbluth pooh-poohs the idea that HighTower faces channel conflict as 'stupid and uninformed'

The roll-up has added franchise- and outsource-type channels in the wake of a capital raise that failed to materialize

March 14, 2014 at 5:59 AM

Tom Nally: You've got to build a good team and it's not a one-man show.

What two things Tom Nally says 'no' to in managing his $270-billion RIA empire

The TD Ameritrade chief of RIA custody sees no reason to handle advisor commission business or serve roll-ups geared to hybrids

February 6, 2014 at 5:10 AM

Mike Papedis: We are not engaged in responding to gossip and we are sticking to our business strategy.

Top recruiter Kevin Geary exits HighTower

The departure of the acclaimed Schwab veteran is a palpable sign for some that the roll-up is going in a new direction

January 27, 2014 at 6:27 PM

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