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Matt Brinker: It wasn't technically a transaction for various reasons.

How United Capital's unconventional rolling up of a $2 billion RIA reveals how close the roll-up model is to extinction

Joe Duran's Newport Beach firm does cryptic non-transactional acquisition as Focus Financial becomes a tuck-in machine and HighTower sells de facto franchises

March 3, 2015 at 6:43 PM

Edmond Walters: We've integrated MoneyGuidePro. People say they are our competition. We don't care.

What to make of Fidelity Investments paying $250 million out of the blue for eMoney

The price paid is about right, experts say, but in the hands of the giant, it could be worth more -- or less

February 12, 2015 at 6:06 AM

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

Jon Stein: Efficiency is streamlined, but with human checks throughout the process.

How to hold 1,000 hands: Robo CEOs lay out a stark choice for traditional advisors at MarketCounsel Summit

RIAs who comfort themselves with the thought that automated advice caters to their 'non-core' clients are in for a rude shock

December 15, 2014 at 4:53 AM

Being heedless of competitors is dangerous but crying wolf has its own perils.

Why Joe Duran is dead wrong on 2015 marking the end of the Golden Era of the RIA

The serial entrepeneur's column in InvestmentNews forgets that RIAs are also advancing and that the 'new competitors' carry baggage and have fatal shortcomings

September 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM

Joe Duran: What we've done is incredibly rare.

Joe Duran explains United Capital's 100% revenue growth to $100 million since 2012 and the firm's complex plan to grow faster

In an overdue catch-all, catch-up the CEO of the $10-billion RIA tells of $4 billion of deals in the works and up to 15 de novo offices

September 2, 2014 at 3:05 AM

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

Jason Del Col: Our vision of the next-generation of an RIA office is they can service $200 million to $300 million with a support team in Dallas and not a lot of infrastructure.

In calculated gamble, United Capital begins to build, not buy, growth in major cities

Joe Duran will still buy firms but his $10-billion RIA will spin out six snazzy startup offices in the next two years manned by graduates of its own training program

August 22, 2014 at 3:04 AM

Ryan Marcus: I said, I don't care what it takes.

Fresh off an RBC exit, Ryan Marcus lands with Joe Duran

The recently departed face of RBC's RIA custody will tackle the Northeast corridor of the US for United Capital

August 19, 2014 at 10:42 PM

John Thiel: People are looking for advisors who understand that the retirement conversation isn’t about a math equation.

How Merrill Lynch Clear looks so impressively RIA-like and what shows how deceptive looks can be

The big iPad-laced and rhetoric-laced wirehouse initiative toward goals-based investing may have selling insurance as its primary goal

June 18, 2014 at 5:54 PM

Danny Sarch: I don't think this is desperate at all. If you don't have money, then you can't make the deals.

Ameriprise makes its move upmarket by first moving its bonus payouts to Wall Street levels

The Minneapolis-based broker jacks its sticker bid to 150% bonuses of brokers' last 12-months of revenue

June 13, 2014 at 2:30 PM

Dwayne Grady and Caroline Girgis: We wouldn't have taken this much off the table if the price of the stock wasn't what it is.

United Capital drops a six-figure check on 10 partner firms in share buyback program financed by SageView

Joe Duran's company is belatedly paying fully vested firms for up to 25% of their stock after the 2008 crash threw off the promised liquidity schedule

March 18, 2014 at 5:27 PM

Marty Bicknell: Sales in the wealth division is hand to hand combat, sometimes in the asset manager world, reputation and being on the right platforms drive business on their own.

The explosive growth to $20 billion AUM of Marty Bicknell's second roll-up-like venture, Montage Investments, and where his $8 billion wealth manager fits in

With admirers saying he takes a page from Warren Buffett, the Mariner Wealth CEO 's side bet on disenfranchised, unappreciated A-grade money managers

February 10, 2014 at 5:23 AM

Edward Gilhuly had breakfast with Joe Duran, then his company reported it was writing a big check.

Ex-KKR capitalists reach the RIA gate by taking a $30-million stake in United Capital

After vowing never to take private equity again, Joe Duran describes a business model shift sparked by his 'Honest Conversations' method

October 22, 2013 at 6:35 PM

Gary Dorfman: We represented ourselves not as a startup but as part of one of the top institutional management companies.

How Matt Cooper is getting past the 'oh, sure' factor that came from a slow roll-out of ... the other Newport Beach roll-up

Not only are deals picking up at the $900-million Beacon Pointe Wealth Advisors but existing advisors are telling success stories that can be quantified

October 4, 2013 at 6:27 AM

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