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Members of the Summit Trail team stayed at their desks through the Lehman crisis earning enduring client loyalty.

Lehman Bros.' binding ties and culture spur another $1B team -- that stayed at their posts as Lehman burned -- to flee Stifel-owned Barclays for RIA

Newly created Summit Trail, with a Shirl factor, allows the Lehman swagger, kinder and gentler, to reassert itself in 2015 after seven years of smoldering

October 23, 2015 at 7:10 PM

Joe Piazza: Many advisors will not wait around for the deal to close.

Credit Suisse punts its private banking business to Wells Fargo

The take-my-brokers-please deal has skeptics but shows forethought, too

October 21, 2015 at 12:06 AM

John Copeland: We hope to bring a permanence to these boutique firms.

AMG's deal for $7-billion myCIO will give it $32 billion of AUM and its 12-billionth dollar of acquired assets in 2015

The RIA founded in 2005 made out of spare parts of E&Y and PWC needed a blue chip succession plan from the Beverly, Mass. asset management roll-up

July 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM

If Focus Financial has an IPO, the vultures may feast first, best.

Report: Focus Financial is preparing SEC paperwork for its initial public offering -- but is it jumping the gun?

With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges

July 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM

Michael Paley: It would have been tougher to leave three years ago. It was still in the prove-it mode.

How a $1.3-billion Manhattan, Raymond James RIA won a top exec from the roll-up down the street: Focus Financial

Michael Paley comes to Klingman & Assoc. with a mandate to add billions in AUM for his fellow-but-elder Princeton tiger

June 25, 2014 at 5:45 AM

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

John Lueken - r. - with Tim Pagliara: There is a significant tax advantage ... as well as a sizeable general cost of living improvement

This 32 year-old Goldman Sachs trader chucked New York for a $1-billion RIA outside Nashville

Embodying a reverse brain drain, John Lueken bolted for for the country-music capitol -- and not because of his way with a guitar

May 5, 2014 at 5:59 AM

Trey Tune: It's the right place to build a business in the private client space.

How an Alex. Brown spin-off grew to be a $46 billion RIA and how a Brown Brothers breakaway fits in to its plan for accelerated growth

The Baltimore-based firm, Brown Advisory, will invade Bank of America's hometown with an up-to-date investing approach and Old Money flavor

February 5, 2014 at 2:51 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

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

Laurie Kamhi: Being a partner and having a say in future development is important to me.

HighTower shifts into high gear with a three-team, $1.2 billion AUM in-three-weeks spree

An alpha predator in 2010, 2011, the Chicago-based rollup, now with with 260 employees, roars again, twice at Merrill Lynch and once at UBS

December 2, 2013 at 6:19 PM

Mark Tibergien in Part II: The balance of power has shifted to advisors, regardless of whether they are on a broker-dealer platform or a custody platform.

Part I: Is the era of the monolithic RIA custodian coming to an end?

RIAs, small custodians, co-ops, study groups, roll-ups, TAMPs, compliance shops, OSJ and IBDs are all chipping away at much of what fit under the roofs of Schwab, Fidelity, TD and Pershing

November 1, 2013 at 4:51 PM

David Canter: From the session on valuation, we learned that it's more complex than most are willing to admit.

What happened when Fidelity Investments called 25 deal-making protagonists to its Boston sanctum for a talk about the suboptimal RIA M&A market

David Canter recounts what his company set out to do, who showed up and what the pooling of ideas yielded

September 30, 2013 at 5:38 PM

Brad Sullivan: I have a four-year-old son. I would not put my son at risk if I didn't think this move was worth it.

Why a young Morgan Stanley team moved to Beverly Hills Wealth Management -- with a child in mind

The breakaway movement continues to revive fueled by mid-sized firms like Sullivan Wealth Management despite a bull market

July 25, 2013 at 7:31 PM

John Furey:  Most deals get stuck when a proposed transaction is accretive for only one party.

How, strangely, money gets downplayed in RIA deal making and why it helps explain an anemic flow

Culture, fit, philosophy and a firm handshake are all swell, but without a financial bettering of the parties' interests, a deal rarely progresses

May 10, 2013 at 3:49 AM

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