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Kurt Miscinski says his firm, Cerity Partners, has achieved 'escape velocity.'

Big RIA buyers flock to ECHELON M&A event and agree on one takeway: It's a 'seller's market' -- but maybe not forever

Cerity, Mercer and Summit Trail chiefs say tripling of practice buyers means multiples are staying flush, but they urge some caution to on-the-fence RIA sellers.

August 30, 2024 at 5:25 AM

Marc Cordover: Not-for-profit organizations, specifically, continue to face a range of challenges.

Vanguard's rampant re-engineering binge now includes handing off $60-billion AUA TAMP-like unit to Mercer

The $7.6-trillion, Malvern, Pa., asset manager did not explain the sale's purpose but alluded to challenges keeping pace with 'increasingly complex rules.

December 6, 2023 at 2:21 AM

Kimberly Foss: 'Our cultural fit was extremely high.'

Media magnet Kimberly Foss sells her RIA to Mercer Global and declares cultural fit 'extemely high,' citing shared DFA ties and a woman's touch

The Empyrion owner will now work under the $48-billion, Denver and Santa Barbara RIA rollup, which keeps finding women in wealth who believe it transcends 'pale, male and stale'

January 11, 2023 at 3:28 AM

Dave Welling: All of our 'platform' teams will report to Daniel.

Dave Welling's rollup hits $39 billion of AUM and hires a 37- year-old breakaway from BlackRock to turn internal five-click shopping into a 'single conversation'

The Mercer Advisors CEO in Denver now has a 'president' reporting to him from the Big Apple to take on the specific mission of wiring a national RIA, rather than day-to-day operations at a rollup.

October 21, 2022 at 5:48 PM

David Welling says he manages women to a point then 'gets out of the way.'

Fresh off buying No. 9 and No. 10 women-led firms, Dave Welling now has Mercer's AUM up 220% in four years in part by addressing a women 'problem'

Both Genstar and Mercer female staff are singing the CEO's praises after he took a sleepy $10 billion AUM firm to $32-billion AUM, where 40% of client-facing staff and 33% of leaders are women.

October 13, 2021 at 1:10 AM

Dave Welling: Joe [Duran] does a reasonable job but we're further out on the spectrum of integration.

Determined to out-Joe-Duran Duran's United Capital, Dave Welling moves his $12B roll-up's HQ to Denver

As Mercer's torrid growth accelerates, its new CEO will hyper-unify investments and operations, make deals, pit software vendors against each other and hire like crazy

February 14, 2018 at 6:18 PM

Frank Troise: There's exceptional demand. We just don't have enough advisors on the platform.

How one firm is supposedly cracking the lead generation code to the tune of 50,000 advisors supplied -- by, for now, not trying to create referrals

Investor Watchdog, FreeRetirementReport and Vestorly are among the firms seeing growth but are grappling with vetting issues -- of both advisors and clients

June 21, 2012 at 4:39 AM

Franklin Tsung: It is a messy business and not for the meek.

How AppCrown got a big RIA footprint overnight by handling Salesforce implementations

TD and Fidelity are in with both feet but some are taking a wait-and-see attitude

February 27, 2012 at 5:02 AM

David Barton: We have to live with the decision for a long time.

The TD Ameritrade-Orion pairing again proves productive -- this time to wrest assets from a $3.6 billion Schwab RIA

As part of a barrage of big moves by Mercer Advisors, Tamarac gets superseded for rebalancing

January 25, 2012 at 6:13 AM

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