When the SEC reopened, new registrations surged; from Nov. 13, 2025, through the end of the year, there were 279 new ...

Meanwhile, Beacon Pointe and Elevation Point have each announced transactions involving billion-dollar-plus wealth firms with ...

Bob Lavigne’s arrival as CCO of Hightower Holdings formalizes a dual-compliance structure following the launch of Hightower ...

M Global Partner, an asset management network operating in the U.S. and Europe, has sold an RIA it acquired in 2021 to Beacon ...

Asset managers are devoting more time and resources to service mega-RIAs and aggregators as the share of assets controlled by ...

RIA aggregators buy up RIAs to monetize a larger RIA. However, adding up assets under management will not necessarily generate a multiple on the monetization event that the RIA aggregators and their ...

In an industry brimming with jargon, acronyms and opaque terminology, it’s no surprise that advisors find it challenging to keep up with the ever-growing variety of models that exist in the industry ...

This is the seventh installment in a Financial Planning series by Chief Correspondent Tobias Salinger on how to build a successful RIA. See the previous stories here, or find them by following ...

A prospective client speaking with advisor Bill Rabbitt recently posed the foundational query that more customers are asking these days. "'Before we even talk, I have one question: Are you a fiduciary ...

In the registered investment advisor space, aggregators are companies that acquire smaller businesses and operate them with the end goal of generating a profit. For instance, an advisor might seek a ...

Compensation costs for registered investment advisories, or RIAs, made up 74% of firms' expenses in 2019, according to the Schwab 2020 RIA Benchmarking Study, released Thursday. The compensation data ...