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Nick Blasi: The buyer is taking a substantial risk [in this environment] and should be allowed to protect themselves.

Suitcases of cash for RIA M&A deals are one COVID-19 victim, as RIA buyers leverage economic uncertainty to force more risk on sellers

Sellers are still getting paid at familiar sales prices, but some of the bad old days of 'earn-outs' are back, which delays the time when they can stop worrying about firm cash flow

June 24, 2020 at 2:05 AM

Bob Oros:  'We want aligned interest. We want to make sure we're both motivated.'

HighTower spent at least $100 million to buy the love [and revenues] of its own advisors, a key sign an IPO or sale is taking shape, industry observers say

The Chicago roll-up paid top dollar to get virtually all its partners on board and to keep all dealing on the down low as it completes conversion to RIA roll-up from boutique wirehouse mode

June 10, 2019 at 11:20 PM

Rich Gill: $20 billion in assets under management in five years [for each of EP Wealth Advisors, the Forbes Family Trust, and MAI Capital Management] is a goal that we discussed and we all think it is doable and I think we're more or less already on the trajectory to get there.

One year on, John Copeland's roll-up growth is slow but expectations remain steadfast for big snowball

The founder of Wealth Partners Capital Group sweet-talked AMG into spinning off WPCG to go after plentiful smaller sellers but courtships can't be rushed

June 18, 2018 at 7:52 PM

Bill Rice: With ... Boston Private, we were unable to find a mechanism that worked for both parties to deal with incentivizing key employees.

A maverick RIA and a bank walked into a bar in 2006, 2011 and 2014. It's all settling out in a 2018 M&A & spin-off pub crawl

Boston Private lets a $9-billion RIA buy itself back to free up cash to be used to roll up more bank-minded wealth managers this time around and Peter Raimondi is back in the game

May 14, 2018 at 8:05 PM

Karl Heckenberg: Mark has done a good job building the business. As [EB's] gotten more educated on the business over the last year, the thinking has changed and evolved and at some point you ask yourself, at what cost?

After 'thinking changed' Emigrant Bank hires new CEO to either take Mark Hurley's spot at Fiduciary Network or to head new unit that will compete head-on

With Hurley now characterized as expendable, the New York bank makes Karl Heckenberg chief-in-waiting and Harold Evensky expresses 'reservations' about Emigrant Bank power play

November 15, 2017 at 9:38 PM

Stone Point CEO Chuck Davis has insurer DNA having served on the board of The Progressive Corp.

Focus Financial's 'extraordinary' purchase of $16B-AUM SCS Capital and what Stone Point -- both buyer and seller in the deal -- may do to juice its investment

With Stone Point CEO Charles Davis now calling the shots, the RIA roll-up tacks to UHNW-directed RIAs, perhaps for their positioning in selling insurance

May 17, 2017 at 9:06 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

Perry Olson extracted Atherton from Portola, built it up, and, nine years later, is now selling it to BNY Mellon.

What about the 49ers, Palo Alto experiment and China led a $2.7 billion RIA to sell out, brand and all, to BNY Mellon

BNY Mellon ends up buying RIA -- and paying an extraction fee to Schwab -- after building nearby Palo Alto 6,800-square-ft. branch

February 10, 2016 at 7:40 PM

David Selig: We worked to figure out what to do when both firms competed for the same clients. Finally, we just decided to compete.

Two RIA M&A firms merge -- sort of -- when they're not competing head-to-head

Park Sutton and Advice Dynamics Partners are trying out the power of two, without too much heavy paperwork

January 19, 2016 at 6:20 PM

Michael J. Cleary: One of the things our clients are going to be looking for in the next five to 10 years is what's next for Cleary Gull.

An $8.4 billion wealth manager emerges in Milwaukee after old RBC spinoff, Cleary Gull, finds local love

Johnson Financial Group adds 40 advisors and $2.1 billion but does a reverse branding merger

January 7, 2016 at 10:47 PM

Hellman & Friedman managing director Allen Thorpe was onboard during LPL's turbo-growth years.

Why the PE that helped take LPL public now controls Edelman Financial and plans to invest more heavily

Hellman & Friedman has assumed lead-player status from Lee Equity Partners, the latest move in key-man Ric Edelman's uphill quest to make himself obsolete

October 12, 2015 at 11:26 PM

Barbara Yastine left Ally Bank CEO role in June after the shares fell below the IPO price.

After pocketing $5.2 million in 2014 comp as Ally Bank CEO, Barbara Yastine joins Lebenthal as Frank Campanale exits

Alexandra Lebenthal takes the co-CEO role of the wealth manager and she intends to woo more female advisors

September 21, 2015 at 10:01 PM

Jim Nesci: If 1% of our customers were turned into wealth management clients, it's a new mechanism to feed a new business.

Why a suburban New Jersey bank and a white-shoe $1.3 billion RIA found love in Morrristown

A lousy lending market is stunting Beacon Trust's revenues; enter The MDE Group with its revenue-rich 200 ultra-wealthy clients

January 28, 2015 at 8:54 PM

Ric Edelman: Our thought was we'd hire a COO who could turn in a few years into a CEO. We've decided to accelerate that process now.

Wanted: New CEO for Edelman Financial whose name is not Ric Edelman

As Edelman grooms his firm for a sale, the timetable to replace himself at the chief exec spot fast-forwards by years

January 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM

Robert Thomas: They knew what they were doing.

Marty Bicknell buys a $1.1 billion RIA that serves the mass affluent, and taps credit for the first time

In buying Vantage with borrowed funds, 'liquidity' per se was not the issue for Mariner Wealth; speed of execution was

January 7, 2015 at 8:11 PM

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