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Jud Bergman: I think institutions are seeing this as a way go participate in large trends.

As Envestnet shares soar, the firm extends its offerings further beyond RIAs with $33-million deal
With the Chicago-based outsourcer's stock now up about 75% in the past year, it picks up a Prudential unit that has sweet ties to trust companies

Monday 4.15.13
Jon Beatty says many advisors are still more fixated on tending to nervous clients than doing deals.

The RIA M&A market stumbled in 2012, but giants were not deterred, Schwab end-of-year data shows
M&A activity still sickly slow by some reckonings, but harbingers of mating activity abound

Monday 1.28.13
Elliot Weissbluth wowed the MarketCounsel crowd in Las Vegas with the news that HighTower will take on Dynasty Financial head-to-head

HighTower throws open its doors to non-partner firms who want service and/or brand
The Chicago-based consolidator announces in Las Vegas that it is gambling that it can deliver a business model similar to Dynasty Financial Partners

Friday 9.14.12
Jud Bergman: We've been working to bring opportunities to the fore.

With FundQuest off its plate, Envestnet is ready for a helping of new deals
The Chicago outsourcer has IPO cash, deal experience and an appetite for growth

Friday 12.16.11
Bryan Olson says the explosive growth doesn't include many RIA assets, which are expected to start kicking in soon..

Schwab's purchase of Windhaven made its asset growth soar -- and RIA assets may be the afterburners
The Boston-based phenom has gathered assets mightily in good markets but may do even better in bad ones

Monday 8.15.11
Rudy Adolf: “This is an area we wanted to invest in and we wanted to add additional resources. The thing we’ve figured out better than anyone else is how to invest in entrepreneurs.”

Focus Financial pivots to breakaway strategy with Fidelity recruit
Mark Dupont will put a new spin on the big aggregator but entrepreneurial bent remains

Monday 5.9.11
Dan Seivert: RIAs were competing with wirehouse brokers but now they’re competing against super RIAs and they’re feeling a little insecure.

Record year for RIA M&A after giant fourth quarter, Schwab study says
Buyers and sellers both have stronger motivations

Wednesday 2.2.11
Dan Seivert: Several factors that may pave the way for LPL to turn public.

10 reasons why LPL Financial could pull off a hot IPO in a cold market
The big IBD touts its big size, big growth and big recruiting opportunity in SEC filing

Wednesday 11.17.10
Stephen J. Cucchiaro spoke with Chuck Schwab and Walt Bettinger before deciding to sell his company to theirs.

A look inside Schwab's big deal with a small asset manager
Windward sold for a big premium but Schwab may be the bigger winner

Friday 11.12.10
Charles Roame:  I think that the point is to make a partial public offering, frankly a minority one, create a public capital value and allow the firm to use additional stock to make acquisitions.

What to make of LPL nearing a successful -- but scaled back -- IPO
It made concessions on price but gaining a public valuation may be mission accomplished for now

Friday 11.5.10
David DeVoe: Of the deals completed so far this year, 55% were for $250 million or less.

M&A market for RIAs continues record pace: Second half looks even stronger
As compliance burdens grow, smaller firms are driving merger activity

Monday 7.26.10
Mark Hurley's new report says building enterprise value is “unattractive and fraught with risk."

What to make of Mark Hurley's latest prophesy that most RIA firms will go out with a whimper
The Fiduciary Network principal sees minimal enterprise value -- and little will to build it -- among 19,000 wealth management firms

Tuesday 6.15.10
Matt Mathias: Every time there's a merger, clients are disrupted.

Consolidation pushes a veteran of Wachovia, U.S. Trust, National City into the RIA space
Trendspotters see increase in bank breakaways as wealth management divisions consolidate

Tuesday 2.16.10
Jessica Bibliowicz: We acted quickly in a difficult environment. We are now a stronger and more seasoned company.

Bibliowicz's turnaround plan for National Financial Partners includes rolling up RIAs
Publicly traded consolidator sees RIAs deals as a promising avenue of growth and stable earnings

Thursday 2.11.10
Bridgewater Wealth has long experience reining in athletes and their money

[UPDATED] Focus Financial breaks into the American sports world with its latest RIA deal
Bridgewater purchase gives New York roll-up specialized knowledge of managing sudden fortunes accumulated in sporting world

Wednesday 1.20.10
Dan Seivert: History is filled with firms that have sold themselves at high valuations to large companies only to buy themselves back at a fraction of the price.

8 major points to understand about the M&A market at the start of 2010
Market conditions are yielding great opportunities for some savvy buyers and sellers

Wednesday 1.6.10
Paul Lally: Banks see this possibly as the opportunity of a lifetime to get into the wealth management business.

Banks are hungry to buy RIAs again
The same pressures for growth and non-interest income have them shopping, albeit more cautiously

Monday 12.14.09
Dan Seivert: "Mergers, as opposed to acquisitions, may suit you better if you have little cash."

Beware the time goblins in M&A deals
Ask these eight questions before shopping for advisory practices

Friday 10.30.09
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