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Will Kelly: We're not just a lift out.

United Capital signs on former advisors and principals of Harold C. Brown & Co.
The strategic buyer has found advisors who don't mind being employees -- as long as they can spend more time with clients

Thursday 1.26.12
Joe Duran: They're basically an RIA inside a broker-dealer platform, which is not a good idea.

United Capital extracts a 40-employee, mega-growth team from LPL
The big strategic buyer gets assets of Peak Capital Investment Services, a $600-million firm that has grown 12-fold in less than a decade

Wednesday 11.2.11
Mark Benioff: ...So shall we see a Corporate Spring in companies that will be tossing out executives who do not bridge the Social Divide.

Dreamforce review: Social media enters the business cloud and why RIAs should care
Salesforce's annual event was a city in a city for a cult-like following of 45,000, including many financial advisors

Friday 9.2.11
Joe Duran: we do not believe this is a redux of the 2008 debacle, but we are being cautious just in case. Finding market bottoms is a messy process.

Joe Duran calls current market hoopla The Great Perception Recession of 2011
On CNBC and in a letter to clients, the United Capital chief calls for caution but with a healthy dose of skepticism

Sunday 8.14.11
Stacey Lau Welsh gave up her investment banking career to manage wealth. 'I can work hard and sleep in my own bed.'

Three happenings in the RIA world right now
The Innovative Alternative Strategies conference kicks off; United Capital brings aboard two high-level women advisors; and Ron Rhoades finally gets recognized for his efforts

Wednesday 6.22.11
Dave Welling may play a pivotal role in whether Advent's Black Diamond acquisition makes the combined entity more like the Google or Microsoft of portfolio management systems.

Five recent articles that show the RIA business just keeps hitting milestones
Advent buys Black Diamond, Carson goes RIA, Duran champions consolidation, Schwab goes full-out into franchises, Brightscope grades RIAs

Tuesday 6.21.11
Joe Duran: “When [my wife and I] are having an argument, my goals and dreams are adapting right there.

Joe Duran tries out novel financial planning strategy on himself and his wife
United Capital is seeking a replicable method for counseling high-net-worth couples

Tuesday 6.14.11
Andrew Salesky: It’s come up many times in the past. The timing is right.

Schwab spells out the details of its franchise plan
The San Francisco broker is making five-year deals with dozens of financial advisors from across advisory channels

Wednesday 6.8.11
Joe Duran: "I think it’s exactly like the travel agency. These one-man shops think things aren’t changing. They don’t realize it until it’s too late.”

Why Joe Duran believes that classic RIA firms face extinction
Baby Boomers' expectations and rising technology could put a new squeeze on the old model

Tuesday 5.17.11
Chip Roame: This round of financial advisor aggregators is far better capitalized, and has far deeper management teams – and boards of directors.

This generation of advisor aggregators puts the roll-up ghosts to bed, for now
Questions linger about what some firms will look like post-IPO or merger

Thursday 2.3.11
The Top 10 on RIABiz last month included a story about Charles Goldman.

What advisors care about: technology, hiring, Schwab's lawsuit against a broker hit top RIABiz stories this month
A new platform for alternative assets, plus the regulatory moves expected this year also make the list

Monday 1.17.11
Joe Duran: We’ll be a $100-million revenue RIA in two to three years.

One of a new breed of roll-ups taking center stage, United Capital is churning out deals again
After a broken engagement slowed its progress, the company is on a buying spree

Monday 9.20.10
Matt Camden shows off an iPad that is now compatible with HighTower's tech platform

HighTower Advisors and United Capital seek to stamp out wirehouse feel by embracing Apple technology
The aggregators see risk in standing pat with PC technology when advisors use Macs at home

Thursday 5.6.10
Readership on RIABiz has been surprisingly international

What do RIAs care about?
A breadcrumb path through RIABiz into the mind of financial services entrepreneurs

Wednesday 4.7.10
Kelly Trevathan is ready for quantum growth in San Francisco under the United Capital brand

Berkeley professor challenges United Capital directors to act more like managers and less like entrepreneurs
Eat-what-you-kill mentality won't take a company to the next level

Monday 3.1.10
Joe Duran: Our goal is to [help make] our partner firms into the dominant market leaders in their respective cities and to help build several $5 to $10 million offices in the next few years.

United Capital calls its partner firms to Berkeley to help execute ambitious plan
Haas business school professors will orient consolidator's RIAs toward new ways of looking at growth

Thursday 2.25.10
Malcolm Gladwell's insights on entrepreneurs in last week's New Yorker pertain to RIAs

What RIAs can learn from Malcolm Gladwell’s writings on entrepreneurs as risk averse
RIAs' success as entrepreneurs is in keeping with studies covered in a New Yorker article

Wednesday 1.20.10
Like Tom Turkey, many RIAs were thankful to survive 2009

Taking A Break From the Turkey?
RIABiz's top 10 stories from the past month offer a window into what RIAs care about

Thursday 11.26.09
Ed Friedman: “We ask them, do you really need somebody just to get lunch and coffee?”

The seven things I learned from roll-up executives in Princeton, including not to call them that
Four CEOs of aggregators choose four different paths to growth

Tuesday 10.27.09
Matt Brinker: It's a good time to be opportunistic

VC firm bets millions on wealth managers amid market fears
United Capital will use funds to quickly double in size

Friday 9.25.09
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