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Peter Hess drove the Advent-Black Diamond merger and may have created an RIA-friendly monster.

The 10 most influential figures in the RIA business going into 2012, Part 2
These advisors and executives made dramatic moves that advanced the business of registered investment advisors

Wednesday 1.4.12
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
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
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
Darlene DeRemer: The bank wasn’t looking to sell per se, but they were open to looking at ideas.

United Capital scoops up a $1.6 billion wealth manager from M&T
Quick, efficient deal, aided by top investment banker, may be the blueprint for growth-by-chunks for California aggregator

Thursday 1.13.11
Joe Duran: There will be a lot of folks wiped out and [big competitors] will charge 30-40-50 basis points and that’s the pricing we’ll all have to live with. (Photo by Catherine Taylor)

The MarketCounsel Member Summit hums in the Nevada desert
Joe Duran floats a controversial thesis about the threat faced by investment managers

Thursday 11.18.10
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
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: Nobody thinks of Cisco as an acquiring company because they have one culture [and by following that example] that's how we end up with an arbitrage

The faces of United Capital on an idyllic spring day on the Berkeley campus
Photographs of United Capital partners and executives at the Haas School of Business event

Friday 2.26.10
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
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