Toby is a veteran journalist with more than a dozen years of experience in the field who joined Financial Planning in 2017 after prior tenures with the New York Daily News, Commercial Observer and City Limits. He earned an undergraduate degree in the humanities from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He has won a dozen business journalism awards during his time with Financial Planning, including those received for the 2020 podcast series "
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The private equity-backed firm’s deal could tack on some 900 advisors to its ranks.
February 8 -
As the No. 1 IBD rolls out M&A services to advisors this quarter and reels in record recruits, Dan Arnold says the firm is experimenting.
February 5 -
The practice received a recommendation from a surprising source and wound up picking its suitor after only a three-month search.
February 5 -
Wealth managers acting as “downstream broker-dealers” allegedly made $187 million in commissions and other selling fees on GPB Capital investments.
February 4 -
Recruiting and retention of talent looms large for Advisor Group after it rolled up three firms in the wake of a massive acquisition.
February 4 -
Consumer advocates are calling for Gary Gensler to toss out Reg BI as wealth managers aim to keep the prior administration’s rule in place.
February 3 -
The acquisition of another midsize wealth manager will boost the holding company above 2,500 reps with nearly $95 billion in AUA.
February 3 -
The brokers collectively generated more than $88 million in annual revenue while overseeing nearly $15 billion in assets under management.
February 2 -
A dead client, an advisor accused of murder and fraud, and an industry that didn’t see it coming.
February 2 -
Despite the credit-positive reading by one agency, the IBDs are competing against less leveraged rivals.
February 1 -
At an average age of 37, the top-producing brokers operate in 18 different states, plus the District of Columbia and Guam.
February 1 -
Sammons is trying to solve the longtime question of how best to combine planning with certain products through technology.
February 1 -
The nearly 10,000 advisors affiliated with the firm grow 2.5 times as fast as their peers at rival brokerages, CEO Jim Cracchiolo says.
January 29 -
The 2,500-advisor firm is sneaking up on larger rivals by adopting an approach that’s increasingly popular across wealth management.
January 27 -
A team that has grown through acquisitions dropped the No. 1 IBD after the institution purchased another one for more than $600 million.
January 27 -
One of the largest wealth managers aims to attract more teams out of the crop of nearly 7,000 advisors leaving employee-channel firms each year.
January 26 -
Collectively, the brokers generated $167 million in annual production and oversaw $37 billion in combined client assets.
January 26 -
These elite producers in some cases operate far from Wall Street, even as they work for well-known wealth managers such as UBS, Merrill Lynch and Ameriprise.
January 25 -
Arete Wealth’s niche focus on alts for HNW and UHNW clients has given it a strong foothold in a fractured sector, experts say.
January 22 -
SA Stone Wealth Management representative Gregory Frank Estes had already registered as a sex offender after a 2002 conviction, records show.
January 21
