Independent advisors

The partners opened their RIA under consultation with a firm founded by former HighTower executives last year.

The move by the multi-generational practice stemmed from LPL’s self-clearing capabilities, one of the advisors says.

The twin brothers launched Platinum Advisor Strategies well before many IBDs started rolling out promotional and coaching services for advisors.

Clients still scarred from the losses are better prepared for the next market nosedive, advisors say.

Mutual Securities has added five new affiliated practices this year to grow to 26 teams with more than $1.5 billion in AUM on its corporate RIA.

Retired former CEO Mike Sherzan ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2016, and he became chairman of the board prior to the deal.

The founding partners spent a combined 54 years with the No. 6 IBD before launching the fee-only firm.

The former MetLife advisors had affiliated with three different IBDs over four years amid the increasing consolidation in the space.

Soon after shuffling C-suite, the independent broker-dealer brings on nine advisors while it continues hunt for a new CFO.

“I did it for the LOLs,” advisor Doug Boneparth says of his newly launched advisor-focused T-shirt business.

The Advisor Group IBD acquired Capital One’s in-branch brokerage unit last month, but it hasn’t stepped away from traditional recruiting either.

Here's what I've realized since I penned my original missive to the commission.

Missouri legislators inadvertently passed a law that would outlaw the Certified Financial Planner credential.

Firethorn Wealth Partners gets started with the help of tru Independence.

Leave this bad influence back where it belongs — in high school.

I’ve been watching, with increasing dismay, the trend of outside investors taking ownership of advisory firms.

The firm remains in transformational flux, but the results of its "Project E" evolution are beginning to show.

Dan Arnold says the firm remains interested if deals are a match for the No. 1 IBD.

The firms with the highest percentage growth year-over-year are cutting their head counts and fueling the record level of M&A deals.

Ron Carson’s firm and other major practices within the IBD network praise its choice of a new PE backer.