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Renewed recruiting efforts and pumped-up tech are boosting headcount and fee-based assets.

The acquisition established a $6 trillion-giant operating as a mutual fund company, RIA custodian, bank, retail brokerage and national wealth management firm.

Among the decade’s worst performers — those with more than $1 billion in assets under management — were a handful of products with stellar short-term returns.

At the center is a pledge not to increase rates on those making less than $400,000, and that various changes would only impact earnings above the threshold.

Estimates for the deal between the analytics platform and private equity firm LLR Partners go as high as $270 million.

“If insurance and annuities had always been commission free, RIAs would be power users,” says David Lau, CEO of DPL Financial which is partnering with SS&C Advent.

It comes as part of “an unprecedented series of extremely low” annual increases, according to an analyst with the nonpartisan Senior Citizens League.

The group of fee-only practices and networks have 1,187 IARs who manage a combined $95.7 billion.

Among those leaving is Tom Nally, president of TD Ameritrade’s RIA division. He’d been with the company for 26 years.

The regulator would generate an additional $225 million per year from the fee increases.