Focus Financial Partners

The aggregator introduces banking services and says it will continue to acquire new firms.

With an eye on a future sale, the $48B RIA wants to build enterprise value.

The large aggregator faces questions about its future.

Strategic buyers have less cash but more flexibility, experts say.

Still, advisors thinking of selling are urged not to procrastinate.

The aggregator nears $1 billion in revenue.

Concerns mount about the aggregator counting tuck-ins as organic growth.

The following 17 teams oversaw about $75 billion in assets. The firms ending the year with prize recruits include a diverse cast: regional BDs, wirehouses, boutiques and RIAs.

The New York aggregator’s performance to date “will make it easier for other RIAs to go public,” says industry analyst Chip Roame.

Aggregator adds a $17B TAMP as Buckingham buys Loring Ward.