RIAs

HighTower has expanded its West Coast market by picking up an independent team with $400 million in assets in Bellevue, Wash.

Increasingly, firms are seeking to move toward an ensemble model to improve flexibility and ease the burden on top advisors.

After being ordered to stop calling his firm fee-only, Rick Kahler claims retribution and threatens a lawsuit.

Optimism abounds in an increasingly crowded market for servicing breakaway advisors.

Securities America will acquire assets of a Missouri-based full-service broker-dealer with 368 advisors and $2.4 billion in client assets.

Fiduciary issues should supersede discussion of fee-only, says CFP Board's Ray Ferrara says.

Rep. Spencer Bachus (Ala.) is the first Republican in Congress to endorse the Investment Adviser Examination Improvement Act.

A Morgan Stanley team that managed over $650 million has gone independent using a new consultant.

Richard Gill's departure from Focus follows the exit last month of Michael Paley, who co-led the firm's mergers and acquisitions team.

Many firm founders are deciding that their legacies don't need to be enshrined in their firms' names.