RIAs

The wealth management industry is poised to become more concentrated and consolidated, or is it?

Registered investment advisor assets continue to ascend rapidly, according to Cerulli Associates.

In 2011, 44% of brokers who left wirehouses landed at independent firms, but every broker has an array of options when it comes to independence.

Linscomb & Williams, a fee-only RIA with $2 billion in assets under management, announced Tuesday it is opening an office in Birmingham, Ala.

Fidelity says the new desktop will enable the “anywhere advisor."

IronGate, the largest independent wealth advisory firms in Wilmington N.C., opened its doors in 2005, and has a team of 14 advisors managing $200 million in assets.

Genworth Financial Wealth Management will soon have new owners -- and a new name.

“The smart money is coming in,” said industry consultant Tim Welsh, president of Larkspur, Calif.-based Nexus Strategy, “and now we’ll see how smart the smart money is. Can they wring efficiencies out of this model?”

An enforcement action from the Securities & Exchange Commission is a timely reminder to advisors to disclose any financial benefits their firm may receive from the broker-dealer it recommends to clients.

The burgeoning influence of financial advisors in the United States was a repeated observation at this year's Tiburon CEO Summit at New York City's Ritz Carlton in Battery Park. Here are 11 themes we heard at the two-day event encompassing 200-plus executives and advisors.