RIAs

The companies, based in Fort Lauderdale and San Francisco respectively, have been fighting an uphill battles against larger competitors. They said in a press release Tuesday that the merger will create a firm, with the scale and resources to provide an alternative for independent investors.

Botsford Group specializes in asset protection strategies, and manages clients’ investing through its proprietary Lifestyle Driven Investing approach.

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The new platform, introduced by Beverly Hills Wealth Management, enables RIAs and advisors to streamline access and usage of cloud-based service applications and IT security

RIAs who use the combined service will be able to pull up daily client balance, holding and transactional data through ByAllAccounts, plus the reporting capabilities of Portfolio Pathway

Despite a 10% drop in the total number of broker-dealers in the past five years, the total number of reps industrywide has fallen a correspondingly negligible amount.

The Chicago-based company bought Tamarac Inc., to expand the services it provides to RIAs.

The firm will specialize in planning around the investment, retirement and insurance needs of the area’s working professionals and families nearing retirement.

Schwab report finds spike in total M&A activity in the RIA sector for the first quarter, but nearly half of the $23.95 billion in total assets under management transacted across 17 deals through March 31 came from one deal.

LPL Financial said its RIA platform, the firm’s custody unit, eclipsed the $25 billion threshold in total assets under custody.