Business development

Billy Ricketts is most likely the elder stateswoman of wealth management — but she and her grandson believed it was time for something new.

Blucora’s Avantax Wealth Management combines two firms that took competing approaches to serving tax professionals branching into wealth management.

Triad Hybrid Solutions has added 31 advisors and $1.3 billion in AUM since the beginning of last year.

CEO James Poer seeks a different approach from rivals under the IBD’s new ownership.

The private equity-backed IBD and its breakaway channel added teams managing $380 million in client assets.

The independent broker-dealer has launched subsidiary Bluespring Wealth Partners, which promptly snapped up two practices with $550 million in client assets.

The aggregator’s $300 billion-plus institutional retirement business is an advantage in a competitive market.

The firm added an experienced advisor from Wells Fargo after recruiting 72 other tenured reps in the second quarter.

President Adam Antoniades cites record expansion for the year, but the IBD network faces challenges related to recruiting and debt levels.

Ladenburg Thalmann's largest firm has added at least five teams in the wake of recent acquisitions by rivals.