The RIA consolidator poached the founding advisor’s practice only about a year after the enterprise closed its BD in its prior move.

A lack of uniform classifications and an identity crisis at the heart of the fragmented industry makes it a thorny task.

Some of the industry's largest firms and toughest critics weighed in on the vexing fragmentation that’s growing alongside the trillions in AUM.

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Matthew Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management, said investing in cryptocurrencies is like “investing in the internet in the late 1990s.”

After topping $1 billion in client assets, Crewe Advisors completed the first step in its growth strategy.

While COVID damaged the economy, it also created a widening pool of super wealthy investors.

The practice led by two brothers is the 10th to join Dynasty’s platform in 2021, as more wirehouse teams go independent.

The group said Vanguard has lent millions of dollars to tar sands companies, whose projects are among the most harmful to combat global warming.

The panelists said they’re still seeing a huge increase in merger and acquisition activity.

The deal is part of CEO Jamie Dimon’s pledge to “get faster and be more creative.”

The alternative investments company hopes to offer increased education and access to the sometimes controversial products.

In the past year, dynastic wealth has grown for certain families.

The Canadian asset manager’s stateside AUM will pass $80 billion after its latest deal for a Silicon Valley-based firm.

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An unusual recommendation by the wirehouse’s First Clearing unit drove the big succession deal for XML Financial Group.

Cresset added five more advisors to the previous 10 that the megabank claims a founding partner recruited in violation of the terms of his resignation.

Kuttin Wealth Management is four years into an ambitious strategy to build offices nationwide using the model of its founder’s practice.

The acquisition will solve a father-son enterprise’s succession and help it continue to grow, Carroll Financial CEO Kristopher Carroll said.