The sale will allow Cadaret to provide advisors with future growth opportunities, the 75-year-old co-founder of the IBD said.

Fielding rapid-fire questions, Savant Capital Management CEO Brent Brodeski reveals the biggest mistakes of RIA buyers and sellers, shares the strategy behind his firm's targeted acquisitions and divulges his favorite app.

The bank’s latest retreat from wealth management will move 51 advisors to the independent space under Woodbury Financial.

The RIA grabs an UHNW firm with trust services in a lucrative market while also targeting midsized firms.

Advisor Group firm Woodbury Financial targets the bank brokerage channel.

The $263 million practice’s new IBD reported record recruiting for 2017, helped in part by the movement of advisors following LPL’s massive acquisition.

The offering will either directly lend to businesses or invest in the credit of companies facing distress.

Short sellers tend to go against the tide, making investments based on a belief that a stock is going to tank. These 10 banks have drawn the greatest amount of short-interest activity recently.

The firm is seeking to buy wealth management assets more aggressively after gaining greater clarity from global regulators on how much capital the bank will need over coming years.

Some investors are demanding action on gun manufacturer and retailer stocks. Can financial advisors deliver?

Cetera has provided financing and other services in more than 250 acquisitions across the IBD network since 2015.

The No. 13 IBD has added 183 advisors through its recruiting efforts in the past two years.

The newly merged practice became the seventh largest at the No. 18 IBD.

Exodus to RIAs continues, but Schwab cites red flags.

The deal is only the first step in a major growth plan, according to the acquiring firm’s founder.

Liz Miller, president of Summit Place Financial Advisors, takes on a common mistake made by wealthy relatives, the new Trump tax law and why one-on-one meetings still beat robo advice.

The math works: Banks get a boost to their growth plans, while independent advisors get one more option for their succession planning.

Two Securities Service Network advisors have purchased 15 firms over a decade, and they plan to buy several more this year.

"We've been waiting for the finicky sellers and now they're here," says Echelon Partners CEO Dan Seivert.