The VP of mergers and acquisitions for a leading RIA consultant explains how to identify the best value for owners, employees and clients.

UBS's website rolled out last fall, before the current banking crisis.

The buyer intends to slash the post-merger combined annual cost base by more than $8 billion by 2027 after acquiring the troubled Swiss lender.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says it has extended the deadline for bids on Silicon Valley Bank, will break the bank into two parts for sale and will allow nonbanks to bid on asset portfolios.

UBS Group is paying 3 billion francs ($3.3 billion) for its rival in an all-share deal that includes extensive government guarantees and liquidity provisions.

Firms across the industry are scrambling to assuage client fears, while others are taking advantage of the frenzy to attract talent. Meanwhile, some advisors are using the moment to reassess what they want professionally.

The annual Technology Tools for Today conference also brought breaking news from FP Alpha, Hubly, CircleBlack and Advyzon.

While depositors will be made whole under an extraordinary move by regulators, a fire sale of the entire bank and advisors fleeing to competitors create new challenges.

Assets managed by the multi-family office have soared by 400% over the past three years, with more growth on the way under a second private equity investor.

With billions of dollars on the table, both buyers and sellers want deals to close quickly and transitions for clients to be implemented smoothly. But success is not always guaranteed.

Despite the double-digit drop in RIA M&A volumes this year and at the firm in 2022, dealmakers say the move will boost its value and available capital.

Despite some signals that deal volume is slowing down in 2023, acquirers say the expanding breadth of client needs is driving more consolidation.

The RIA acquirer's private equity deal followed a year of sharply rising profits despite slumping stocks and bonds in 2022.

Sequoia Financial Group is one of many buyers tapping into the opportunity, to the tune of more than tripling its size in less than three years.

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The fintech founder is extending an entrepreneurial hotstreak that started with milk and cookies in college.

With another potential private equity transaction, the RIA aggregator would make the opposite of the move it made only four years ago.

The firm also added $15 billion in client assets through recruiting in 2022 just before announcing the largest deal of CEO Adam Antoniades' tenure.

Congress is gearing up for another debt war, and the collateral damage could include Social Security, Medicare and the stock market.

As thousands of advisors prepare to join the Schwab family later this year, officials want to remind them exactly what they stand for.