Torrance, Calif.-based EP Wealth Advisors has added a $660 million registered investment advisor in its home state with the acquisition of Peninsula Wealth. Peninsula Wealth has been in the Bay ...

Registered investment advisors announced more than $18.8 billion in transacted assets this week, an indication that M&A in the space has not slowed as much as some predicted. Lazard Asset ...

Savant Wealth Management, a rapidly growing, employee-owned registered investment advisor based in Rockford, Ill., announced this week that it had acquired Capital Directions, an Atlanta-based ...

Registered investment advisors saw business rebound in 2023, reporting assets under management up nearly 18% during the year to a median of $542 million, according to Schwab’s latest RIA ...

Creative Planning’s acquisition of Lockton’s retirement division at the end of 2021 sent shock waves throughout the retirement plan advisor industry. Not only are Creative Planning’s wealth ...

A Washington-based RIA with $3.7 billion in managed assets will pay $430,000 to settle SEC charges it violated the regulator's marketing rule with its use of hypothetical performance in ads.

Seattle-based Laird Norton Wealth Management, a registered investment advisory and subsidiary of the Laird Norton Company, announced it has merged with Wetherby Asset Management, a San Francisco ...

A fugitive financial advisor is facing new charges from the Justice Department, more than 2 1/2 years after he originally disappeared. This week, a federal grand jury in Georgia charged ...

A father-son advisor team in New Jersey has left Hornor, Townsend & Kent, an independent broker/dealer owned by Penn Mutual, to launch their own registered investment advisor. Lance and Gideon ...

Sequoia Financial Group, an Akron, Ohio-headquartered registered investment advisor with more than $15 billion in assets under management, has launched a family office division, Sequoia Sentinel ...

Wealth Enhancement Group, an acquisitive Minneapolis-based registered investment advisor, has purchased Levy Wealth Management Group, LLC, a Philadelphia-based hybrid RIA. Levy’s team oversees ...

Hiring Arun Anur is another clear move for Orion to become far more than a technology platform, moving toward an investment platform that is more competitive with Envestnet. We expect this to be a ...