From WealthManagement.com
Added on September 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: A cofounder of Graystone Consulting, Morgan Stanley’s wealth management business that caters to institutions and wealthy individuals, has left the group to start his own independent advisory firm.
From Financial Advisor IQ
Added on September 2017 in M&A Issues
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Summary: Increasing sophistication around independent RIA support was vital to the merger this past week of breakaway wealth shop Syntal Wealth Partners and a prominent Merrill Lynch team in Dallas. But friendship and complementary skill sets – forged over more than a decade – were the real catalysts, say those who made the deal.
From Barron's Advisor Center
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Summary: Too often advisors do not try to get positive publicity. Often, it’s because they think it’s too hard to get PR on their own—that success requires hiring an expensive agency.
From InvestmentNews
Added on September 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: New financial advisers are finding strange discrepancies between states in terms of the way regulators are allowing them to charge their clients fees for services.
From Financial Planning
Added on August 2017 in Form an RIA
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Summary: New RIA registrations each year have more than doubled since the start of the millennium, according to an exclusive Financial Planning review of state notice filings. The same period has also seen explosive growth in RIAs’ state registrations, a sign that RIAs are expanding their national footprint.