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Registered Rep. February 26, 2013 Megan Leonhardt	Let's Make A Deal The RIA M&A market is poised for growth, but not gaudy growth.
Registered Rep. February 2, 2011 Diana Britton	RIA M&A Hits Record in 2010, More To Come In 2011 Registered investment advisory firms were furiously busy getting hitched last year: they did the highest number of merger and acquisition deals recorded in at least seven years.
Registered Rep. April 15, 2010 Halah Touryalai	RIA M&A Deals Break Record in First Quarter Mergers and acquisitions seem to be crawling back to the top of RIA principals' to-do lists this year, as the first quarter's numbers show record activity. What is your practice worth?
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Financial Advisor August 2005 Raymond Fazzi	The Logic Of Multiple Custodians As custodians serving the independent advisor market come and go, and merge and consolidate, many advisors are having a harder time finding a stable home for their clients' assets. In many cases, they're finding that using multiple custodians gets the job done efficiently.
Financial Planning December 1, 2008 Brooke Southall	RIA Power Registered investment advisory firms are bringing in more assets these days than are wirehouse brokerage firms.
Registered Rep. April 6, 2010 Kristen French	Custodians In Race To Roll Out M&A Tools TD Ameritrade Institutional is rolling out a new online business valuation tool.
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Financial Advisor December 2011 Eric Rasmussen	Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages.
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Financial Advisor April 2008 Evan Simonoff	The Big Chill While the financial advisor community and their clients have avoided most of the mortgage-related problems, advisory firms' merger and acquisition activity is suddenly becoming a victim of fixed-income market paralysis.
Financial Advisor February 2008 Joel Bruckenstein	Custodians Beef It Up Since advisors' work flows are often intertwined with custodian-supplied technologies, let's take a look at what the custodial firms have in store for 2008.
Registered Rep. September 21, 2012 Jerry Gleeson	Desperately Seeking Financing For most advisors looking to grow through acquisition, the thorniest issue is finding the cash to do so.
Financial Advisor August 2010 Raymond Fazzi	Looking To Streamline Now that they've experienced the harsh consequences of poor business management, fee-based advisors are looking to their custodians and broker-dealers for all the help they can get.
Financial Advisor January 2008 Bruce W. Fraser	Growing Up Over the next five years, the typical RIA will undergo rapid transformation, and the average RIA firm is expected to at least triple in size. To accommodate such growth, hiring decisions will become critical, stretching far beyond the traditional tendency of firms to simply add more advisors.
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Registered Rep. August 18, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	Market Turmoil Could Slow Advisor M&A Two industry experts expect merger and acquisition activity involving registered investment advisors will drop this year if the current volatility in the stock market stretches into the coming months.
Registered Rep. December 13, 2011 Charles Paikert	Regional RIAs Race To Expand Nationally In 2012 As Schwab Makes Move Regional wealth management firms are accelerating their efforts to expand nationally next year.
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Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 Diana Britton	Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear.
Registered Rep. May 5, 2008	LPL Financial Heats Up The RIA World The largest independent broker/dealer in the U.S. announced today it's going to launch an RIA custodian later this year, which will serve both hybrid and fee-only investment advisors who operate independent RIAs.
Investment Advisor July 2010 Lewis Schiff	Succession Planning: Buying and Selling Wealth Management Practices 2010 could be the biggest year ever for mergers and acquisitions in the financial advisory industry, but the players and strategies are different than they were prior to the market turndown.
Registered Rep. October 15, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Fewer, But Bigger Breakaway Brokers Joining RIAs With markets stabilizing and bank-brokerage merger integrations progressing, fewer brokers are fleeing the big Wall Street wirehouse firms for the RIAs and independent b/ds in 2010.
Financial Planning May 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Hybrid's New Groove Registered investment advisor firms looking for ways to expand their businesses might try turning to broker-dealers for a boost.
Registered Rep. February 19, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Where the Sellers At? RIAs are Holding Out for Better Deals Schwab executives predicted a decline mergers & acquisitions between RIAs in 2009, as potential sellers hold out for a stronger market and a better deal.
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Registered Rep. October 15, 2009 Christina Mucciolo	Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year.
Investment Advisor May 2008 James J. Green	Watch List Mark Tibergien, the consultant and now executive who taught advisors to think of their practices as businesses, tops the Independent Advisor list of 25 people to watch in 2008.
Registered Rep. July 29, 2013 Diana Britton	No Man Is an Island Independent broker/dealers are dressing up their offerings to attract and retain advisors tempted to start their own RIAs.
Registered Rep. October 8, 2015 Megan Leonhardt	Breakaway Advisors Moving More to Existing RIAs More advisors are looking to leave the wirehouses and brokerages by joining an existing registered investment advisory firm, rather than starting their own.
Investment Advisor May 2008 Kathleen M. McBride	What Lurks Beneath There are many registered independent advisors and broker/dealers for whom the Bear Stearns debacle is much more than an academic exercise.
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Financial Advisor September 2005 Raymond Fazzi	A Question Of Trust Custodians square off in a newly competitive trust services market.
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Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Christina Mucciolo	What Can We Do For You? Clearing firms matter to advisors. In fact, one of the biggest deals in the independent b/d business last year hinged on whether the b/ds being sold could maintain their relationships with their old clearing firm.
Investment Advisor November 2007 Lauren Barack	Give Them What They Want Understanding they can't offer every tool to every advisor, custodians are nevertheless making sure to remain flexible enough to meet advisors' ever changing demands.
Financial Advisor October 2008 Raymond Fazzi	Independent Power House Kochis Fitz and Quintile Wealth Management LLC complete a merger that, according to its principals, creates the third-largest independent wealth management firm in the nation and the largest in California.
Registered Rep. September 3, 2009 Mindy Diamond	Talking To Clients About Breaking Away Here are some starting points for advisors to begin a conversation with clients about deciding to establish themselves as an RIA or joining an existing one.
Financial Planning September 1, 2011 Donna Mitchell	Happy Mediums Online brokerage giants are taking market share from almost every segment of the financial advisory business - except for RIAs.
Financial Planning October 1, 2008 Stacy Schultz	The Real Deal More than half of all registered independent advisory (RIA) firms bought or considered buying another advisory firm at least once in the past two years.
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