Spreading fixed-income exposure over several years of maturities provides predictable income in an unpredictable economic environment.
As portfolio management becomes increasingly commoditized, advisors make the case for managing assets in-house and promoting that to clients as a unique value-add.
PE firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice offered $53 per share for the RIA aggregator, adding fuel to the 24% rally in Focus' shares so far this year.
But it hasn't been all wins for the firm's efforts to compete in a market dominated by brokers like Charles Schwab Corp. and Fidelity.
Smaller firms can still flourish amid the rampant M&A activity, but they need to employ targeted client development and strategic outsourcing.
Legacy Financial Planning has offices in Rochester and Oswego, New York, and Naples, Florida.
The 90-year-old active management complex is launching 12 model portfolios that combine its active mutual funds with ETFs from Schwab, Vanguard and BlackRock.
Robert Levitt has traded Florida for the French Riviera, where he sees a wide-open market in the 250,000 Americans living there who need financial advice.
With the cryptocurrency's price up 40% so far this year, a new report shows a doggedly bullish outlook among investors and advisors willing to look past extreme volatility.
The advisor, Anthony B. Liddle, 40, was barred from the securities industry last June by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.
Meanwhile, though, some RIA buyers are 'dancing' to get necessary capital to do deals, says Dan Seivert of Echelon Partners.
According to data collected from 14,000 RIAs, 80% are using digital client onboarding tools.
It stars with a new toolkit to help industry veterans better relate to a universe of potential clients that wants advice on its own terms.
On net, the RIA channel gained 1,097 advisors and independent broker-dealers gained 923, while 1,291 advisors on net left wirehouses.
Even though history suggests the best strategy has always been to stay invested for the long haul, a safe 4% return is luring more investors to the sidelines.
The firm's stock took a beating last year but is up 15% so far this year as the company navigates its U.S. growth strategy.
The Zoe Wealth Platform charges a fee based on advisory assets for everything an RIA needs to work with clients.
Temple, Texas-based Cedarwood Financial Partners specializes in retirement planning services.
A new report on 2022 dealmaking shows a growing number of acquisitions of firms with less than $500 million under management.
Coming off a horrific year for bonds, the table has been set for both simple and creative fixed-income opportunities.
