Cresset, a $72 billion registered investment advisor based in Chicago, announced plans to merge with Monticello Associates, an employee-owned institutional consulting firm with $124 billion in assets ...

Main Street Financial Solutions, a Newtown, Pa.-based RIA with $2.5 billion in client assets, has launched a three-person RIA of former wirehouse and broker/dealer employees based in Malvern, Pa ...

Authorities arrested a Florida man for allegedly swindling over $600,000 from 11 investors, according to New York Attorney General Letitia James. James claimed Marc Henry Menard’s three-year ...

Osaic, the private equity-backed independent broker/dealer that recently completed a multi-year consolidation of several acquired BDs, is now focused on its next challenge: Building out affiliation ...

Fiduciary Network exits its investment in Pathstone, as the private equity firm takes a significant stake in the RIA.

Hightower said it has acquired an undisclosed ownership stake in Frontier Investment Management, a $3.3 billion RIA based in Dallas, the firm's third and largest deal this year.

The top SMA managers of the the decade, per Informa Investment Solutions’ PSN Top Gun awards.

Voya Financial has agreed to acquire OneAmerica Financial’s retirement plan business, which encompasses over $60 billion of assets under administration. The deal is expected to close on Jan. 1 ...

In addition, Cetera snags former Osaic advisor; Bleakley names acquisitions with over $1B in assets; Cary Street gets majority PE stake; and Savvy hires first head legal and compliance counsel.

In this week’s advisor deals and moves, Carson Wealth snags a $608M firm, RIA holding company Aspen acquires its third firm, and a $580M RIA joins Sanctuary’s independent partner channel.

This week, Ameriprise, Cetera and LPL poach from competitors, NewEdge acquires a firm in Nebraska, and Bluespring adds to its LifeBridge RIA with a Texas-based team.