Mark Hays comes aboard as president of a new practice built for nonprofits holding $5 million to $250 million, the slice of the OCIO market Cerulli expects to produce $1.3 trillion in first-time adoption.
The September 4 Form D batch split private funds into empty flagships and fully subscribed series, and the smallest sold line carries the clearest read.
Cresset's Eric Becker says the industry has spent its energy preparing assets for heirs while neglecting the heirs themselves—and the family conversation is where the next generation of client relationships is actually won.
The Sept. 6 registration file paired four block-trade team moves with the single-advisor moves into Prudential and Linsco by LPL. The quieter ones are the ones to watch.
BOPG's two royalty feeders and Chicago Pacific Founders' fourth healthcare real estate fund landed in the same Sept. 4 Form D batch, while Cyanhill's $60 million venture fund logged zero sales.
As AI drafts the plan in the client meeting and IRS transcripts arrive by wire, the document becomes a byproduct and the RIA's fee has to move to judgment and liability.
MassMutual cedes control just as Flourish turns 1,300 RIAs into a virtual lending and checking machine — and the hard part, distribution and partner banks, starts now.
Four $3 billion Fort Lauderdale teams moved in one day, pushing the week's disclosed advisor AUM in motion to $19.8 billion and showing block trades have replaced advisor-by-advisor recruiting.
Cerulli sees $2 trillion in advisor alternatives flows by the early 2030s, and allocators say the discipline inside the infrastructure label will matter more than the target allocation.
Two advisor-team moves in one weekly report show the independent channel has stopped mining wirehouse books and started building continuity around the advisor.
Equal-weight inflows show the mega-cap debate has moved from meeting rooms to allocations; the model portfolios that carried the AI trade into RIA accounts will decide how long the broadening lasts.
LendingTree, Fidelity and LegalShield surveys show heirs expecting money the older generation has not planned to give. Advisors should treat the gap as a retention event.
Most independent advisors will never sell to a consolidator, and the solo founder without a continuity plan is pricing the firm for a crisis before a buyer arrives.
Savant's member-owner seat and the in-house tax teams at Sowell and Grimes show consolidators trading cash for structures that make sellers and households harder to leave.
Vanguard's $4.6 billion Altruist purchase, Aquiline's Flourish control, and Nasdaq's Dasseti close show buyers paying for distribution rails rather than client books.
The two-year-old hybrid's 124th practice extends a recruiting map built on Wells Fargo alumni into the Commonwealth diaspora, with an outpost in a state the firm had never touched.
Benefits brokers, corporate-retirement shops, digital planners and trading platforms all out-recruited LPL in the latest 30-day table, and the reason is a client pipeline rather than a transition check.
Nearly a quarter of first-time buyers leaned on family money in 2025; the RIA that systematizes the 709, the GST allocation, and the title question will own the second gift as well as the first.
LPL's Linsco, Raymond James' employee channel, and NewEdge split a $945 million week of breakaway teams, and none of them chose the pure independent route. The recruiting war is now about which affiliation model wins.