Feathery raises $30M to automate the custodian handoff
The round bets RIAs will pay for the workflow layer that custodians still control.
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The Conte move: LPL recruits a family, not a book
A third-generation, 24-advisor family practice is the real inventory in a $1.6 billion liftout from Cambridge to LPL.
The custody layer gets its own talent war
Schwab, Pershing and Orion reset their leadership in a single week while a $2.4 billion team walked to LPL. The contest for talent now runs through the platforms that hold the assets.
DIF's $506M Luxembourg haul makes Form D a two-way street
Two Luxembourg SCSp vehicles disclosed $506 million in US sales on the same day US shelf LLCs and niche feeders filed smaller pieces through the same form.
Tech-native platforms are winning the advisor talent race
Farther and Tastytrade logged 100 market events in 30 days, more than three times LPL and Commonwealth combined.
FiNet's bank-team raid redraws the independent channel
A $1 billion Truist liftout and a UBS team land at Wells Fargo FiNet in one day, making the broker-dealer the fast exit from the employee channel.
Wells Fargo FiNet lands $1B Truist team inside Merritt Point
A seven-person team leaves Truist for an existing FiNet practice, the latest sign that the independent channel is now the consolidation vehicle.
The platform talent war moves upstairs
Citi's same-day haul from MSCI, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan, plus Orion's reshuffle and Cetera's capture of Fidelity's Ed O'Brien, pushes platform leadership to the center of the distribution war.
VastAdvisor's insider SAFE says distribution beats model quality
A $1 million round from advisor-side insiders points to the next AI battleground: the client meeting.
The benefits channel is the new recruiting battleground
OpenArc and OneDigital logged 149 events in 30 days, clearing UBS's 120, as the advisor talent war pivots from wirehouse breakaways to benefits and retirement books.
Coastline's debt-funded dozen turns RIA M&A into a credit trade
A $100 million private credit facility with a senior claim on the client book shifts the RIA consolidation trade's endgame from the last deal to the first default.
The two engines behind RIA dealmaking's 40% run
The debt-funded model is the more honest trade, and the more fragile one.
Citi taps MSCI's Kokolis to head platform experience
The platform-experience mandate puts the front door of Citi's wealth platform at the center of the distribution war.
VastAdvisor's three insider backers are the deal
A $1 million SAFE from advisor-side insiders says more about distribution than technology.
The discount can't survive success in evergreen seconds
Evergreen secondary funds book real gains from discounted purchases, but the gains are a finite resource that every new dollar dilutes.
The shelf-SPV is fractionalizing private equity
Five sub-$3 million vehicles filed under one series LLC — institutional feeders are following the same template.
T. Rowe's F/m deal buys a product factory
The $19 billion fixed-income acquisition is structured to keep F/m's product team in place—the real asset T. Rowe is paying for.
Coastline turns to private credit for its next dozen deals
The Kestra affiliate's $100 million facility funds its next 12 acquisitions with debt instead of equity, giving the lender a senior claim on the client book.
Power supply becomes the new AI capital market
Data-center operators and the DOE are putting capital behind power before compute.
NewEdge lands $2.2B Bernstein team to lead Houston
Three deals this week show RIA growth no longer comes from one place.
UBS to pay advisors handsomely for banking products
The wirehouse's new U.S. bank turns deposits and credit into advisor compensation, a retention play that sharpens the contrast with fee-only RIA economics.
The 7.5 out of 10 problem hanging over every RIA CRM
Advisor satisfaction with CRMs lags planning software. AI notetakers are building the workflow layer incumbents left open.
AE Wealth's $250 billion target outpaces its organic growth
Shannon Larson, the new president from Osaic, brings an M&A record to a firm whose $52 billion base grows 12% a year — and whose 2035 goal needs about 19%.
The 564-lender gap is private credit's real risk
Most direct lending managers have never seen a downturn. The current headlines are less about the asset class than about who should be trusted with capital.
Recruiting overtakes dealmaking in 30-day RIA tracking
Advisor moves outpaced deal announcements by 86 over the month, with UBS logging 110 events as the talent war shifts from M&A to team raids.
IRS ruling shields stock buyout from foundation self-dealing tax
A private letter ruling says a company can exercise a post-death option to buy a shareholder's stock without triggering the private-foundation self-dealing tax — provided the buyout meets the estate administration exception's five conditions.
FiNet wins back a UBS team and adds an Ameriprise practice
Frederick Spagnola and Jon Vallaro return to the Wells Fargo independent channel, and Gabriel Armancas brings his $140 million Ameriprise practice to FiNet.
Upstream GPOA planning turns an unused exemption into a basis adjustment
A general power of appointment can turn an older relative's unused federal estate tax exemption into a basis adjustment on a wealthy client's appreciated trust assets.
Trust now outranks fees when investors pick an advisor
TransUnion finds trust and reputation lead selection factors while Gallup shows advisors hold far more confidence than AI. The firms that make fees legible keep their pricing.
Baker Street's $21B run shows PE owners don't have to buy
The San Francisco RIA sold a majority stake in 2015. Then it grew 12% a year without acquisitions. Private equity in the RIA market isn't always an M&A mandate.
Invesco cuts core real estate fees 20% to ease redemptions
A 20% fee cut rewards investors who stay. The tender offer prices exits at 95 cents on the dollar.
Ai Funds lists HIAI, an ETF run by its BAILA model
The Sausalito adviser's first ETF turns a model with a multi-year advisor track record into a daily-priced fund.
Make-A-Will Month: the estate-planning gap in client books
Advisors have a calendar hook to fix a quiet risk: only about a quarter of American adults have a will, and many existing plans are outdated.
Twelve reminders for the DAF client meeting
WealthManagement.com's new checklist gives advisors the topics to raise with donor-advised fund holders, from succession plans to non-cash contributions.
LPL and Raymond James land $590M in advisor moves
An Edward Jones duo and a 26-year UBS veteran chose different channels, and the split previews the RIA M&A market.
Independent platforms pull $2.93 billion from legacy employee books
Tenured wirehouse and insurance teams leave four legacy employers for ownership and succession.
T. Rowe Price to buy F/m Investments and its Treasury ETFs
F/m's single-security Treasury ETFs and SMA platform join T. Rowe Price's $1.87 trillion lineup, more than doubling its fixed income ETF assets.
401(k) balances climb at Principal as savers hold course
Average balances rose 9.6% in the second quarter, and Roth adoption keeps climbing. The firm's data shows steady plan design doing the heavy lifting.
Carson pulls $1.76B Wells Fargo team into its independent channel
The New Hampshire liftout shows the RIA is winning advisors who already chose independence once.
Brown Advisory files a $29.9 million venture feeder fund
A Form D filing shows the RIA pooling client money into a venture-capital vehicle.
Cathy Curtis to women advisors: start your own RIAs
At the Nov. 5 Women Advisor Summit, she will make the case that the RIA channel needs more women owners, not just support staff.
Raymond James lands $400M UBS veteran in Glens Falls
After 26 years at UBS, Adam Pearsall moves his Glens Falls book into Raymond James's employee channel.
LPL adds $7.4B in July while markets pull back $16.1B
Advisory mix climbs to 60.6% even as total client assets fall to $2.55 trillion.
Prospect Capital shifts its portfolio toward first-lien middle-market loans
After two years of selling, Prospect Capital's book is concentrated in first-lien middle-market debt. The BDC's reported track record on exited middle-market loans is the case for that shift.
Stone Point and Genstar buy the 401(k) rails
A $1.3 trillion recordkeeper gives two private equity firms control of the contribution machinery that could carry private assets into defined-contribution plans.
Trump Account rules: passive funds, 0.1% cap on fees
Proposed IRS regulations would limit Trump Accounts to index-tracking mutual funds and ETFs with annual expenses at or below 10 basis points.
Yari Capital ends 30-year Northwestern Mutual run by joining Carson
The Atlanta practice moves with its name and staff intact, giving Carson a 30-year recruiting endorsement.
A Vanderbilt heir builds a family office to court 800 relatives
Consuelo Vanderbilt Costin wants 800-plus descendants to join House of Vanderbilt as co-investors, most of them strangers to her.
XYPN turns its advice-tech winner into a member benefit
CurrentClient won Best in Show at XYPN's AdviceTech Competition, then won over the network's members one by one. The formal deal makes that adoption official.
Family offices co-bid with private equity for real assets
Patient family capital is moving from LP checks to principal deals, and funds are meeting their former backers at the auction table.