DFX Intelligence

RIA Intelligence

Registered investment advisers, the advisors registered through them, the capital they report, the private vehicles they run and the people who own them, as a graph with a filing date behind every number. RAUM is what the adviser filed, a move is two registration dates, and a class is a rule you can read.

Consolidation

What the advisers themselves reported about M&A

Item 4 of Form ADV asks whether the adviser is succeeding to the business of another registered adviser and names the firm acquired. It catches asset purchases and mergers where the target’s registration folds into the buyer’s; a stock purchase that keeps the target registered shows instead as a new owner on Schedule A and, later, as a roster exit. Firms absorbed reads the same events from the people side: half or more of a firm’s registered advisors moving to one other firm within fourteen days, which catches acquisitions before, or without, a succession filing. Press-sourced deals, PE sponsors and consolidator platforms are the next cycle.

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Post-acquisition retention

Which acquirers keep the advisors they buy

For every acquirer with at least three firms absorbed since 2015: the share of acquired advisors still registered through the acquirer 90, 180, 365 and 730 days after the move, measured only on absorptions old enough for the window. A lower bound: people who left the industry are on neither side, and a re-registration to an affiliated CRD in the same group counts as a departure. Sorted from lowest one-year retention.

AcquirerFirmsAdvisors90 d180 d365 d730 dTeams out after
CETERA INVESTMENT ADVISERS LLC75349%49%49% (53)16% (32)273
DIVERSIFY ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC32681%77%62% (26)54% (26)8
B. RILEY WEALTH ADVISORS, INC.32295%91%73% (22)55% (22)25
CHOREO, LLC42685%85%80% (20)75% (20)0
NORTHCOAST ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC79698%99%80% (96)23% (79)0
BUCKINGHAM STRATEGIC WEALTH, LLC155798%98%81% (57)67% (57)8
CW ADVISORS, LLC116386%83%82% (60)78% (37)2
CAMBRIDGE INVESTMENT RESEARCH ADVISORS, INC.84798%91%82% (44)80% (44)227
MODERN WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC74389%89%83% (35)78% (23)0
EP WEALTH ADVISORS2211683%83%83% (101)73% (48)0
MERCER GLOBAL ADVISORS INC.3819689%88%84% (138)79% (126)35
HIGHTOWER ADVISORS, LLC4233487%85%85% (334)82% (304)150
SECURITIES AMERICA ADVISORS, INC.32793%93%85% (27)85% (27)29
GLOBAL RETIREMENT PARTNERS LLC73488%88%85% (34)97% (31)9
CWM, LLC219496%96%85% (55)72% (36)87
FOCUS PARTNERS WEALTH, LLC1915587%89%86% (125)79% (56)10
CONNECTUS WEALTH321100%100%86% (21)81% (21)6
CURI CAPITAL, LLC32190%86%86% (21)81% (21)0
PERIGON WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC62986%90%86% (22)86% (22)3
SUMMIT FINANCIAL, LLC94391%91%87% (39)100% (9)10
MODERA WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC627100%100%88% (24)85% (20)0
COLDSTREAM WEALTH MANAGEMENT64885%85%88% (48)82% (28)0
MAI CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC219289%89%88% (73)93% (58)12
OSAIC WEALTH, INC.125598%90%88% (33)79% (29)757
FINANCIAL ENGINES ADVISOR CENTER, LLC93591%91%89% (35)0.0% (35)8
CREATIVE PLANNING2617892%89%89% (153)83% (128)12
LIDO128293%91%90% (58)69% (13)0
BEACON POINTE ADVISORS, LLC2412894%98%90% (80)89% (53)0
CORIENT2926494%93%90% (215)87% (197)39
PRIME CAPITAL FINANCIAL731100%100%90% (31)87% (23)3
RWA WEALTH PARTNERS321100%95%90% (21)90% (21)0
ALLWORTH FINANCIAL, L.P.146997%92%91% (53)87% (23)14
ARAX ADVISORY PARTNERS55695%95%91% (32)100% (4)0
CERITY PARTNERS LLC3324593%93%91% (192)88% (145)0
WEALTHSPIRE ADVISORS42396%96%91% (23)91% (23)0
HUB INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC54698%97%92% (36)75% (16)0
ONEDIGITAL125595%94%92% (51)89% (45)71
MARINER3420093%94%93% (181)89% (175)40
LPL FINANCIAL LLC3318594%95%93% (154)91% (129)3,834
PRIVATE ADVISOR GROUP, LLC32993%93%93% (29)93% (29)18
WEALTHSPIRE ADVISORS54794%96%94% (47)91% (44)0
CRESSET ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC54998%98%94% (49)82% (49)2
WEALTH ENHANCEMENT ADVISORY SERVICES, LLC6135396%96%94% (294)91% (254)0
CAPTRUST4338995%94%95% (341)93% (306)0
CX INSTITUTIONAL, LLC421100%100%95% (21)100% (10)0
APELLA WEALTH848100%98%95% (22)82% (17)0
SEQUOIA FINANCIAL GROUP, L.L.C.115498%98%96% (46)88% (40)3
AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC32496%96%96% (24)96% (24)224
APOLLON WEALTH MANAGEMENT, LLC72993%93%96% (26)100% (16)0
SAVANT WEALTH MANAGEMENT1915499%99%96% (107)94% (90)0
RAYMOND JAMES FINANCIAL SERVICES ADVISORS, INC96799%96%96% (55)94% (52)491
MERIT FINANCIAL ADVISORS114998%98%97% (32)88% (8)4
WAVERLY ADVISORS, LLC2213198%98%98% (88)93% (45)0
PATHSTONE47197%98%98% (48)96% (48)0
NEWEDGE ADVISORS53497%100%100% (23)100% (19)20
MOLONEY SECURITIES ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC347100%100%100% (47)96% (47)0