Mary Ballin has joined Perigon from $2.3bn Private Ocean, where she managed roughly $75m.
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Apollon Wealth Management has made investments in two RIAs and is launching a new family office for Adi Dassler's heirs.
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Privately-held, SEC Registered Investment Advisory Firm to Deliver Personalized, Fee-Only Financial Services. Merchant Has Taken a Minority Stake in the Firm.
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The regulator has yet to say whether it will consider pushing back the June 30 effective date of its new standard for brokers, but the challenges posed by the coronavirus outbreak are increasingly apparent.
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Elk River Wealth Management, LLC is proud to announce that it has officially launched as an independent Registered Investment Advisor (RIA).
Read MoreMerchant Investment Management (Merchant) has completed a transaction to take a minority stake in the Wealth Advisor Growth Network (WAGN). The company, founded by John Phoenix and Jay Hummel in October of 2019, is focused on establishing new, optimizing existing, and growing independent wealth firms as well as the best in class firms that serve them.
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Perigon Wealth Management, a registered investment advisory firm with headquarters in San Francisco, announced today that it has joined forces with RLP Wealth Advisors,
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It’s not an aggregator, an investment bank or private equity firm. So what has Merchant Investment Management been quietly building for the past three years?
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Formerly the top dealmaker at United Capital Financial Advisers, Brinker has accepted a role as a managing partner with RIA investor Merchant Investment Management. Brinker started at Merchant on January 2.
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Three years ago, when Jeffrey Gitterman transitioned his $120 million advisory firm to be 100% focused on ESG investing, he said the key to getting clients on board was in the explanation.
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The Gitterman name has resonated for more than 25 years across private clients and higher ed institutions as a nationally recognized leader in the Sustainable, Impact, and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.
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AdvisorCloud 360TM is the evolution of AdvisorAssist’s proprietary compliance engine, AdvisorCloudTM, which supports over 500 advisory firms and over 3,000 supervised persons in meeting their annual compliance obligations.
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Merchant Investment Management’s inroads — and influence — in the RIA market continues to grow.
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Summit Financial, a 36-year-old financial services firm supporting independent wealth management advisors, today announced the hiring of Michelle McIntyre as Director of Growth and Business Development. McIntyre brings decades of industry experience to her outreach role.
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In the bad old days, RIAs seeking debt financing were largely confined to onerous SBA loans (if they could get one) and burdensome seller-financed notes for internal buy-outs.
Live Oak Bank began to revolutionize the marketplace in late 2012 when it introduced deal terms much more conducive to the independent advisory business.
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Summit Financial, a 36-year-old financial services firm that empowers independent wealth management advisors to grow efficient and sustainable practices, today announced the launch of SummitVantage™, a ground-breaking new advisor solution suite.
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Compass CFO Solutions, LLC, the wealth management industry’s leading provider of outsourced CFO and accounting solutions, announced today that Jay Hummel has taken a board seat along with an equity stake in the company.
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Leading a Merchant Investment Management venture loaded with ex-Dynasty, ex-Focus stars, his company plans to start out making bigger, quicker loans, then selling RIAs a wider range of services