Teams, technology and taxes are behind the rising wave of deals, writes the president of Merit Financial Advisors.

The deal also includes Hibiscus Investments, Landsberg Bennett’s sister brand that serves mass affluent clients—and a structure for a potential next-generation training program to the broader Hightower, according to the announcement.

Dynasty has attracted a Colorado Springs, Colo., team with $300 million in AUM out of Northwestern Mutual with a multi-family-office offering.

The deal also includes Hibiscus Investments, Landsberg Bennett’s sister brand that serves mass affluent clients—and a structure for a potential next generation training program to the broader Hightower, according to the announcement.

TCFG's advisory clients paid fee markups as often as 60% of the time in more than 10,000 executed transactions over the course of several years, according to the SEC complaint.

In a rapid series of deals, Focus Financial's shared services platform, Connectus Wealth Advisers, acquired U.K.-based Trident Financial Planning Limited, Massachusetts-based New England Investment & Retirement Group and Australia-based MISSO...

More than half of the firm's employees will be expected to work in the office at least three days a week.

Naseem Mohammed Salamah is charged with stealing nearly $970,000 from three elderly clients and spending the funds on vacations and luxury car leases.

The danger of self-directed IRA scams heightened during the pandemic, as many investors were at home and online but isolated from in-person interaction, NASAA says.