This Start-Up Wants to Shake Up How Investors Pay for Financial Advice. Can It Succeed?
Will Anders Jones upend the financial advisory business?
The jury’s out and the odds may be long, but so far the 34-year-old CEO and co-founder of Facet Wealth is checking all the right boxes.
$1.9bn Dakota adds Virginia practice to bolster divorce chops
Peter Raimondi’s Dakota Wealth Management has turned his acquisitive eyes towards a Virginia RIA which specializes in complex planning.
The $1.9bn firm has acquired American Capital Planning, a Leesburg-based practice which manages roughly $66m in client assets for 35 clients. Specific financial terms of the transaction — which closed on October 1 —were not disclosed.
Savant chief executive Brent Brodeski is retaining control of the RIA and its board of directors, and Cynosure is maintaining its minority stake.
Private equity firm Kelso & Company has taken a minority stake in RIA giant Savant Wealth Management, the companies revealed on Thursday.
Savant’s existing private equity backer, the Cynosure Group, is maintaining its minority stake in the company, while Savant chief executive Brent Brodeski (pictured) will retain control of the RIA and its board of directors.
Hightower Makes Strategic Investment in Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management
Hightower today announced it has made a strategic investment in Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management (“Landsberg Bennett”), a $1 billion wealth management firm based in Punta Gorda, Fla. Landsberg Bennett will leverage Hightower’s growth-oriented resources, operational, value-added and business acceleration services to further scale the business.
Hightower takes stake in $1bn Florida RIA
Hightower is taking a stake in Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management, a Punta Gorda, Fla.-based RIA that manages about $1bn in assets.
Specific financial terms of the deal, including the size of Hightower’s stake, were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter.
#FA Success Ep 243: Scaling $1B Of Organic Growth In Under 5 Years With Targeted Multi-Niche Online Education, With James Bogart
My guest on today's podcast is James Bogart. James is the CEO and President of Bogart Wealth, an RIA located in McLean, Virginia that manages $1.8 billion of assets for 900 households.
What's unique about James, though, is that his firm has nearly doubled its assets under management organically since the start of the pandemic just 18 months ago, by leveraging online educational webinars that address very specific niche issues around employee benefits for those who work at specific companies in the energy sector.