In addition, client referral firm Advisor.com hires a COO to lead digital marketing, and BlueSpring makes leadership hires for integration and M&A.

Wells Fargo Advisors has poached a $1 billion advisor team from Bank of America’s Merrill. Hyeon Kang, managing director and private wealth advisor, and a team of three advisors and one support staff ...

Few millennials and Gen Zers plan to rely on their Social Security benefits in retirement. Instead, they are focusing on 401(k) accounts, according to a new report from Cerulli & Associates. Cerulli ...

The legal fracas between Edelman Financial Engines and Mariner Wealth Advisors shows no sign of abating, as the rivals are pushing the judge to rule in their favor before trial while each tries to ...

ESL Federal Credit Union, a Rochester, N.Y.-based financial institution, has acquired Alesco Advisors, a local wealth manager and investment outsourcing business. The deal, expected to close in ...

Betterment, the robo advisor, RIA custodian and 401(k) plan provider, is continuing to bolster its ecosystem for mostly small, registered investment advisors with plans to launch direct indexing and a ...

Asset managers and advisors converged in Los Angeles this week for the fourth annual CAIS Summit—a conference that brings together many of the alternative investment platform’s users. It also serves ...

Wealth Enhancement, an acquisitive Minneapolis-based RIA with $107 billion in client assets, has acquired XO Wealth Management, a Dallas-based independent RIA. XO Wealth was founded in 2016 and ...

Alternative asset manager Hamilton Lane launched a new venture capital and growth fund to join its broader $10 billion AUM evergreen products. The Hamilton Lane Venture Capital and Growth Fund (HLVCG) ...

The platform digitizes some of the private market investment processes and helps match investors with curated investments “while leveraging blockchain and asset tokenization to enhance transparency, ...

UBS is suing a $1.1 billion advisory team that left the wirehouse for RBC last month, claiming they’re breaking non-solicitation vows. UBS filed a request for a temporary restraining order on Friday ...

Recent assertions that M&A activity in the registered investment advisory space is not, in fact, slowing appear to have been borne out yet again this week as more than $140 billion in transacted ...