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300B RIA Creative Planning Acquires ML&R Wealth Management

Creative Planning with $300 billion in assets under management and advisors in all 50 states and 90 countries is a behemoth of the RIA world… and it keeps scooping up smaller players. On April 2, 2024 Creative Planning CEO Peter … Continue reading

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$18B RIA Sequoia Financial Acquires AltruVista to add wealth management for entrepreneurs

The fast growing US RIA market continues to consolidate, as larger RIAs scoop up smaller ones to add geographical footprint and additional services and client segments. Yesterday Akron based Sequoia Financial Group announced the acquisition of AltruVista in Houston. Sequoia … Continue reading

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Colombia grew by 4.6% in 2014, driven by construction and consumption – LatAm Trends

Colombia’s DANE (el departamento administrativo national de estadistica) confirmed GDP (producto interno bruto) growth of 4.6% in 2014, despite the price decline for oil. Mining and energy was the drag, shrinking by 0.2%. Brazil on the other hand has to … Continue reading

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Changing paradigm for HNW investing: don’t bring sand to the beach

Younger HNW investors are much more comfortable investing in tangible assets than in stocks and other traditional asset classes. U.S. Trust in its annual Wealth and Worth study discovers a number of surprising and counterintuitive trends among HNW investors. For … Continue reading

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SWFs, Family Offices and Pension Funds in the Middle East in Transition: Invesco study

The decisions of the most sophisticated pools of assets globally are studied closely for guidance on how the overall industry will evolve. The history of SWFs started with KIA in the 1950s and Middle East SWFs in the last sixty … Continue reading

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World Wealth Report 2011 – HNW Investment Trends: Metatrends, Asset Allocation and Bridges

Merrill Lynch and Capgemini this week published their annual World Wealth Report, a useful benchmark of HNW trends for over 20 years. It includes lots of nuggets and data touched on by us in our research – among the highlights … Continue reading

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The issue of brand in asset management – perspectives from distributors and institutions

As part of “The Seven Secrets of Distribution”, our team surveyed, spoke and met with over 1,000 professional fund buyers around the world. The book was published last month, but of course we are continuing our discussions on a daily … Continue reading

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