Tag: Partnerships

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. has announced a strategic partnership with Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG).  

William Blair & Company announced an agreement to acquire certain assets of Guidance Capital LLC, a specialist in developing and managing multi-manager hedge fund of funds strategies.

Larry Pitkowsky and Keith Trauner, former portfolio managers of the Fairholme Fund, announced the formation of GoodHaven Capital Management, LLC.

 HighTower financial services completed its first tuck-in transaction, with Steve Bogner bringing his practice to Richard Saperstein’s team in New York.  

401(k) Rekon is introducing a rewards program for plan providers who host educational seminars for plan advisers.  

Executives from The Keane Organization, a provider of specialty compliance and risk management guidance, have created a spinoff company, Risk Compliance Performance Solutions, LLC.

Bukaty Companies today announced that Vincent Morris will serve as president of the company’s Retirement Plan Services division.  

Based on their Hearts & Wallets research initiative, Chris Brown and Laura Varas have started a company, Hearts & Wallets, LLC.

Lincoln Financial Group and Humana Inc. have formed a distribution partnership enabling 2,000 Humana agents to offer Lincoln's products.

The Morgia Group has joined HighTower, an open-source, adviser-owned cooperation of established practices specializing in high-net worth and institutional clients.   

Mercer signed an agreement to acquire Hammond Associates, an investment consultant for endowments, foundations and private wealth and health care markets.

Broadridge Financial Solutions signed an agreement to acquire Matrix Financial Solutions, Inc. for $201 million in cash.

The benefits provider and human resources firm are joining forces to offer expanded options to small and mid-sized plans.

Joyce Frost and Frank Iacono, former executives with Morgan Stanley, along with Chris Frost, former Managing Director at Societe Generale, have formed Riverside Risk Advisors LLC.

Chris Schneeman, Mark Boser, and Steve Sawyer of SevenHills Plan Advisors are joining the Retirement Plan Advisory Group (RPAG), using Financial Telesis, Inc. (FTI) as their broker/dealer.  

If “one is the loneliest number,” why would anyone choose to work alone? 

Former Mercer outsourcing principals Peter Gosselin, Shawn Charles, and Julie Doran have formed Gosselin Consulting Group LLC, an independent, full-service institutional investment consulting firm.

An eight-person commodities trading team is reported to be leaving Credit Suisse Group AG to start a hedge fund backed by the Blackstone Group.

Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino, LLC, which describes itself as Alabama's largest certified public accounting and business consulting firm, has expanded its recordkeeping services reach. 

HighMark Capital Management, Inc. has announced the addition of its family of mutual funds to UBS’s financial services, retail brokerage and advisory platforms.