Amid journey and menu planning forward of Thanksgiving, a handful of offers have been introduced early this week.
Ameriflex Group and Osaic added two groups, with almost $500 million in collective belongings, that supply insurance coverage providers alongside wealth and retirement planning and funding administration.
Steward Companions World Advisory additionally entered the Georgia market with its newest recruits.
And, in earlier reported information, a former Morgan Stanley crew left to launch Stablepoint Companions with Goldman Sachs Advisor Options as main custodian, whereas healthcare advisory agency Curi bought a majority stake in RMB Capital, which is being merged with its wealth administration enterprise.
AmeriFlex Group Provides 2 Groups, $500M AUM
AmeriFlex Group, a hybrid workplace of supervisory jurisdiction and registered funding advisory agency affiliated with Osaic, recruited two groups, including 12 advisors in 4 states and almost half a billion in consumer belongings.
Based mostly in Hays, Kan., The Meckenstock Group is a second-generation, family-owned follow led by President and CEO Bobb Meckenstock. Beforehand affiliated with Unbiased Monetary Group, the crew consists of 10 advisors—seven in Kansas, two in California and one in Nebraska. Collectively, they bring about greater than $290 million in consumer belongings to AmeriFlex.
“Altering companies is rarely a simple choice, however after assembly with Osaic and The AmeriFlex Group, seeing their imaginative and prescient for the longer term and the extraordinary service and assist they supply advisors and purchasers, we knew we discovered our new residence,” Meckenstock stated in an announcement, citing the companies’ know-how, succession and acquisition options.
In California and Tennessee, a duo with $206 million in consumer belongings additionally joined AmeriFlex from Principal Securities.
With experience in energetic funding administration and tax environment friendly methods, Jeffrey McNaney, in Roseville, Calif., and Lucas Dancy-Cabeal, in Mount Joliet, Tenn., present wealth and asset administration, retirement planning and insurance coverage providers for enterprise house owners and rich professionals.
“Osaic and AmeriFlex will present us with the liberty, flexibility and value-added sources we have to take our practices to the subsequent degree,” stated Dancy-Cabeal. “Jeff and I have been impressed by their broad vary of services they provide.”
“They constructed spectacular multi-state companies by placing the wants of their purchasers first, AmeriFlex CEO Tom Goodson stated of the 2 companies. “Every is an ideal cultural match and runs the kind of enterprise we aspire to draw to The AmeriFlex Group.”
Based mostly in Las Vegas, AmeriFlex now contains near 100 advisors with greater than $3.5 billion in managed belongings.
Previously Advisor Group, Osaic has now merged about half of its affiliated advisors into the brand new, unified model—together with these with Royal Alliance, SagePoint Monetary and FSC Securities—and is bringing new recruits immediately onto the built-in Osaic platform. After saying the reorganization effort—which created three enterprise channels centered on unbiased brokerage providers, establishments and RIAs—Osaic reported that recruited belongings elevated by 240% within the third quarter over the identical time final 12 months.
Based in 2016 and majority owned by Reverence Capital Companions since 2019, Osaic contains greater than 11,000 advisors and greater than $500 billion in suggested belongings.
Miller Household Wealth Administration Joins Steward Companions
A Wells Fargo breakaway duo in Georgia has fashioned an unbiased follow below Steward Companions World Advisory, a hybrid RIA primarily based in New York Metropolis.
Miller Household Wealth Administration at Steward Companions consists of Managing Director Charles Miller and Vice President Simone Jones, each advisors who at the moment are additionally companions within the bigger Steward enterprise. Managing round $275 million in belongings from workplaces in Dalton and Kennesaw, the crew represents Steward’s first accomplice agency within the Peach State.
“I needed a accomplice who may provide the infrastructure, know-how, and logistical assist wanted to greatest serve my purchasers. Steward Companions was the one agency that had all the things I needed, and extra,” Miller stated in an announcement. “I like that, with Steward Companions, the opposite advisors are friends and companions, not my competitors. This transfer provides me the chance to construct an enduring enterprise which my younger son will ultimately be capable to be a part of with me.”
Miller started his profession as a relationship supervisor, working for companies corresponding to Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley earlier than becoming a member of Wells Fargo in 2017. His follow is targeted on serving rich people and households, some dwelling in Europe and South Africa, in addition to enterprise house owners searching for a liquidity occasion.
“We’re all the time excited to increase the Steward Companions footprint into a brand new state, however we’re much more so to have Chuck as our first accomplice within the state of Georgia,” stated Steward Managing Director Jeffrey Gonyo, senior president of the agency’s Southeast division. “By becoming a member of Steward Companions, Chuck owns his enterprise and may run it in the way in which that’s greatest for his purchasers realizing that he’s backed up by the sources of our complete community.”
Based in 2013, Steward has grown belongings from $50 million to round $28 billion, primarily via the recruitment of financial institution and wirehouse breakaways. Earlier this month, the agency introduced it was moving into the mergers and acquisitions recreation with the launch of a brand new ‘owned enterprise’ division.
