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This Week in Wealth — 68 episodes

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1

Bumps in the road

2

What’s next for the original RIA aggregator?

3

The winners and losers in advisor recruitment

4

Who’s been busy buying RIAs?

5

The Batnick breakdown

6

Meet the ex-Yankee taking a swing at running his own RIA

7

Commonwealth beats the SEC, no degree for the CFP?

8

Edelman offers planners stock; RIAs hit by cyber shock

9

The Americans are coming ... for British wealth managers

10

2 mega-RIAs, 2 very different deals

11

Goldman goes long (and short) to win Fidelity biz, plus LPL and AlTi updates

12

LPL brings the pain, Cerity Partners makes it rain

13

Wealth management’s DeepSeek moment?

14

Ritholtz sells shares to team, LPL’s retention dream, an RIA and an NHL team

15

Sale fail won't derail Edelman's financial engine

16

Hightower weighs pay changes, Cresset raises $300m

17

SEC gives RIAs a late Christmas present

18

Goldman giveth, Mercer ups minimums, will Blackstone buy an RIA?

19

The most important RIA stories of 2025

20

Cetera CEO talks RIAs, M&A and that Commonwealth letter

21

The Robo Rapport

22

It’s 2025. Do you know where your data is?

23

One of the messiest divorces in RIA M&A

24

A tale of two mega-RIAs

25

Schwab, the belle of its own ball

26

Stifel slams the door on sale talks... or does it?

27

How the RIA industry's most prolific banker views the M&A market

28

Schwab takes its ball back, Edelman sputters

29

Under the shadow of Ares

30

Merrill went down to Georgia ... and got denied a TRO

31

The biggest breakaway (ever?)

32

Hightower's next act

33

Here’s what you need to know before selling your RIA

34

LPL retention rundown

35

Inside a $60bn RIA mega-merger

36

Cresset's institutional play

37

The Raymond James exodus

38

The Fastest-Growing RIAs in America

39

Minority Report

40

Peter Mallouk talks crazy deals, declining multiples and life as a clubbie

41

Debt Deal Deep Dive

42

Peering over the edge of the cliff

43

Halftime report

44

Carson's contentious court case

45

IPO intimations

46

A new era for RIAs

47

There's no such thing as a free lunch

48

Orion plays board games

49

Mercer’s messy divorce

50

An unobstructed view

51

None of your (outside) business

52

Secondary concerns

53

Feeding frenzy

54

A tradition unlike any other

55

Retention rundown

56

LPL captures Commonwealth

57

Money market machinations

58

What's the plan for Joe Duran?

59

Blackstone enters the fray

60

The $50,000 Question

61

"Ellevest's robo retreat"

62

Can you SEC what's coming?

63

Client referrals aren't cheap

64

A Goldman Goodbye

65

1099 Problems

66

Will you accept this rose?

67

What's in a name?

68

Happy New Year!