Deals & Moves: Cetera Snags Commonwealth Duo Overseeing $420M

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Cetera Financial Group has added fiscal advisors Jim Tucker and Patrick Bria, on with their Tucker Bria Wealth Strategies team, which oversees astir $420 cardinal successful assets nether administration, the San Diego-based steadfast announced.

The Durham, N.C.-based squad joined done Cetera's Summit Financial Networks aft much than a decennary astatine Commonwealth Financial Network, which is owned by LPL Financial.

"We were deliberate astir choosing Commonwealth, and we were conscionable arsenic deliberate astir wherever we went next," Tucker said successful a statement. "We wanted a spouse beardown capable to supply the compliance, exertion and back-office enactment we didn't privation to physique ourselves, but flexible capable to fto america support moving our concern precisely the mode we ever have."

Tucker and Bria, who person been friends since their teenage years successful Pittsburgh and were teammates connected Duke University's varsity aquatics team, co-founded their signifier successful 2013. The steadfast provides fiscal readying and wealthiness absorption to individuals and families, including wealthiness creation, preservation, inheritance and concern sales.

The determination to Cetera allowed the steadfast to support its existing custodian, Fidelity's National Financial Services, and proceed utilizing third-party exertion already portion of its lawsuit work model, according to the announcement.

The triumph is portion of a concerted effort started by Cetera aft LPL's acquisition past twelvemonth to lure Commonwealth advisors to 1 of its broker/dealer affiliations.

LPL executives said during its astir caller net telephone that the steadfast has retained Commonwealth assets successful the mid-80% scope and expects to scope its people of 90% lawsuit plus retention. CEO Rich Steinmeier besides said that arsenic LPL nears the last conversion of Commonwealth advisors to the platform, it has greater capableness for recruiting efforts.

Cetera, which is owned by Genstar Capital, manages astir $630 cardinal successful AUA and $296 cardinal successful AUM.

Hightower Signature Acquires $275M Pennsylvania Firm

Chicago-based RIA aggregator Hightower Advisors announced that Valley Financial Group, an Ambler, Pa.-based wealthiness absorption signifier with astir $275 cardinal successful AUM, volition articulation its increasing Hightower Signature Wealth.

The transaction marks the 2nd outer acquisition by Hightower Signature Wealth this twelvemonth and advances the hybrid RIAs' strategy of expanding done advisory practices looking for standard and centralized operations.