Articles tagged "Adam Birenbaum"
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Michael Kitces and Adam Birenbaum are now on the same $50-billion Buckingham team after the blogger called the young CEO with a multi-pronged proposal
Kitces is leaving Pinnacle - after 17 years - for fewer conflicts and more opportunity
March 12, 2020 at 1:45 PM
Rudy Adolf's Buckingham meal ticket looks golden after the $35-billion RIA/TAMP absorbs Dan Goldie's $1 billion Loring Ward book and margins leap from 25 basis points to more like 70
The New York-based roll-up's gain is offshoot of Loring Ward deal where Goldie is the biggest client but was too big to buy until Focus capital could be tapped
March 9, 2019 at 3:28 AM
Unseen factors drove the BAM, Loring Ward $50B merger; 18-month warming, light Focus Financial touch, led to reverse merger in spirit and birth, CEOs reveal in exclusive interviews
Buckingham CEO Adam Birenbaum desperately needed a TAMP CEO; Loring CEO Alex Potts needed a succession system for his TAMP clients
October 12, 2018 at 6:12 PM
Focus Financial buys $17 billion DFA TAMP for $235 million through its $3.6 billion DFA TAMP
The RIA roll-up adds Loring Ward to BAM with 50% cash down and the rest with Focus common shares
September 28, 2018 at 2:44 AM
Buckingham becomes KKR-fueled, check-listed M&A 'machine' that now feeds on BAM TAMP clients
The Focus Financial-owned DFA RIA faces hazards of going '100 miles per hour' but Buckingham CEO Adam Birenbaum has no fear
March 2, 2018 at 9:28 PM
Report: Focus Financial is preparing SEC paperwork for its initial public offering -- but is it jumping the gun?
With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges
July 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM
Focus Financial doubles down on financial engineering by making five hires -- four of them deal hounds
With $325 million in revenues and a big line of credit, the New York roll-up machine is playing to its M&A strength
May 21, 2015 at 8:57 PM
Why a $25 billion RIA just went with Alex Murguia's startup's financial planning software
The Buckingham Companies chose inStream to overcome the 'dead' plan problem
November 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM
Abby Johnson tells RIAs to have all employees, up and down the chain, think client thoughts at Fidelity's 2014 Executive Forum
Advisors -- many with assets in the tens of billions -- were on hand along with New Yorker writers, NPR and other super-thinkers
May 19, 2014 at 1:51 AM
How Frank Troise is looking to shoot the 'Google Love' moon -- with DFA, VC, crowd-sourcing and M&A aspects -- and why some critics see it as an elaborate salvage sale
The original referral model, MyFreeRetirementReport.com, proved suboptimal when brokers allegedly failed to pay up, and now industry leaders are leery of the new model's practical and regulatory viability
October 27, 2013 at 6:52 PM
Financial Engines more than doubles its share price by defining a niche in the 401(k) market between target date funds and RIAs
Wall Street is seeing things Jeff Maggioncalda's way for now, as new DOL regs make plan sponsors more certain they want participants advised inexpensively but not cheaply
October 1, 2013 at 5:12 AM
Partners at Focus Financial check their egos at the door to secure $216 million of hard cash
Polaris, Summit and CEO Rudy Adolf sell a portion of their stake in the big aggregator to Centerbridge Capital Partners -- and it puts them in a minority position for the first time
July 16, 2013 at 1:49 AM
Investor Karl interviews Mark Tibergien -- guru, author, chief -- who tells why solo practices are far from extinct
The gospel of RIA says these days that big and complex is The Way, but the Pershing Advisor Solutions chief proves an unexpected champion of the mom-and-pop advisory shop
July 3, 2013 at 4:31 AM
Focus Financial gets a long-sought $400 million DFA RIA in Dallas -- with Adam Birenbaum's firm as the final added ingredient
Rudy Adolf's roll-up-like team used crerativity and persistence to get Jim Whiddon out for coffee; Matt Brinker at United Capital also closed a small deal but projects bigger revenue will come aboard soon
July 2, 2013 at 5:30 AM
Top 5 most influential RIA figures of 2012 going into 2013
Putting their own capital -- and that of trusting others -- into their own edge-cutting ideas, these guys plow ahead with smiles on their faces
