The RIA roll-up market has seen a decade of explosion
The marketplace for RIA M&A networks is currently overrun with players from brand-new entrants from outside the U.S. to well-established RIAs. Over the past 15 years, the RIA aggregator market has taken off.
March 8, 2021 8 MINS
Ten to 15 years ago, when the very first group of aggregators, or roll-ups, of registered investment advisers were arranging and completing their first round of M&A deals, there were three pillars in the industry’s mergers and acquisitions landscape, plus one outlier.
The first pillar was United Capital, a centralized platform that absorbed the RIA firms it purchased and renamed them, bringing them under one central brand and technology and investment platform.