RIA aggregator Focus Monetary Companions has introduced a brand new company model and model construction for its “hub” companies, giving these companies the Focus identify. In consequence, The Colony Group and Buckingham Strategic Wealth will function as Focus Companions Wealth, whereas Buckingham Strategic Companions, the RIA’s turnkey asset administration platform, will now be Focus Companions Advisor Options.
A couple of yr in the past, Focus hatched an bold plan to consolidate about 90 independently operated subsidiaries right into a handful of huge companies that will function as hubs. That adopted the agency’s determination to go personal in a sale to personal fairness agency Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. All three Focus founders, together with former COO Rajini Kodialam, former M&A Head Lenny Chang and CEO Rudy Adolf, exited round that point.
Thus far, 14 RIAs have been consolidated into one of many 5 hubs.
Now, the agency goals to standardize the branding throughout these hubs. Earlier this month, Focus named Cardinal Level Capital Administration as its fifth hub. Below the brand new branding, Cardinal Level will now be often known as Cardinal Level, Focus Companions Canada.
Different hubs embrace Kovitz Funding Group, which has been rebranded to Kovitz, a Focus Companions Agency; SCS Monetary, now SCS Monetary, Focus Companions Household Workplace and OCIO; and Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, which is able to function as Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, Focus Companions Enterprise Administration.
The agency has additionally redesigned its company brand and web site “to mirror the additional unification of the companies all through its community, incorporating every of their particular person model colours,” in keeping with a press release.
“Our purpose is for our shoppers to expertise us as an organization constructed only for them and for our advisors to expertise the empowerment of being geared up with the capabilities and sources usually provided solely by the biggest establishments on the earth,” mentioned Michael Nathanson, CEO of Focus Monetary Companions, in a press release. “When folks see or hear the identify Focus Companions, that’s the expertise we would like evoked. Our redesigned brand can also be supposed to bolster that affiliation. Its colours mirror the various colours traditionally utilized by our accomplice companies, and its construction represents the collective vitality and capabilities that Focus gives by its ecosystem of interdependent fiduciary recommendation groups.”
Within the final yr, Focus has continued consolidating its accomplice companies, together with merging The Colony Group with GW & Wade, a Massachusetts-based RIA with $10.4 billion in managed belongings. Final yr, Focus mixed The Colony Group with accomplice agency Buckingham Strategic Wealth to create a $50.2 billion RIA.
In June, Focus shifted Connectus Wealth Advisers’ U.S.-based enterprise traces into The Colony Group and Kovitz Funding Group Companions. Subsequently, Kovitz purchased the $2.6 billion accomplice agency Relative Worth Companions Group, bringing Kovitz to greater than $24 billion in belongings.
In October, Kovitz acquired Fort Pitt Capital Group, a $5.9 billion Pittsburgh-based Focus accomplice agency. The deal boosted Kovitz’s belongings to almost $30 billion.
