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GenXFinancial and Boston Partners Financial Group are coming together to create the largest super OSJ at Advisor Group's Royal Alliance, with $9 billion in total assets and 180 advisors.

The announcement adds to Advisor Group’s significant recruiting momentum so far in 2021, as the firm has brought in $6.9 billion in assets under administration through May 28, versus $2.33 billion for the same period in 2020 (a year-over-year (YOY) increase of approximately 196%); $2.6 billion in assets under management, versus $1.53 billion in the prior year period (a YOY increase of 70%); and 230 recruited financial professionals, versus 170 for the same period last year (a YOY increase of 33%).

Azose Johnson & Associates' Three Financial Professionals Join Advisor Group through Subsidiary Royal Alliance

Advisor Group Network Firm Focused on Supporting Independent Business Owners and Growing Super-OSJ Groups Adds Independent Practice with $146 Million in Assets

Independent Wealth Management and Financial Planning Practice with $120 Million in Total Client Assets Joins Royal Alliance-Affiliated Super-OSJ Led by Rita Robbins

Reg BI implementation is less than a year away, and it is arriving at a time when investors are increasingly clamoring for more open and transparent financial advice. Certainly, you could view these coming changes as a threat to the status quo. But disruption is often what keeps businesses thriving, relevant and healthy.

The recent passage of Reg BI comes at a time when the advisor-client relationship is already becoming more collaborative, open and transparent. The future of advice will be one in which clients are empowered by technology to work with their advisors to take further ownership of their financial lives.

Financial advisors who stayed with Advisor Group as it changed hands twice in four years will reap the rewards of their loyalty to the tune of $50 million in awards from the firm. “We wanted to do something for them to say thank you,” says Advisor Group CEO Jamie Price.

Capitol Financial Solutions, a super-OSJ affiliated with Royal Alliance Associates with nearly $1.2 billion in total client assets, has recruited Fidelity Capital Management, a father-and-son hybrid advisory practice based in Raleigh, North Carolina with $80 million in total client assets.

One element of the cybersecurity discussion that is often overlooked is that the biggest threat to many advisory firms is not actually to client accounts but instead to the advisory brand.

Jamie Price, President and Chief Executive Officer of Advisor Group, said, “Advisor Group’s commitment to providing advisors with industry-leading tools, resources and flexibility extends to the critical area of cybersecurity. Our new CyberGuard Program leverages our scale to offer a suite of state-of-the-art cybersecurity tools that enable advisors to ensure that clients’ sensitive personal data is kept safe and secure. All the efforts of our top-notch group of security experts ladder up to our core mission – to stand in our advisors’ corner, supporting them every step of the way.”

Advisor Group, one of the nation’s largest networks of independent wealth management firms, comprised of FSC Securities Corporation, Royal Alliance Associates, SagePoint Financial, and Woodbury Financial, received the third highest ranking in the J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Full-Service Investor Satisfaction Study – scoring 843 points, 11 points over the industry average.