Captrust Monetary Advisors, the Raleigh, N.C.-headquartered registered funding advisor that just lately surpassed $1 trillion in whole shopper property, has acquired one other two RIAs with a mixed $1.97 billion in property.
Captrust is including Campbell Wealth Administration, an RIA in Alexandria, Va., with 33 workers and $1.4 billion in property, and TruNorth Wealth Companions, a St. Paul, Minn.-based RIA with about $570 million in shopper property and 10 workers.
Campbell was based in 2003 by CEO Kelly Campbell and represents Captrust’s first Alexandria location. In response to public filings, the crew makes use of Madison Avenue Securities for brokerage enterprise. Campbell focuses on retirement planning companies, primarily for purchasers aged 55 and older.
“Becoming a member of Captrust was a pure subsequent step for our agency as a result of it additionally believes within the significance of economic planning and helps us to convey deeper assets to purchasers, together with property planning, extra in depth tax planning, and household workplace companies,” Campbell stated in a press release.
TruNorth Wealth Companions, in the meantime, was based by CEO Peter Rekstad in 2005. In 2013, he merged his agency with BGM Wealth Administration, a Bloomington, Minn.-based RIA. The agency serves executives, professionals and establishments and in addition operates an workplace in Sacramento, Calif.
“Through the years, I’ve had many concepts about further companies that might be actually impactful for our purchasers’ monetary lives however had been simply not possible, given the scale of our agency,” Rekstad stated in a press release. “With Captrust, we will present household workplace companies, entry to tax planning and compliance, and extra, all from trusted Captrust colleagues who uphold our requirements of service past expectation.”
Campbell used Houlihan Lokey as its advisor within the transaction, whereas TruNorth was suggested by Advisor Progress Methods.
This follows Captrust’s deal in November to amass Boston Monetary Administration, a Boston-based RIA with almost $5 billion in shopper property, the agency’s first massive deal this 12 months and sixth Massachusetts acquisition since 2019.
Captrust, which was based in 1997, grew initially by serving institutional purchasers, similar to retirement plans. Nevertheless, the agency discovered these retirement plan contributors had been pure purchasers of the wealth administration enterprise. Captrust now serves 3,000 retirement plans across the nation.
This summer season, Captrust introduced it had surpassed $1 trillion in whole property underneath administration and advisement, an enormous milestone for the impartial RIA channel.
Captrust started an aggressive acquisition technique in 2006 and has since accomplished about 74 offers. Three years in the past, the agency introduced it bought a 25% stake to personal fairness agency GTCR—primarily based on a valuation of $1.25 billion. Final fall, Captrust bought a minority stake to Carlyle.