100 Top Fee-Only Firms
January 12, 2014 9:22 PM
100 Top Fee-Only Firms
Financial Planning's third annual list of the top 100 RIA leaders identifies the upper echelon of a variegated field of more than 19,000 RIAs nationwide. Some experts predict that the largest of these will grow to anywhere between $50 billion to $100 billion in AUM in the next couple of decades. Click here to read the full story, or browse through this list to see the year's chart-toppers.
<p>No.1 Oxford Financial Group</p>
Location: Carmel, Ind.
AUM (in billions): $10.820
Investor Advisors: 30
Client Accounts: 6,100
Jeffery H. Thomasson, CEO & Managing Director, pictured above
<p>No.2 Rockefeller & Co.</p>
Location: New York
AUM (in billions): $10.634
Investor Advisors: 56
Client Accounts: 2,889
<p>No.3 Shepherd Kaplan</p>
Location: Boston
AUM (in billions): $9.075
Investor Advisors: 16
Client Accounts: 1,688
<p>No.4 Summit Rock Advisors</p>
Location: New York
AUM (in billions): $7.985
Investor Advisors: 18
Client Accounts: 64
<p>No.5 Creative Planning</p>
Location: Leawood, Kan.
AUM (in billions): $7.808
Investor Advisors: 38
Client Accounts: 21,182
Peter Mallouk, Founder, pictured above
<p>No.6 Ronald Blue & Co.</p>
Location: Roswell, Ga.
AUM (in billions): $7.569
Investor Advisors: 143
Client Accounts: 16.689
Russ Crosson, President & CEO, pictured above
<p>No.7 Aspiriant</p>
Location: San Francisco
AUM (in billions): $7.210
Investor Advisors: 51
Client Accounts: 4,752
Rob Francais, CEO, Principal, pictured above
<p>No.8 Advanced Capital Group</p>
Location: Minneapolis
AUM (in billions): $7.130
Investor Advisors: 10
Client Accounts: 325
<p>No.9 Tag Associates</p>
Location: New York
AUM (in billions): $7.020
Investor Advisors: 15
Client Accounts: 1,049
<p>No.10 BBR Partners</p>
Location: New York
AUM (in billions): $6.593
Investor Advisors: 54
Client Accounts: 1,235
<p>#11-#20 | Lisette Cooper, Founder of Athena Capital Advisors, pictured above</p>
No.11 Mycio Wealth Partners | Location: Philadelphia | AUM (in billions): $5.998
No.12 Mercer Global Advisors | Location: Santa Barbara, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $4.893
No.13 Reinhart Partners | Location: Mequon, Wis. | AUM (in billions): $4.488
No.14 Athena Capital Advisors | Location: Lincoln, Mass. | AUM (in billions): $4.288
No.15 Baker Street Advisors | Location: San Francisco | AUM (in billions): $4.200
No.16 Clarfeld Financial Advisors | Location: Tarrytown, N.Y. | AUM (in billions): $4.125
No.17 Gresham Partners | Location: Chicago | AUM (in billions): $3.859
No.18 Ballentine Partners | Location: Waltham, Mass. | AUM (in billions): $3.823
No.19 Sontag Advisory | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $3.605
No.20 Tolleson Private Wealth Management | Location: Dallas | AUM (in billions): $3.498
<p>#21-#30 | Peter Raimondi, Founder of Banyan Partners, pictured above</p>
No.21 Wetherby Asset Management | Location: San Francisco | AUM (in billions): $3.393
No.22 Altair Advisers | Location: Chicago | AUM (in billions): $3.351
No.23 Ferguson Wellman Capital Management | Location: Portland, Ore. | AUM (in billions):$3.241
No.24 Federal Street Advisors | Location: Boston | AUM (in billions): $3.185
No.25 Banyan Partners | Location: Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. | AUM (in billions): $3.172
No.26 Gofen and Glossberg | Location: Chicago | AUM (in billions): $2.996
No.27 Hewins Financial Advisors | Location: San Mateo, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $2.953
No.28 Bartlett & Co. | Location: Cincinnati | AUM (in billions): $2.916
No.29 Savant Capital | Location: Rockford, Ill. | AUM (in billions): $2.910
No.30 Signature Financial Management | Location: Norfolk, Va. | AUM (in billions): $2.768
<p>#31-#40 | Richard M. Burridge Jr., Founding Principal, CEO, CIO of RMB Capital Management, pictured above</p>
No.31 HPM Partners | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $2.738
No.32 RMB Capital Management | Location: Chicago | AUM (in billions): $2.657
No.33 Northeast Financial Consultants | Location: Westport, Conn. | AUM (in billions): $2.637
No.34 Iron Capital Advisors | Location: Atlanta | AUM (in billions): $2.633
No.35 Executive Monetary Management | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $2.587
No.36 Homrich & Berg | Location: Atlanta | AUM (in billions): $2.565
No.37 Douglas C. Lane & Associates | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $2.542
No.38 Heck Capital Advisors | Location: Rhinelander, Wis. | AUM (in billions): $2.526
No.39 Threshold Group | Location: Gig Harbor, Wash. | AUM (in billions): $2.524
No.40 Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough | Location: San Francisco | AUM (in billions): $2.454
<p>#41-#50</p>
No.41 Pacific Portfolio Consulting | Location: Seattle | AUM (in billions): $2.417
No.42 Manchester Capital Management | Location: Manchester, Vt. | AUM (in billions): $2.410
No.43 Regentatlantic Capital | Location: Morristown, N.J. | AUM (in billions): $2.330
No.44 Dowling & Yahnke | Location: San Diego | AUM (in billions): $2.328
No.45 Balasa Dinverno Foltz | Location: Itasca, Ill. | AUM (in billions): $2.306
No.46 The Bollard Group | Location: Boston | AUM (in billions): $2.296
No.47 WMS Partners | Location: Towson, Md. | AUM (in billions): $2.289
No.48 R.M. Davis | Location: Portland, Maine | AUM (in billions): $2.274
No.49 Atherton Lane Advisers | Location: Menlo Park, Calif | AUM (in billions): $2.269
No.50 Inverness Counsel | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $2.250
<p>#51-#60</p>
No.51 ThomasPartners | Location: Wellesley, Mass. | AUM (in billions): $2.240
No.52 First Foundation Advisors | Location: Irvine, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $2.229
No.53 RGT Capital Management | Location: Dallas | AUM (in billions): $2.206
No.54 Matter Family Office (formerly Financial Management Partners) | Location: Clayton, Mo. | AUM (in billions): $2.183
No.55 Silver Bridge Capital Management | Location: Boston | AUM (in billions): $2.154
No.56 Massey Quick | Location: Morristown, N.J. | AUM (in billions): $2.149
No.57 Miller Investment Management | Location: West Conshohocken, Pa. | AUM (in billions): $2.133
No.58 Arlington Partners | Location: Birmingham, Ala. | AUM (in billions): $2.127
No.59 CM Wealth Advisors | Location: Cleveland | AUM (in billions): $2.054
No.60 Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors | Location: Long Beach, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $2.045
<p>#61-#70 | Wayne F. Wilbanks, Managing Principal and CIO of Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas Asset Management, pictured above</p>
No.61 Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas Asset Management | Location: Norfolk, Va. | AUM (in billions): $1.998
No.62 Adams Hall Wealth Advisors | Location: Tulsa, Okla. | AUM (in billions): $1.989
No.63 Beaumont Financial Partners | Location: Wellesley Hills, Mass. | AUM (in billions): $1.982
No.64 BKD Wealth Advisors | Location: Springfield, Mo. | AUM (in billions): $1.976
No.65 Miller/Russell & Associates | Location: Phoenix, Ariz | AUM (in billions): $1.950
No.66 Linscomb & Williams | Location: Houston | AUM (in billions): $1.935
No.67 Capital Investment Counsel | Location: Denver | AUM (in billions): $1.916
No.68 Northwest Capital Management | Location: Portland, Ore. | AUM (in billions): $1.896
No.69 First Endowment Development | Location: Houston | AUM (in billions): $1.886
No.70 Plancorp | Location: Saint Louis | AUM (in billions): $1.878
<p>#71-#80</p>
No.71 South Texas Money Management | Location: San Antonio | AUM (in billions): $1.865
No.72 Courier Capital | Location: Buffalo, N.Y. | AUM (in billions): $1.857
No.73 Brighton Jones | Location: Seattle | AUM (in billions): $1.833
No.74 Meristem | Location: Minnetonka, Minn. | AUM (in billions): $1.797/p>
No.75 Badgley, Phelps and Bell | Location: Seattle | AUM (in billions): $1.792
No.76 Spruce Private Investors | Location: Stamford, Conn. | AUM (in billions): $1.739
No.77 Budros, Ruhlin & Roe | Location: Columbus, Ohio | AUM (in billions): $1.735
No.78 Index Funds Advisors | Location: Irvine, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $1.730
No.79 Alesco Advisors | Location: Pittsford, N.Y. | AUM (in billions): $1.690
No.80 Wipfli Hewins Investment Advisors | Location: San Mateo, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $1.644
<p>#81-#90</p>
No.81 PHH Investments | Location: Addison, Texas | AUM (in billions): $1.608
No.82 Warren Averett Asset Management | Location: Birmingham, Ala. | AUM (in billions): $1.607
No.83 Geller Family Office Services | Location: New York | AUM (in billions): $1.605
No.84 Rinet Company | Location: Boston | AUM (in billions): $1.572
No.85 Laird Norton Tyee Asset Strategies | Location: Seattle | AUM (in billions): $1.570
No.86 Southeast Asset Advisors | Location: Thomasville, Ga. | AUM (in billions): $1.541
No.87 Green Square Capital | Location: Memphis, Tenn. | AUM (in billions): $1.538
No.88 JMG Financial Group | Location: Oak Brook, Ill. | AUM (in billions): $1.533
No.89 SignatureFD | Location: Atlanta | AUM (in billions): $1.513
No.90 McCutchen Group | Location: Seattle | AUM (in billions): $1.500
<p>#91-#100 | Robert Balentine, CEO of Balentine, pictured above</p>
No.91 Balentine | Location: Atlanta | AUM (in billions): $1.483
No.92 Concert Wealth Management | Location: San Jose, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $1.466
No.93 Wescott Financial Advisory Group | Location: Philadelphia | AUM (in billions): $1.462
No.94 Palladium Partners | Location: Norfolk, Va. | AUM (in billions): $1.439
No.95 Hillview Capital Advisors | Location: Radnor, Pa. | AUM (in billions): $1.438
No.96 Heritage Investors Management | Location: Bethesda, Md. | AUM (in billions): $1.420
No.97 The MDE Group | Location: Morristown, N.J. | AUM (in billions): $1.404
No.98 Riverpoint Capital Management | Location: Cincinnati | AUM (in billions): $1.378
No.99 Zemenick & Walker | Location: Saint Louis | AUM (in billions): $1.360
No.100 Mozaic | Location: Beverly Hills, Calif. | AUM (in billions): $1.349
