Disclaimer
The rating is not indicative of Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors future performance. Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors did not pay a fee to participate in the ranking.
Methodology
2025:
- FP’s data partner for the RIA Leaders feature, COMPLY, produced the rankings by applying the following six criteria to firms’ required SEC Form ADV filings on May 1, 2025:
- Firms must have zero registered representatives of a broker-dealer.
- At least 50% of the firm’s clients must be individuals or high net worth individuals.
- Firms must not list commissions as a compensation arrangement.
- Firms must have more than zero financial planning clients.
- Firms must not list commission-taking businesses in “other business activities.”
- Firms cannot be affiliated under common ownership with commission-taking businesses.
- Firms meeting the criteria above were then ranked based on their assets under management.
- In the absence of an official regulatory classification and definitionfor the titles “financial planner” or “financial advisor,” FP is using the closest available figure available through Form ADV requiring firms to state the number of employees “registered with one or more state securities authorities as investment adviser representatives.”
2024:
- FP’s data partner for the RIA Leaders feature, COMPLY, produced the rankings by applying the following six criteria to firms’ required SEC Form ADV filings in September 2024:
- Firms must have zero registered representatives of a broker-dealer.
- At least 50% of the firm’s clients must be individuals or high net worth individuals.
- Firms must not list commissions as a compensation arrangement.
- Firms must have more than zero financial planning clients.
- Firms must not list commission-taking businesses in “other business activities.”
- Firms cannot be affiliated under common ownership with commission-taking businesses.
- Firms meeting the criteria above were then ranked based on their assets under management.
- In the absence of an official regulatory classification and definitionfor the titles “financial planner” or “financial advisor,” FP is using the closest available figure available through Form ADV requiring firms to state the number of employees “registered with one or more state securities authorities as investment adviser representatives.”
2023:
- FP’s data partner for the RIA Leaders feature, COMPLY, produced the rankings by applying the following six criteria to firms’ required SEC Form ADV filings in July 2023:
- Firms must have zero registered representatives of a broker-dealer.
- At least 50% of the firm’s clients must be individuals or high net worth individuals.
- Firms must not list commissions as a compensation arrangement.
- Firms must have more than zero financial planning clients.
- Firms must not list commission-taking businesses in “other business activities.”
- Firms cannot be affiliated under common ownership with commission-taking businesses.
- Firms meeting the criteria above were then ranked based on their assets under management.
2022:
- FP’s data partner for the RIA Leaders feature, RIA in a Box, compiled the below rankings from firms’ required SEC Form ADV filings in July 2022 using a six-part criteria.
- Firms must have zero registered representatives of a broker-dealer
- At least 50% of the firm’s clients must be individuals or high net worth individuals
- Firms must not list commissions as a compensation arrangement
- Firms must have more than zero financial planning clients
- Firms must not list commission-taking businesses in “other business activities”
- Firms cannot be affiliated under common ownership with commission-taking businesses
- Firms meeting the criteria above were then ranked based on their assets under management.