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 survey.
Methodology
2025: FA’s RIA survey is a ranking based on assets under management at year end of independent RIA firms that file their own ADV with the SEC. FA’s RIA ranking orders firms from largest to smallest, based on AUM reported to us by firms that voluntarily complete and submit FA’s survey by our deadline. FA Magazine does their best to verify AUM by reviewing ADV forms. To be eligible for the ranking, firms must be independent registered investment advisors and file their own ADV statement with the SEC and provide financial planning and related services to individual clients. Firms must have at least $500 million in assets under management as of December 31, 2024, to be included in the print edition of Financial Advisor magazine’s 2025 RIA survey. Firms with under $500 million will be included in FA’s expanded 2025 online RIA survey.
Hybrid RIA firms, corporate RIA firms and investment advisor representatives (IARs) are not eligible for this survey. A hybrid RIA is registered as both an RIA and a broker/dealer. A corporate RIA is a registered investment advisor most often formed by a broker-dealer that files an ADV with the SEC. Advisors who are affiliated with the broker-dealer or other entity’s corporate RIA may offer investment advice. They are considered investment advisor representatives (IARs) of the corporate RIA. All of the assets under management of the IARs are included in the corporate RIA’s ADV filed with the SEC.
2024: FA Magazine compiled their annual ranking based on assets under management (AUM) at independent RIA firms. This ranking includes firms with AUM exceeding $1 billion as of December 31, 2023, for the print edition of Financial Advisor magazine’s 2024 RIA survey. Firms with under $1 billion AUM are included in the expanded online RIA survey.
2023: FA Magazine compiled their annual ranking based on assets under management at the year-end of independent RIA firms that file their own ADV with the SEC. Only firms with AUM exceeding $500 million as of December 31, 2022, are included in the print edition of Financial Advisor magazine’s 2023 RIA survey. Firms with under $500 million are included in the expanded online RIA survey.
2017 – 2022: FA Magazine compiled their annual ranking based on the prior year end discretionary and nondiscretionary AUM reported on Form ADV.