Hightower Signature Wealth Channel Adds Five Advisor Practices

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Hightower Advisors, the Chicago-based registered concern advisor with $350.3 cardinal successful lawsuit assets, has brought 5 advisors implicit to its caller Hightower Signature Wealth W-2 channel. 

The 5 advisor practices, which were antecedently Hightower spouse firms, bring the caller transmission to much than $20.8 cardinal successful assets nether management, according to the RIA.

Hightower CEO Larry Restieri announced the new, branded transmission successful October 2025, saying it would vie much straight with different ample RIAs by incorporating immoderate of its implicit 100 spouse firms, arsenic good arsenic outer recruits, into a intimately integrated “firm wrong a firm” operating arsenic a azygous entity. 

With the summation of the 5 caller firms, Hightower Signature Wealth has a footprint successful 19 locations with much than 100 advisors. Dallas-based Frontier Investment Management, besides a Hightower spouse firm, was the archetypal to articulation Hightower Signature Wealth, helping to effect the channel.

The advisory practices that joined are Cleveland-based Fairport Wealth, St. Louis-based Hightower Wealth Advisors, Downers Grove, Ill.-based HT|TC Wealth Partners, New York City-based RDM Financial Group and Santa Fe, N.M.-based The Rikoon Group.

“Hightower Signature Wealth was created to unfastened a caller transmission of maturation for Hightower, portion simultaneously elevating the lawsuit experience,” Restieri said in a statement. “By bringing immoderate of the champion thinkers successful our advisor assemblage unneurotic nether 1 brand, we’re creating a unified look of Hightower’s capabilities.”

Matthias Kuhlmey, Hightower’s main improvement officer, is starring the effort to turn Hightower Signature Wealth, with the steadfast forecasting much joiners “in the coming months.”

Restieri had said helium expected the part to relationship for astir 20% to 25% of Hightower’s full assets. Tuesday’s announcement would enactment the part astatine astir 6% of assets, conscionable a fewer months aft launch. 

The instauration of the Hightower Signature Wealth part was 1 of the archetypal moves by Restieri, who took implicit arsenic CEO of Hightower successful June. He had antecedently led Goldman Sachs’ Ayco business. He took implicit from CEO Bob Oros, who had overseen the accelerated enlargement of the firm, including much than 50 acquisitions onto its platform.

Signature Wealth volition gully immoderate of those spouse teams, arsenic good arsenic outer firms, into a “large-scale, nationally recognized marque without sacrificing the personalized guidance of a trusted advisor,” according to Tuesday’s announcement.

Hightower is owned by Thomas H. Lee Partners, which made its archetypal concern successful the steadfast successful 2018.