Minneapolis-based Wealth Enhancement Group, the acquisitive registered funding advisor with over $85.3 billion in consumer property, has bought Starfox Monetary Companies, an RIA with greater than $254 million in property. The Woodlands, Texas-based agency represents WEG’s sixth Texas location.
Starfox was based in 2006 by advisor Jose Palafox; in the present day, he continues to guide the agency alongside Accomplice and Wealth Advisor Invoice Friebel. Their clientele contains professionals, enterprise house owners, retirees and their households.
Jose Palafox
Palafox stated he expects to carry WEG’s tax and property planning capabilities to his shoppers.
Invoice Friebel
The deal comes only a week after a person who claims to have co-founded WEG filed a lawsuit in opposition to the acquisitive RIA, claiming it reneged on paying him “finder’s charges” for companies the corporate acquired.
Gerald “Jerry” Bernard filed the swimsuit in Minnesota’s Hennepin County, searching for greater than $50,000. Based on the swimsuit, Bernard has over 40 years within the wealth administration trade and co-founded WEG along with his spouse, Madeline, in 1996.
A WEG spokesperson stated the claims haven’t any advantage and that the agency will defend in opposition to them.
In June, WEG introduced the acquisition of Atlas Fiduciary Monetary, a Florida- and New Jersey-based RIA with $219 million in consumer property. In late Could, the agency acquired The Monetary Advisory Group, a $1.2 billion Houston RIA.
Among the many most energetic RIA consumers of the previous couple of years, WEG accomplished 18 offers final 12 months, 14 in 2022 and 16 in 2021.
Based in 1997, WEG has grown from $4 billion in AUM to greater than $85 billion because it bought a majority stake to Lightyear Capital in 2015. TA Associates purchased out Lightyear Capital’s funding in 2019 when the agency was overseeing round $12 billion. Onex Companions took possession in 2021, simply because the agency approached $40 billion in AUM.
