John Thiel: OpenArc Breakaway Is a Watershed for the Industry

You can find original article here WealthManagement. Subscribe to our free daily WealthManagement newsletters. Last month, a team managing $129 billion in client assets broke away from Merrill Lynch to launch their own registered investment advisor, OpenArc Corporate Advisory. It was a blockbuster move that was years in the making, and Merrill immediately filed suit, calling it a “premeditated corporate raid.”  John W. Thiel, the former head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management who launched his own RI ...