Financial Advisor Magazine’s “RIA Survey”
This annual survey is performed by Financial Advisor Magazine as a means of measuring growth among independent advisors across the United States. 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.
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 them by firms that voluntarily complete and submit FA‘s survey by their deadline. 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.
Please Note: Limitations: Neither rankings and/or recognitions by unaffiliated rating services, publications, media, or other organizations, nor the achievement of any professional designation, certification, degree, or license, membership in any professional organization, or any amount of prior experience or success, should be construed by a client or prospective client as a guarantee that he/she will experience a certain level of results if DiNuzzo Private Wealth, Inc. d/b/a DiNuzzo Wealth Management (DWM) is engaged, or continues to be engaged, to provide investment advisory services. Rankings published by magazines, and others, generally base their selections exclusively on information prepared and/or submitted by the recognized adviser. Rankings are generally limited to participating advisers (see participation criteria/methodology). Unless expressly indicated to the contrary, DWM did not pay a fee to be included on any such ranking. No ranking or recognition should be construed as a current or past endorsement of DWM by any of its clients.