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Forget Advisor Group. It’s now Osaic

Advisor Group Osaic

While the giant network of 11,000 brokers and advisors has announced its new name, the process of rolling its eight firms into one will take up to two years.

It survived the worst of the credit crisis as AIG Advisor Group. When it was spun off from American International Group Inc. in 2016 to a private equity group, Lightyear Capital, it became just Advisor Group.

Currently under the control of another private equity group, Reverence Capital, the gia

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