Creative Planning, an Overland Park, Kansas-based registered investment adviser that manages more than $76 billion, has acquired Castle Wealth Advisors, which manages $320 million in assets.
Castle, founded in 1973 by Gary Pittsford, the first president of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, is the oldest fee-only financial adviser in Indiana. The firm has offices in Indianapolis and Naperville, Illinois.
“There’s a big pull to alternative investments right now because of volatility of the stock market,” Kevin Gannon, CEO of Robert A. Stanger & Co., said.
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