Arax Investment Partners

Name

Arax Investment Partners

Legal name

Arax Investment Partners LLC

Website

https://araxpartners.com/

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Wealth Management

NAICS

Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (52394), Portfolio Management and Investment Advice (523940)

SIC

Investment Advice (6282)

akta.pro primary industry

Insurance-Integrated Wealth Managers (RIA + Insurance Solutions) (FSAAACAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Broker-Dealer Affiliated Wealth Advisory (FSAEABAB), Financial Planning–Led RIAs (FSAAACAB)

Keywords

• Wealth management platform
• Registered investment advisors
• Multi-boutique partnership
• Asset management services
• RIA acquisitions

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Asset Management Fees: Revenue generated through assets under management (AUM) fees from the multi-boutique platform of wealth management firms. The platform manages over $40 billion in assets across partner firms.
2. Wealth Management Services: Provides comprehensive wealth management services including investment management, financial planning, tax and estate planning, and insurance services to high-net-worth individuals and families.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Arax Investment Partners is a buy-and-build wealth and asset management platform that partners with registered investment advisors, financial advisory firms, and breakaway advisor teams, providing centralized operational infrastructure, M&A support, technology integration, and access to investment solutions. Through its acquired partner firms, the platform delivers investment management, tax and estate planning, insurance, trust, credit and lending, and hybrid broker-dealer services to high-net-worth individuals and families across the United States.

Product overview

Arax Investment Partners is a buy-and-build platform in wealth and asset management, combining its executive team's vision with RedBird Capital Partners' expertise. The company operates primarily through its Arax Advisory Partners platform, which houses multiple acquired boutique wealth management firms including Ashton Thomas Private Wealth, U.S. Capital Wealth, GFP Private Wealth, Omni Financial Advisory Group, The Oak Group, Pinnacle Peak Private Client Group, Day Hagan, Schechter Investment Advisors, SRS Capital Advisors, and Cedrus Financial. The platform provides centralized services including M&A support, recruiting resources, finance, compliance, human resources, and technology solutions. Offerings include investment management, tax and estate planning, in-house insurance services, trust services, and credit and lending options. The extended Arax and RedBird ecosystem provides access to differentiated products including alternatives, multi-family office capabilities, and managed solutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Ashton Thomas Private Wealth: A leading diversified financial advisory firm specializing in advising affluent individuals and families, operating as a partner firm under Arax.
• U.S. Capital Wealth

Quantifiable outcome

• Platform manages $42+ billion in assets under management
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LPL Financial: Largest U.S. independent broker-dealer / RIA custodian serving thousands of independent advisors and registered investment advisers. Competes indirectly with Arax by offering breakaway teams an alternative to platform-acquisition: independent affiliation, technology and custody without giving up equity.
• Focus Financial Partners: Pioneering publicly-listed (now taken private by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice) RIA roll-up with a multi-boutique partnership model and centralized services — the historical template for Arax's approach and a major strategic competitor for both clients and advisor talent.
• Cetera Financial Group: Large, PE-backed (Genstar) wealth-management and independent broker-dealer platform serving thousands of financial advisors. Overlaps with Arax on the hybrid BD + RIA model, recruiting W-2 advisor teams, and providing centralized back-office, technology and investment solutions.

Direct peers

• Modern Wealth Management: Rapidly-growing, PE-backed RIA consolidator (recently backed by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives) actively pursuing $1B+ firms nationally — explicitly named alongside Arax in recent trade press on East Coast RIA M&A and competing head-to-head for the same seller pool.
• Wealth Enhancement Group: PE-backed (Lightyear Capital / Onex) RIA acquirer pursuing a near-identical buy-and-build playbook, hoovering up $1B–$10B firms across the U.S. and offering centralized technology, planning and investment resources similar to Arax.
• Mercer Advisors: PE-backed (Oak Hill Capital / Genstar) national RIA roll-up that has acquired many sub-$2B advisory firms, very similar in target-size, multi-region roll-up strategy, and HNW/UHNW client focus as Arax.
• Corient: National, PE-backed (GTCR / Carlyle) ultra-high-net-worth-focused RIA platform that has scaled through large acquisitions and provides integrated tax, estate and investment services — directly comparable to Arax on client segment and platform scope.
• Sanctuary Wealth: PE-backed (Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe) multi-office RIA platform recruiting breakaway teams and acquiring practices, structured around a multi-custodial, hybrid BD/RIA model that directly parallels Arax's go-to-market.
• Waverly Advisors: Rapidly-expanding RIA acquirer (PE-backed) executing similar East Coast and Southeast expansion — mentioned in InvestmentNews alongside Arax for parallel acquisitions — competing in the same breakaway-advisor and seller-founders market.
• Mariner Wealth Advisors: PE-backed (Lovell Minnick/Insight) multi-boutique RIA platform that has executed a comparable buy-and-build strategy across hundreds of advisory firms. Among the largest and most direct competitors to Arax in acquiring independent RIAs and breakaway teams, with a similar hybrid BD/RIA and centralized-services value proposition.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A9 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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