{"id":588677,"date":"2026-04-16T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:51:17","slug":"cerity-plumped-its-aua-by-1-2-trillion-with-its-verus-investments-purchase-then-a-chicago-pension-fund-suddenly-pulled-incoming-13-8-billion-in-assets-for-a-reason-that-should-chill-ria-rollups-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/588677\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerity plumped its AUA by $1.2 trillion with its Verus Investments purchase, then a Chicago pension fund suddenly pulled incoming $13.8 billion in assets for a reason that should chill RIA rollups &#8211; RIABiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixAJBVV95cUxQTE5iUWlTeW1kWTkyS1lJdGU0SVdtYTE1UlV1QUcwblU2cUdPcXBrS1QzOVpveFZWZ1gwOFNJWjJFdlhlb29RQUVzdC1FTm94YzJFV0wzMlljb1NlSmM1ZGVOQUhTaDI3R3BZYTMxYy0wQnc0UDBxWDNRX1RqT0lDOEdsQXUzcnRfQUZzWTBud21RUzFTbXhqTUdIUW5TZGI1cDhHSXZKdndrT1FvVzRLcUZ1eFBRMlktRjJsVld3b3NPZjhXbXRFVkVudVZEZm55cFRvcGNQUXc3d2swMzZFZDhJRkR4WTFySV9nVE03aWx2Sm10V2pNNlVPbFZGZFhVd3ZjU0ZPRURFZno2M0lWZGpmTWdrY0RFeXpteGxLMG5ZdnJVQTR1dlgzOUYxQmpDMlN0c3NVLXZYcWw0US0teDRSMFo?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cerity plumped its AUA by $1.2 trillion with its Verus Investments purchase, then a Chicago pension fund suddenly pulled incoming $13.8 billion in assets for a reason that should chill RIA rollups<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RIABiz<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizAFBVV95cUxQNlZ3VnVuMHJLNnZtTGVscHBzcndEaG9CQTA5b0JCcms1V2VLTk5hSUJDbDFLU1VNTmFmTnI5LTNNal9BWF9CMHVEVk45eUdQRDk0VlFWdlZCelVVNVFmelpsSDd5OTFZNERuNGt2NmJfUUtJMXVza0I0T3FZaU5SNVBaczRTWjZfckdEcVFXRXNoSVRGb2RVSmJwZHZYcEJMeWFDUk92cjZNWEtCUXpsSjhPSmdaS3Ztbnh5WmZNVDdwTjhWQ29PWV93ZVQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inside the Chicago Teachers pension fund vote that derailed Cerity hire<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Pensions &amp; 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Investments<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivAJBVV95cUxPd0lMOXlUd3dBc0tpY2pkRmExWkdYaGpiRjQxd2ZSem52OThUc3dENkt6aExtRUFlamV2d0szQmlpYktaeENFaWllNy1oc1BDcGhwUHU4Q200YnUyYXRtbDJqQWFLQTBlRjNKQmFTbWxKRFQ4NmZ3aS0xSnlObDZwQ3I5OGI2cFRLc1c0SlRibnFBdU95NXVIcWZIVmZWb01NS1lvbkZaMUtNZEphMFFNUGYxeTNocWlqWTJKZlA0MVFtOHFSS2lpd0Z1VnJlQ0xldEJPT2ZsRkU2QlR2QnhjTTd0TDVfQlJwVThmVmVVWkYxaUdfeHdiSlJzdXM4LVNBNmIzUjduUGJXZUtxcjhiRVhqU1F5RGNvTmc0SkFxUUQ2MjJfbnR3cVh0TTBudU9rWE5OaW1RakQ4VTho?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cerity was eyeing a $1.2 trillion AUA windfall with its Verus Investments deal, then a Chicago pension fund suddenly pulled $13.8 billion in assets for a reason that should chill RIA rollups<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RIABiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cerity plumped its AUA by $1.2 trillion with its Verus Investments purchase, then a Chicago pension fund suddenly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,257269,257266,257268,257267,257270,147,530,257271],"class_list":{"0":"post-588677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cerity-partners","10":"tag-hightower","11":"tag-kurt-miscinski","12":"tag-mariner","13":"tag-nepc","14":"tag-personal-finance","15":"tag-personalfinance","16":"tag-verus-investments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}