Last week, we reported that RBC’s advisors manage, on average, $165.2 million each — making it the highest AUA per advisor of the Big 5 banks.
The number came from Scotiabank analysts who’d combed through firm financial statements to determine AUA, number of advisors and AUA per advisor as of December 31, 2015.
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A spokesperson from Nicola Wealth Management, a Vancouver-based boutique, tells us their 20 advisors managed a total of $3.9 billion as of December 31, 2015, putting their AUA per advisor at $195 million per advisor. That’s $30 million more than RBC’s stat. Using the new information from Nicola Wealth, we’ve updated the Scotiabank analysts’ rankings. (If your firm would like to share its stats, email us and we’ll continue to update the lists.) Note: data for Canaccord Genuity and Richardson GMP represent advisor teams.
Ranking of total AUA per advisor:
- Nicola Wealth: $195 million
- RBC: $165.2 million
- Richardson GMP: $137.1 million
- CIBC: $115.3 million
- TD: $114 million
- BMO: $107.7 million
- National Bank: $97.7 million
- Scotiabank: $87.3 million
- Raymond James: $71.5 million
- Canaccord Genuity: $64.5 million
- Echelon Wealth Partners (formerly Euro Pacific Canada): $42 million
Ranking of total AUA base by firm:
- RBC: $297.4 billion
- BMO: $140 billion
- Scotiabank: $128 billion
- TD: $125.1 billion
- CIBC: $124 billion
- National Bank: $88.4 billion
- Raymond James: $26.9 billion
- Richardson GMP: $26.3 billion
- Canaccord Genuity: $9 billion
- Echelon Wealth Partners (formerly Euro Pacific Canada): $4.2 billion
- Nicola Wealth: $3.9 billion
Ranking of advisor rosters:
- RBC: 1,800
- Scotiabank: 1,466
- BMO: 1,300
- TD: 1,097
- CIBC: 1,075
- National Bank: 905
- Raymond James: 376
- Richardson GMP: 192
- Canaccord Genuity: 140
- Echelon Wealth Partners (formerly Euro Pacific Canada): 100
- Nicola Wealth: 20