Cetera Financial Group added over $13 billion through organic recruiting in 2022, the broker-dealer/RIA said Wednesday.
The results represented a record year for Cetera's business development team and were up from about $10 billion in 2021, the company announced.
A key contributor to the achievement was that Cetera "bolstered its business development team with several key hires and made strategic investments in its onboarding" and integration program, Accesslink, last year, it said.
The firm also chalked up the record result to the trend of advisors continuing to seek independence paired with leading resources and support.
The Cetera business development team, meanwhile, "continues to expand with [an] eye toward 2023 success," the company said.
The announcement came only a few days after the firm said that it was buying the retail wealth business of Securian Financial Group. The deal involves the addition of more than 1,000 financial professionals with 30 independent firms that worked with $47.4 billion in assets under administration and $24.8 billion in assets under management as of Dec. 31.