RIABiz.com was founded as an online publication for Registered Investment Advisors, and those people who want to know more about them. We write intensively about RIAs. This discourse extends to all the people, companies and products that are most relevant and impactful to, or affected by the RIA industry.We choose to put RIAs in the spotlight because we believe that the choice made by these firms to provide fiduciary care to clients says most about what they are. The investors who control most of the wealth in the United States are fast catching on to the distinction between RIAs and investment brokers. Because of this shift in consumer perception, we believe that eventually all advisors will need to adopt the RIA business, or be faced with declining business fortunes.Mission: RIABiz seeks to provide timely discourse that helps financial advisors to align fiduciary care of clients with business success. We cover the emergence of the registered investment advisor as a revolution that is supplanting the old Wall Street models, and creating an advisory profession that is more profitable and better serves the client.