SALT LAKE CITY & PALM BEACH, Fla. & PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 10, 2026--
Crewe Advisors LLC (“Crewe”), a Utah-based registered investment adviser (“RIA”), today announced it will enter into a strategic partnership with Wealth Partners Capital Group (“WPCG”), a financial services holding company, and HGGC, a values-driven, partnership-focused middle-market private equity firm. WPCG and the Aspire Holdings platform of HGGC will make a minority equity investment in Crewe to support the firm’s growth through both acquisitions and organic growth initiatives. The management team of Crewe will remain majority shareholders and continue to lead the firm’s operations.
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Founded in 2015 by Managing Partner Ryan Halliday, Crewe is a wealth management firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah with an additional office in Scottsdale, Ariz. The firm provides comprehensive investment management, financial planning and family office services for individuals, families, entrepreneurs and executives. Crewe delivers personalized solutions tailored to each client’s needs, supported by a team with expertise spanning law, tax, investments, insurance, business planning and estate planning. As of June 2, 2026, Crewe had approximately $3.3 billion in assets under management.
“We are excited to partner with WPCG and HGGC as we look to build on the momentum we have created,” said Ryan Halliday, Managing Partner of Crewe Advisors. “At Crewe, our fiduciary commitment to clients and our focus on building lifelong relationships have always been central to who we are. This partnership strengthens our ability to invest in our people, deepen our capabilities and expand our reach, while continuing to deliver the high level of service our clients have come to expect.”
“Since our first meeting with Crewe in 2019, it has been clear that Ryan and his team are building a differentiated business,” said Sean Bresnan, Founding Partner of WPCG. “We’ve had the opportunity to watch Crewe grow into the exceptional firm it is today, anchored by a strong culture and a genuine commitment to client service, and we look forward to supporting its next phase of growth.”
“Crewe has developed a compelling wealth management and family office platform that helps their clients achieve financial harmony through thoughtful advice, exceptional comprehensive service and deep financial expertise,” said HGGC. “We look forward to partnering with WPCG and Crewe as the firm continues expanding its capabilities and reach.”
The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in June 2026. Financial and legal terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.
Moulton Moore Stella served as legal counsel to Crewe.
About Crewe Advisors
Crewe Advisors (“Crewe”) is a fee-based, SEC-registered investment advisor providing comprehensive financial, estate, investment, tax, risk and philanthropic planning. The firm focuses on delivering objective, impartial advice via an open architecture model, always with the clients’ best interests in mind. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Crewe had approximately $3.3 billion in assets under management as of June 2, 2026. For more information, please visit www.creweadvisors.com.
About Wealth Partners Capital Group
Wealth Partners Capital Group (“WPCG”) is a financial services holding company, which invests in and partners with select leading wealth management firms. WPCG supports its partners’ growth by providing capital, organic growth opportunities and strategic M&A expertise, identifying and evaluating wealth advisory practices for its partners to acquire and integrate. For more information, please visit www.wealthpcg.com.
About HGGC
HGGC is a values-driven, partnership-focused private investment firm. The Firm’s ecosystem of investors, operators, and professionals is united by the shared mission to develop leading enterprises and build long-term value together. HGGC invests in technology, business services, financial services, and consumer enterprises. The Firm is based in Palo Alto, Calif. and manages over $10 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026. More information, including a complete list of current and former investments, is available at www.hggc.com.
Ryan Halliday, Managing Partner at Crewe Advisors
WASHINGTON (AP) — While millions of soccer fans cheer or groan over World Cup matches spanning North America, health officials will be on high alert for germs.
A heat wave may be the most obvious health threat. But infectious diseases can spread in a crowd, and experts are set to scrutinize wastewater, hospital visits, even social media for any signs that an outbreak might be brewing.
Measles, one of the most contagious diseases, is among the top concerns, sparking a warning this week from the Pan American Health Organization, PAHO. With a nearly six-week stretch of packed stadiums, bars and tourist sites in 16 cities, officials are on the lookout for a long list of infections, from the stomach bug norovirus to mosquito-borne dengue fever.
“This is truly a marathon,” said Palak Raval-Nelson, Philadelphia's health commissioner.
The mass gatherings come at a tense moment for budget-strapped health agencies in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hit hard by Trump administration staffing cuts, already was grappling with a growing Ebola outbreak in central Africa and a cruise ship hantavirus outbreak. While CDC officials have advised state and local health departments behind the scenes, its expected World Cup disease surveillance dashboard still was “in final development” days before games began, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
“Our public health professionals are pretty stretched,” said global health specialist Rebecca Katz of Georgetown University, who is leading an unusual new hub to help.
At the Health Security Operations Center, a joint effort between Georgetown and MedStar Health, workers are analyzing data from around the country so they can alert health authorities, even emergency rooms, to any early signs of trouble. The center is issuing daily “situation reports” about disease trends around World Cup host cities and team base camps to several hundred local and federal public health groups, emergency management and hospital officials and others who’ve signed up.
“It's important that we don't become alarmist,” said MedStar emergency medicine specialist Dr. Shane Kappler. “We're trying to be the insurance policy.”
Already more than 2,000 people in the U.S. have come down with measles this year, nearly as many as during all of last year, according to the CDC. Patients can spread measles before the rash appears and they realize they're sick. Not too long ago, the U.S. seldom saw measles except from international travel by unvaccinated people.
Now with frequent U.S. outbreaks, "actually a lot of our international partners are worried about measles being exported to them after the games,” said Georgetown’s Katz.
Measles is spreading in Canada, too, and has exceeded 11,000 cases in Mexico, according to PAHO. It’s urging soccer fans to be sure they’re vaccinated, with a health campaign saying a single measles patient can spread the virus to up to 18 unprotected people.
Brown University’s Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived Ebola while working in the West Africa outbreak over a decade ago, said he’s repeatedly asked about the risk of Ebola during the World Cup — but “for me, Ebola is not the No. 1 or No. 2 or even No. 3 threat.”
“I am concerned about importation of measles, I am much more concerned about the importation of other infectious threats that may not seem as scary to us as Ebola,” Spencer said.
Many health experts agree that the risk of Ebola spreading in the U.S. is very low. That’s partly because of government travel screenings and restrictions on people recently in outbreak-affected areas. Moreover, Ebola spreads by contact with bodily fluids from someone showing symptoms, not through the air like measles or respiratory viruses.
“One fortunate thing about this virus is you’re most contagious when you’re really quite ill. It’s not like COVID, where you could be sitting next to someone who doesn’t even know they’re infected and perhaps contract the virus,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of Brown’s Pandemic Center.
There’s precedent for germs invading major sporting events. Canadian scientists linked a community measles outbreak to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and clusters of norovirus had to be contained during the Olympics this year in Milan and in 2018 in South Korea.
One way to detect signs of trouble: People with certain viral or bacterial infections shed genetic material that sophisticated testing of wastewater can spot. For example, measles can appear in wastewater days before an emergency room sees its first patients.
This week's surveillance reports from Katz's center note that wastewater testing recently found diarrhea-causing rotavirus, hepatitis A and norovirus in some parts of the U.S., something to watch as soccer crowds arrive.
In Dallas, officials ramped up wastewater screening including at the international airport, casting a wide net rather than looking for specific illnesses, said Dr. Phil Huang, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.
His team also is enhancing the usual mosquito testing, checking not just for West Nile virus that regularly spreads in the U.S. but for viruses more common in other countries like dengue and chikungunya.
Public health officials have been preparing for months, said Philadelphia’s Raval-Nelson, including with mock emergency drills and communications with counterparts around the country.
“I don’t want to send a message that there’s one key thing," she said. “We have the frameworks in place to carry out what we need to.”
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A screen displays infectious disease risk assessments for the World Cup at Georgetown's Health Security Operations Center in Washington on June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Georgetown University's Rebecca Katz points to waste water data looking at infectious diseases at Georgetown's Health Security Operations Center in Washington on June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Georgetown University's Rebecca Katz points to measles data for the country at Georgetown's Health Security Operations Center in Washington on June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
