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History

Our Story Spans 20+ Years of History

Our Story

With a global footprint, strategic connections in local markets and specialized emerging markets expertise, Dinosaur Group Holdings is known for its deal-making acumen.​ Across our capabilities, we partner with institutional and corporate clients of all sizes, independent advisors and highly affluent individuals to identify and focus on their investment objectives.

Our team has seven decades of experience, which we’ve used to build a platform that combines global investment banking and advisory, a full-service institutional brokerage and responsive investment advisor services. This is a unique mix of capabilities and expertise, and it allows us to optimize straightforward requests, while also solving for those that are complex.

Working with clients and our network of colleagues around the world—with elbow grease and camaraderie—is how we do our best work. Dinosaur’s open-minded approach inspires deal-making creativity and is the key to our success in familiar and frontier markets. We start from yes. Our commitment to every client is to find a way forward.

2001
Dinosaur Group Holdings creates DCM Advisors, LLC 

DCM begins as an RIA, initially focused on just Private Wealth Management
2003
Dinosaur Merchant Bank Limited is formed 

DMBL is incorporated in the UK
2017
Dinosaur Group Holdings acquires investment teams from Lebenthal Asset Management

Acquired teams include Heckman Global Advisors Quantitative Global Equities, Lebenthal Municipal Income, and Lisanti Capital Growth (which becomes a separate, affiliated sister-firm to DCM)
2019
Dinosaur Group Holdings appoints Marc Rappaport as CEO of DCM Advisors

He is charged with stewarding the growth and direction of the asset management business.
2021
Markston International
Investment Team joins DCM


DCM adds Fundamental Strategies for U.S. Large Cap Value, Large Cap Core, and All Cap to its list of investment capabilities

Today

With a global footprint, strategic connections in local markets and specialized emerging markets expertise, Dinosaur Financial Group is known for its deal-making acumen.

Across our capabilities, we partner with institutional and corporate clients of all sizes, independent advisors and highly affluent individuals to identify and focus on their investment objectives. Our team has seven decades of experience, which we’ve used to build a platform that combines global investment banking and advisory, a full-service institutional brokerage and responsive investment advisor services. This is a unique mix of capabilities and expertise, and it allows us to optimize straightforward requests, while also solving for those that are complex. Working with clients and our network of colleagues around the world—with elbow grease and camaraderie—is how we do our best work. Dinosaur’s open-minded approach inspires deal-making creativity and is the key to our success in familiar and frontier markets. We start from yes. Our commitment to every client is to find a way forward.