Q&A With Sanctuary Wealth’s Jim Dickson The Sanctuary Wealth founder and CEO shares his firm's plans for the New York office, the Azimut investment, the possibility of adding Goldman Sachs as a custodian and international opportunities. Jim Dickson, a 20-year veteran of Merrill Lynch, left the wirehouse in 2018 to create Sanctuary Wealth, a support platform for breakaway advisors. Sanctuary is one of the fastest-growing platforms in the RIA space, with more than $16.5 billion in assets; this year alone, the firm will bring in about $10 billion in recruited assets, Dickson says, taking it over the $20 billion threshold by the end of the year.