Articles published 6/2014
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Russell Investments sells for $2.7 billion and the new owner will flip its $250-billion asset manager -- yet again
The once-proud, family-owned Seattle firm is being sold by Northwestern Mutual and stripped for parts -- its indexes -- with its asset-management business as the throwaway
June 28, 2014 at 12:18 AM
With Stephen Cucchiaro out, Liz Ann Sonders takes the Windhaven reins
The founder of the once-explosive ETF manager didn't have the same investing magic in the wake of his sale
June 27, 2014 at 9:02 PM
Framing it as opportunity, Bernie Clark delivers a chilling market warning at EXPLORE about the coming post-baby boom market
The Schwab chief tells 160 RIAs with $200-billion-plus of assets to learn to love and attract a poorer, younger, higher maintenance -- but lower mileage -- client pool
June 27, 2014 at 6:41 AM
How Vanguard Group's robo-countering effort got to $1.3 billion of AUM so easily and why its future seems bright
Executed almost shyly, the hints-of-vanilla Malvern indexing giant is the unlikely Silicon Valley nemesis in automated services
June 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM
How a $1.3-billion Manhattan, Raymond James RIA won a top exec from the roll-up down the street: Focus Financial
Michael Paley comes to Klingman & Assoc. with a mandate to add billions in AUM for his fellow-but-elder Princeton tiger
June 25, 2014 at 5:45 AM
Just what damage was done -- or not -- by Bill Gross ranting in shades
The PIMCO leash is still pretty long, say RIAs, Morningstar analysts and others but the bond king needs to rethink how he manages the media in a hurry
June 24, 2014 at 5:25 AM
Why most RIAs bent on launching in-house ETFs should swallow hard and start a mutual fund
What makes exchange traded funds so great for consumers can cut the other way if you try to compete with BlackRock
June 23, 2014 at 4:33 PM
RIABiz gets some intense third-party feedback loaded with affirmations and a few wake-up calls
A Huffington Post column and our first-ever survey help define just what a pure online publication for RIAs should look like
June 23, 2014 at 4:29 AM
Bill Gross's stage antics leave Morningstar conference-goers gobsmacked
Wearing sunglasses, comparing himself to Justin Bieber and making his desire to bribe journalists known (albeit in jest) baffled observers
June 20, 2014 at 1:26 AM
How Steve Foldes merged his $600-million RIA with mentor (and former advisor) Harold Evensky creating a $1.5 billion Florida behemoth
The former sandal magnate got rich at 35, became an Evensky client, a rival and now a partner
June 19, 2014 at 4:34 PM
How Merrill Lynch Clear looks so impressively RIA-like and what shows how deceptive looks can be
The big iPad-laced and rhetoric-laced wirehouse initiative toward goals-based investing may have selling insurance as its primary goal
June 18, 2014 at 5:54 PM
LPL Financial is dumping North Carolina as a headquarters, moving south to make room for 1,800 more employees
The Boston-, Charlotte- and San Diego-based broker-dealer is constructing a giant office-park eco-building
June 16, 2014 at 9:00 PM
How LPL's CFO answered the Cetera question at Morgan Stanley Financial's conference
Dan Arnold wrote off the Schorsch roll-up as PacLife, AIG or Jackson National reincarnated
June 16, 2014 at 2:14 AM
Thoughts on 'robo-advisors' served cold, compliments of Kitces and Waymire
With the potential for channel conflict, wirehouses are the most handcuffed in thwarting automated financial 'advice'
June 15, 2014 at 7:40 PM
Preparing to appear before Senate subcommittee, TD Ameritrade discloses order-routing revenue
The company made $236 million in revenue sharing in 2013
June 13, 2014 at 5:25 PM
Ameriprise makes its move upmarket by first moving its bonus payouts to Wall Street levels
The Minneapolis-based broker jacks its sticker bid to 150% bonuses of brokers' last 12-months of revenue
June 13, 2014 at 2:30 PM
TD Ameritrade hosts a posh 'billion-dollar club' summit at a seaside Ritz Carlton
With 190 cosseted advisors representing $215 billion of AUM, Fred Tomczyk laid out the bucks for Ben Bernanke and more
June 12, 2014 at 10:46 PM
My conversation with Chris Gardner and his new Pursuit of Happyness
The real guy played by Will Smith is pursuing a post-financial industry life -- or not
June 12, 2014 at 5:15 PM
How Brian Hamburger won speaking commitments from Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck and Eliot Spitzer without throwing money at the challenge
The MarketCounsel chief would make Dale Carnegie proud with an old-fashioned approach that proved refreshing to the woo-ees
June 12, 2014 at 5:47 AM
Why RIAs should hedge their fee income to stay aligned with client interests
Clients invest for the long haul and advisors have short-term revenue needs making the AUM model imperfect at best
June 11, 2014 at 5:26 PM
Securities America's RIA/roll-up launch gains ground by pushing back against its parent IBD and poaching an RIA that left it at the altar
Omaha's Arbor Point lured away the founders of a local rival and chafes against its parent firm but estranged advisors still share church pews
June 10, 2014 at 5:43 PM
INSITE 2014 unveils wired body armor for the advisor of the future as it rolls out a slew of NetX360 upgrades
Mark Tibergien delivered a personal challenge to advisors at the overflowing South Florida Pershing confab as INSITE announces plans to shift ground in '15
June 9, 2014 at 3:45 AM
How Ric Edelman manages to bring on 4,500 new clients each year by force of personality while diminishing key-man risk at the same time
The one no-go thus far is replacing himself on radio and TV but branches, 'robo'-advice, seminar producers, more advisors and more footprint proceed at nosebleed pace
June 6, 2014 at 7:41 PM
LPL's Robert Moore makes his next moves -- and this time Joan Khoury is out
As LPL seeks its voice as a corporation, the company will go a new direction for marketing with reently hired Morgan Stanley and Russell Investments talent
June 5, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Mark Tibergien: Pershing is poised to double RIA assets in two years
In a Q&A the chief of the BNY/Pershing RIA custody says the volume of new $1-billion accounts is his basis for optimism
June 5, 2014 at 7:35 PM
Schwab snares its first clients for ETF-only 401(k)s as one of its 401(k)-focused RIAs defects to TD Ameritrade
Miracle Mile and Schwab both have their eyes on the same value-proposition prize -- just not with each other anymore
June 4, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Raymond James lets six advisors steal the show at its national event with TED-style talks
RJFS's president denounces DOL changes as 'unhealthy' and its CEO discloses its strategy for becoming the No. 1 go-to for RIAs
June 4, 2014 at 2:08 AM
Mark Wiedman vows to ETF managers that BlackRock won't compete (directly) in the asset allocation game
The iShares chief encouraged the entrepreneurs, many of whom are ex-RIAs, to see themselves as primary purveyors of BlackRock ETFs
June 3, 2014 at 2:08 AM
How one boomer put faith in stockbrokers, trusted more in himself and retired rich enough
It's not just what advisor Karl Thunemann trusted but what advice he took-- and that $15,000 from his mother-in-law