Articles published 4/2015
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The wary love affair between RIAs and Addepar and where it's headed
Silicon Valley Bank launches RIA, SVB Private Bank, to join Robertson Stephens and Iconiq Capital among Bay Area RIA devotees
April 30, 2015 at 6:29 PM
Review: Nevin Freeman pops the Addepar hood to see what $50 million of coding can do for RIA software
Other than a couple of willful eccentricities, the Mountain View-based start-up's engineers earn a 'well done' from our technology maven
April 29, 2015 at 4:30 PM
Chasing bad performance: Why investors can't get enough of those increasingly lame hedge funds
Most assets are institutional but there's a trillion dollars of baby boomer assets ripe for the plucking by RIAs who can generate returns sans the highway robbery fees
April 28, 2015 at 7:46 PM
After a six-month pause, Voya fills the Maliz Beams void with a 401(k) ace whose advancement stalled
Charlie Nelson was passed over twice at Great-West but has now landed a giant opportunity
April 28, 2015 at 7:32 PM
Peter Mangan taunts rival RIA custodians as Shareholder Services Group adds weapons, advisors
San Diego event celebrates emerging advisors and their emerging custodian
April 27, 2015 at 5:37 PM
Schwab grabs astounding $1.5 billion of robo assets in six weeks, but mostly from itself
Walt Bettinger boasts of 'hundreds of new accounts daily' for Schwab Intelligent Portfolios then fences with Wall Street analysts who beg details
April 24, 2015 at 9:58 PM
Covestor becomes latest robo site to sell out and become a bauble on bigger chain
Interactive brokers buys the New York-based SMA-robo that has struggled to gain assets
April 24, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Schwab will take a machete to Schwab Private Client hyper-fee fund holdings but still steer assets to high-margin OneSource, ADV says
The cost-slashing by the $65-billion AUM San Francisco RIA is meant to streamline and improve process, according to the company
April 24, 2015 at 4:40 PM
Addepar lays out world-fixing vision and rolls out upgrades at swanky The Battery event in San Francisco
RIAs got the '$120-trillion' pitch straight from Joe Lonsdale and Eric Poirer, who say they are unveiling new software that will speak the same language to the Tower of Babel that is the RIA industry
April 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM
Orion and Jemstep form first big marriage of non-robo and robo software -- at advisor behest -- to create RIA e-commerce
The Nebraska-based conventional provider and the Silicon Valley whiz-bang, with Salesforce and TD Ameritrade as common bonds, found it easy to partner with each other
April 22, 2015 at 1:40 PM
How it is that the new, new thing in financial advice is an old, old thing retreaded and vastly improved
Financial planning software is hot everywhere you look, from the M&A market to the robo pipelines, driven by a reframing of its very reason to exist
April 21, 2015 at 5:43 PM
Why exactly DOL's latest action is so shocking to so many brokers -- and even ERISA lawyers -- despite years of warnings
Brokers managing IRA assets never imagined they'd need to make a written promise to do right by investors
April 20, 2015 at 5:42 PM
Roll-ups are off at an acquisition clip in 2015 as $2 billion washes over the transom in a single week
Focus follows Dynasty into Canada as the three big aggregators toggle between organic and inorganic growth
April 17, 2015 at 6:20 PM
United Capital chases DFA's MO, trains '1099 advisors' and co-opts Starbucks brand guy
The multitasking Newport Beach-based national RIA also announced closing on two more RIA purchases with about $625 million of AUM
April 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM
LPL reconsiders FSI as it drops out of its board, offers own DOL stand and hires own lobbyist
The giant IBD-custodian breaks from Financial Services Institute pack with pro-DOL statement as FSI posts more negative view on Labor Dept.'s 'fiduciary' definition
April 16, 2015 at 3:19 PM
Envestnet gets Matt McGinness as it launches an advisor consulting division
The problem for the Chicago outsourcer is that its insourcers are stung by 2008 and operating in suboptimal fashion
April 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM
PIMCO is 'probably healthier' without Bill Gross and the outflow bloodbath is likely near its end, Morningstar says
Using a management-by-triumvirate approach, the Newport Beach bomber is killing its peers despite floods of outflows and unflinching RIAs are saying their version of 'I told you so'
April 14, 2015 at 7:26 PM
Jeff Zients and Tom Perez come out swinging for a new fiduciary era
The Obama administration is taking no guff from Wall Street this time
April 14, 2015 at 7:14 PM
Top RIA takeaways from my trip to New York City and my stop-by at the Tiburon CEO Summit
My trip spanned Midtown (Envestnet), the Flatiron District (Betterment) and Wall Street (periphery of the Tiburon CEO Summit)
April 13, 2015 at 7:48 PM
How Bill Hamm is turning a $10 billion-plus loss of 401(k) assets into a revenue-neutral, neural-neutral experience
After cleaning up his compliance act with an LPL assist, the head of Independent Financial Partners is fighting back
April 10, 2015 at 7:48 PM
Marty Bicknell and Fidelity enter into the mother of all cross-RIA referral deals
What the Mariner CEO promises the Boston giant is that the 'S' word -- segmentation -- will only apply to advisors, not clients
April 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM
In tight race, Fidelity and Edward Jones tie for top honors in J.D. Power survey as spiky markets drive down satisfaction scores across the board
In a first, J.D. Power asked women the importance of a same-sex advisor -- and got a surprising response
April 9, 2015 at 5:13 PM
Schwab's robo launch stimulates sign-ups at Betterment and Wealthfront -- and itself
Schwab Intelligent Portfolios' wake is lifting the fortunes of independent robos, say CEOs gathered in Manhattan for the Tiburon CEO Summit
April 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM
This father-daughter-son team survived 9/11 but divorced Wall Street altogether 14 years later
The trigger was a demand by Morgan Stanley to sign a bank contract but there was much more that led the practice to LPL OSJ, Private Advisor Group
April 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM
As $160-billion CAPTRUST makes a snack of $10-billion Pensionmark, Fielding Miller accelerates his roll-up plans with a liberal structure
The Raleigh, N.C.-based firm's willingness to buy 49% reduces 'weird' and may set the stage for life as more of a 401(k) franchisor
April 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM
The real reasons Northwestern Mutual paid a reported $250 million for LearnVest
With $2.7 billion in cash to burn after the Russell Investments spin-off, the Milwaukee-based company was simply an old-line insurer with desktop software in search of a planning pedigree
April 1, 2015 at 8:32 PM
Hiring 'ringer', Big Four wirehouses launch joint RIA custody unit to stem breakaway broker tide as its leader delivers a reluctant 'sorry' for the 2008 financial debacle
Out of retirement, F. Siddley Barth takes reins of 'dark' effort that will gain light at upcoming Tiburon CEO Summit
