Articles published 7/2015
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Following 'irregularities' Mark Mandich says Curian Capital will close its doors in 2016
In hindsight, the $11-billion Denver TAMP had made some moves like removing key managers and installing interim ones in the wake of troubles its parent entity referred to US regulators
July 31, 2015 at 12:09 AM
LPL Financial tosses its sales pitch to 7,000 in its HQ city of Boston
The only constant for LPL is Mark Casady and change as the broker-dealer slogs to the far shore from the 'messy middle'
July 30, 2015 at 9:49 PM
With 'revenue sharing' as primary consideration, Guggenheim transfers its in-house RIA to HighTower
HighTower gets a substantial bounty of fee-generating assets and clients and Guggenheim avoids having to scale up
July 29, 2015 at 8:20 PM
A $350-million-AUM team of ex-lawyers-turned-advisors lands at Commonwealth after stops at Edward Jones and LPL
Best pals since middle school and partners since 2001, the advisors use their mad depostition skills to hone in on client needs and their tenacity to make sure of follow-through
July 28, 2015 at 8:01 PM
LPL will launch third-party robo for advisors and eliminate some fees
Dan Arnold laid it on the line: LPL is being disrupted but taking the challenges head-on
July 27, 2015 at 5:28 PM
Schwab's big reveal at its July update: Goal to hire 1,800 financial advisors and unpause branch expansion
Newbie Terri Kallsen gets the Bettinger nod to spend big on doubling advisor force and growing branch count to 500
July 24, 2015 at 11:40 PM
A Swiss RIA advisor reports on a Zurich event aimed at shaping, saving Swiss wealth management in the wake of purging American clients
Complacency is still the rule but a personality-changed Credit Suisse and the rise of Swiss RIAs are signs of Swiss innovation, adaptability and -- gasp -- customer service
July 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM
SS&C's first big act as Advent Software's new owner is to put RIAs using Axys and APX under Black Diamond
Pete Hess will be the asset management czar and David Welling will rule all things RIA in the new framework
July 23, 2015 at 6:32 PM
BNP Paribas -- dominator of the UHNW market in France -- taps ex-Silver Bridge chief for ultrahigh-net-worth assault on US
Through its Bank of the West subsidiary, Paribas is hiring Prostano to gun for San Francisco rival First Republic -- but questions about the state in which he left Silver Bridge remain
July 22, 2015 at 5:48 PM
Why SigFig is shifting its focus to using banks as middlemen despite having captive consumer audience with $350 billion
The San Francisco-based robo-advisor has trepidation about the scale it would take to handle the conversions after bad experience
July 21, 2015 at 7:13 PM
AMG's deal for $7-billion myCIO will give it $32 billion of AUM and its 12-billionth dollar of acquired assets in 2015
The RIA founded in 2005 made out of spare parts of E&Y and PWC needed a blue chip succession plan from the Beverly, Mass. asset management roll-up
July 20, 2015 at 10:01 PM
Morningstar bristles about being 'refused or ignored' by DoubleLine as the 'silly, ugly feud' between Jeffrey Gundlach and the ratings firm rages on
The radioactive grudge match, avidly covered in the press, began when the mortgage-backed bond maestro left TCW in 2009 and is now playing out on DoubleLine's $46.3 billion flagship fund
July 17, 2015 at 6:15 PM
Vanguard's white-hot 'hybrid robo' just added $4 billion in three months -- a heat that may cast a chill on 'pure' robos
Now at $21 billion, Vanguard Personal Advisor Services is cannibalizing as a segmentation strategy and emphasizing new technology that edges it toward a more robo-centric, less call center-oriented model
July 16, 2015 at 5:02 PM
How DFA is putting its John Hancock on the ETFs category
The deep-in-Texas manager is lending index help to the Boston giant but dodging cannibalization and channel conflict
July 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM
Bringing a familiar ferocity, Brian Hamburger binges on Ivy League grads and wirehouse and securities-firm veterans in MarketCounsel restaffing
With $1-billion RIA firms abounding, the New Jersey lawyer breaks away legal talent from Wall Street to address a blizzard of change
July 14, 2015 at 7:14 PM
Now come the robo-alts firms -- a full flock of 'em as unwavering as the robo-advisors
ALTS, DarcMatter, Crystal Capital Partners, Aequitas Capital, CAIS, iCapital, HedgeCoVest are out to create a market -- not quite as dirt cheaply as classic robo-advisors
July 13, 2015 at 5:34 PM
9 ways for RIAs to minimize brain drain and secrets seepage in an era of employee mobility
Know the law, sure, but more importantly treat the smartest, most creative employees as the valuable assets they are
July 13, 2015 at 4:40 PM
Bean Town Brahmins -- ex-Windhaven execs -- may pay as much as $100 million for F-Squared remains
The embattled Wellesley, Mass.-based ETF manager filed Chapter 11 to make a sale contingent on transitioning its remaining $5 billion of managed assets
July 10, 2015 at 5:38 PM
Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play
In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'
July 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM
Bill Gross jabs what he sees as PIMCO's potential doomsday strategy of using derivatives to boost liquidity
The founder of the Newport Beach bond giant says his former firm's supposed practice is just another form of leverage that would increase velocity of the unravelling process in the event of a run on assets
July 8, 2015 at 9:36 PM
Report: Focus Financial is preparing SEC paperwork for its initial public offering -- but is it jumping the gun?
With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges
July 7, 2015 at 3:36 PM
Pat Allen catches what Morningstar did right in expanding its conference content to Twitter, LinkedIn
The Chicago event's social media center was once a lonely place and RIAs didn't know a hashtag from tic-tac-toe
July 6, 2015 at 10:05 PM
TD Ameritrade makes play to become top robo by 2016 with out-of-the-gate $100-million revenues -- albeit with some risk attached to the power play
Tom Bradley is cobbling together Amerivest and its $11 billion AUM adding iRebal and Morningstar and tasking engineers with bringing the robo aspects of the site up to snuff
July 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM
At Morningstar, PIMCO CIO and CEO preach collective manager brainpower but individual manager accountability as post-Bill Gross formula
Doug Hodge and Dan Ivascyn walked a tight rope that left usual skeptics still skeptical