Articles tagged "BlackRock"
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Why FutureAdvisor orphaned its B2C book of business, how post-Invesco Jemstep is doing and other learnings at CFA Society's robo-panel in San Francisco
Since BlackRock acquired it, the $152-million robo has gone full-on for big enterprises with big books of boomers and joined a chorus of robo-owners sick of millennial bullcrap
April 4, 2017 at 5:38 PM
Vanguard and BlackRock slash prices at Christmastime but only Vanguard feels the need to defend its actions
The Malvern, Pa. giant is just doing what it always does, CEO Bill McNabb says, and it isn't just 'another volley fired in the fee war'
December 27, 2016 at 5:27 PM
RBC Wealth Management adds NextCapital to its robo lineup with a head-scratching explanation about its earlier pick of FutureAdvisor
It appears Rob Foregger's robo-come-lately has leapfrogged its bigger, better-funded automated portfolio offering -- although the 'why' of it is open to interpretation
November 21, 2016 at 6:51 PM
The odd and open courtship between the SEC and robo-advisors plays out again -- this time at an SEC-hosted webcast panel in Washington, D.C.
Mary Jo White introduced a forum with representatives from FutureAdvisor, Betterment and Personal Capital who mostly just nodded in assent at each other
November 15, 2016 at 10:22 PM
BlackRock solicits more regulator scrutiny of robo-advisors, eliciting jeers and a cheer
The near $5-trillion asset manager makes its case for why the robo game is best left to the big boys as critics suggest FutureAdvisor's owner is proposing a solution in search of a problem
October 11, 2016 at 3:46 PM
With RIAs deliberately not in mind, Fidelity Investments launches Fidelity Go, a robo-advisor with the human touch of Vince Gubitosi
The Boston investments firm is using Geode Capital to call the shots, BlackRock as ETF supplier, and its own employees as its initial test subjects
November 20, 2015 at 10:32 PM
Why BlackRock's purchase of FutureAdvisor for $152 million could be a deal of destiny
FutureAdvisor will nestle into BlackRock's risk management unit armed with iShares while Wealthfront and Schwab favor Vanguard ETFs
September 2, 2015 at 7:52 PM
How Janus CEO Richard Weil's Bill Gross hire completes the PIMCO-ization of the Denver equity shop
The Denver-based fund company now has its chairman, CEO and star manager seats filled by PIMCO alums
October 1, 2014 at 6:24 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
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
Cogent rates the top fund wholesalers to RIAs, and all advisors, and the 'sales' units at DFA, PIMCO, BlackRock and Franklin Templeton stand out
Dimensional Fund Advisors and PIMCO deliver some inside scoop without the sales dance to lead the sales-to-RIA pack in gaining netry to inner sanctums
May 30, 2014 at 4:32 PM
An advertiser's-eye view of TD Ameritrade's national conference
Firms that rarely advertise had booths, including mega-RIAs, competing custodians and Marty Bicknell
February 3, 2014 at 4:40 AM
A departing NestWise advisor tells what he learned from the whole experience
Andrew Ghezzi's experience with the mass-market, online entity was a pleasant surprise, but it was troubling that he was winning clients largely in proportion to their physical proximity to Boston
October 29, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Unfazed by its misfire, BlackRock is taking a second shot at the 401(k) market, this time with a whiter hat
Skeptics abound but the world's largest asset manager aims to fill a mega-void by bringing payout precision of DC plans to the best-guess 401(k) business
October 3, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Financial Engines more than doubles its share price by defining a niche in the 401(k) market between target date funds and RIAs
Wall Street is seeing things Jeff Maggioncalda's way for now, as new DOL regs make plan sponsors more certain they want participants advised inexpensively but not cheaply
