Articles tagged "Motif"
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Goldman Sachs buys Folio to gain an RIA-custody toehold, and gets robo-advisors in the bargain, days after Schwab buys Motif
The New York powerhouse is uncertain about taking on Schwab and Fidelity in RIA custody, but it keeps making inroads where it can in retail wealth
May 15, 2020 at 2:59 AM
To leapfrog ahead in direct indexing, Schwab to buy Motif technology and hire Hardeep Walia and much of his staff
The San Francisco company gets all of the San Mateo firm's algorithms, patents and source code but not the customer assets and 'leverage' of its giant index-investing franchise.
May 7, 2020 at 10:36 PM
As Motif exits stock-bundle game, Schwab piles in with 'Slices,' fulfilling a pledge to offer free fractional shares
The San Francisco broker is reaching for Gen Z and Gen Alpha investors -- with RIAs, thus far, showing little interest, it says
May 6, 2020 at 3:27 AM
After much acclaim but not enough profits, Motif shutters and sells itself off for parts with Folio buying the RIA and retail accounts
The $850 million stock-basket company in San Mateo, Calif. had success but -- $126 million invested by Goldman Sachs, Renren and Sallie Krawcheck and others -- not enough to justify business as usual
April 22, 2020 at 6:52 PM
An insider reveals turbo-contents of the In|Vest conference in New York, a summit of VCs, robo-founders and big banks
SigFig's Mike Sha talked Bank of the West, Motif's Hardeep called start-ups 'features' and the five-year number jumped to $2 trillion
June 22, 2015 at 4:02 PM
What exactly are robo-advisors, why did they steal the 2014 show and what will a 2015 repeat take?
We're talking 500 people, $250 million in capital with identifiable characteristics and 5,000 nervous legacy providers
January 2, 2015 at 5:36 PM
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
The two big moves Motif is making as Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan invest part of new $35-million raise
The San Mateo start-up online broker will take its act overseas and build out a smart beta effort with Dimensional Fund Advisors' hundreds of billion of AUM in mind
May 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM
How the RIA business made a dent at the 2014 Finovate conference in San Jose
Personal Capital and Motif presented and United Capital was there in force
May 2, 2014 at 6:20 AM
A Microsoft alum stomps into the RIA business with $26 million in VC money, Sallie Krawcheck and a 'new' approach that looks old to skeptics
The Motif plan is monetize ideas, but other firms say they've been there, done it -- and found tepid interest
