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Andy Rachleff: Mark Zuckerberg should not use us.

Looking more like Windhaven after a revamp, Wealthfront names a noted academic CIO and boosts its assets 15-fold

Andy Rachleff's new strategy omits RIAs-as-managers in favor of a centralized ETF-manager approach with Burton Malkiel calling the big shots

November 27, 2012 at 6:45 AM

Ric Edelman: We need to serve the 99% that hate us, not just rich people.

Ric Edelman is looking to add a $1-billion RIA elephant even as he unveils an online consumer strategy aimed at the chipmunks

Already Barron's No. 1 with predominantly a mass-affluent game, the radio dynamo is ready to invest private equity to add a quick $1 billion of AUM

October 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM

Jack Waymire: Mathematicians are not chief investment officers, analysts or portfolio managers.

Online RIAs will mostly fail -- and here are 10 reasons why

Firms like Personal Capital, Covestor and Betterment are garnering both media attention and big VC bucks -- but backers severely underestimate the tie between investor and advisor

May 24, 2012 at 2:43 AM

CEO Asheesh Advani aspires to partner Covestor with broker-dealers and institutional investors, and to expand the firm's content.

Unfazed by declining assets, VC-backed Covestor has another go with a new CEO and some concessions to the old-fashioned machinery of investment advice

The good news is that it has 400 clients -- up from 150 a year ago -- but can the company still be seen as primarily web-based?

March 23, 2012 at 4:25 AM

Andy Rachleff: Am I frustrated I can’t update Brightscope’s database? Sure, but I think they’re doing the right thing for the consumer.

BrightScope debate has familiar feel of an industry being dragged kicking and screaming into the new world

Investing in the Digital Age: Andy Rachleff writes about the freight train of transparency

May 12, 2011 at 1:58 PM

CEO Perry Blacher: There are about 80,000 mutual funds globally but there are tens of millions of people with much of the same tools, access to research and, most importantly, talent actively managing their own portfolios.

How Covestor got VC backing, became an RIA and is waving a fist at mutual fund giants

Unlike other such social networking efforts, Covestor's platform mingles amateur RIAs with professional money managers on its platform

April 4, 2011 at 2:35 PM

Andy Rachleff: The value of information is undeniable, but it is not truly useful until it can be conveniently accessed, easily integrated into business processes, and professionally supported and verified.

Investing In the Digital Age: How RIAs could start a free-data revolution and why it won't bankrupt the vendors

Data suppliers and software vendors in the investment space are the biggest laggards

March 14, 2011 at 1:55 PM

Andy Rachleff: Getting a minute-by-minute view into what your money managers are doing doesn’t necessarily mean you aren’t a long-term investor.

Investing in the Digital Age: Why real-time data is a must-have for RIAs and long-term investors

The investment industry has created a classist system of haves and have-nots when it comes to information

January 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM

Elizabeth MacBride: Sometimes, we even get to hear the end of the story: an idea that has leaped from the online world to spur action.

Ideas born in the advisory world that flew far in 2010

How one conversation influenced NYC economic policy

December 30, 2010 at 3:36 PM

Andy Rachleff: Don’t stand for closed systems. No one in Silicon Valley would. Why should you?
October 29, 2010 at 3:38 AM

Wealthfront rang the NASDAQ bell today at a marketing event. Co-founder Dan Carroll said he hopes it's not the last time the venture-backed company rings the bell.

Why big RIAs are taking a risk on Wealthfront

KaChing changes its name, gains 10-fold jump in assets and intrigues the industry with its strategy to reach mass affluent

October 19, 2010 at 8:47 PM

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