How Personal Capital plans to spend its $75 million of green to grow and become better known as the un-robo robo
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Stephen Winks
Differentiation of Personal Capital is easy and quite profound if it embraces the “sole interest standard” which eliminates commission sales competitors and advances professional standing of the advisor.
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Bill Winterberg
“While Vanguard does a very good job, it is not a complete job in the same way that Personal Capital is. Vanguard doesn’t have the data that Personal Capital has from account aggregation, which enables Personal Capital to have a holistic view of a customer’s entire financial life when they make specific recommendations,” Harris writes in an email.
Here is an update regarding Vanguard and account aggregation, as of March 29, 2016:
Envestnet | Yodlee Partners with Vanguard to Provide Industry-Leading Financial Account Aggregation Services
From the press release: “Vanguard clients within Personal Advisor Services can aggregate all of their financial accounts, enabling them to view a broad, complete picture of their financial situation.”
http://ir.yodlee.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=962474
Brooke Southall
Bill,
That’s interesting. In neither case can you tell from the verbiage how much wealth management based
upon aggregated data is actually going on — whether it’s there in reality or in theory, like the features on my
Casio that I’ll never learn to use.
Brooke
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