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Mike Sha: The CoPilot platform represents the importance of advisors in the financial planning lifecycle.
October 30, 2018 at 2:00 PM

Mike Sha: To say it's a busy time would be an understatement.

SigFig tightens its lock-down on UBS's digital fate by absorbing its in-house robo unit and 80 employees, but it's weathering storms on other fronts

The Swiss bank's symbiosis with the San Fran start-up winds ever tighter, but '1,000 banks,1,000 separate versions' hardly lends itself to a plug and play symphony

September 18, 2018 at 5:09 PM

Neesha Hathi says Schwab micro-arranged how its engineers work.

Wild role swaps at InVest 2018 as Schwab recasts its engineers into micro teams and Acorns founder talks macro corporate partnerships

The giants like Fidelity, BlackRock and Envestnet come to get down with the innovators and the startups strut like giants

July 17, 2018 at 10:23 PM

Mike Sha raised a pile of money that'll come in handy to pay for people and more people.

'Capacity constrained' SigFig suddenly raises unsought $50 million after major VC steps forward

General Atlantic's funding largess comes after $67 million carried the San Francisco robo its first 11 years

June 19, 2018 at 12:41 PM

Mike Sha: It's way better for our clients if technology investments are amortized across  [multiple] large partners as opposed to one-off custom development for any one-off particular partner.

Mike Sha's robo-advisor faced tough choices until two wirehouses offered unique partnerships -- and maybe a new business model to boot

Sure, the SigFig's founder plays by some of UBS's rules in taking its financial backing and giant systems account but beyond that, the freedom to cavort with Wall Street rivals is pretty unlimited.

June 14, 2018 at 3:46 PM

Mike Sha (center): We’re not gonna disrupt a crusty industry. Discretion is the better part of valor for start-up people.

Schwab CTO's speech in NYC spotlights an RIA business addicted to innovation – with no fresh fix in sight

Timothy Heier set the lower-morale tone at In|Vest 2017 of a B2B industry waiting for a Mark Zuckerberg to push it forward again -- perhaps with artificial intelligence as the final frontier

July 20, 2017 at 9:37 PM

Randy Bullard: I'm sober but not jaded.

Randy Bullard pitches himself into major role at SigFig to add his Placemark knowledge to a robo hothouse

The serially successful wrap-program pioneer convinced CEO Mike Sha that he was the right guy to demystify the legacy-robo tech divide to employees -- and close deals

April 26, 2017 at 5:41 PM

Mike Sha: Wells is a big beast. With scale comes challenges.

Wells Fargo's new ADV reveals plenty about its robo's ambitions to max cross-selling and minimize channel conflict

Intuitive Investor is priced on the high side and bars micro-investors, yet is positioning itself as the anti-niche player

April 18, 2017 at 6:24 PM

Doug Fritz: It’s unfortunate that a firm that size can’t stand something up on their own.

What to make of how Wells Fargo and SigFig are cooking up an unprecedented cross-sell of wealth management to retail bank customers

The deal, unlike some others by SigFig, is not to aid W-2 or 1099 advisors of the (Wells Fargo) wirehouse or bank, but to compete for assets on an open battle field

November 17, 2016 at 10:05 PM

Jon Stein: I really don't know about the ... presti-i-i-ige ... of a wirehouse.

The inverted reverence dynamic at The In|Vest event and why Bill Crager is so over it

Tomorrow is here: Wirehouse execs and IBM types play groupies as robo-founders leaned back in their chairs

June 23, 2016 at 6:19 PM

Bo Lu was adamant that, post-BlackRock, FutureAdvisor remains autonomous and is not a thinly veiled conduit for iShares.

The overnight maturation of In|Vest 2016 was like green bananas going straight to brown for some but Joe Duran made sure it bore fruit

A pure robo, a quasi-robo, an RIA-herder and an insurance man walked onto a panel, riffing on Jon Oliver's scathing fiduciary take

June 20, 2016 at 8:41 PM

Neesha Hathi was coy about whether the 500 RIAs using Schwab's robo have contributed to the 'well over'  $7 billion of assets attributed to it.

What Neesha Hathi told the In|Vest 2016 in NYC crowd in her debut as Schwab robo chief -- and how she elicited one gasp from the crowd

Though declining to offer a glimpse of the future, Hathi surprised with stats showing Schwab is succeeding against the upstart robos with older, less web-savvy customers

June 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM

Tom Faust: I thought it would be an hour commitment and we'd move on.

Eaton Vance leads a $40-million investment round in SigFig with an eye toward capturing some of its lightning to spark NextShares

For his millions, Eaton Vance's Tom Faust gets a seat at the SigFig table, which he hopes his firm can leverage

May 26, 2016 at 8:18 PM

Bill Butterfield: I'm sure other wirehouses won't be far behind.

Why there's more to the UBS-SigFig deal than meets Sergio Ermotti's gimlet eye

UBS's New York and Switzerland C-suiters tromped through the San Francisco robo's digs for months before striking this bellwether deal

May 17, 2016 at 6:52 PM

Mark Tibergien: That's probably our highest priority -- an API store.

Mark Tibergien reveals big Pershing robo future as his firm partners with Vanare, SigFig and Jemstep -- and follows TD Ameritrade's open API lead

In speech at St. Regis in San Francisco, the BNY Mellon RIA unit CEO says Pershing is taking a deeper robo plunge by signing on marquee names

May 4, 2016 at 6:11 PM

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