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Cara Reisman: We want to meet as many needs as possible while still being easy to use.

Betterment reboots its RIA business big-time with new chief, ACATS for ETFs and the ability to fold existing holdings into robo portfolios

Cara Reisman absorbs duties of Tom Kimberley -- then gets to work making the New York robo-custodian more like classic RIA custodians

March 29, 2018 at 12:06 AM

Bob Oros: The secret sauce is the planning dimension.

How Fidelity's robo for RIAs 'leapfrogged' rivals -- and why the landing might not stick

Fidelity weaves in eMoney wizardry to its super-bot but Geode's presence as de facto CIO stops some RIAs in their tracks

October 26, 2016 at 5:39 PM

Tom Kimberly: We heard consistent feedback about the need for greater portfolio flexibility.

Betterment makes Goldman Sachs and Vanguard partners as it shifts into higher RIA gear

With advisors demanding to get back in the driver's seat, the robo's RIA chief, Tom Kimberly goes for two big-name model portfolio strategists under the 'Betterment for Advisors' brand

September 14, 2016 at 1:29 PM

Tom Kimberly: Given the magnitude of today's news and the corresponding market reaction, we have elected to suspend trading during this initial period of increased volatility.

Betterment shut down trading post-Brexit to dodge 'trading blindly into extraordinary volatility'

The New York-based robo takes a 150-minute time-out saying to do otherwise would have been 'irresponsible'

June 24, 2016 at 7:08 PM

Tom Kimberly: It was my decision.

Betterment informs RIA clients of new $2,400 license fee then cancels it, for now, after advisor blowback

During an intense 48-hour period and 'dozens' of conversations with RIA principals, Tom Kimberly capitulated to advisors who say the fee outstrips the features

April 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM

David Canter [With Jon Stein, l.,  at June InVest event]: For an RIA firm, this isn't simply a technology play. [Photo by Julio Gomez of Knowledgent]

With eMoney in its back pocket, Fidelity Investments won't exercise its option to continue Betterment deal as it nears launch of its own robo

The one-year semi-exclusive alliance never caught fire with Fidelity RIAs and the Boston giant will now use eMoney as kindling for a new digital-for-RIA launch

November 19, 2015 at 11:47 PM

Tom Kimberly: Incumbent custodians like Charles Schwab and others haven’t kept up.

Betterment hires an RIA chief who reframes the vision from 'robo' to 'one-throat-to-choke' custodian -- and viable Schwab competitor

Fresh off selling Upside to Envestnet, Tom Kimberly is Betterment Institutional's general manager and architect of a new vision

November 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM

Stuart DePina:  All that plumbing is there but it's not what the end investor sees. This Upside technology is the last mile

Envestnet buys baby robo-advisor to add 'last mile' to its grown-up platform

Upside will cast its lot with the Chicago outsourcing giant in Sunnyvale, becoming the first robo to get consolidated

March 2, 2015 at 9:08 PM

Josh Brown: We know the alternatives and we don't like them and we're really happy we have a suggestion.

Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz, masters of the financial Twitter/blogging universe, launch a robo effort to monetize their followers

The pair's modest RIA and immodest following could come catch fire with Upside as a partner

October 6, 2014 at 6:01 AM

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