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David LaValle: ​There are so many factors. Some of them we can be very perceptive about and others are more difficult to estimate.

TD Ameritrade calms the RIA Twitter storm but not questions about the spreads on the ETFs replacing the super-liquid Vanguard and Core iShares

The additional 60-day extension lets advisors breathe but even Wall Street analysts wonder just how far TD Ameritrade should go in inflaming 'consternation' of 'golden goose' RIAs

October 27, 2017 at 12:45 AM

Walt Bettinger (with Bernie Clark): It’s fairly safe to say that most of the rest are available for the right check.

As Bernie Clark and Walt Bettinger go on offense, LPL and Wells Fargo names get named and a B2C robo dry-up gets foretold at Schwab IMPACT in San Diego

The Schwab CEO, buoyed by his robo, robust quarterly results and DOL fallout at competitors is on offense -- a state of being RIAs can relate to

October 28, 2016 at 6:41 PM

Ben Johnson: This latest filing is the last rabbit that you'd imagine they'd try to pull from the hat.

After Vanguard gains $550-billion ETF lead, Fidelity makes 'rabbit out of the hat' play to regain ground

But even as Boston execs attempt magic, Vanguard makes almost simultaneous ETF move that requires no lagomorphs

August 22, 2016 at 10:54 PM

Sharon French: Over the course of the next decade there will be a lot of other strategies that we will develop.

Hard numbers that show the zero-sum advantages of RIAs over wirehouse brokers as told by fund flows

The hold by the Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley crowd over product manufacturers is fast slipping

July 28, 2016 at 9:00 PM

Deborah Fuhr talked SPIVA, short-hand for ETF indexing kicking active management tail end.

Amid papal euphoria, a bullish ETF event at NYC's Conrad Hotel where pros plot the next few trillion of assets

Tom Lydon's fundfest had everything from Deb Fuhr's dry intellectualism to Josh Brown's New Yok F-Bombs, with all the Powershares, BlackRock iShares, State Street power players represented

September 26, 2015 at 7:42 PM

Tom Lydon: They'll do well with this partnership.

How DFA is putting its John Hancock on the ETFs category

The deep-in-Texas manager is lending index help to the Boston giant but dodging cannibalization and channel conflict

July 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM

Justin Carbonneau: Even though we're active, we always make changes on a Friday and it's a 28-day-cycle and we're changing 10% of the portfolio each month.

Fleet-footed RIAs storm into the active ETF market as fund giants tie pretzel dough

Front-running is real concern for the likes of American Funds or Fidelity Investments but not for little guys with no track records

May 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM

Ben Johnson: The bigger risk is to not participate.

An outflow-plagued American Funds holds its ETF fire until it can resolve the vehicle's front-running exposure, which defies a resolution

Edward Jones and other legacy American customers consider ETFs a niche solution to a main portfolio -- lessening the urgency for change

February 10, 2015 at 9:57 PM

Walt Bettinger: And by the way, we never said that it would be free, but rather that it will fund itself from the revenues of the underlying ETFs.

A charged-up Walt Bettinger slams all non-Schwab robos at IMPACT 2014 with an energy appreciated by RIAs

The Schwab CEO's feistiness was just one unusual occurrence at the all-stops-out fete for high-end RIAs in the Mile High city

November 10, 2014 at 7:57 AM

Brian Jacobs: It's a substantial portion of our management fee. It's not coming out of clients' pockets. There's no cost to the clients. They're getting a good deal.

Why ETF sponsors are ponying up big fees to get on Schwab's ETF OneSource in a bid for access to ticket-averse RIAs

Direxion hands over much of its management fee to Schwab, its CEO says, but the rewards are worth the sacrifice

October 9, 2014 at 6:25 PM

Liz Ann Sonders is taking the wheel of Windhaven's investment committee after Cucchiaro's sudden departure.

With Stephen Cucchiaro out, Liz Ann Sonders takes the Windhaven reins

The founder of the once-explosive ETF manager didn't have the same investing magic in the wake of his sale

June 27, 2014 at 9:02 PM

Steve Anderson: None of the consultants are utilizing our business model.

Schwab 'fesses up to Wall Street just how hard winning plan sponsors to its 401(k) ETF platform will be

Convincing plan sponsors and pension consultants to join a ETF paradigm shift to ETFs is a big ask, its executives tell Wall Street

February 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM

Nicholas Gerber: By working with BlackRock, they gain scale but under their own banner.

Fidelity and BlackRock are cooking up a (de facto) de novo ETF company deep in the Rockies

The Boston giant appears to be renting the iShares first-mover advantage as a way to get big in a hurry

March 14, 2013 at 7:56 PM

Mike Durbin: We feel that the story about ETF investing goes beyond the simple costs and is like an onion, and there are several layers.

How Fidelity is locking arms with BlackRock and appealing to RIAs to fend off a Schwab ETF threat

The Boston and New York giants are seeking a big win by offering greater value through greater liquidity on the distribition side -- while quietly partnering on ETF-making in the fund factory

March 14, 2013 at 5:07 AM

Paul Weisbruch questions whether Schwab is providing the same apparent ETF value once trading spreads are figured in.

Schwab makes play for ETF-distribution domination but not without risks

Low margins, a small list of ETFs, plenty of competition and possible trade-spread issues make this OneSource bid no slam-dunk

February 8, 2013 at 5:03 PM

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