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Alex Lucas says slow 'uptake' may have taken INVEST for Amex down.

Vanguard discloses to SEC it will end grand plan to market RIA services to Amex cardholders; new ADV details what may have taken it off the rails

The Malvern, Pa. firm faced blistering pricing criticism from the start but changes disclosed to SEC suggest complexities of unruly $50,000 accounts from Amex clients undermined the effort

November 30, 2023 at 1:44 AM

Jeff DeMaso:  'Is there a net benefit to the credit card owners...not really.'

Vanguard, American Express INVEST deal hits a wall--of hard numbers--shattering its supposed value amid one glaring 'fine print' disclosure-- it’s a huge conflict of interest for Amex

The semi-confusing, higher-fee AmEx-Vanguard package is cheaper, clearer and better unbundled, an RIA calculates, yet may not be too outlandish for the one-stop convenience, a Morningstar analyst counters

April 26, 2022 at 3:49 AM

Julia Huang made BodesWell a venture investment and a corporate business partner to bring more streamlined  financial planning back to American Express.

American Express slides back into the financial planning game 16 years after it sold off Ameriprise; expect success, experts say

AmEx is doing a U-turn to get back into financial planning now that competitors VISA and Mastercard are expressing an interest in the business.

August 2, 2021 at 2:52 AM

Barghavi Nuvvula, known as 'chief disrupter' throughout her career, got BNY Mellon to leave her in India and allow her to pursue her PhD in exchange for her brainpower.

BNY Mellon goes on a wild poaching bender as it sets sights on playing a very 2019 game of digital catch-up

Building on Bridget Engle's appointment last year, the New York superbank completes three-hire talent binge, with a money-no-object eye to boosting wealth management

October 18, 2018 at 7:28 PM

Libby Cherrington has fallen foul of FINRA for falsifying her date of birth on a number of occassions.

Lisbeth Cherrington's long, strange career, fraught with regulatory actions, takes another bizarre turn over her latest FINRA sanction--lying about her age

Caught red-handed falsifying official records, the super-producer, who alleged homophobia and defamation at Morgan Stanley, is hit with $15,000 fine and 60-day suspension

August 30, 2018 at 4:15 AM

Anne E. Robinson could be a change agent as Vanguard looks to its future -- one that may involve a rebrand.

What Vanguard's hire of a sizzling Wall Streeter reveals about Bill McNabb's determination to avoid the whiff of stale passivity

Anne Robinson is the new chief counsel reporting to the CEO, but her Citi and AmEx branding expertise and her outsider status hint at the $3.4-billion asset manager's nod to rapid shifts toward market challenges

August 5, 2016 at 7:21 PM

Scott Oeth:  Turns out, I'd applied for a job at my existing firm, and I was summarily dismissed!

How my career path to become an RIA included pay phones, American Express, the pressure of being a physician's son and facing down robbers as a bank teller

It wasn't until I started flipping through industry journals at the bank that I discovered the CFP designation, read some practice profiles, and zeroed in on the field

July 5, 2016 at 7:55 PM

Schwab teamed with AmEx months after rival Fidelity switched from AmEx to Visa

As Fidelity divorces American Express, Schwab steps in to launch AmEx cards -- with help from RIAs -- as part of broader effort

Fidelity says the average user got $1,500 in cash back last year, suggesting the average annual card-holder spend is around $75,000

May 2, 2016 at 6:37 PM

Ruth Papazian held top marketing positions at many of the industry's big-name firms.

LPL's chief marketing officer departs

Ruth Papazian made her mark in four years

May 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM

H.A. McGill didn't have Ameriprise on his radar until friends told him the give it a look.

How Ameriprise used its franchise system to snare a Smith Barney breakaway

H.A. McGill found that the Minneapolis broker-dealer was friendly to tuck-in deals

July 6, 2010 at 5:26 AM

Frederick Van Den Abbeel has made CNBC his ally in recruiting RIAs to his Florida-based custodian

Trade-PMR is elbowing its way into the RIA custody market with cheap software and expensive advertising slots

Florida custodian is opening its doors to career-changers and smaller IBD reps who want to become RIAs

February 10, 2010 at 5:35 AM

Parick O'Connell: Very simply, we realized that on the employee side that we were running a feeder system to the franchise business [of Ameriprise]

Ameriprise Financial clamps down on franchisees with new rules

New requirements and bigger fees instituted in November could put franchise ownership out of reach for many brokers

December 2, 2009 at 4:30 AM

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