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Robert Goldstein will get his turn at figuring out how to make FutureAdvisor into a winner.

BlackRock may build the biggest, baddest RIA platform yet as 'Boy Wonder' begins 'Aladdin-izing' FutureAdvisor

Since its acquisition in 2015, crickets for the $152-million robo-advisor, but under young legend Rob Goldstein, that could all change as BlackRock rolls out its play to own the advisor desktop

November 7, 2017 at 8:39 PM

Bo Lu: What's a phone?

The odd and open courtship between the SEC and robo-advisors plays out again -- this time at an SEC-hosted webcast panel in Washington, D.C.

Mary Jo White introduced a forum with representatives from FutureAdvisor, Betterment and Personal Capital who mostly just nodded in assent at each other

November 15, 2016 at 10:22 PM

Ben Johnson, Joe Mansueto and Tom Lydon at last week's Morningstar ETF confab

Asset managers at Morningstar's ETF event, facing an in RIA-in-charge future, show mettle

The Chicago event connected traders, index providers, issuers, marketers, PR, distributors -- and a knee-capped Liz Ann Sonders -- all trying to find footing in an everything-up-for-grabs playing field

September 15, 2016 at 6:44 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

Robo-advisors are supposed to reach millennials but their automation carries over into the persona of their websites.

The ironic reason robo-advisors aren't gorging on assets -- a determination to dictate bloodlessly to millennials

Whether you're talking B2B or B2C, the eRIA robo-advisor website personae are dull, disconnected and trying too hard to act grown-up

March 15, 2016 at 9:31 PM

Bo Lu is said to have parlayed an introduction to Larry Fink into a lucrative liquidity event.

Why BlackRock's purchase of FutureAdvisor for $152 million could be a deal of destiny

FutureAdvisor will nestle into BlackRock's risk management unit armed with iShares while Wealthfront and Schwab favor Vanguard ETFs

September 2, 2015 at 7:52 PM

Jon Stein frequently rolls up his sleeves to handle Betterment investor queries as part of his non-robo strategy.

Consumer Reports names Betterment in top five for customer service with USAA, Schwab, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price

The recognition flies in the face of a bias against that says robos can't hold hands with their bony robot fingers

August 14, 2015 at 8:05 PM

Alexey Sokolin:  If Stein and Bo Lu of Future Advisor are right, there will not be much left to unbundle.

An insider reveals turbo-contents of the In|Vest conference in New York, a summit of VCs, robo-founders and big banks

SigFig's Mike Sha talked Bank of the West, Motif's Hardeep called start-ups 'features' and the five-year number jumped to $2 trillion

June 22, 2015 at 4:02 PM

Call-center associates and engineers sit side by side at Future Advisor's gritty San Francisco digs.

FutureAdvisor responds to Schwab's market entry with a truly free offer and big backing from Fidelity and TD Ameritrade

The San Francisco-based RIA is automating parents' investments into 529s, Coverdell ESAs, UTMAs or UGMA for tax-free savings, no paperwork

May 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM

Adam Nash: When you start handling large accounts, you start having to deal the problems that come with them.

Wealthfront throws engineering at its large-account 'problem'

The Palo Alto-based automated money manager addresses tax slippage from transfers of HNW accounts to its website

February 23, 2015 at 8:39 PM

Teri Kallsen: We've got OneSource and we've got the scale to get to market quickly. This will disrupt our competitors. They may try to copy us as we've seen in the past.

Schwab spills robo-beans to Wall Street, including a Schwab Bank wrinkle, cannibalization rates and the algorithm's distaste for OneSource funds

Calling Schwab Intelligent Portfolios a $400-billion opportunity, Walt Bettinger boasts of his own four-minute sign-up

February 12, 2015 at 10:49 PM

Simon Roy: It's a classic attempt to freeze the market.

Can Schwab, six years late to the robo party, 'freeze the market', catch up and blow doors?

The potential is awesome but the San Francisco giant is currently generating PR for an offering that does not yet have a launch date

October 29, 2014 at 8:22 PM

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