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Ainslie Simmonds: This acquisition is a key element of the portfolio of solutions we have envisioned for Pershing X.

Pershing hands ex-LearnVest exec a mandate to create an 'end-to-end' solution for RIAs from scratch, yet her first move is to buy the middle -- direct-indexing

The RIA custodian is staking Ainslie Simmonds with capital and a mandate to create the industry's first all-in-one solution from a blank page.

December 29, 2021 at 1:25 AM

Anders Jones: "We're partnering with RIAs to buy their small relationships."

A 31 year-old CEO raises $33 million for very RIA venture -- buying too-small RIA accounts, then serving them on a Merrill Edge-type platform in Baltimore

As LearnVest cedes the B2C financial planning niche, Anders Jones gets cash from Warburg Pincus to go after that market with a whole new approach; it includes cozying up to the RIA M&A boys and reinventing how human advisors plan

September 11, 2018 at 10:07 PM

Mike Kerins: Going it alone as a VC-backed firm scared me as I didn't have that part of the vision.

As Principal takes RobustWealth reins, the looming question is whether it follows the Northwestern-LearnVest script, which had a depressing final scene

The disparity in size, culture, locale and tenure between the $1 billion AUA robo and the $673 billion financial titan, makes the marriage an interesting case study

September 6, 2018 at 7:55 PM

Alexa von Tobel will keep her title with the relaunch of LearnVest but her idealistic mission may or may not survive.

Why exactly Northwestern Mutual bought a digital darling for $250 million, shut it down, orphaned its customers and declared progress

When the Milwaukee-based mega-insurer relaunches in six months, the one aspect certainly subtracted from the mix will be the cash-draining 8,000 mass market customers

May 9, 2018 at 9:23 PM

Alexa von Tobel brings her New York state of mind to Milwaukee but not for free.

How Northwestern Mutual may still get ROI on its $250M LearnVest investment but maybe only by anteing up $50M more

The promised January reveal at the financial planning robo never happened but the insurer is using new mother Alexa von Tobel as its sourdough-starter to bake up a venture ecosystem

June 28, 2017 at 11:11 PM

Despite a prolonged quite period, Alexa von Tobel says that her robo will 'unleash innovation' soon.

Quiet Northwestern Mutual may be ready to make a big noise with rerelease of LearnVest -- with Alexa von Tobel vowing that innovation and integration aren't mutually exclusive goals

After the $250-million deal in 2015, the staid Milwaukee insurer has funneled funds into the jazzy robo, packed its board and taken it backstage for a makeover promised for the New Year

December 14, 2016 at 6:35 PM

The present tense will give way to a future that reveals how a series of big bets -- automated and human-populated -- play out.

What the collective unconscious of RIAs in 2015 revealed as crunched by RIABiz article readership

Those taking new and interesting risks, very much including the ones behind robo efforts, created the kind of drama that an advisor mind could appreciate

December 28, 2015 at 5:22 PM

Sallie Krawcheck:  If not me and my team, then who?

'Bristling' at 'pink-it-and-shrink-it' pitfalls, Sallie Krawcheck files an ADV

Ex-Merrill Lynch chief's Ellevest will charge double the Betterment rate but with hopes of better investing for women

November 9, 2015 at 11:58 PM

Tim Schaefer: There are actionable 'to-dos' for the clients. The client can make progress on the plan.

The real reasons Northwestern Mutual paid a reported $250 million for LearnVest

With $2.7 billion in cash to burn after the Russell Investments spin-off, the Milwaukee-based company was simply an old-line insurer with desktop software in search of a planning pedigree

April 1, 2015 at 8:32 PM

Walter Bettinger: We are fast at work.

What's up with Schwab getting into the robo-style online advice business and is Windhaven the linchpin?

Walt Bettinger's options for building using existing ETF portfolio capabilities or buying one of the many robos in existence point to a no-lose move

July 25, 2014 at 11:15 PM

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