Articles tagged "Nexus Strategy"
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In rare form, Schwab's Bernie Clark calls out rivals -- not least Fidelity, Goldman Sachs and LPL -- by name and warns them about challenging Schwab's prohibitive custody business domination
The head of RIA custody says 85% of RIA firms work with his unit, but rival custodians have knives drawn to poach advisors when TD Ameritrade merger wraps.
January 28, 2023 at 2:50 AM
UBS bets its 'wealth' future on ex-Schwabbie Naureen Hassan, a corporate digital A-lister, who analysts give a fighting chance to transcend PaineWebber's ossified culture
Still a $2-billion cash-flow cow, the Swiss bank's 6,000-broker, US-based wirehouse is milking aging broker relationships with aging investors but needs a new kind of human presence, empathy, mindset and smarts to draw in Gen Z.
July 16, 2022 at 1:35 AM
Bernie Clark gets an A-level exec to help him futurize Schwab's RIA platform
After Lightyear's Advisor Group nabbed Ed Obuchowski, Schwab went big in replacing him with Andrew Salesky
June 6, 2018 at 3:21 AM
Ric Edelman's RIA empire to merge with legacy The Mutual Fund Stores in $3-billion deal that takes Financial Engines private
Hellman & Friedman stake the eye-popping sum in cash to outright own an RIA with nearly $195 billion of AUM including robo-advised 401(k) assets
April 30, 2018 at 11:57 PM
In robo-CEO vs. Twitter gadfly battle, it was no contest as Wealthfront's Andy Rachleff does 'ultimate flip-flop' without tweeting a reply
The $10-billion robo-advisor may weather 'PR nightmare' but not thanks to Rachleff's 'Vanguard' explanation, critics say
April 25, 2018 at 12:03 AM
HighTower Advisors lands $4.5-billion RIA with help from bigger, better checkbook
The Chicago RIA roll-up adds 45-employee Salient with T.H. Lee omnipresent in shepherding the UHNW deal
April 17, 2018 at 3:25 PM
Tim Hockey goes to Florida with an RIA 'problem' that's not RIAs
The TD Ameritrade CEO relies on 6,000 registered investment advisors for 80% of growth -- skewed by big, big 'bus drivers' like Ric Edelman and Ron Carson
February 1, 2018 at 11:17 PM
What an RIA should make of Wall Street Journal's expose of how Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade's advice machines steer client assets
Product of a six-month of investigation, the Jason Zweig and Anne Tergesen-authored article alleges conflicts at the discount brokers are rife -- but RIA reactions to the revelations are textured
January 27, 2018 at 12:43 AM
CAPTRUST dumps Advent and Microsoft, flirts with Tamarac and Salesforce, then hires Black Diamond and Microsoft
As CAPTRUST switches gears from its $240-billion 401(k) business to its $6-billion wealth manager, it is forced to make mammoth and wrenching software moves
January 4, 2018 at 10:56 PM
The T3 Enterprise Conference showed the dark side of the RIA software business in Vegas
RIAs may be reaching a point of diminishing returns in buying software unless RIA custodians can join them in the reinvention process -- with the tenuous fate of cleverDome hanging in the balance
November 7, 2017 at 1:00 AM
TD Ameritrade is 'gathering feedback' after Michael Kitces's blogged overture for RIA collective bargaining on wholesale ETF line-up shift
The blogger and RIA platform owner offered three compromises and one request for a deadline extension but the RIA custodian is thus far having none of it
October 20, 2017 at 11:47 PM
Michael Kitces attacks CFP Board for jacking fees 17% in name of 'strategy' when the certificant is flush with $20 million in reserves
The Board defends murky financials and a 'buried' hike as overdue -- even when it's operating at a $1.3 million surplus
September 18, 2017 at 7:23 PM
The HighTower Advisors 'for-sale' rumors grow to include a named suitor
Source says Oppenheimer is consummating a deal but observers question how HighTower could graft its roll-up onto the aging B-D
September 1, 2017 at 2:24 PM
Andy Rachleff makes waves with NY Post quote: Don't get 'hung up' on our lose-more-funds-than-you-deposit disclosure
Fresh off blasting BlackRock, the feisty Wealthfront CEO claims he was 'misrepresented' as the robo offers ready credit lines for those with $100K-plus in taxable accounts
April 25, 2017 at 9:06 PM
Fidelity and Schwab one-two $4.95 price punch staggers industry with execs willing to go 'far, far, far further'
As the Boston and San Francisco giants forgo hundreds of millions in profits in play-for-market-share in higher-margin businesses -- like advice
