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Two years after the $199 million FolioDynamix sale, Aaron Schumm jumps back in the B2B RIA game but not to compete -- yet

Staked to $4.5M of F-Prime and FinTech Collective cash, Vestwell will stay in 401(k) for now but roll its business model over soon enough to IRAs

Author Janice Kirkel October 4, 2016 at 6:22 PM
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Aaron Schumm: I had the luxury of working with 100,000 advisors and hearing what they needed to help their business.

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October 4, 2016 — 7:29 PM
Janice, need to update the Freudian F2 reference in paragraph 13 before the search engines (and SEC) crawls this article.

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