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'Several of the largest RIA firms' move assets to Ethic, enough for Fidelity Investments to join the start-up's $29 million B round

The Boston giant  doubled down on the New York City firm, encouraged by internal RIA flows and after seeing Schwab, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock all make moves toward hyper-personalized indexes in 'white-hot' market.

Author Oisin Breen March 31, 2021 at 2:19 AM
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Doug Scott: We have grown our assets approximately 10-fold since our last round of funding in 2019, which underscores the incredible demand that we continue to experience.

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Louis Day

Louis Day

March 31, 2021 — 5:42 PM
Everyone is desperately trying to stem the tide of commoditization which is taking hold of the industry. Reminds me of a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith "the world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version."

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