Articles published 9/2014
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With kid gloves and after great patience, Morningstar yanks gold-level rating on PIMCO Total Return Fund and predicts possible exit of 'tens of billions' in assets
Sep 30, 2014The Chicago fund tracker says the cut to the bronze level suggests positivity but lack of
The steps Personal Capital is taking to win bigger accounts after a year of 100% growth and 95% of them small fish
Sep 29, 2014This call center advisor is handing out free iPads to its wealthiest clients along with bulk pricing and concierge services that include two human advisors per family
The real Bill Gross story with big help from the Wall Street Journal's reporting (Hint: The signs were there)
Sep 26, 2014The humbled Bond King goes to an equity shop with a shove from PIMCO, a DoubleLine query and diminished options, WSJ reports
Dissecting the pathology of UHNW wealth managers who want brand building without marketing
Sep 26, 2014Iconoclastic, clubby and referral-oriented ways still attract the ultra-rich -- but a sleek LinkedIn page might be what Gens X, Y, millennials and hip boomers demand
How RIAs should digest warnings about 'Shell Shock' and its lethal threat to all things Linux
Sep 25, 2014On a scale of one to 10 the just-disclosed computer 'exploit' is a 10 because Linux is what the cloud lives by
What exactly enticed Bill Dwyer out of retirement to work on the other side
Sep 25, 2014The former LPL leader takes a spot vacated by Larry Roth at RCS Capital that involves selling to advisors
An advertiser's-eye view of what the new-look FPA looked like in Seattle
Sep 24, 2014The Denver-based association showed signs of diminished draw but mostly offset by a stunning presence of youth and start-up exhibitors
Addepar hires in the direction of revenues -- and maybe even an IPO
Sep 23, 2014The mature start-up adds an ex-Advent sales chief a year after hiring a CFO with a nose for initial public offerings
Wealthfront's advice is now an employee benefit for Google employees' non-401(k) savings
Sep 23, 2014Employees at the search giant with less than $100,000 get their balances managed for free -- as do employees of the San Francisco 49ers and Palantir
How Merrill Lynch's divorce of its own $2.5-billion team shows just how fed up the wirehouse is with RIA-bound breakaways
Sep 22, 2014The sudden pick-up in these seemingly self-defeating dismissals by Wall Street firms suggest new vigilance against gradual breakaways
Can advisors keep their dirty compliance laundry in the closet thanks to lack of NASAA, SEC and FINRA coordination?
Sep 19, 2014Mostly not but Jack Waymire and Brian Hamburger flesh out the issue with the right questions and answers
How the new RIA competition is akin to the cup-holder dilemma for automakers
Sep 18, 2014Many robo-innovations are superficial but are nonetheless looked for by investors as a sign of substance
TD Ameritrade pulls off amazing Summit in DC that reveals rot to the core of SEC, FINRA and ERISA system
Sep 18, 2014A consumer panel sobered the crowd off the bat with war stories and then Ron Rhoades, Mercer Bullard, David Tittsworth, Sheryl Garrett, Tom Nally, Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis and others pulled no punches
Philly buyer lays down a cool $199 million in cash to buy FolioDynamix, the better to put Envestnet firmly in its sights
Sep 17, 2014The 'it' factor of the 2007 start-up was its revamped Sungard orphan software with LPL, Pershing and Cetera as anchors
At Junxure confab No. 2, Friedman kvells about his 6-week-old Cloud and announces closer ties with Pershing
Sep 17, 2014Mark Tibergien was on hand to cement the Junxure-Pershing connection -- and to call baloney on Joe Duran's Cassandra-like forecast for RIAs
How uncomfortable questions from prospects led a 'small' $12-billion 401(k) advisory RIA to finally say yes after eight years of rebuking overtures from a $120-billion AUA RIA
Sep 16, 2014With the purchase of DCAdvisors, CAPTRUST emerges as a bigfoot player in a consolidation-bound industry
Why Joe Duran is dead wrong on 2015 marking the end of the Golden Era of the RIA
Sep 15, 2014The serial entrepeneur's column in InvestmentNews forgets that RIAs are also advancing and that the 'new competitors' carry baggage and have fatal shortcomings
The documented RIA threat, 'phono-advisors' and their nearly $300 billion of assets
Sep 12, 2014Not much romantic about call center-based advisors but under banners like Vanguard, Fisher Investments or Merrill Edge, they are a force to be reckoned with
Peter Hess delivers Advent Direct specifics at AdventConnect as Dave Welling wows with Black Diamond's cloud advance
Sep 11, 2014RIAs on a market high absorbed Advent Software's efforts to press skyward under rainy Las Vegas skies
Bob Reynolds delegates the Great-West 401(k) business to old Fidelity mate after excruciating three-way choice
Sep 10, 2014Edmund Murphy, kicked upstairs, is dispatched from Boston to Denver and will own the brand decision -- just for starters
Envestnet-Tamarac wins four more RIAs with an average of $5 billion of AUM by selling a vision
Sep 10, 2014The Seattle-based firm signs on CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, Beacon Pointe Advisors, Convergent and Freestone
Bob Reynolds does 'a lot of testing' to avoid foisting his 'Great West' brand on JP Morgan and Putnam Investments clientele
Sep 9, 2014The chief executive also sees upside opportunities in bringing all three divisions under one banner
5 ways for RIAs to avoid social media and 'holistic' wealth management overreaches in a share-happy e-world
Sep 9, 2014Being Facebook 'friends' and dealing with a client's non-financial life decisions does not take the 'business' out of the business relationship equation
How Bitcoin is penetrating RIA portfolios by looking riskier to ignore than embrace
Sep 8, 2014Dangers remain but security, acceptability and upside all seem to have evolved just in the past few months, experts say
How the Eric Cantor hire is really all about Ken Moelis, an original Wall Street 'Wolf', and his $963-million non-classic RIA
Sep 5, 2014A former Robin to Mike Milken's Batman at Drexel Burnham pays chump change by Wall Street standards to get the politician aboard
After Morgan Stanley 'raided' Schwab branch in San Francisco, Schwab fought in FINRA 'court' and lost, but perhaps won on the larger level
Sep 4, 2014The San Francisco-based $2.4-trillion broker still isn't swallowing the loss and sent a clear message that it will battle tirelessly
With your RIA practice as naked as Kirstin and Kate in the cloud, know two words: Google Authenticator
Sep 4, 2014With advisors migrating their practices online, the vulnerability can't be overstated or easier to address
AssetMark keeps to the ex-Schwab theme, tapping Jerry Chafkin as chief investment officer
Sep 3, 2014After a prolonged search, Charles Goldman hires the former CEO of $240-billion AUM Natixis, president of Charles Schwab Investment Management and Yalie
Getting inside Barron's Top-100-Advisor lists with some help from Sterling Shea
Sep 3, 2014As the scrutinized lists expands and evolves, the Dow Jones newsweekly is striving to parse better from bigger -- all while keeping a promise to Rupert Murdoch
Joe Duran explains United Capital's 100% revenue growth to $100 million since 2012 and the firm's complex plan to grow faster
Sep 2, 2014In an overdue catch-all, catch-up the CEO of the $10-billion RIA tells of $4 billion of deals in the works and up to 15 de novo offices