Articles published 1/2015
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The White House puts its best Obamacare minds behind cleaning up the 401(k) business -- starting by issuing a withering memo
The executive branch's endorsement of the fiduciary rule is based on finding that Americans may have to work for an extra three years because of Wall Street overbilling
January 30, 2015 at 9:50 PM
A Levi's-clad Tom Nally answers 9 questions as TD LINC gets going in San Diego
TD Ameritrade is open to robos, sharing software code and working with Schwab et. al. against the Wall Street lobby
January 29, 2015 at 8:43 PM
Why a suburban New Jersey bank and a white-shoe $1.3 billion RIA found love in Morrristown
A lousy lending market is stunting Beacon Trust's revenues; enter The MDE Group with its revenue-rich 200 ultra-wealthy clients
January 28, 2015 at 8:54 PM
How the alternative investments category got bastardized and why that's a shame
A decade on, the investment industry is fast destroying a promising asset class
January 27, 2015 at 6:19 PM
New robo-advisor, Aspiration, gets ex-eBay head as backer and 40,000 on 'waiting list'
The pay-what-fees-you-want format and $100,000 maximum investment stand out along with its impact investing angle
January 26, 2015 at 7:01 PM
Wanted: New CEO for Edelman Financial whose name is not Ric Edelman
As Edelman grooms his firm for a sale, the timetable to replace himself at the chief exec spot fast-forwards by years
January 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM
Big brokers take action on F-Squared funds and Virtus shares reel as SEC actions sink in
Lawyers are now threatening class action suits against the $28-billion ETF manager and firms like Raymond James, Stifel and Wells Fargo are making their wariness official
January 22, 2015 at 8:01 PM
High-level Fed committee overruled Carmen Segarra's finding on Goldman Sachs
New York Fed President Bill Dudley says senior Fed officials did not accept a conclusion that had been endorsed by frontline Fed examiners stationed at some of the nation’s largest banks.
January 21, 2015 at 6:05 PM
Reading between the lines of Schwab's 2014 earnings release to understand investor indifference
Windhaven's results and Schwab Private Client's non-resullts could have investors on edge despite record assets from RIAs
January 20, 2015 at 8:56 PM
Secret recordings reveal 'regulatory capture' at Goldman Sachs by NY Fed examiners capitulating to the corporation -- before they were even asked
Carmen Segarra secretly recorded 46 hours of audio while embedded as a bank examiner at Goldman Sachs between November 2011 and May 2012.
January 20, 2015 at 6:40 PM
Passing on the NFL draft, Cardale Jones has a better idea: Study to become a financial planner
The Ohio State quarterback won the National Championship, humiliating the opposition, and doing it all after being relegated to third string
January 16, 2015 at 8:25 PM
Schwab promotes relative newcomer Terri Kallsen to head retail, with John Clendening getting the golden parachute and Andy Gill transitioned
The hire from USAA is a nod to that firm's success inspiring loyalty but Kallsen will need to break the streak of short-lived tenures in that position
January 16, 2015 at 5:28 PM
What Vanguard revealed under webcast pressure about its phono-robo's vulnerability
Already gathering $1 billion per quarter, the index giant holds off on VPAS launch for fears of post-beta traffic overwhelm
January 15, 2015 at 5:09 AM
How the industry is rallying to help John Hyland as his cancer returns and why the New Jersey advisor seems impervious to fear
The only path to survival for the owner of a $17-billion AUA OSJ is a bone marrow transplant and advisors are getting swabbed to improve his odds of finding an elusive match
January 14, 2015 at 6:19 PM
Dear Bill Gross, Please stop crowdsourcing emotional support and making open-ended calls of doom
Your recent writings and media interviews are still infected by your PIMCO dethroning but find a new outlet for venting about that
January 13, 2015 at 7:10 PM
The giant raise RIA folk got in 2014 and the threat it poses in 2015
The 20% jump means money in the pocket and a rather frightening overhead scenario
January 12, 2015 at 8:38 PM
Why an $850 million BNY Mellon RIA team finally said 'yes' to Raymond James after a 'no' in 2007
LPL may have the lead in the quantity of RIAs it's bringing onboard, but Bill Van Law touts this win as an exemplar of the high-quality firms RJ is attracting
January 9, 2015 at 8:22 PM
RIABiz takes stock as journalism comes under siege
The recent blizzard of attacks on journalists, cartoonists and moviemakers reminds how precious is the right to give and receive free expression
January 8, 2015 at 10:17 PM
Debriefing a post-Convergent Steve Lockshin as he once more builds a classic RIA -- or is it neo-classical?
AdvicePeriod's chief says he won't poach Convergent (if he can avoid it) and hopes that his $300-million RIA will have a Betterment feel
January 8, 2015 at 5:55 PM
Marty Bicknell buys a $1.1 billion RIA that serves the mass affluent, and taps credit for the first time
In buying Vantage with borrowed funds, 'liquidity' per se was not the issue for Mariner Wealth; speed of execution was
January 7, 2015 at 8:11 PM
How Howard Present parlayed an intern's algorithm into a small fortune -- and when the SEC says he knew of a mega-disconnect
The SEC alleges that the former F-Squared CEO engaged in a massive cover-up with lies, and the fabrication related to faulty backtesting
January 6, 2015 at 6:20 PM
What exactly are robo-advisors, why did they steal the 2014 show and what will a 2015 repeat take?
We're talking 500 people, $250 million in capital with identifiable characteristics and 5,000 nervous legacy providers
