Other head-scratchers from the LA-based robo include its sweet 1% checking account and its tithing of assets

What makes the counterintuitive step work is how Jemstep helps round up the mass-affluent's mess of paperwork

After concerns were raised Virtus grabbed for earplugs -- a move that made economic sense in retrospect

In addition to aggressive hiring, training and creating 'queues,' Tom Gooley and Tim Hodge are tackling the big one -- service culture

The 48-employee liquid alts firm just lost its giant distribution arm but manages to keep $1.8 billion of managed assets

The Boston investments firm is using Geode Capital to call the shots, BlackRock as ETF supplier, and its own employees as its initial test subjects

The one-year semi-exclusive alliance never caught fire with Fidelity RIAs and the Boston giant will now use eMoney as kindling for a new digital-for-RIA launch

Fresh off selling Upside to Envestnet, Tom Kimberly is Betterment Institutional's general manager and architect of a new vision

The founder of $225 million Ariel Capital says he named the firm after his daughter but a Google search already has him wrong-footed with the judge

Tweets connected Schwab CEO remarks to Wealthfront's chippy chief -- red meat to the de facto hometown crowd of advisors

There will be 233 million potential new private equity investors trying to overcome one 'adverse selection' bottleneck

$23 trillion of AUM is there for the taking -- but how exactly does Schwab propose help RIAs win that discovered bounty?

New lawsuit alleges that spicing the DC plans with $2.5 billion of bets on de facto dark pools of 'shudder'-worthy alternatives cost participants hundreds of millions of dollars

Competing counts are full of 'bastardized' definitions of 'advisor,' state vs. SEC- vs. dually registered IARs, differing study criteria and agendas

The ex-Ivy League hockey star will be replaced by a Canadian Toronto-Dominion Bank exec named Tim Hockey

Ex-Merrill Lynch chief's Ellevest will charge double the Betterment rate but with hopes of better investing for women

Unable to hold 9 million hands as market tanked, Larry Raffone jumped when Warburg Pincus put The Mutual Fund Store on the block

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based robo colossus needed human advisors, and the radio RIA liked having a non-radio source of new clients

The Jersey City, N.J. custodian's under-the-radar hypergrowth rate is now also big in absolute terms, which may attract unwanted attention from absolute giants

MoneyGuidePro's Bob Curtis flipped the bird at potential VC cash-bearers as Fidelity-owned eMoney vowed it was still a scrapper

Observers say the Hartford, Conn.-based mutual fund company turned a blind eye to a fictitious track record but the SEC saw fit to mete out a not-so-big fine

National Compliance Services Inc. is a biggie with smaller RIAs and Regulatory Compliance LLC already provides ultra-handholding that firms increasingly demand

Only when RIAs proved they'd only take 'yes' for an answer on open architecture and themselves installed as fiduciaries did their San Francisco-based custodian yield with just a minor Morningstar contingency

Matthew Audette concedes that he came to LPL lured by its potential for higher leverage