Articles published 4/2015
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The wary love affair between RIAs and Addepar and where it's headed
Silicon Valley Bank launches RIA, SVB Private Bank, to join Robertson Stephens and Iconiq Capital among Bay Area RIA devotees
April 30, 2015 – 6:29 PM
Review: Nevin Freeman pops the Addepar hood to see what $50 million of coding can do for RIA software
Other than a couple of willful eccentricities, the Mountain View-based start-up's engineers earn a 'well done' from our technology maven
April 29, 2015 – 4:30 PM
Chasing bad performance: Why investors can't get enough of those increasingly lame hedge funds
Most assets are institutional but there's a trillion dollars of baby boomer assets ripe for the plucking by RIAs who can generate returns sans the highway robbery fees
April 28, 2015 – 7:46 PM
After a six-month pause, Voya fills the Maliz Beams void with a 401(k) ace whose advancement stalled
Charlie Nelson was passed over twice at Great-West but has now landed a giant opportunity
April 28, 2015 – 7:32 PM
Peter Mangan taunts rival RIA custodians as Shareholder Services Group adds weapons, advisors
San Diego event celebrates emerging advisors and their emerging custodian
April 27, 2015 – 5:37 PM
Schwab grabs astounding $1.5 billion of robo assets in six weeks, but mostly from itself
Walt Bettinger boasts of 'hundreds of new accounts daily' for Schwab Intelligent Portfolios then fences with Wall Street analysts who beg details
April 24, 2015 – 9:58 PM
Covestor becomes latest robo site to sell out and become a bauble on bigger chain
Interactive brokers buys the New York-based SMA-robo that has struggled to gain assets
April 24, 2015 – 7:30 PM
Schwab will take a machete to Schwab Private Client hyper-fee fund holdings but still steer assets to high-margin OneSource, ADV says
The cost-slashing by the $65-billion AUM San Francisco RIA is meant to streamline and improve process, according to the company
April 24, 2015 – 4:40 PM
Addepar lays out world-fixing vision and rolls out upgrades at swanky The Battery event in San Francisco
RIAs got the '$120-trillion' pitch straight from Joe Lonsdale and Eric Poirer, who say they are unveiling new software that will speak the same language to the Tower of Babel that is the RIA industry
April 23, 2015 – 6:41 PM
Orion and Jemstep form first big marriage of non-robo and robo software -- at advisor behest -- to create RIA e-commerce
The Nebraska-based conventional provider and the Silicon Valley whiz-bang, with Salesforce and TD Ameritrade as common bonds, found it easy to partner with each other
April 22, 2015 – 1:40 PM
How it is that the new, new thing in financial advice is an old, old thing retreaded and vastly improved
Financial planning software is hot everywhere you look, from the M&A market to the robo pipelines, driven by a reframing of its very reason to exist
April 21, 2015 – 5:43 PM
Why exactly DOL's latest action is so shocking to so many brokers -- and even ERISA lawyers -- despite years of warnings
Brokers managing IRA assets never imagined they'd need to make a written promise to do right by investors
April 20, 2015 – 5:42 PM
Roll-ups are off at an acquisition clip in 2015 as $2 billion washes over the transom in a single week
Focus follows Dynasty into Canada as the three big aggregators toggle between organic and inorganic growth
April 17, 2015 – 6:20 PM
United Capital chases DFA's MO, trains '1099 advisors' and co-opts Starbucks brand guy
The multitasking Newport Beach-based national RIA also announced closing on two more RIA purchases with about $625 million of AUM
April 16, 2015 – 9:23 PM
LPL reconsiders FSI as it drops out of its board, offers own DOL stand and hires own lobbyist
The giant IBD-custodian breaks from Financial Services Institute pack with pro-DOL statement as FSI posts more negative view on Labor Dept.'s 'fiduciary' definition
