Articles published 7/2015
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Following 'irregularities' Mark Mandich says Curian Capital will close its doors in 2016
Jul 31, 2015In hindsight, the $11-billion Denver TAMP had made some moves like removing key managers and installing interim ones in the wake of troubles its parent entity referred to US regulators
LPL Financial tosses its sales pitch to 7,000 in its HQ city of Boston
Jul 30, 2015The only constant for LPL is Mark Casady and change as the broker-dealer slogs to the far shore from the 'messy middle'
With 'revenue sharing' as primary consideration, Guggenheim transfers its in-house RIA to HighTower
Jul 29, 2015HighTower gets a substantial bounty of fee-generating assets and clients and Guggenheim avoids having to scale up
A $350-million-AUM team of ex-lawyers-turned-advisors lands at Commonwealth after stops at Edward Jones and LPL
Jul 28, 2015Best pals since middle school and partners since 2001, the advisors use their mad depostition skills to hone in on client needs and their tenacity to make sure of follow-through
LPL will launch third-party robo for advisors and eliminate some fees
Jul 27, 2015Dan Arnold laid it on the line: LPL is being disrupted but taking the challenges head-on
Schwab's big reveal at its July update: Goal to hire 1,800 financial advisors and unpause branch expansion
Jul 24, 2015Newbie Terri Kallsen gets the Bettinger nod to spend big on doubling advisor force and growing branch count to 500
A Swiss RIA advisor reports on a Zurich event aimed at shaping, saving Swiss wealth management in the wake of purging American clients
Jul 24, 2015Complacency is still the rule but a personality-changed Credit Suisse and the rise of Swiss RIAs are signs of Swiss innovation, adaptability and -- gasp -- customer service
SS&C's first big act as Advent Software's new owner is to put RIAs using Axys and APX under Black Diamond
Jul 23, 2015Pete Hess will be the asset management czar and David Welling will rule all things RIA in the new framework
BNP Paribas -- dominator of the UHNW market in France -- taps ex-Silver Bridge chief for ultrahigh-net-worth assault on US
Jul 22, 2015Through its Bank of the West subsidiary, Paribas is hiring Prostano to gun for San Francisco rival First Republic -- but questions about the state in which he left Silver Bridge remain
Why SigFig is shifting its focus to using banks as middlemen despite having captive consumer audience with $350 billion
Jul 21, 2015The San Francisco-based robo-advisor has trepidation about the scale it would take to handle the conversions after bad experience
AMG's deal for $7-billion myCIO will give it $32 billion of AUM and its 12-billionth dollar of acquired assets in 2015
Jul 20, 2015The RIA founded in 2005 made out of spare parts of E&Y and PWC needed a blue chip succession plan from the Beverly, Mass. asset management roll-up
Morningstar bristles about being 'refused or ignored' by DoubleLine as the 'silly, ugly feud' between Jeffrey Gundlach and the ratings firm rages on
Jul 17, 2015The radioactive grudge match, avidly covered in the press, began when the mortgage-backed bond maestro left TCW in 2009 and is now playing out on DoubleLine's $46.3 billion flagship fund
Vanguard's white-hot 'hybrid robo' just added $4 billion in three months -- a heat that may cast a chill on 'pure' robos
Jul 16, 2015Now at $21 billion, Vanguard Personal Advisor Services is cannibalizing as a segmentation strategy and emphasizing new technology that edges it toward a more robo-centric, less call center-oriented model
How DFA is putting its John Hancock on the ETFs category
Jul 15, 2015The deep-in-Texas manager is lending index help to the Boston giant but dodging cannibalization and channel conflict
Bringing a familiar ferocity, Brian Hamburger binges on Ivy League grads and wirehouse and securities-firm veterans in MarketCounsel restaffing
Jul 14, 2015With $1-billion RIA firms abounding, the New Jersey lawyer breaks away legal talent from Wall Street to address a blizzard of change
Now come the robo-alts firms -- a full flock of 'em as unwavering as the robo-advisors
Jul 13, 2015ALTS, DarcMatter, Crystal Capital Partners, Aequitas Capital, CAIS, iCapital, HedgeCoVest are out to create a market -- not quite as dirt cheaply as classic robo-advisors
9 ways for RIAs to minimize brain drain and secrets seepage in an era of employee mobility
Jul 13, 2015Know the law, sure, but more importantly treat the smartest, most creative employees as the valuable assets they are
Bean Town Brahmins -- ex-Windhaven execs -- may pay as much as $100 million for F-Squared remains
Jul 10, 2015The embattled Wellesley, Mass.-based ETF manager filed Chapter 11 to make a sale contingent on transitioning its remaining $5 billion of managed assets
Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play
Jul 9, 2015In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'
Bill Gross jabs what he sees as PIMCO's potential doomsday strategy of using derivatives to boost liquidity
Jul 8, 2015The founder of the Newport Beach bond giant says his former firm's supposed practice is just another form of leverage that would increase velocity of the unravelling process in the event of a run on assets
Report: Focus Financial is preparing SEC paperwork for its initial public offering -- but is it jumping the gun?
Jul 7, 2015With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges
Pat Allen catches what Morningstar did right in expanding its conference content to Twitter, LinkedIn
Jul 6, 2015The Chicago event's social media center was once a lonely place and RIAs didn't know a hashtag from tic-tac-toe
TD Ameritrade makes play to become top robo by 2016 with out-of-the-gate $100-million revenues -- albeit with some risk attached to the power play
Jul 2, 2015Tom Bradley is cobbling together Amerivest and its $11 billion AUM adding iRebal and Morningstar and tasking engineers with bringing the robo aspects of the site up to snuff
At Morningstar, PIMCO CIO and CEO preach collective manager brainpower but individual manager accountability as post-Bill Gross formula
Jul 1, 2015Doug Hodge and Dan Ivascyn walked a tight rope that left usual skeptics still skeptical