150 RIAs are scrambling for a new CRM arrangement ahead of a July 31 drop-dead date as the San Francisco custodian unwinds the once exalted partnership

Does it make sense that Mark Casady would want to puff up his company's shares prior to buying back $275 million worth of shares? A lawsuit wants to know.

The conversation is moving from play money to competing with Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and Schwab as it seeks build out a full-service offering to win plan sponsors, rich individuals and RIAs

Due caution or paranoia? Either way, a sour whiff of FINRA self-protectionism pervades

With Eric and Todd Clarke handling day-to-day challenges at Orion and CLS, NorthStar finds an un-Clarke in Jon Baum, former CEO and chairman of The Dreyfus Corp.

The iconoclastic founder of the $65-billion RIA will write, research and mix with the troops, remaining omnipresent as Damian Ornani ascends to the CEO spot

LPL's super-clients like Private Advisor Group see a clear 'advisory' future but LPL is walking a more shrub-choked hybrid path

The Wall Street giant buys Honest Dollar, which makes SEP IRAs easy for 1099-receiving workers

Fidelity is piloting eMoney in its own private client business as Thomas McCarthy fills O'Brien's shoes and Durbin eyes more acquisitions

The CEO of HighTower, with a big assist from Liz Nesvold and a $150 million line of credit, is on the prowl for large practices

Whether you're talking B2B or B2C, the eRIA robo-advisor website personae are dull, disconnected and trying too hard to act grown-up

So far 100 advisors have signed onto Match.com's sister-site for the opportunity to dispense free advice to investors who probably won't become clients

Classic RIAs should expect little change but the SEC's ability to algorithmically raise more red flags may give it better ways to go after big dogs

The big picture includes blind faith in supposed guarantees on student loan debt that kept the cash flowing into a black hole

Gail Graham is bringing the $15 billion 'roll-up' into the third-party white label business -- intending to license its system to RIAs

Andrew Arnott can boast 17 straight quarters of net inflows that leave him with $80 billion, up from a 2008 nadir of $19 billion

The fiasco -- extreme but far from rare, says the author -- and its fallout inspired the 20-year industry veteran to revisit her 'high road' approach

Hedgeable and Totum were among attendees at the San Francisco brain-in where Yodlee exposes its API and lends its experience

Financial advisors are good guys -- mostly -- but the industry is halfhearted when it comes to alerting clients to alternatives risk and tax ramifications

Investment Adviser Association issues urgent press release; authors offer defense that Brian Hamburger finds hard to swallow

Long Ridge Equity Partners looked once, then came back 18 months later and invested $15 million in a TAMP that shuns mutual funds, allows $25,000 investments and professes to deliver on selling the Yale endowment model in a box

DOL's imminent final rule is prompting LPL and Commonwealth to consider nixing traditional VAs in qualified retirement plans

SFOs like Vinik Family Office may actually have intrinsic edges because they're unencumbered by 5-year horizons or money that must be invested in an amount and time

With its elevators, synchronized watches, office space hijinks and voice-over IP, Luminous Capital was a virtuoso Merrill Lynch defection but not to Matt Sonnen