Articles published 6/2016
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How RIAs took one approach to Brexit and asset managers another -- and why only the latter group has egg on its face
Jun 30, 2016With the markets virtually even with a week ago, asset managers now need to contend with all those already shopworn webinar ideas that followed their inability to predict the Leave vote
Alert to Pershing's API move and eMoney's dashboard acumen, TD Ameritrade brings its API partners to Texas to drive home its first-mover advantage
Jun 30, 2016TD does (almost) Dallas as it announces 100-plus third-party vendor integrations while keeping an eye on the competition
Betterment explains why its Brexit-sparked trading halt on Friday wasn't 'suspended' trading
Jun 28, 2016The $4.8-billion robo-advisor frames its trading actions in terms of discretionary management of assets but the prerogative it asserts puts RIA clients in a tight spot
DOL rule still has feet tangled in the struggle to define difference between 'suitability' and 'fiduciary'
Jun 27, 2016Fiduciares keep flunking a definition of useful accountability and the giant brokerage lobby keeps exploiting its 'F'
Betterment shut down trading post-Brexit to dodge 'trading blindly into extraordinary volatility'
Jun 24, 2016The New York-based robo takes a 150-minute time-out saying to do otherwise would have been 'irresponsible'
The inverted reverence dynamic at The In|Vest event and why Bill Crager is so over it
Jun 23, 2016Tomorrow is here: Wirehouse execs and IBM types play groupies as robo-founders leaned back in their chairs
Schwab wows EXPLORE 2016 crowd with revived bid to advertise RIAs with two magic ingredients: Schwab branding and a budget of 'millions' of dollars
Jun 22, 2016Though skeptical observers call the effort window dressing, the San Francisco custody giant is incorporating lessons learned from the lackluster RIA-Stands-For-You campaign of 2011
At mostly morose Morningstar conference, mutual fund wholesalers play cards face-up on perma-dislocation -- and the glimmers of hope that innovation provides
Jun 21, 2016The Chicago conference had a somber feel as it sought answers and as RIAs bemoaned structural impediments to using low-cost institutional retirement funds
The overnight maturation of In|Vest 2016 was like green bananas going straight to brown for some but Joe Duran made sure it bore fruit
Jun 20, 2016A pure robo, a quasi-robo, an RIA-herder and an insurance man walked onto a panel, riffing on Jon Oliver's scathing fiduciary take
What Neesha Hathi told the In|Vest 2016 in NYC crowd in her debut as Schwab robo chief -- and how she elicited one gasp from the crowd
Jun 17, 2016Though declining to offer a glimpse of the future, Hathi surprised with stats showing Schwab is succeeding against the upstart robos with older, less web-savvy customers
Vanguard CEO says: 'We are a technology company' and hints strongly that robo-for-RIAs may be in the offing
Jun 16, 2016Bill McNabb oversees 3,000 engineers who are willing to pay for 'dry holes' in drilling for the next Shaybah Oil Field of financial advice
How an eclectic trio of RIA custodians are willfully gaining ground with snail-like precision -- Part 2 of 3
Jun 15, 2016Lazarus-like RBC has another new leader, as does Trust Company of America and Shareholders Service Group, which is selling itself as a Pershing reseller of high security, but with more agile service
Lorenzo Esparza leaves JP Morgan in LA to start Manhattan West with tutelage from Schwab
Jun 14, 2016Honoring his immigrant parents' wish, he toiled for 10 years as a lawyer at Paramount before staking out ground in a market with few Hispanics
How Charles Biderman hopes to parlay his 'insane' firing by AdvisorShares from his five-star ETF into a win
Jun 13, 2016TrimTabs' CEO is taking competitve action against the Maryland-based asset manager of $1.1 billion and seeking redemption by luring the investors he served into a startup ETF
After guides say no to RIA adventurers' proposal to scale Mount Shasta, ankles snapped, teams faded and only a few saw the summit
Jun 13, 2016The experts said it couldn't -- shouldn't -- be done but 17 advisors and execs from 10 states displayed true RIA mettle on the harrowing climb
Spinning 200+ years of legacy culture as a virtue, BNY Mellon uses Pershing INSITE to show its software side, softer side -- as it gets beyond NetX360 and men with a hard-wired approach
Jun 10, 2016Whether real fire follows these new clouds of smoke remains to be seen but Pershing's open API, robo strategy and feminine revolution project an aura of uplift
LPL Financial dumps FSI then goes full swank on lobbying office -- but legislative agendas of FSI and LPL don't reveal any divide
Jun 8, 2016The big broker-dealer stopped paying dues to the Financial Service Institute but it'll pay up for hot offices near the White House
The non-Big Four RIA custodians, no longer runts but stunted in growth, are applying tougher love to hobbyist RIAs
Jun 7, 2016In part one of a three-part series, we examine how seven small custodians -- starting with Trade PMR and Scottrade -- are evolving away from the Utopian model of 100% inclusivity
Why SIFMA & Co.'s trip to a friendly North Texas court to upend the DOL rule looks more like its Alamo
Jun 6, 2016Little credence is being afforded anti-DOL rule crowd that is trying to flip the script on who is screwing whom
Skip Schweiss awakens FPA NorCal crowd with must-do DOL laundry list that starts with IRA billing and the need for chief laundering officers
Jun 3, 2016The regional event in San Francisco with national draw -- even global draw -- gets a guy from Scotland to keep its lofty reputation up there
As legal battle erupts between Bill Winterberg and Joel Bruckenstein, T3's allegedly wild profits from pay-for-play content get dragged into court of RIA opinion
Jun 2, 2016In need of a partner when David Drucker retired, Bruckenstein brought in friendly rival Winterberg on a handshake coopetition deal; now Bruckenstein has Brian Hamburger defending him
After chats with Phyllis Borzi, a flagship HighTower team executes a 'deliberate' breakaway to form a $2.5-billion RIA
Jun 1, 2016Citing post-DOL-rule concerns about serving their super-rich clientle and hungering for more alternative alternatives, Paul Pagnato and David Karp have ankled the captive brokerage world but are keeping ties to the Chicago roll-up