Articles published 2/2018
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As robos try to crash Envestnet's platform party, CEO Jud Bergman explains pivot to 'wellness' and tells where FolioDynamix and Yodlee stand
Feb 28, 2018Ric Edelman is an early Envestnet 'wellness' pilot and Yodlee's expanding margins are -- maybe -- a good sign for that unit as it moves toward break-even
New Moves: HighTower exec defects to a hyper-active-investing 'fiduciary' roll-up, BlackRock alums launch American Century ETF line, Alfred Bros. go crypto, millennials found Bay Area UHNW firm and more...
Feb 26, 2018'New Moves in the Biz' -- winter edition -- charts high-profiles hires to low-profile firms and vice-versa in the greater RIA galaxy
AssetMark records 'off the charts' year and SEI is 'right on track' after staggering $1-billion platform overhaul
Feb 23, 2018Concord, Calif.-based TAMP added $10 billion of AUM, 900 advisors after hiring TD Ameritrade's Veo API fintech star
Vanguard Group gets under RIAs' skin by launching ETFs supposedly aimed at helping them
Feb 22, 2018Joe Duran says debut of up-priced, factor-based ETFs paves the way for fatter Vanguard RIA margins and broader U.S. wealth-management market share
LPL Financial pushes toward full-service-on-tap model with its 'virtual' play -- running some real risks in the process
Feb 20, 2018With virtual, digital and OSJ firms making headway, CEO Dan Arnold's move may amend LPL business model or, one recruiter says, be a sop to Wall Street analysts hungering for a new angle
Citigroup downgrades Charles Schwab Corp. on fears that vise grip of lavish staff expense and slashed prices will overwhelm banking windfall
Feb 16, 2018Vaunted analyst William Katz sees Schwab's expanding reliance on pushing cash to its bank to earn spread revenue as too risky to recommend a 'buy'
Advisor to carriage trade returns to Fifth Avenue as executive director of HighTower firm
Feb 15, 2018Determined to out-Joe-Duran Duran's United Capital, Dave Welling moves his $12B roll-up's HQ to Denver
Feb 14, 2018As Mercer's torrid growth accelerates, its new CEO will hyper-unify investments and operations, make deals, pit software vendors against each other and hire like crazy
Ascensus homes in on indie 401(k) advisors with adds of Commonwealth, Morgan Stanley vets
Feb 13, 2018At T3 eMoney and MoneyGuidePro redraw the lines of battle and post-API-era blockchain discussion begins
Feb 12, 2018Financial planning software giants zig to each other's zags, Ric Edelman rips the robos and Joel Bruckenstein bobbles
HighTower closes $450-million deal that ups advisor stake, inks deal with Elliot Weissbluth
Feb 10, 2018The Chicago-based roll-up sold '50-60%' stake -- for $350 million plus $100 million
Why exactly Fidelity chose 2018 to levy visible .05% 401(k) surcharge on Vanguard funds
Feb 9, 2018After an abrupt business model shift from recordkeeper to advisor, the Boston-based 401(k) king may be a leader in fee 'levelization' that encourages other fund firms to act
Unknown San Francisco 401(k) robo with famous backers gets $11 million more in VC funding -- and an interesting brand
Feb 8, 2018With Y Combinator start, Human Interest, formerly Captain401, is only in its third year but 10,000 customers convinced Adam Nash, Joe Montana and Sequoia-, Accel-derived VC
Riskalyze tromps onto Envestnet turf by signing $20-billion, 975-advisor account with its robo-manager
Feb 6, 2018Aaron Klein's Autopilot takes aim at 65% of advisors who find TAMPs are both expensive and too much abdication of portfolio management customization
TD Ameritrade brings tears and cheers to RIAs in Orlando
Feb 5, 2018A little girl blindsided attendees with heart and TD's Veo Village took on a life of its own
Tim Hockey goes to Florida with an RIA 'problem' that's not RIAs
Feb 1, 2018The TD Ameritrade CEO relies on 6,000 registered investment advisors for 80% of growth -- skewed by big, big 'bus drivers' like Ric Edelman and Ron Carson