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Bill Ruckelshaus: The company will be a one-stop shop for tax advisors.

Dissecting Blucora's giant act of financial engineering -- adding a broker-dealer to a software roll-up

M&A expert Bill Ruckelshaus' Bellevue company is paying $580 million for H.D. Vest, a crazy price by some measures but not if 5.5 million existing Blucora customers can be cross-sold

December 15, 2015 at 6:28 PM

Mike Schroepfer is the latest Facebook add to Wealthfront's squad.

Wealthfront takes on another Facebook vet -- a clue that going dark in Palo Alto doesn't mean going away

The last-standing pure B2C robo hopes to outwit, outlast, and outplay its competitors by out-hiring them

December 3, 2015 at 6:15 PM

Steve Lockshin: One is a hammer and the other is a screwdriver.

Why exactly Betterment backers Marty Bicknell and Steve Lockshin became customers of rival robo and custodian TD Ameritrade

What makes the counterintuitive step work is how Jemstep helps round up the mass-affluent's mess of paperwork

November 25, 2015 at 5:55 PM

A plethora of definitions and categories must be sorted and so must manipulation of the count.

How many RIAs are there? No, seriously, how many?

Competing counts are full of 'bastardized' definitions of 'advisor,' state vs. SEC- vs. dually registered IARs, differing study criteria and agendas

November 11, 2015 at 7:57 PM

Sharron Ash: If there's one rule about raiding it's this: there are no rules.

The odd case of MetLife's claim that it's being bullied by LPL

The $60 billion market-cap insurer alleges LPL was underhanded in luring away 60 employees -- but thousands have already left its broker-dealer without LPL's help

August 18, 2015 at 5:07 PM

Amy Parvaneh: I was a cold-calling machine.

How an ex-Goldman superstar asset gatherer in LA is bringing her bazooka to the RIA knife fight

Growing up in a West Egg-East Egg scenario among the Long Island rich, Amy Parvaneh burnished her credentials with unusual Parisian luxury brands training, a Duke MBA and a dramatic Wall Street debut

August 10, 2015 at 7:28 PM

Mike Sha: We haven't actually rolled out our asset management service yet.

Why SigFig is shifting its focus to using banks as middlemen despite having captive consumer audience with $350 billion

The San Francisco-based robo-advisor has trepidation about the scale it would take to handle the conversions after bad experience

July 21, 2015 at 7:13 PM

David Benskin: Basically, I built 50 spreadsheets.

How a software-flummoxed ex-Merrill Lynch private banker set up shop, invented his own dashboard and is selling it to top RIAs

David Benskin is bringing on talent from eMoney, Black Diamond and Envestnet to grow Wealth Access

June 25, 2015 at 5:13 PM

John Michel: We started all over again. We're not building the same product.

BloombergBlack rematerializes as CircleBlack minus Bloomberg

John Michel salvaged the lessons learned and momentum of a venture that was on a roll when its plug got pulled

July 15, 2014 at 5:19 PM

Joseph Saldana: It's like sitting at your house and watching a storm blowing in from the horizon — you don't really know how bad it is until it's upon you.

An ex-Lehman exec with a 2008 crash sideline seat becomes Mr. Inside for the TAMP, roll-up and RIA where Michael Kitces is Mr. Outside

Pinnacle has hit $1.3 billion of AUM and is pushing forward aggressively with hires, strategic plans and offering 'office hours' with the planning research head dubbed 'stump the Kitces'

July 10, 2014 at 5:22 AM

Anthony Sperling: We're de-coupling our growth from accounting systems.

Two years in, Advent Software gives itself a Sept. 30 deadline to release the middleware that will draw Axys users into the Cloud

Advent Direct is groundbreaking and breathtaking in its ambidexterity but is it enough to stop the feeding frenzy by Tamarac, Orion and other cloud natives

May 29, 2014 at 2:34 AM

Mike Sha: Most people have a lot of dirty laundry that needs to be cleaned.

Why Mike Sha has a 2015 goal of $1 trillion in robo-assets for SigFig and where Marissa Mayer fits in

The ability of the ex-Amazon whiz to make slippery YahooFinance users sticky appears to be the get to launch this fueled-up rocket

May 27, 2014 at 2:34 AM

Hardeep Walia: Our vision for our advisor platform is an open architecture DFA.

The two big moves Motif is making as Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan invest part of new $35-million raise

The San Mateo start-up online broker will take its act overseas and build out a smart beta effort with Dimensional Fund Advisors' hundreds of billion of AUM in mind

May 13, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Jeff Maurer: At no point did we say let's go hire as many people from GenSpring as possible.
April 29, 2014 at 6:28 AM

Libby Cherrington (right) and Krista Dunton have two kids and have been married almost five years.

How Morgan Stanley and a lesbian super-producer came to grief in South Carolina and why she alleges bias

The wirehouse's response: Libby Cherrington is using the gay issue to distract from a $6.7 million loan that has gone unpaid by the AIG rep

April 15, 2014 at 6:24 AM

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