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Steve Lockshin: There is rarely a chance to achieve a 40%+ immediate return for clients with no increase in portfolio risk.

RIAs better get ready in 2023 for a shocking 2026 wakeup call -- and a killer opportunity -- as '$26-million' estate tax exemption expires

RIAs got a hiatus from worrying about estate issues but also lost a value proposition; both the headaches and the chance to intervene are back and need addressing before impact

May 26, 2023 at 8:41 PM

Hussain Zaidi (with Eric Clarke): Most didn't need asset management. They needed paycheck management.

Two years (almost) after leaving Orion, Hussain Zaidi unveils a second financial planning company, more like a budget robot, with Eric Clarke as an investor

The founder of Advizr sold his firm to Orion in 2019, left at start of 2021, and he's now ready for a new start. also backed by Vanilla founder Steve Lockshin and Lloyds of London's chairman.

September 24, 2022 at 1:48 AM

Steve Lockshin: We have 400 advisors, but I want the Merrill Lynches, Schwabs, Vanguards and Goldman Sachses.

Steve Lockshin's self-funded Vanilla gets Rockefeller VC funding after it shows it can tidy up an RIA client and put her or him in a Zoom room with an estate lawyer

The serial successful RIA entrepreur in Los Angeles is shooting for a real Wall Street/Silicon Valley unicorn success story that starts with bringing in Venrock and Michael Jordan to think big early

September 10, 2021 at 3:24 AM

Brad Armstrong: Now, there are more than 100 employees and that usually warrants a different partner for a different stage of the journey.

Lovell Minnick crashes the RIA party with purchase of $15 billion RIA -- a big sale for post-Hurley Emigrant Partners

The Philadelphia-based investor also made owners of dozens of staff of 100-person Pathstone Federal Street.

November 12, 2019 at 4:05 AM

Tim Buckley is consistent about wanting to steer the Vanguard ship amid the shoals of financial advice  and past the company's cultural encumbrances that veer to investor self-direction.

Vanguard jilted RIAs 16 years ago. Now its CEO Tim Buckley is green-lighting RIA custody again -- with bells, whistles and added urgency

In a series of emails last week, Vanguard was coy but said its retail RIA platform for 600 staff advisors is getting retrofitted for non-Vanguard RIAs; the potential is huge and the potential pitfalls may be even greater, analysts say

May 23, 2019 at 6:16 PM

Jon Stein: There was a gasp in the room.

Betterment (and RBC) rush to exploit a fissure that opened between Dimensional Fund Advisors and the asset custodians who serve its 3,000-plus RIAs

The New York City robo will initially roll out to a handful of $1-billion-plus DFA RIAs that seek an efficient means of handling smaller accounts; the rest is up to Betterment CEO Jon Stein to make happen

April 11, 2019 at 3:19 PM

Lowell Putnam: We've all decided to band together to principles that arent even necessarily in our own best interests.

Envestnet quietly deals rivals in on Yodlee play to placate big banks and their latent threat of 'oblivion' in response to 'screen scraping'

The Chicago-based outsourcer orchestrates a Yodlee/Morningstar/Quovo show of force in response to vulnerability to 'throttling' by mega-custodians

May 17, 2018 at 7:24 PM

Cara Reisman: We want to meet as many needs as possible while still being easy to use.

Betterment reboots its RIA business big-time with new chief, ACATS for ETFs and the ability to fold existing holdings into robo portfolios

Cara Reisman absorbs duties of Tom Kimberley -- then gets to work making the New York robo-custodian more like classic RIA custodians

March 29, 2018 at 12:06 AM

Lowell Putnam: It ensures everything on both sides of the transaction is 'fit for purpose,' meaning it's just down to the National Securities Clearing Corp.-DTCC to do the necessary work..

Quovo is developing an ACATS rooter process with Apex Clearing as first to sign on

The Silicon Alley startup is using its data science as a way of attacking a clog considered not susceptible to intervention

November 14, 2017 at 11:09 PM

Mike Durbin: The number one thing I will do in this job is serve as chief advocate for our clients.

'No BS' Mike Durbin leapfrogs up the Fidelity Investments ladder but can he serve RIAs, eMoney and Abby?

RIAs run out of superlatives for the eight-year exec's ability to 'get it' at both the intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial level as he ascends to president of $2.3-trillion Fidelity Institutional

October 6, 2017 at 8:06 PM

Hussain Zaidi: I wouldn't be here if it weren't for my time at Ameriprise.

Advizr gets Series A $7-million investment in bid to create software with best of eMoney, MoneyGuidePro and Mint.com rolled into one

Franklin Templeton, SEI and Fenway Summer place $7-million wager on Hussain Zaidi, a former Ameriprise broker who cites his 'unfair advantage' in starting from scratch against a software category that got going decades ago

June 22, 2017 at 12:28 PM

Lowell Putnam: We've got the second-mover advantage.

Fidelity-owned VC pumps $10 million into Quovo, which staffs up and prepares for the big leagues

CEO Lowell Putnam plays on 'second-mover advantage' and gets raves from Steve Lockshin, Ron Carson and Marty Bicknell

May 30, 2017 at 6:09 PM

Todd Cipperman: It’s always a difficult issue when asking your own boss about outside activities.

A wider window opens on David Zier tragedy as Convergent is made to pay and FINRA and SEC make themselves scarce

The life insurance on the suicide was executed with chilling precision by the ex-CEO and the CFTC was called in to do the regulatory dirty work

January 6, 2017 at 10:46 PM

Steve Braverman, co-CEO of Pathstone, downplayed any perception of Convergent advisors as damaged goods.

City National sells off salvaged remains of Convergent Wealth Advisors, but not before Convergent sheds nearly $7 billion of AUM

After a trifecta of traumas, Mark Hurley steps in to fund and help construct deal with Pathstone and PagnatoKarp; cuts a deal with four younger advisors to start segmented division

September 13, 2016 at 5:26 PM

Christopher Norton: This campaign shows they are willing to ... run the type of national campaign these advisors could not execute on their own

Schwab wows EXPLORE 2016 crowd with revived bid to advertise RIAs with two magic ingredients: Schwab branding and a budget of 'millions' of dollars

Though 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

June 22, 2016 at 7:50 PM

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