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Lisa M. Gomez: There is a particular need for automatic portability solutions.

'Portability' is set to boost and solidify $9.3 trillion 401(k) system by eliminating cash-outs, rollovers and fragmented (orphaned) plans

The Labor Dept. finally found the political will to make savers save and create a lifetime mentality -- with a boost from technology to make a decentralized system work in symphony.

February 6, 2024 at 2:53 AM

Aaron Schumm: 'We are the only platform in the country that can do what we do.'
June 13, 2023 at 1:55 AM

Naj Srinivas: Once you think it is possible some of it is probable.

With IRA inflows as tailwind, RIAs are taking over U.S. pension assets by the trillions as second act to 35 years of ransacking wirehouse talent and booty

Rollovers to individual retirement accounts hit a net $444 billion in 2021, Cerulli reports; advisors got 63% and the 401(k) cow is only going to get more productive.

February 9, 2023 at 5:23 AM

Greg Calnon: NextCapital brings a creative spirit.

Goldman Sachs closes deal for NextCapital to extend a tentacle into the 401(k) market and yank out 'a thorn in the side of the retirement industry'

The New York City bank now owns a unit that had slowing growth pre-deal but may face fresh headwinds carrying the baggage of its new owner.

August 30, 2022 at 1:07 AM

Jason Roberts: 'We know where the administrative hot spots are.'

ERISA attorney co-founds venture to take advantage of DOL's liberal new pooled 401(k) plan guidelines, a boon for RIAs looking to break into the business

The new San Diego firm will be a TAMP-like unit that gives a way for small companies to get big-plan leverage while still letting RIAs handle the investment advice, says CEO Jason Roberts.

June 23, 2022 at 6:56 PM

David Solomon likes wealth management for its steady and predictable fees, and he's willing to pay transaction fees to get them.

After co-founder Rob Foregger departs NextCapital, the CEO turns around and sells the company to Goldman Sachs, which calls it 'another tool'

The Chicago 401(k) robo-advisor became a ‘plug-in’ versus a ‘platform,’ relegating it to a guest role, a pragmatic move, yet, perhaps, diminishing its destiny.

April 6, 2022 at 4:48 AM

Yoav Zurel: 'Advisors told us, information is great, but what I want is action'

Pontera attracts yet another $45-million VC round for its 'held-away' 401(k) order management system and snags SageView, a $175-billion RIA, as a customer

The 10-year-old New York City firm nixed its FeeX brand and its old business model after RIAs said they wanted 'action' more than information.

March 24, 2022 at 11:19 PM

Sarah Levy has changed distribution at Betterment and ramped up the 401(k) program

Betterment's net new clients jump 116%, in step with Sarah Levy's first few months at the helm, as burgeoning stock prices and Robinhood spillover lift the company Q1 results

Novice investors leave play money at the Silicon Valley broker but learn to value IRAs, portfolio management and tax help.

April 22, 2021 at 2:56 AM

Gaurav Sharma: We've been approached by a number of financial advisors.

Capitalize sees opening to serve RIAs with 401(k) rollover services on heels of DOL fiduciary rule and scores $12.5M from VC firms to make it happen

With DOL all but outlawing RIAs from advising investors from rolling pension assets to IRAs, New York startup that specializes in the hand-off steps into the breach for RIAs.

February 25, 2021 at 1:16 AM

Jason Roberts: It can be bet-the-company stakes.

The DOL's Trump-era reprieve from rollover fiduciary rigor is over with aspects of remedy that might 'scare the daylights' out of defense lawyers

The Biden DOL is cool with surprisingly toothy rules it inherited that are sure to cause some RIAs to scramble and may be easier for broker-dealers to manage.

February 13, 2021 at 2:29 AM

Gaurav Sharma: We'll find your money, make sure you get an IRA right for you, and we won't stop til it's done.

Capitalize gets $2 million from four top VCs on novel freemium idea -- to reunite investors with hundreds of billions in 401(k) assets held by their ex-employer

Founded by a 35 year-old who got his career start at hedge funds, the New York City firm will make sure your rollovers take place, paperlessly -- at least for you

November 3, 2020 at 10:07 PM

Joseph Martel: We think they can afford to take more equity risk.

T. Rowe Price takes on the risk of its target date fund retirees outliving their savings -- by jacking up equity exposure even on the glide path

The Baltimore patriarch is using both actuarial and behavioral science as the basis for the contrarian move whose downside is accentuated as coronavirus gives the approach a rough start

March 2, 2020 at 6:13 PM

Fidelity's David Gray:  Some of the conventional thinking that 401(k) plan was cheaper than brokerage accounts continues to evolve.

Fidelity Investments rewrites the 401(k) rollover script by allowing plan participants -- with a small catch -- to skip the IRA and have the plan sponsor hold the account post-employment

The $1.8 trillion AUA recordkeeping king eschews its own defined contribution scripture to reflect reality of inertia, better technology and the fact that IRAs are no longer yield so much milk and honey in a zero-fee, zero-commission world

February 25, 2020 at 2:46 AM

James Osborne: I never find some exciting stock or fund to buy. I never get to tell a great story over beers.

RIA Zen and the art of doing what's prudent -- even if you can't brag about it over beers

James Osborne confesses his guilty desire to make his practice more exciting and why he resists the temptations of adrenaline highs on behalf of clients

September 23, 2016 at 5:43 PM

Rick Meigs:  We need Schwab in the marketplace and this is a very positive move for Schwab.

RIAs stay the course in holding Schwab to its promise of an RIA-in-charge 401(k) plan with a promising result

Only when RIAs proved they'd only take 'yes' for an answer on open architecture and themselves installed as fiduciaries did their San Francisco-based custodian yield with just a minor Morningstar contingency

November 3, 2015 at 8:07 PM

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