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Sara Grillo: All financial advisors want to do is brag – they think that's good marketing.

SEC actions expose underbelly of RIA industry awards, but they are often lucrative for those who hand them out and unlikely to stop being abused by those who get them

The Washington regulator nailed RIAs with misuse of award mentions, using the new Marketing Rule as cudgel after declaring false advertising a 2024 priority

October 9, 2024 at 3:07 AM

Michael Kitces: The conflation has come, because the reality is that the actual ‘pure-plays’ have nearly all failed.

Barron's annual 'robo-advisor' tally rose to $1.1 trillion but with one huge caveat that draws harsh crticism from industry experts

First published by the Dow Jones weekly in 2018 with about $200 billion, the robo-advisor assets in the rankings soared 400% by 2024, swelled by a fungible definition that capture giant human RIAs.

August 22, 2024 at 5:04 AM

Longtime Barron's ranking guru Sterling Shea just joined Morgan Stanley where he'll coach advisors but observers say more is afoot.

Morgan Stanley wants more Barron's Top Advisors so it poached Barron's 'Top Advisor' insiders, which says as much about the wirehouse as the publishing house

The wirehouse knows that no big firm owner puts phone calls from Sterling Shea or Alison Rooney on hold, and it's willing to hire and train them to fit new jobs

January 5, 2021 at 4:06 AM

The staff of 'Next' hopes to capture hearts and wallets of HNW-hopeful millennials. ((Photo credit: Gary Spector for Barrron's)

How Barron’s 'Next' lays bare the tail-wags-dog sponsored content predicament facing financial journalism

The web-only Dow Jones publication for wealth-seeking, 'coddled' millennials chums its site with brands under bylines in search of millennial bites as media mavens wonder if the under-40s will accept it, notice it or have enough money to act on it

November 16, 2016 at 9:21 PM

Kings of RIA custody Mark Tibergien. Bob Oros, Tom Nally and Bernie Clark in a panel moderated by Sterling Shea -- and a pesky mobile app

How an iPhone app cut through stilted questioning at Barron's RIA custody panel in Scottsdale

Sterling Shea invited advisors to vote on pressing RIA questions via iPhone -- and they acidly asked Bernie Clark whether Schwab is robo-competing against them

March 27, 2015 at 7:13 PM

Bob Oros has climbed about every rung on the RIA ladder

Bob Oros jumps to the top 'RIA' spot at Fidelity

With Mike Durbin taking a new day job at the Boston giant, the sales journeyman of Schwab, LPL and TCoA fame gets a coveted title

March 5, 2015 at 8:59 PM

Walter Bettinger showed bursts of emotion to the Barron's writer. (Photo: Dow Jones)

What a close reading of Barron's cover story on Walt Bettinger reveals

The Dow Jones newsweekly puts a sunny spin on the Schwab CEO's accomplishments but reveals sensitive succession and RIA issues, too

November 5, 2014 at 6:18 AM

Sterling Shea: One day we may have an advisor from Edelman Financial on the list rather than Ric himself.

Getting inside Barron's Top-100-Advisor lists with some help from Sterling Shea

As the scrutinized lists expands and evolves, the Dow Jones newsweekly is striving to parse better from bigger -- all while keeping a promise to Rupert Murdoch

September 3, 2014 at 3:16 AM

Peter Mallouk: We're laser focused on clients and absolutely not focused on acquisitions and breakaways and trying to merge cultures. I'm not trying to be the most well-known person in the industry.

By outing a reluctant star in Peter Mallouk, Barron's Top 100 advisors list yields a surprise winner -- Leawood, Kansas

Is it the water supply, fate or a bizarre coincidence that Peter Mallouk and Marty Bicknell, Barron's No. 1 and No. 2 advisors for two years running, are based in the same obscure 12,000-household suburb?

August 29, 2014 at 5:08 AM

Dan Kern: Some of the audience members wanted to hear less of a love fest from the custodians.

Eavesdropping on the Barron's Top Independent Advisor Summit and appreciating its vibe

There was the usual fertile atmosphere for advisor-on-advisor chats and some impatience with RIA custodial heads' bloviations

March 25, 2014 at 3:34 AM

Michelle Smith: Wow, I'm going to capitalize on this. ... I drove a truck through [that] gap.

On Barron's panel at IMCA, three top advisors tell what knocked them on course

I compulsively listened to a divorce opportunist, an ex-Goldman, now Merrill fellow, and a Morgan Stanley consultant offer a diverse array of nuggets

June 3, 2013 at 6:33 AM

That his writing oozed with plays on that absurdity did not make him frivolous. Quite the opposite. (Photo: Dow Jones)

Why I'll really miss Alan Abelson

The inimitable Barron's editor and writer always delivered the spoonful of sugar with the medicine

May 11, 2013 at 12:34 AM

Jack Waymire: Investors are supposed to believe [Barron's picks] produce superior results because they are responsible for large amounts of assets.

Does Barron's really have a bead on the best financial advisors in America?

The famed Top Advisor Rankings by State is an established and influential ranking but its criteria are murky and therefore misleading, according to this veteran who also vets RIAs

March 21, 2013 at 5:54 PM

Bill Dwyer gave a high-energy speech predicting 500% asset growth among independents as 401(k)s roll over.

What went down at Barron's Top Independent Advisors Summit in the Arizona desert

Many of the biggest and best RIA stars showed up and put Bernie Clark, Mike Durbin, Tom Nally, Mark Tibergien, Bill Dwyer, Charles Goldman and Barnaby Grist in one room

March 26, 2012 at 3:31 PM

Jim McTague: We're going to have to get used to volatility, like we have to get used to the fact there may be radiation in our water from Japan.

Wake-up call: ETFs feel the heat of NASSA's exotics panel

Beloved for their stellar qualities by RIAs, they are nonetheless the casino chip du jour for many traders

March 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM

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