May 19, 2016
Personal Capital gets $75 million investment and an ex-Schwab retail chief in Jeff Carney
The Bill Harris-founded call-center RIA, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, hits it $500-million bogey for valuation
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Page 6 of 9Apr 29, 2016
Betterment informs RIA clients of new $2,400 license fee then cancels it, for now, after advisor blowback
During an intense 48-hour period and 'dozens' of conversations with RIA principals, Tom Kimberly capitulated to advisors who say the fee outstrips the features
Apr 19, 2016
After Betterment's $100 million VC raise makes 25 newspapers, Wealthfront unveils 3.0 on blog and Twitter
The big Redwood City robo is staying in character by touting 'artificial intelligence,' in synch with Facebook's CEO, but whether it's a real delineation or simple evolution is hard to tell
Apr 12, 2016
Schwab's former retail chief ends garden leave with two new gigs -- as chief of HD Vest holding company, and as Betterment CEO's operations confidante
John Clendening is now CEO of Blucora and a director at Betterment -- and a new resident of Bellevue. Wash.
Mar 29, 2016
Betterment raises $100 million a year after a $60-million round, enabling it to step up efforts to win the HNW wallet
The conversation is moving from play money to competing with Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and Schwab as it seeks build out a full-service offering to win plan sponsors, rich individuals and RIAs
Mar 21, 2016
Robo-deal catapults Goldman Sachs into defined contribution business that's as downmarket as it gets
The Wall Street giant buys Honest Dollar, which makes SEP IRAs easy for 1099-receiving workers
Mar 15, 2016
The ironic reason robo-advisors aren't gorging on assets -- a determination to dictate bloodlessly to millennials
Whether you're talking B2B or B2C, the eRIA robo-advisor website personae are dull, disconnected and trying too hard to act grown-up
Jan 27, 2016
Betterment adds 50 firms to its new 401(k) plan -- and IBM and Marcia Wagner connections
Smaller companies with Betterment-ish-sounding names like Earnest Operations and Boxed are the early guinea pigs but big dogs are on the robo's 401(k) board of directors
Jan 4, 2016
The 10 biggest RIA moves of 2015 and what conclusions to draw from them
PE dollars, succession angst, women executives seeking same and, of course, the robo sweepstakes spurred these advisor-entrepreneurs to dare and to risk much
Dec 28, 2015
What the collective unconscious of RIAs in 2015 revealed as crunched by RIABiz article readership
Those taking new and interesting risks, very much including the ones behind robo efforts, created the kind of drama that an advisor mind could appreciate
Dec 3, 2015
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
Nov 19, 2015
With eMoney in its back pocket, Fidelity Investments won't exercise its option to continue Betterment deal as it nears launch of its own robo
The one-year semi-exclusive alliance never caught fire with Fidelity RIAs and the Boston giant will now use eMoney as kindling for a new digital-for-RIA launch
Nov 19, 2015
Betterment hires an RIA chief who reframes the vision from 'robo' to 'one-throat-to-choke' custodian -- and viable Schwab competitor
Fresh off selling Upside to Envestnet, Tom Kimberly is Betterment Institutional's general manager and architect of a new vision
Sep 11, 2015
Betterment jumps headlong into the 401(k) business spurred by a conviction that even Vanguard Group is unfriendly to investors in this arena
The New York robo-advisor is going full stack, competing with Fidelity Investments on everything from recordkeeping to financial advice
Aug 19, 2015
Two ways of reading Wealthfront's inscrutable hire of a power CFO -- one it may not really need anytime soon
The Palo Alto-based robo-advisor may have tapped Ashley Fieglein Johnson to raise more VC -- or just because it doesn't need to count every bit of cash it burns