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Steve Lockshin: The long play is as this generation of advisors turns over that we’ve created the time and space for advisors to focus on things that give their clients joy.

Debriefing a post-Convergent Steve Lockshin as he once more builds a classic RIA -- or is it neo-classical?

AdvicePeriod's chief says he won't poach Convergent (if he can avoid it) and hopes that his $300-million RIA will have a Betterment feel

January 8, 2015 at 5:55 PM

Wealthfront is the robo-advisor most associated with the term -- and with the founder, Andy Rachleff, who hates it most.

What exactly are robo-advisors, why did they steal the 2014 show and what will a 2015 repeat take?

We're talking 500 people, $250 million in capital with identifiable characteristics and 5,000 nervous legacy providers

January 2, 2015 at 5:36 PM

Adam Nash: We thought we were launching a product, but it turned out we were launching a category.

Wealthfront's high-net-worth cat leaps out of the bag -- keeping it one robo 'pivot' ahead of Schwab

The Palo Alto firm with $1.7 billion of managed assets reveals that its little secret is big accounts

December 19, 2014 at 7:33 PM

April Rudin: I couldn't help but wonder about the promotional logic that led an online firm to consider using such an offline idea as outdoor advertising.

April Rudin taxis in to Betterment HQ to see how the robo-advisor will fare

Jon Stein's astounding goal is $1 trillion of assets and our marketing expert went in search of a marketing plan, or notion commensurate with the challenge

December 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM

Jon Stein: Efficiency is streamlined, but with human checks throughout the process.

How to hold 1,000 hands: Robo CEOs lay out a stark choice for traditional advisors at MarketCounsel Summit

RIAs who comfort themselves with the thought that automated advice caters to their 'non-core' clients are in for a rude shock

December 15, 2014 at 4:53 AM

Jon Stein: It's thousands and thousands of dollars instead of $8.

Betterment's bad-news play at getting in good with RIAs and investors

The NYC-based auto-advisor will flash tax ramifications at investors as they test drive trades

October 30, 2014 at 11:44 PM

Jon Stein: We've been working on it for the last six months. We wanted to wait until tax loss harvesting and trust account support was in place.

Fidelity and Betterment sign a deal with Steve Lockshin and Marty Bicknell as groomsmen at the altar

The RIA principals are distributing the online asset manager service to fellow RIAs, and Fidelity is quelling an uproar of demand from RIA clients for robo answers for the mass affluent

October 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM

Walter Bettinger: We are fast at work.

What's up with Schwab getting into the robo-style online advice business and is Windhaven the linchpin?

Walt Bettinger's options for building using existing ETF portfolio capabilities or buying one of the many robos in existence point to a no-lose move

July 25, 2014 at 11:15 PM

Karin Risi is leading Vanguard's efforts to take on the 'robo' threat -- and the numbers are already on her side.

How Vanguard Group's robo-countering effort got to $1.3 billion of AUM so easily and why its future seems bright

Executed almost shyly, the hints-of-vanilla Malvern indexing giant is the unlikely Silicon Valley nemesis in automated services

June 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM

Michael Kitces: Most of the Wall Street firms will be reluctant to bypass advisors and go direct to investors.

Thoughts on 'robo-advisors' served cold, compliments of Kitces and Waymire

With the potential for channel conflict, wirehouses are the most handcuffed in thwarting automated financial 'advice'

June 15, 2014 at 7:40 PM

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

Jon Stein: I think anything's possible. That  [Betterment RIA business] could be the larger business [than the retail one] in the long term.

How Jon Stein plans to make the most of $45 million of VC money in remaking the RIA business

The Betterment founder says he is open to his B-to-B, read RIA unit, knocking his B-to-C business out of the spotlight

April 22, 2014 at 6:03 AM

Charles Goldman: We bought the firm hoping the CEO would be there.

Charles Goldman speaks from the CEO Summit hotel about what he didn't see coming at AssetMark and how it changed his life

The Fidelity and Schwab veteran is criss-crossing the country as managing principal rather than part-time coach

April 10, 2014 at 3:27 AM

Steve Lockshin: I wrote a big check.

Tiburon CEO Summit extrudes big news: Betterment Institutional is born

Steve Lockshin lays out his plans for TAMP-like venture and how Michael Kitces, a public critic of the Betterment CEO, very much fits in

April 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM

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