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Mike Alfred: If you're hoarding all of this data and won't help wholesalers to help everyone get better they won't work with you.

BrightScope sees sales soar as formerly adversarial big 401(k) companies buy data about their own business

The business model of the La Jolla-based maverick evolves and triggers millions in new fee revenue and some big hires

April 16, 2014 at 7:58 AM

Bob Reynolds: They reached out and asked if we'd like to buy their proprietary business.

Just what good Bob Reynolds' purchase of J.P. Morgan's billions -- sans sweet brand -- will do for his Great West-Putnam 401(k) empire

The Boston exec was opportunistic in getting this deal and remains open to others but the 'O' word that made Whole Foods famous is holding sway

April 4, 2014 at 5:01 AM

Mike Alfred: If we tell people they can't engage until they pay, then we're losing 90% of the people from the start.

Brightscope lets advisors get basic entry to its Advisor Pages for free, talks Morningstar deal and pencils in an IPO for about 2017

After two years, less than 1,000 advisors paid for the website and BrightScope hopes free is a better price-point for some

December 12, 2013 at 7:20 AM

Dan Solin: I think the forces aligned against evidence-based investing are far more powerful than anyone can really appreciate.

The 401(k) industry braces itself for fruits of a CalPERS rethink that reflects a cut-the-crap mentality about active investing

A giant staff of researchers and managers -- not always in accord -- manages $260 billion of assets exerts psychological weight, and active management is losing friends in a place where it once thrived

September 12, 2013 at 8:30 PM

Louis Harvey: We are seeing naked fear.

Why the 'naked fear' from a Yale law professor's letters to 401(k) plan sponsors is still present

The threatening, finger-pointing nature of the epistles drew the blood, the lack of a remedy to the attack from New Haven keeps the wound from healing

August 1, 2013 at 5:49 PM

Michael Kitces: We've sparred back and forth on a couple of things over the past few years.

Two firms that have love-hate relationships with RIAs draft their harshest critics to serve as consiglieres

Advisor-rater BrightScope and tech startup Riskalyze draw two smack-talking industry observers into their inner circle

April 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM

Mike Alfred: We're showing sensitivity here.

How BrightScope plans to publicize RIA advisory fees fairly amid all those onion layers

One competitor is convinced the Alfreds are merely rewarding fee obfuscation but the San Diego iconoclasts refuse to be discouraged

April 12, 2013 at 5:11 AM

Charles Goldman: Once you take someone else's money, you have a commitment.

Advizent will close its doors after a final flurry of negotiations

Charles Goldman and Steve Lockshin had a moment of truth after receiving offers for funding

March 28, 2013 at 11:43 AM

Shiyan Koh: It's like a dating website for advisors.

NerdWallet's lead generation website has 20 Bay area advisors in beta, MIT, Wharton, Brown and Stanford folks running things and a Silicon Valley confidence

For Ask a Financial Advisor, the medium is the (video) message and the specializations include Lutherans

March 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM

Eric Clarke and Chip Roame atop Mount Whitney

How RIA industry execs took on the ultimate teamwork challenge: Conquering the highest summit in the lower 48

Training regimens for the group -- including a Green Beret and a Gulf War veteran -- ranged from crossing the Brooklyn Bridge to Google searches for portable bottles of oxygen

July 12, 2012 at 3:35 PM

Lou Harvey: The rules on the participant side are a joke.

After years of DOL bluster, new 401(k) rules appear to make RIAs' low expenses look higher than those of brokers

It's the same old problem of mutual fund-paid fees arriving by tunnel and therefore getting a pass in disclosures; DOL no-comments the issue

June 18, 2012 at 3:28 AM

Rick Meigs: These plans are knowledgeable, well-informed and have sufficient leverage to compel change.

What led to Vanguard allowing its 401(k) plan sponsors to shop around for non-Vanguard target-date funds

Despite the new choices available to plan sponsors, Vanguard believes clients won't stray -- but industry observers are not so sure

June 5, 2012 at 5:29 AM

Les Abromovitz: The SEC is embracing social media. It remains to be seen if social media users will embrace the SEC.

What the SEC is up to with its website's fancy new look

The redesign is a nod to social media and a recognition that it needs the public

May 14, 2012 at 3:37 AM

Chip Roame sees a coming explosion of discount brokerage branches.

8 notable takeaways from the spring 2012 Tiburon CEO Summit

The breakaway movement still depends more on Wall Street's moves than Main Street's moxie

April 18, 2012 at 5:58 AM

Josh Brown: It's not that I'm so great, but I've seen a lot of ugliness.

'Reformed Broker' and blogger 'Downtown' Josh Brown joins BrightScope's advisory board

On the same day he posts a scathing blog entry about the infamous Goldman Sachs op-ed, financial advisor/web celeb announces his association with the controversial data tracker

March 15, 2012 at 5:24 AM

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