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Tom Kimberly: Incumbent custodians like Charles Schwab and others haven’t kept up.
November 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM

Bill Harris says his retirement planning tool is 'the best one out there based on its balance between simplicity and sophistication.'

Almost lost in the robo shuffle, Personal Capital, in its 'special category,' is winning as told by an overlooked metric: revenues

Silicon Valley pioneer Bill Harris is struggling to goose the faltering free-to-premium conversion rate while keeping a weather eye on the big guys barging onto the field

September 15, 2015 at 6:11 PM

Jon Stein: No one has done this since Fidelity came into the space.

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

September 11, 2015 at 2:22 PM

Bo Lu is said to have parlayed an introduction to Larry Fink into a lucrative liquidity event.

Why BlackRock's purchase of FutureAdvisor for $152 million could be a deal of destiny

FutureAdvisor will nestle into BlackRock's risk management unit armed with iShares while Wealthfront and Schwab favor Vanguard ETFs

September 2, 2015 at 7:52 PM

Ashley Fieglein Johnson earned close to $1 million in total compensation last year but a $12 annoyance bank fee charged to her five-year-old son was a big reason she joined Wealthfront.

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

August 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM

Walt Bettinger: Building a B2C brand is incredibly expensive, as we all know, and difficult. Takes many, many years, but ultimately we think we are looking at a tool.

In a six-month-mark reality check, Walt Bettinger recasts Schwab's retail robo-advice as a 'tool' -- but a handy one

After the mini-Manhattan Project of Schwab Intelligent Portfolios, its CEO is showing a fuller hand of cards that goes way beyond B2C

August 5, 2015 at 6:52 PM

Mike Sha: We haven't actually rolled out our asset management service yet.

Why SigFig is shifting its focus to using banks as middlemen despite having captive consumer audience with $350 billion

The San Francisco-based robo-advisor has trepidation about the scale it would take to handle the conversions after bad experience

July 21, 2015 at 7:13 PM

Katie Henderson: We really do believe that the need for advice is growing. This is something retail clients have been asking for as they get close to the pre-retiree phase.

Vanguard's white-hot 'hybrid robo' just added $4 billion in three months -- a heat that may cast a chill on 'pure' robos

Now at $21 billion, Vanguard Personal Advisor Services is cannibalizing as a segmentation strategy and emphasizing new technology that edges it toward a more robo-centric, less call center-oriented model

July 16, 2015 at 5:02 PM

Jon Stein: I'm loath to play this game, but my PR team insisted that I set the record straight.

Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play

In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'

July 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM

Ted Eliopoulos is showing increasing intolerance for return-corroding fees.

CalPERS's hatchet man, Ted Eliopoulos, goes on a manager firing spree, shaving hundreds of millions in management fees -- but is it enough?

For its most recent fiscal year, the pension giant paid $1.6 billion in fees, with close to 90% of that money going to the real estate, private equity, and egregiously pricey hedge fund managers

June 23, 2015 at 3:04 PM

Kate Aronowitz: Millennials are the people who try things first. They have a higher bar for design but I don't think you choose one [demographic] or the other.

After Schwab and Betterment catch up to Wealthfront's AUM, the Palo Alto robo pioneer makes a stunning hire

Facebook's former design chief will use millennials as an acid test but she's designing for a broader market

June 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM

McKinsey & Co. might not know everything but its office location map shows it is omnipresent.

McKinsey: Robo-advisors have a cloudy future but 'virtual advice' delivered by 24-hour super-centers with experts and algorithms will win the day

Using ChinaTrust’s 'Air Financial Advisor' and Itau’s 'Personalite' service, Schwab -- even E*TRADE -- as examples, the global consultant says the future will splinter 'digital' and 'automated'

June 2, 2015 at 11:58 PM

Brad Matthews [r.] with Jason Novotny: I guarantee, I promise there will be a big institution [using Trizic] in the next 12 months.

After Schwab robo launch, Trizic phones leap off the hook as Wall Street brokers and bankers come calling -- and VCs write checks

Ex-JP Morgan Trizic founders say their giant enterprise prospects went from 'denial' to 'how?'

May 18, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Peter Lawler: We've invested a lot of money in our technology platform and have multiple APIs, which cater to those firms. Those firms don't like paper.

With robo-advisors on the rise, robo custodian Apex is rising with them, a diamond mined from the rubble of the Penson Worldwide debacle

Cheaper, more paperless and early to market, the Dallas-based clearing house/broker-dealer is out to protect its lead as big RIA custodians play robo catch-up

May 1, 2015 at 6:19 AM

Walt Bettinger: As time goes on, the weighting of new-to-firm clients is growing.

Schwab grabs astounding $1.5 billion of robo assets in six weeks, but mostly from itself

Walt Bettinger boasts of 'hundreds of new accounts daily' for Schwab Intelligent Portfolios then fences with Wall Street analysts who beg details

April 24, 2015 at 9:58 PM

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