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David Mann: We’re leveraging active management expertise at Franklin Templeton and bringing it into the ETF world.

Franklin Templeton's ETF play reveals pain of being late -- yet it beats never

Franklin Resources has hewed to near a $42 share price back to 2006 but with $750 billion of AUM it is being deliberate with launch of single-country ETFs, opening wider window on strategic weaning from mutual fund dependency

November 10, 2017 at 12:29 AM

Robert Pettman: We're essentially setting up a gating mechanism. The cash is going through the money market fund and that’s why it’s traded with waived. load shares.

LPL Financial clips wings of 20 top fund companies by asserting itself as 'gatekeeper' on newly launched DOL-proof 3.5% flat-commission mutual fund superstore

Using Labor Department as leverage, LPL cuts itself in as middleman between branded fund giants -- including Fidelity, Legg Mason and Putnam -- and its advisors' clients -- in exchange for semi-exclusive shelf space positioning

August 4, 2017 at 10:04 PM

Tim Hockey: There is an advice continuum with do-it-yourselfers on one end and advisor directed investors on the other. In the middle we don’t want to give them a reason to leave, so we have to offer more choices.

Tim Hockey invites channel-conflict question before TD Ameritrade's RIAs, sets good tone at LINC conference

New CEO plants question with his own PR interrogator, relieving tension, albeit with a stock answer, and allowing a successful event to unfold

February 6, 2017 at 6:22 PM

Bill Harris: We're running hot.
September 21, 2016 at 9:12 PM

Michael Kitces: They compare to every other RIA that meets with clients using Skype -- which is all of us.

Vanguard virtual RIA's growth rate plummets from 50% to 32% with a staggering consolation -- another $10 billion in AUM since January

Now at $41 billion, up from $31 billion six months before, Vanguard gorged on easy cannibalization but classic RIAs are also losing assets to the Malvern growth engine

August 2, 2016 at 9:30 PM

Scott Smith: They're a late entrant but we're still early in this game.

Fidelity launches new robo as Schwab's hits $8.2 billion in assets

The Boston giant differentiates itself by its promise to keep cash holdings at less than 1% and in having a published fee -- albeit a floating one

July 27, 2016 at 4:06 AM

Robb Baldwin: Dealing with advisors who require lots of effort with very little assets, you realize that some of the greatest risk you end up facing is from small advisors.

The non-Big Four RIA custodians, no longer runts but stunted in growth, are applying tougher love to hobbyist RIAs

In part one of a three-part series, we examine how seven small custodians -- starting with Trade PMR and Scottrade -- are evolving away from the Utopian model of 100% inclusivity

June 7, 2016 at 10:14 PM

Bill Butterfield: I'm sure other wirehouses won't be far behind.

Why there's more to the UBS-SigFig deal than meets Sergio Ermotti's gimlet eye

UBS's New York and Switzerland C-suiters tromped through the San Francisco robo's digs for months before striking this bellwether deal

May 17, 2016 at 6:52 PM

Scott Smith: I don't think the goal for them is to fight Wealthfront.

With BlackRock ahead and blue ocean behind, LPL finds its robo comfort zone

With the 150 basis-point-plus price of Guided Wealth Portfolios, LPL's robo plan doesn't look so robo, except for the onboarding

April 15, 2016 at 7:59 PM

Jon Stein: In January with all of the market volatility, we saw our fastest-growing month ever until this month. March will be our fastest growing month ever.

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

March 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM

Bing Waldert: This is almost an existential crisis for variable annuities.

As variable annuities face 'existential crisis,' LPL's Casady is latest to warn of end to commission-sold VAs in retirement plans

DOL's imminent final rule is prompting LPL and Commonwealth to consider nixing traditional VAs in qualified retirement plans

March 2, 2016 at 7:05 PM

A plethora of definitions and categories must be sorted and so must manipulation of the count.

How many RIAs are there? No, seriously, how many?

Competing counts are full of 'bastardized' definitions of 'advisor,' state vs. SEC- vs. dually registered IARs, differing study criteria and agendas

November 11, 2015 at 7:57 PM

Frederick Pickering:  eRIAs should consider pivoting to a business-to-business model.

Citing Edward Jones as a cautionary tale, Cerulli alerts 'eRIAs' -- i.e. robos -- that they need to be world-beaters just to survive

The Boston-based researcher suggests by 2016 the standalone B2C model will demand net asset gathering $150 million per month -- a figure that will soon balloon to $180 million per month

October 14, 2015 at 4:42 PM

Bing Waldert: They can go to the guy they trust and just use that person.

Report: 'Brother-in-law' dabblers are giving 401(k) ground slowly to specialists in $1.3 trillion market

Some RIAs disagree with Cerulli's pessimism and say DOL is having its effect with small employers seeking real experts to provide 401(k)s to employees

September 17, 2015 at 6:36 PM

Troy Hammond: If we sold our enterprise to CAPTRUST, I think it would have felt weird to our advisors.

As $160-billion CAPTRUST makes a snack of $10-billion Pensionmark, Fielding Miller accelerates his roll-up plans with a liberal structure

The Raleigh, N.C.-based firm's willingness to buy 49% reduces 'weird' and may set the stage for life as more of a 401(k) franchisor

April 6, 2015 at 4:02 PM

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