Articles tagged "Charles Schwab & Co."
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Five RIA Doubletakes: BlackRock AUM tops $10 trillion as active funds make comeback • Schwab has killer quarter and Wall Street sells its shares • DFA is now the largest active ETF manager • SEC flummoxes RIAs with "inaccurate" guidance • Fidelity pulls in $146 billion in workplace assets
After record AUM high, BlackRock chairman and CEO Larry Fink brushes off a milestone • SchwabSchwab hits records; Wall Street wants more • Mutual fund giant's ETF conversion yields bragging rights • Regulation Best Interest headaches unnecessary, despite SEC brouhaha, lawyers say • Workplace scheme wins big for Fidelity.
January 21, 2022 at 3:16 AM
Robinhood gets 'brilliant' upper manager -- and a spare CEO -- by nabbing TD Ameritrade's ex-thinkorswim top exec, hopefully to throw a lifesaver to Robinhood's sinking stock
The Menlo Park, Calif., firm nabbed Steve Quirk as first-ever chief brokerage officer to 'bridge the gap between academia and reality.'
January 6, 2022 at 10:33 PM
Oisín's snippets: Charles Schwab brand goes up on Omaha's TD Ameritrade stadium, home of college baseball world series • Interactive Brokers lands an RIA custody insider, Charlie Latimer, to climb the custodian ladder
The TDA brand lives on until the techies figure out how to make two systems into one, but change is in the air in Omaha, while Interactive Brokers gets a leg up in the custody business with a new hire.
December 27, 2021 at 9:58 PM
Charles Schwab Corp. is crash-hiring TD Ameritrade Institutional staff-- amid wild growth-- to quell RIA service howls, but cautions to hold off custody switch to Schwab to avoid repapering
The Westlake, Texas broker-dealer and custodian of $8 trillion of AUA is hiring at least 140 people, including 50 already signed to handle an upsurge in demand.
December 14, 2021 at 1:54 AM
TD Bank basks in the glow of Schwab's $100 million TD Ameritrade marketing spend as it hires 350 advisors and launches competing robo using same branding
Toronto-Dominion Bank's other U.S. offspring will hit the ground running with upped wealth management manpower thanks in part to its logo-share with Schwab.
December 2, 2021 at 3:17 AM
Why the SEC's green light for Bitcoin ETFs failed to convince Charles Schwab & Co. to make crypto trading available to its 32.5 million retail accounts
The $7.6 trillion in administered assets giant sees mixed signals from regulators who are drawing lines as it goes along -- treacherous regulatory conditions for a big company not built to shift course at a whim.
October 28, 2021 at 1:21 AM
Charles Schwab Corp. stock finally blasts past $80 starring the RIA custody unit's record $81 billion in net new assets
The Westlake, Texas broker-dealer's market cap surpassed $152 billion today after disclosing year-to-date assets have grown by close to $1 trillion
October 15, 2021 at 10:42 PM
Schwab Advisor Services informs its 13,000 RIAs -- including legacy TD Ameritrade practices -- they must buy E&O insurance, but rival Fidelity is taking a different tack--voluntary compliance
The Westlake, Texas, custodian is cracking down at a time when states are mandating errors and ommissions policies, RIAs are getting bigger, more complex and phishing attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication.
October 8, 2021 at 2:12 AM
Fidelity gives RIAs real-time fractional trading despite little evident demand, while rival Schwab demurs, yet just filed to launch $100k-minimum direct indexing in 2022
Like with digital assets, the Boston giant is dangling the nascent service with faith that RIAs will seize the opportunity but its Westlake, Texas, rival wants to see better evidence of demand before prioritizing such a big push on its institutional platform.
October 6, 2021 at 9:34 PM
Charles Schwab & Co. jacks up mutual fund commissions 50% to $74.95 on retail investors to counter freeloading by Vanguard, Fidelity and Dodge & Cox funds -- but RIAs dodge the crossfire
The $7.6-trillion, Westlake, Texas, firm is also taking TD Ameritrade sell commissions to zero on mutual funds to harmonize with its own price schedule.
August 31, 2021 at 10:30 PM
Citing 100% increase in net new assets, Charles Schwab Corp. will give staff 5% 'special' pay raise that leaves one HR analyst doing a double-take
As talent wars rage in call center meccas like Dallas and business booms, the Westlake, Texas firm commits to a leap in overhead
August 20, 2021 at 12:01 AM
Charles Schwab Corp. to pay up to $200 million in federal regulatory charges, following SEC robo-advice probe; may be tied to discrepancies between how it collected revenues internally and how advertising implied no advisory fee.
The $7.4 trillion in administered assets Westlake, Texas broker-dealer came late to the robo business, but quickly dominated. That move fast, break things blitz may now produce a hangover.
July 3, 2021 at 12:23 AM
Fidelity Investments is paying 2,000 employees to hasten their corporate exits, including high-profile RIA overseer, Sanjiv Mirchandani, as part of its shift to a digital future
The Boston giant offered voluntary buyout packages and the 4% of staff who accepted will leave by June 30 to give other staff room to grow careers and make room for hires.
June 24, 2021 at 5:39 PM
The SEC effectively says 'no,' again, to Bitcoin ETFs with request for public comment, allowing Charles Schwab & Co. to keep its cover and steer clear of crypto for now
The Securities and Exchange Commission goes back to square one by starting a public comment period with a heart-stopping, simple question: Can people manipulate Bitcoin prices?
June 16, 2021 at 11:17 PM
With up to 25% of assets exposed, Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard add algorithms to spot decreased mental capacity among aging clients, but RIAs are sitting ducks, a new report states
The leading edge of the boomer generation is now 75, near the average for Alzheimer's onset, and up to 25% will suffer diminished capacity, making them vulnerable to poor decision-making or exploitation
