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Zohar Swaine: InStream does not intend to limit an advisor's choice of which financial provider to use -- this key point may have been misreported or not understood by others.

Could inStream be the Next Big Thing in RIA technology?

Alex Murguia is assembling a minor Dream Team of RIA execs including Zohar Swaine, but the revenue model is causing some consternation

January 7, 2013 at 4:20 AM

Eddie Wong: It's been quite an adventure with FinFolio -- a good one.

Braving setbacks, FinFolio wins a $1.6 billion RIA and dark-horses its way on to the software track

Index Fund Advisors carefully vetted Tamarac, Orion and Black Diamond for a year but gambled on the newer, smaller vendor -- with the veteran quarterback, Matt Abar

November 6, 2012 at 5:56 PM

Roger Hewins: We could end up with thousands of small clients.

A $2.5 billion RIA makes its mass-market bid for thousands of new clients

Hewins Financial is making the no-minimum move after a six-figure investment in Tamarac software

September 4, 2012 at 4:11 AM

Michael Brown: When you hit those milestones, it causes you to reflect.

Why making partner at Deloitte Touche helped convince a CPA to join a $2 billion DFA RIA 2,300 miles away

After Michael Brown earned CPA nirvana he realized what he really wanted to do -- become an IA

August 10, 2012 at 3:51 PM

Eduardo Repetto: It will happen some day.

Eduardo Repetto tips Dimensional Fund Advisors' hand on long-term succession -- which likely involves an IPO

DFA's co-CEO says that any IPO talk is purely precautionary but that the board has vetted the possibility thoroughly -- and largely ruled out the possibility of a merger

June 13, 2012 at 4:24 AM

Consumers on the panel identified most advisors as being suspect communicators.

Loring Ward tells a focus group to let loose on advisors -- and it does

A tony Monterey RIA event becomes blood sport as 15 private investors unleash frustration on professionals

June 11, 2012 at 3:00 AM

Dave Butler: If there’s a $50 million advisor, they might want to know something from a $500 million advisor.

DFA engages former Moss Adams analyst as it pilots its intel deeper into RIA space

The Austin, Texas-based firm is bringing on Jeff Pierce as part of its initiative to build its own in-house research arm

May 9, 2012 at 4:37 PM

Alex Potts: It's the biggest investment we've ever taken on.

With help from Envestnet and a former Genworth technology whiz, Loring Ward is revamping its TAMP platform

The San Jose firm is counting on competitors and former talent of competitors to make sure it spends its millions efficiently

May 8, 2012 at 3:27 AM

Dave Butler: The strategy light went off.

Dimensional Fund Advisors gins up its first conference dedicated to the 401(k) market

The Austin, Texas-based fund company sees growth in retirement plan assets from big customers

May 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM

Mark Matson: Nobody could foresee in their psyche what it would be like to see their clients panic.

Mark Matson: Stand up to clients or else

With dysfunctional behavior in his sites, the big advisor will go 24 hours straight if necessary in webcast marathon

February 1, 2011 at 5:44 AM

Gordon Murray used his final months of life to advocate on behalf of investors -- and got huge global attention.

After two years of defying the odds, Gordon Murray, co-author of The Investment Answer, dies of cancer

The DFA acoloyte helped take his book from idea to publishing phenomenon in six months

January 19, 2011 at 2:46 PM

The Top 10 on RIABiz last month included a story about Charles Goldman.

What advisors care about: technology, hiring, Schwab's lawsuit against a broker hit top RIABiz stories this month

A new platform for alternative assets, plus the regulatory moves expected this year also make the list

January 17, 2011 at 4:18 PM

Mark Hurley touched a nerve in 2010 by questioning the enterprise value of RIA practices.

The next 20 top stories and what they say about where the RIA business is headed

Big companies, big innovators, exclusive conferences and the 401(k) market riveted advisor attention

December 29, 2010 at 2:45 PM

Dan Goldie (on left): This is why we did all the work. (Gordon Murray is seated on the right.)

Two DFA advisors win big book contract after 'Dying banker' article in NYTimes

Success continues to come, rapid-fire, and Dan Goldie gets help in his practice

December 28, 2010 at 2:20 PM

Dan Goldie [on left]:I knew I would get Gordon Murray [on right] hooked.

'Dying banker's last instructions' article in New York Times sends book sales soaring for two DFA advisors/authors

When Gordon Murray was given six months to live, he and Dan Goldie set to work

November 29, 2010 at 4:45 AM

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