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Megan Pacholok: T. Rowe's target date funds have performed well.

T. Rowe Price criticized in 2020 for radically hiking equities -- and risk -- in target date funds, now sees bet pay-off as S&P 500 and TDF returns soar

87 year-old Baltimore fund shop now ranks behind only Fidelity and Vanguard in TDF market with one of the most aggressive strategies in the industry.

February 13, 2024 at 4:58 AM

Maggie Serravalli keeps showing up in top roles.

Fidelity hits staggering $12.6 trillion in 2023, bids adieu to headhunted retail chief, beats Schwab's performance -- not least because it doesn't own a bank -- and sees Maggie Serravalli's star shine

Retail was Fido's weakest division with 3% growth and its chief departed; it's B2B units -- 401K and custody/clearing -- jumped 6% each; Serravalli now serves as the company’s chief administrative officer.

February 9, 2024 at 5:33 AM

Tim Buckley: We just look at asset classes... and those are the asset classes we steer people towards.'

Tim Buckley hazards Gen X, Y, Z blowback and catches Vanguard investors off-guard with last-second, anti-Fidelity policy to actively 'steer assets' away from Bitcoin

The Vanguard CEO stripped all third-party Bitcoin funds from its market, even though many young investors see them as table stakes portfolio spice.

January 17, 2024 at 4:56 AM

Andrew Kadjeski: 'We saw this as an opportunity to offer a cash product the Vanguard way.'

After many beta tests, Vanguard finally launches bank cash product for non-Vanguard investors, a U-turn but also likely thorn in the side of Schwab, Fidelity

High-yield but low frills, the Malvern, Pa., giant's long tip-toe back to cash makes it a me-too filler product but perhaps effective.

January 10, 2024 at 3:11 AM

Joanna Rotenberg: I’ve traveled 20,000-plus miles across the U.S. and internationally.

Joanna Rotenberg is departing Fidelity Investments after only two years, writing that she traveled 20,000 miles and successfully split her retail division into wealth and brokerage units

At her hire, analysts were adamant the head of Fidelity retail had 'big shoes to fill' to replace legendary Kathleen Murphy and her task of 'digitiizing' retail was no small ask

December 16, 2023 at 2:22 AM

Jamil Nazarali: We are committed to key institional best practices.

Belated Fidelity and Schwab co-op crypto venture suddenly looks timely, even predatory -- with crypto whiz kids 'belly up' and Bitcoin rising

The two RIA custody mega-rivals -- with Citadel and Virtu providing much trade muscle -- launch SEC-sensitive 'EDX' 12 years after Coinbase founding and after many 'digital asset' pioneers blew up

June 22, 2023 at 8:28 PM

First Republic tellers let three or four people wait inside and the rest on the sidewalk.

Biz Briefs: The sorry scene at my local First Republic branch • Schwab launches new (smaller) lay-off round • Schwab hoovers pennies passing FINRA fee to clients • Gensler pleas for funds • Fidelity owner's private equity pres. retires • an Orion-Envestnet staff switcheroo • LPL dumps FutureAdvisor

Range Rovers screeched in and drivers joined a grim queue to get their cash, and cookie • The Schwab-TDA deal cull count now stands at roughly 3.5% of its staff • FMR's hockey star president has stepped down • SEC chief wants more enforcers • An Envestnet executive proves joining a rival is good business • LPL now has an in-house robot.

April 29, 2023 at 1:36 AM

Walter Bettinger: 'Our franchise strength and financial model remain very much intact.'

Walt Bettinger comes out swinging during analysts' call, and shares pop, on assurances Schwab can ride out gale force interest rate pressure on its balance sheet

The Schwab CEO deflected blame, promised to stay 'conservative,' and left Wall Street analysts wondering why Schwab won't dump bonds and offer better rates for client sweep cash

April 18, 2023 at 3:01 AM

Fidelity's plan to hire 4,000 by July is perhaps captured by this picture of exactly 4,000 though our square formatting shaves more than 1,000 from view on the wings.

Fidelity will hire 4,000 staff in first half -- a staggering number but a tapering off from 'unprecedented' rate in 2021-2022 that catapulted it to 68,000 employees

The $10.3 trillion giant explains its hiring -- in a layoff environment -- as an RIA-like goal, namely having the human bandwidth to develop 'lifetime' relationships with its 40 million investors

February 17, 2023 at 2:49 AM

Tyrone Ross: 'They've squarely positioned themselves to be the leader when we come out of this.'

Fidelity Investments debuts Bitcoin trades, tempts fate at dark crypto hour, yet the Abby-approved move's upside boggles the mind

The $9.9-trillion Boston company is ignoring the plea of three senators and the Samuel Bankman Fried mania in exposing its customers, 401(k) and retail, to the most controversial of 'assets.'

December 5, 2022 at 7:28 PM

David Canter was known for harmonious relations across the RIA business.

David Canter is the latest to leave Fidelity Investments amid the ongoing changing of the guard across the company, a 'huge loss,' says RIA CEO

Beloved by mega RIAs for high intelligence and low ego, the RIA custody chief and ex-Schwabie is moving on amid a wider company script of turnover, new job descriptions, ' and wild amounts of hiring

July 13, 2022 at 1:15 AM

Jamil Nazarali starts July as CEO of the Fidelity-Schwab-Citadel et al. venture.

With crypto landmines to fear greater than each other, Schwab and Fidelity co-invest in a cryptocurrency mega-startup with Citadel, Virtu and VCs Sequoia and Paradigm

The discount brokerage super-rivals are investing in a market maker venture with fellow [crypto retail] come-latelies, Virtu and Citadel -- a sign that the crypto winter hasn't chilled big investment in digital assets, even if liquidity occasionally freezes up.

June 30, 2022 at 1:49 AM

Tom O'Shea: '[The FidFolios launch] is really provocative, and, I would say, groundbreaking.'

Fidelity Investments strikes right back at Schwab with retail direct indexing that offers two apparent advantages -- it shaves $95,000 off the minimum and already is accepting assets

The Boston giant launches FidFolios today (Apr. 1) in a covering move that goes one better than Schwab with a radically lower barrier, though Schwab questions its utility in the real world.

April 2, 2022 at 12:52 AM

Mark McCombe: [We're] using our aggregation power to face off against the insurance company.

BlackRock's no longer secretive strategy to gain ground on Vanguard and Fidelity in $10.3 trillion DC market will now be tested on 120,000 employees at five US companies where it might work -- or not

BlackRock has about $1 trillion of defined contribution assets while Fidelity and Vanguard both administer multiple trillions, so the New York giant is dangling defined benefits as a way to win the defined contributions game.

October 29, 2021 at 11:54 PM

Roger Aliaga-Diaz: 'There is no enduring economic or investment rationale to expect cryptocurrencies to generate positive real returns.'

Charles Schwab & Co. dials in what it may consider SEC's all-clear signal on bitcoin, while Vanguard's take includes nothing to turn a red light green

The Westlake, Tex., brokerage is taking a hyper-pragmatic, outward-looking approach and the Malvern, Pa. giant is relying on its inner compass, vision of reality.

June 4, 2021 at 1:45 AM

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