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Eduardo Repetto: It's solving a problem before it exists on the back end.

Dimensional Fund Advisors to launch 13 target date funds but can its RIA 'cult' deliver success?

The Austin, Texas-based fund giant sees a 401(k) opening the size of its home state if Vanguard, T.Rowe and Fido are any indication

October 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM

Philip Paleveev:  We want them to experience what it feels like to run a firm and make decisions

Philip Palaveev and Bob Oros create Hunger Games-style RIA high jinks for Fidelity execs, then release it for wide consumption

The reality TV-Harvard Business School hybrid throws simulated market crashes, personal tragedies and M&A what-ifs at green FAs to test their mettle and groom them for succession

September 29, 2015 at 10:31 PM

Mike Foy: We were wondering if hiring more women is a good strategy for making women investors happy and we found out it isn't.

In tight race, Fidelity and Edward Jones tie for top honors in J.D. Power survey as spiky markets drive down satisfaction scores across the board

In a first, J.D. Power asked women the importance of a same-sex advisor -- and got a surprising response

April 9, 2015 at 5:13 PM

The forecast for the 401(k) business is bright and foggy.

What exactly is doable for an RIA in the 401(k) business?

Conflicting forces of change have made the question harder to answer but has sweetened the pot

October 15, 2014 at 3:45 AM

Bob Reynolds: We're going to run the businesses together as one company.

Bob Reynolds does 'a lot of testing' to avoid foisting his 'Great West' brand on JP Morgan and Putnam Investments clientele

The chief executive also sees upside opportunities in bringing all three divisions under one banner

September 9, 2014 at 5:33 PM

Mike Alfred: Fidelity's gone from being generous to being assured of being generous.

How exactly Fidelity Investments extracted itself from a legal and HR quagmire and why it'll cost far more than the public $12-million amount

The settlement's small print reveals Fidelity employee may receive additional hundreds of millions of dollars in value over time

August 14, 2014 at 5:01 PM

Steve Anderson: We made the decision and notified these clients that we're going to resign our services. I personally made the call and explained our thinking.

Schwab shoos $25 billion of client assets out the door as it calls the bluff of employers with lopsided 401(k) contracts

The San Francisco giant is trading recordkeeper revenue for the prospect of wielding its mighty brand directly at plan participants

February 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM

Greg Gable on behalf of Charles Schwab:  Clients who participate in a planning process are more engaged.

Schwab's financial plan production skyrockets in 2013 as part of 'Chuck's' upmarket push

TD and Fidelity hold their fire on playing the planner role as Schwab clients get a full-on planner-executed fee for $2,000 and others are satisfied with more limited plans executed by 1,000 branch advisors for free

January 23, 2014 at 7:26 PM

Jylanne Dunne: What's most surprising about the study is how concerned the husbands are that the wives aren't prepared.

Fidelity's new research unlocks women by fixating on -- men -- but elicits an 'ahem' from a big RIA client

As part of its gender efforts, the Boston giant has crafted a quiz -- one that strikes United Capital's Joe Duran as suspiciously familiar

December 23, 2013 at 5:48 AM

Anthony Rochte:  We're not trying to build a passive-ETF business.

Why Fidelity's Anthony Rochte could still laugh best in the ETF game -- despite a late, late start

The Boston fund giant, with its hired gun ETF czar, has an outside shot at jumping from laughing stock also-ran in ETFs to first-mover if it pulls off its deep-in-the-rockies launch of active ETFs

October 25, 2013 at 3:20 AM

Jordan Burgess: This information has been well-received by advisors.

Fidelity Investments puts hard numbers on the disgruntlement of 401(k) plan sponsors -- and launches Z shares with ETF-like prices

Advisors are gaining some ground but the crunch of fees and service on plan purveyors gets worse and worse

August 16, 2013 at 5:32 AM

Mike Durbin: Our attitude is the world is an absolutely enormous place so the overlaps don't bother us at all.

Fidelity reorganizes its advisor business and extrudes a custody unit aimed at outsourcers, roll-ups and TAMPs

The move is the biggest effort yet to wield the combined capacities of National Financial Services and Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services as a single Fidelity weapon

July 10, 2013 at 1:09 PM

Sanjiv Mirchandani: People in this business don't make a move until they get everyone in the family to make a sale.

Fidelity gleans why so many 'attractive' advisors cling to wirehouses and Cerulli's newest RIA data shows plenty find courage

Those hefty retention bonuses aren't the only thing keeping brokers tied to their desks -- family sentiment has huge impact on 'fence-sitters'

May 8, 2013 at 10:16 PM

Kris McCabe is charged with helping to bring back Advisor Partners to its former asset stature.

Hire of former Fidelity and Wealthfront talent is latest move by Andrew Rudd to remake Advisor Partners

Kris McCabe has admired Andrew Rudd's company from afar and now he believes he can get its brand humming

December 10, 2012 at 4:41 PM

Jim Dario developed respect for TD Ameritrade over the years as a competitor.

What's up with Jim Dario making the leap from Pershing to TD Ameritrade

The former Fidelity star -- and an almost star in 'Jaws' -- made an intra-Jersey City move but actually never left Boston

September 5, 2012 at 3:46 PM

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