Articles tagged "Jon Stein"
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Betterment makes CFO hire with $20 billion AUM 'line of sight' and IPO mindfulness
As the NYC robo hits $5 billion ahead of its rivals, Amy Shapero will deploy hundreds of millions en route to a stock symbol
July 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM
The inverted reverence dynamic at The In|Vest event and why Bill Crager is so over it
Tomorrow is here: Wirehouse execs and IBM types play groupies as robo-founders leaned back in their chairs
June 23, 2016 at 6:19 PM
The overnight maturation of In|Vest 2016 was like green bananas going straight to brown for some but Joe Duran made sure it bore fruit
A pure robo, a quasi-robo, an RIA-herder and an insurance man walked onto a panel, riffing on Jon Oliver's scathing fiduciary take
June 20, 2016 at 8:41 PM
What Neesha Hathi told the In|Vest 2016 in NYC crowd in her debut as Schwab robo chief -- and how she elicited one gasp from the crowd
Though declining to offer a glimpse of the future, Hathi surprised with stats showing Schwab is succeeding against the upstart robos with older, less web-savvy customers
June 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM
After Betterment's $100 million VC raise makes 25 newspapers, Wealthfront unveils 3.0 on blog and Twitter
The big Redwood City robo is staying in character by touting 'artificial intelligence,' in synch with Facebook's CEO, but whether it's a real delineation or simple evolution is hard to tell
April 19, 2016 at 9:35 PM
Schwab's former retail chief ends garden leave with two new gigs -- as chief of HD Vest holding company, and as Betterment CEO's operations confidante
John Clendening is now CEO of Blucora and a director at Betterment -- and a new resident of Bellevue. Wash.
April 12, 2016 at 9:58 PM
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
Betterment adds 50 firms to its new 401(k) plan -- and IBM and Marcia Wagner connections
Smaller companies with Betterment-ish-sounding names like Earnest Operations and Boxed are the early guinea pigs but big dogs are on the robo's 401(k) board of directors
January 27, 2016 at 7:24 PM
The 10 biggest RIA moves of 2015 and what conclusions to draw from them
PE dollars, succession angst, women executives seeking same and, of course, the robo sweepstakes spurred these advisor-entrepreneurs to dare and to risk much
January 4, 2016 at 9:28 PM
Betterment hires an RIA chief who reframes the vision from 'robo' to 'one-throat-to-choke' custodian -- and viable Schwab competitor
Fresh off selling Upside to Envestnet, Tom Kimberly is Betterment Institutional's general manager and architect of a new vision
November 19, 2015 at 12:31 AM
Betterment jumps headlong into the 401(k) business spurred by a conviction that even Vanguard Group is unfriendly to investors in this arena
The New York robo-advisor is going full stack, competing with Fidelity Investments on everything from recordkeeping to financial advice
September 11, 2015 at 2:22 PM
Two ways of reading Wealthfront's inscrutable hire of a power CFO -- one it may not really need anytime soon
The Palo Alto-based robo-advisor may have tapped Ashley Fieglein Johnson to raise more VC -- or just because it doesn't need to count every bit of cash it burns
August 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM
Consumer Reports names Betterment in top five for customer service with USAA, Schwab, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price
The recognition flies in the face of a bias against that says robos can't hold hands with their bony robot fingers
August 14, 2015 at 8:05 PM
Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play
In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'
July 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM
An insider reveals turbo-contents of the In|Vest conference in New York, a summit of VCs, robo-founders and big banks
SigFig's Mike Sha talked Bank of the West, Motif's Hardeep called start-ups 'features' and the five-year number jumped to $2 trillion
