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Steve Lockshin: One is a hammer and the other is a screwdriver.

Why exactly Betterment backers Marty Bicknell and Steve Lockshin became customers of rival robo and custodian TD Ameritrade

What makes the counterintuitive step work is how Jemstep helps round up the mass-affluent's mess of paperwork

November 25, 2015 at 5:55 PM

David Canter and Marty Bicknell have expanded a growing partnership between the Boston and Leawood, Kan. firms.

Marty Bicknell and Fidelity enter into the mother of all cross-RIA referral deals

What the Mariner CEO promises the Boston giant is that the 'S' word -- segmentation -- will only apply to advisors, not clients

April 9, 2015 at 7:33 PM

Steve Lockshin: The long play is as this generation of advisors turns over that we’ve created the time and space for advisors to focus on things that give their clients joy.

Debriefing a post-Convergent Steve Lockshin as he once more builds a classic RIA -- or is it neo-classical?

AdvicePeriod's chief says he won't poach Convergent (if he can avoid it) and hopes that his $300-million RIA will have a Betterment feel

January 8, 2015 at 5:55 PM

Robert Thomas: They knew what they were doing.

Marty Bicknell buys a $1.1 billion RIA that serves the mass affluent, and taps credit for the first time

In buying Vantage with borrowed funds, 'liquidity' per se was not the issue for Mariner Wealth; speed of execution was

January 7, 2015 at 8:11 PM

The real and metaphorical hire of Peg Pike in its execution and promise made for a stunning webinar.

Three RIAs, three big-time hires and the story of how it all came together

Dwight Mikulis, Steve Janachowski and Marty Bicknell reveal their contrasting hiring styles and why chief operating officer is the job du jour in the RIA industry.

December 1, 2014 at 8:00 AM

Ten-foot-tall sculptures inside the Grand Hyatt's lobby lent a tone.

Grand thoughts at the NYC Grand Central Hyatt from Fidelity Investments and RIAs

Part rally, part book launch, the Boston-based custodian rolled into NYC for the last gig of a whistle-stop tour

October 30, 2014 at 6:11 PM

David Stofer: At SageView I had to sell and service clients....I want to be a consultant.

How Mariner Holdings is angling to become a $3-billion 401(k) company overnight by co-opting a local SageView office

The $40-billion RIA/asset manager plans to combine $2 billion from Randy Long's RIA to $1 billion of existing 401(k) assets

October 21, 2014 at 11:39 PM

Jon Stein: We've been working on it for the last six months. We wanted to wait until tax loss harvesting and trust account support was in place.

Fidelity and Betterment sign a deal with Steve Lockshin and Marty Bicknell as groomsmen at the altar

The RIA principals are distributing the online asset manager service to fellow RIAs, and Fidelity is quelling an uproar of demand from RIA clients for robo answers for the mass affluent

October 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM

Peter Mallouk: We're laser focused on clients and absolutely not focused on acquisitions and breakaways and trying to merge cultures. I'm not trying to be the most well-known person in the industry.

By outing a reluctant star in Peter Mallouk, Barron's Top 100 advisors list yields a surprise winner -- Leawood, Kansas

Is it the water supply, fate or a bizarre coincidence that Peter Mallouk and Marty Bicknell, Barron's No. 1 and No. 2 advisors for two years running, are based in the same obscure 12,000-household suburb?

August 29, 2014 at 5:08 AM

Marty Bicknell: The thing I manage is reputational risk.

Marty Bicknell adds an investment bank to his $10-billion RIA and $26-billion asset manager

The CEO of Mariner Holdings prefers not to throw his wealth management clients to the M&A wolves when they liquidate big companies

August 11, 2014 at 9:09 PM

Kevin Corbett: For me, it was picking my favorite client and spending more time with them.

In two-part deal, Fidelity sacrifices a top talent to its top RIA client then fills the gap with an impressive hire from Schwab

Mariner's Marty Bicknell nabs Kevin Corbett and Fidelity's Bob Oros in turn snaps up Catherine Davies

July 16, 2014 at 6:22 PM

Chris Housen: I wasn't looking for a marriage. I wasn't even looking for a date.

Housen deal shows Marty Bicknell can make it in Jersey -- by word of mouth

The Kansas-based serial buyer's Mariner, now with $9.5 billion of assets, is knocking down big down-to-earth deals

May 1, 2014 at 6:56 AM

Justin Richter: I wanted to avoid the tortured stares of my older colleagues, who went into investment banking and sold their souls.

A 32-year-old Kansas advisor -- at all upheaval costs -- followed his mentor to Mariner Wealth Advisors

Losing clients and leaving money on the table are risks that more young advisors are willing to take, especially with social media as a viable workaround to the non-solicitation straitjacket

February 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM

Marty Bicknell: Sales in the wealth division is hand to hand combat, sometimes in the asset manager world, reputation and being on the right platforms drive business on their own.

The explosive growth to $20 billion AUM of Marty Bicknell's second roll-up-like venture, Montage Investments, and where his $8 billion wealth manager fits in

With admirers saying he takes a page from Warren Buffett, the Mariner Wealth CEO 's side bet on disenfranchised, unappreciated A-grade money managers

February 10, 2014 at 5:23 AM

What looks disorderly at TD has the dead reckoning of dollars following ROI opportunity.

An advertiser's-eye view of TD Ameritrade's national conference

Firms that rarely advertise had booths, including mega-RIAs, competing custodians and Marty Bicknell

February 3, 2014 at 4:40 AM

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