Articles tagged "Merrill Edge"
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A 31 year-old CEO raises $33 million for very RIA venture -- buying too-small RIA accounts, then serving them on a Merrill Edge-type platform in Baltimore
As LearnVest cedes the B2C financial planning niche, Anders Jones gets cash from Warburg Pincus to go after that market with a whole new approach; it includes cozying up to the RIA M&A boys and reinventing how human advisors plan
September 11, 2018 at 10:07 PM
Merrill Edge eases Bank of America's transition to a post-wirehouse world
The Charlotte super bank's plan to add 600 branches builds on success but recruiters say lingering tension between Merrill and Merrill Edge advisors is more of a factor than the bank admits
April 3, 2018 at 8:32 PM
The documented RIA threat, 'phono-advisors' and their nearly $300 billion of assets
Not much romantic about call center-based advisors but under banners like Vanguard, Fisher Investments or Merrill Edge, they are a force to be reckoned with
September 12, 2014 at 5:06 AM
Why I find the term 'robo-advisor' objectionable and unhelpful
In the end, all good advisors will likely be both bionic and biological and terms of art creating a false distinction are unhelpful
April 1, 2014 at 4:14 AM
The amazing success of Merrill Edge and why some legacy Merrill brokers think it's eating their seed crop
It won $87 billion in brokerage assets in three years, but some old Merrill Lynch vets say it's just pulling emerging accounts away from thems
September 23, 2013 at 6:30 PM
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
Why the launch of Merrill Edge may be a shrewder move by BoA than it first appears
Success will depend on how closely BoA/Merrill Lynch can tie the new online brokerage to its full-service offering
