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Marie Chandoha: I like to build things.

Schwab turns the YieldPlus page the old-fashioned way -- with a whole new CSIM team

Ex-Goldman and former BlackRock star Marie Chandoha has quickly overseen Charles Schwab Investment Management's rise from Barron's #34 to top 10 -- but Morningstar wants to see more

February 15, 2012 at 3:36 PM

Russel Kinnel: Sometimes there's just some key information that's not being considered in the star ratings.

Morningstar explains its new forward-looking rating system -- and tosses in some hot fund picks for good measure

The Chicago-based firm adds Gold, Silver, Bronze, Neutral and Negative ratings to its rear-view-facing constellation of stars

December 21, 2011 at 12:46 PM

Bryan Olson: These funds are there to protect on the downside and there will be a lower kick on the upside in a stronger equity market.

Windhaven misses its 12-month benchmarks again but still hits asset-gathering mark

More advisors are using Schwab's ETF manager but some of them dislike the company's tactical approach

November 18, 2011 at 5:28 AM

Aniket Ullal says ETFs don't fit well into classification systems that were originally built for mutual funds.

Startup firm bets its ETF research technology can cut out the middle man for advisors

First Bridge founder Aniket Ullal came from S&P and believes he can take on Lipper and Morningstar

October 26, 2011 at 4:46 AM

Bob Veres is helping provide the practice management twist to this new conference series.

What Messrs. Bruckenstein, Drucker and Veres cooked up in a Chicago airport hotel

The pilot effort to make a T3-like event with heavy admixtures of wealth management and practice management looked good

October 18, 2011 at 3:20 AM

Neal Ringquist: We're doing it from the top down through enterprises and bottom up trying to convince advisors to buy it themselves.

Long a tech innard for Schwab, LPL and TD, Advisor Software is looking to push its own brand with new product

Its new software, goalgamiPro, is able to make sense of multiple housebold balance sheets and come out with a plan

October 11, 2011 at 4:53 AM

Mike Alfred: Reviews will be in line with the spirit of [compliance regulations] if not in line with the antiquated letter of the law, which was written long before the era of social media.

Brightscope to launch Yelp-like reviews, putting advisors under the consumer microscope

The iconoclastic Alfred brothers' latest innovation will give clients a voice - but experts and advisors fear compliance complications

October 3, 2011 at 4:38 AM

Joe Mansueto: There’s a need to find the right advisor for you and to evaluate that advisor. There’s a consumer need.

Morningstar's Mansueto views next horizon: rating RIAs

Company announces new forward-looking fund rating systems but how to rate advisors still has puzzling aspects

June 13, 2011 at 2:36 PM

Bill Gross: Buy blue chip stocks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Procter & Gamble.

Bill Gross wows advisors at Morningstar conference, but not with good news

The bond king slammed fixed income investments and encouraged blue chip stock investments in a hard-hitting speech

June 9, 2011 at 2:10 PM

Rob Major: If you have 200 reports that do everything but cook you breakfast in the morning, you have a system that is unaffordable for 80% of the advisors that are out there.

After tortoise-like beginnings, AssetBook is now on-the-hop in portfolio management software

Rob Major takes what he learned in building Techfi to make AssetBook a functional, no-frills system

May 25, 2011 at 1:51 PM

Rob Isbitts: What we don’t know is whether the current strength is sustainable, or whether easy money from the Fed is stoking the rally, which has now produced more than a doubling of stock prices (based on the S&P 500’s value) in just over two years.

Why smart diversification and risk management are your best friends

Earnings season gave stocks a reason to rally in April; healthcare and European funds lead pack

May 11, 2011 at 2:40 PM

Rob Isbitts: There's not much of an effort to get this valuable information into the hands of investors.

How capture ratios can help you prepare for the next downturn

A tool little noticed by investors can help you determine which investment style works in which market

March 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM

Rob Isbitts: Investors tend to ignore a lot of things in the short-run, and tend to react to bad news when it reaches crisis mode.

Performance envy strikes investors as a familiar pattern sets in

Twice before -- in 1999 and 2007 -- we have seen how a strong market taints expectations

February 14, 2011 at 3:11 PM

Rob Isbitts: Certain categories, such as Equity Precious Metals and China Region, now boast 5-year returns that make you wonder if they can maintain the pace.

Six things to know about the winners and losers in November’s market

Morningstar data: The market only eked out a gain, but some fund categories like natural resources stood out. Meanwhile, Europe stock funds got walloped.

December 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM

Jonathan Heck: The Axys software might as well be an entirely separate business and it’s in run-off mode.

Advent Software is squandering its market leadership by keeping focus on Axys, according to a hedge fund analyst's report

The San Francisco-based leader is slow to react with new technology, web-based solutions, pricing, and ease of upgrades and integration, the report says

December 6, 2010 at 6:10 AM

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