Articles tagged "Schwab Advisor Services"
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Incoming Charles Schwab CEO toes edge, telling RIAs he will greenlight spot coin trades, maybe 'in short order' under Trump, but conservative firms still must have 'risk appetite,' SEC attorney cautions
Rick Wurster says Schwab is watching regulators but regulatory attorneys say financial chiefs ultimately must contend with risk of digital asset fraud and manipulation.
December 7, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Jon Beatty uses his Schwab IMPACT coming out party to let RIAs know he is anti-disruption, and to expect the RIA industry to decelerate, after 10 crazy years of growth
Bernie Clark's replacement as RIA custody chief made no promises in conference interviews but praised 'scale' and 'breadth,' which Schwab certainly has in spades.
November 27, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Rick Wurster's CEO tenure begins with a big RIA question: will he honor Bernie-tenure 'pledge' to keep custody free, or will he create a new, possibly better, pricing paradigm?
RIAs have had a limited back-channel to the c-suite since Bernie Clark's departure, and Wurster remains an unknown to the industry.
October 8, 2024 at 4:06 AM
Federal judge, who tossed Stephen Greco's sweeping RIA lawsuit, grants leave to refile with more facts and less 'overlong and needlessly complex' arguments
Judge LaShonda Hunt keeps long-running, widely watched case against Creative Planning, Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade hanging by a thread.
September 28, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Charles Schwab Corp. sets 2025 to shut down RIA robo-advisor, will stop onboarding RIA clients in November 2024, offering legacy TD Ameritrade software as replacement
The sister robo advisor, Schwab Intelligent Portfolios, will live on as a retail offering but got nixed from Schwab's wealth RIA -- expunging reference to 2022 SEC sanction -- and now will be under RIA of Charles Schwab Investment Management
September 25, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Bernie Clark's parting remarks -- webcast and media -- center on Schwab's outsized symbiosis with national W-2 RIAs; he declines to 'name names' of ones he doesn't love but names some he does
The exit-bound Schwab RIA chief, never one to offend, says his company's net new assets depend on the aggregators 2-to-1 over RIA startups, but some are choosing a counterproductive path
June 1, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Bernie Clark, renowned in RIA circles, is the highest-profile executive to leave in a Schwab shake out of veteran talent, but only after his 'unmatched' feat -- adding nearly 9,000 RIAs and $4 trillion in assets to Schwab custody
The 14-year head of Schwab RIA custody kept both CEO Walter Bettinger and heads of 15,000 RIAs happy in an incredible juggling act of corporate and entrepreneurial goals
May 17, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Schwab CEO tells Wall Street threat of TD Ameritrade RIAs bolting ended months ago, with potential defectors holding fast to avoid repapering headaches
Walt Bettinger says he 'feel(s) exceptionally good' that 'all' RIA defections landed over the summer, and TDA RIAs have since been 'rewarding us with ... loyalty.'
October 17, 2023 at 2:13 AM
Fresh wave of TD Ameritrade RIAs are speaking out 30-days after Schwab Advisor Services merger, complaining about more red tape and problems befalling clients -- stress levels high
Not just social media savvy RIAs, but principals of smaller, classic, all-TDA shops are listing a litany of issues -- the tip of an iceberg, according to small RIA custodians.
October 7, 2023 at 6:13 AM
Some TD Ameritrade RIAs are voicing misgivings -- faint compared to the loud attaboys -- about life at Schwab post-conversion, mostly centered on losing Veo system; an advisor says 'it's like 'going back in time 10 years'
The TDA conversion itself 'overdelivered' for 'seamlessness and communication,' but severed relationship with beloved Veo system left some RIAs with postpartum feelings about Veo that could increase as the dust settles, insiders say
September 18, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Schwab's agonizingly long, methodical process to absorb near 8,000 TD Ameritrade RIA custody accounts into its own system is odds-on to yield a sweet result over Labor Day
Schwab Advisor Services still faces the stiff challenge of cultural assimilation but would-be detractors (like trade publications and even competitors) see little possibility it'll bungle Labor Day's switchover and its worst-case scenario on RIA attrition of 5% seems like a 'major win'
September 1, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Schwab 'proactively resigns' TD Ameritrade RIA custody clients, which accounts in part for July's $20-billion net new asset [from June] hiccup
The Westalke, Texas company's chief financial officer said his firm took the action on the 'atypical custodial relationships' to stay 'consistent'
August 15, 2023 at 2:04 AM
'Schwabitrade' RIA assets leap $107 billion in NNA to $3.75 trillion in first half of 2023, and just 20% of TD Ameritrade RIAs have yet to 'credentialize'
The RIA assets of TD Ameritrade Institutional and Schwab Advisor Services grew an incredible $514 billion for the 12 months ended June 30, but the real conversion looms on Labor Day.
July 22, 2023 at 1:38 AM
Envestnet will roll out RIA custody by 2024, disputing Bernie Clark's lean Schwab profit math, by citing average 15-basis-point margins
The Berwyn, Pa. company says Schwab's own public disclosures Clark's 'nine basis point' claims, though Envestnet will likely need to hand over as much as half the take to FNZ, a competitor says
May 13, 2023 at 1:03 AM
With a 'loud' RIA custody outburst under ex-Schwabbie, SEI piles onto a mob effort to break Schwab/TDA RIA custody stranglehold
Gabe Garcia is not alone seeing Schwab's ballooning scale as something to pop-- with Envestnet, Altruist, Goldman, LPL, TradePMR and AssetMark all working on new delivery models.
