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Jeff Carney is returning to his US retail roots as Personal Capital board member.

Personal Capital gets $75 million investment and an ex-Schwab retail chief in Jeff Carney

The Bill Harris-founded call-center RIA, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, hits it $500-million bogey for valuation

May 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM

Sources say that Bill Harris is testing the M&A market to appease directors.

Amid growth slowdown, Personal Capital lists with an investment bank but critics debate if it means 'blood in the water'

Bill Harris has done things his way until now but may hand over control to a giant for a $500 million payday

December 11, 2015 at 10:58 PM

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

Rita Lee: It's not bad at all.

Schwab's robo for RIAs is set to launch in next 10 days, to delight of online forerunners

The San Francisco custodian's Institutional Intelligent Portfolios is expected to legitimize the robo concept but significant unknowns remain

June 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM

Steve Lockshin: If you are charging 1% for asset allocation and security selection, then you are dead.

News that AAA -- the tow truck guys -- are entering the robo-advisor business made the Finance Logix point in Vegas

The Pacquiao-Mayweather crowds added to the surreal Las Vegas scene and underlined the pace-of-change theme

May 4, 2015 at 7:37 PM

Peter Lawler: We've invested a lot of money in our technology platform and have multiple APIs, which cater to those firms. Those firms don't like paper.

With robo-advisors on the rise, robo custodian Apex is rising with them, a diamond mined from the rubble of the Penson Worldwide debacle

Cheaper, more paperless and early to market, the Dallas-based clearing house/broker-dealer is out to protect its lead as big RIA custodians play robo catch-up

May 1, 2015 at 6:19 AM

Bernie Clark: We have been working closely with advisor groups over the past year to shape our offer.

Schwab makes thousands of its RIAs subject to fee for robo-software, allocation of client cash to Schwab Bank

The San Francisco firm told RIAs on a webcast that their firms must have $100 million on account or pay for robo-software

March 23, 2015 at 7:21 PM

Mike Durbin: We're clearly serious about being a technology company in the arms race but not necessarily to the exclusion of other third parties.

The mission-critical task Abby Johnson has entrusted to Mike Durbin regarding Fidelity's RIAs and automation

The Fidelity CEO's move reflects a paradigm shift for RIAs, for the whole company

March 16, 2015 at 8:17 PM

Schwab Intelligent Portfolios is now evocatively named 'Blue'

Schwab sings 'Blue' as it rolls out its robo -- and phono -- functions ahead of deadline, with minimums

Schwab Intelligent Portfolios now has breakpoints of $5,000 and $50,000 of assets -- and comes with human broker help

March 9, 2015 at 10:07 PM

Jon Stein: Every month is bigger than the last.

On strength of $1.4 billion of AUM and 90 RIA clients, Betterment raises $60 million of VC funding as it looks to disrupt RIA custody

The New York City-based robo added $1 billion in 11 months and (sources say) has bigtime RIAs contemplating it as a primary platform, CEO Jon Stein says

February 19, 2015 at 2:01 PM

Edmond Walters: We are going to kick the crap out of the B-to-C robos.

In a T3 teeming with deals, eMoney's Edmond Walters owned Dallas

Fresh off his firm's sale to Fidelity, eMoney's CEO demo left the crowd spellbound -- even as he chided Chuck

February 16, 2015 at 8:27 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

Doug Wolford: ...That's one of the things that you can do when you put in place a professional management structure, which we're doing in the next five years.

With Convergent experiencing advisor exodus, City National takes greater control of the RIA

Doug Wolford gets a vote of confidence from his City National-controlled board of directors and he references a new five-year plan of creating a 'professional management structure'

December 6, 2014 at 10:53 PM

David Zier apparently was questioned about money managed for friends and relatives outside the RIA he managed.

Barron's: David Zier's death takes another tragic twist

The Convergent executive's death was likely a suicide related to non-Convergent money managed for family and friends by Zier in a 'personal account'

October 25, 2014 at 9:58 PM

David Zier was a successful and beloved financial advisor.

The RIA business mourns the death of David Zier

The chief executive of Convergent Wealth Advisors was only 44

October 25, 2014 at 1:52 AM

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