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Bill Rourke: If we don’t do this, we don’t get the business.
January 21, 2014 at 6:40 AM

Christopher Holtby: In essence, the client is creating a pension plan for future beneficiaries and advisors retain their advisory role for years to come.

The trusteed IRA: One tested method to maintain assets under management through the generations

A probate attorney, a trust exec and a Harvard B-school student float a solution to persuade family members to stay the course

January 10, 2014 at 6:30 AM

Chris Romano: We don't even consider trading away at Fidelity because of the high ticket trade away fee.

RIA custodians charge steep new ETF-related fees that can range into the tens of thousands of dollars for big trades and advisors are working to deal with them

Schwab, Fido, TD and Pershing are all in on these 'trade-away' fees and claim they simply are defraying costs of manual labor -- but RIAs aren't so sure

November 18, 2013 at 10:35 PM

Mike Durbin: I won't be threatened until one of these folks wakes up and decides to be a custodian or a clearing firm. I don't find that to be a near- or medium-term risk.

Part II: RIA custodians' answer to challenges to their monolithic control: We still have big-time scale advantages

Roll-ups and other mezzanine firms are squeezing RIA custody margins as a value proposition but the big-brand custodians -- and some new ones -- are liking the cards they have to play

November 11, 2013 at 6:53 AM

Mark Tibergien in Part II: The balance of power has shifted to advisors, regardless of whether they are on a broker-dealer platform or a custody platform.

Part I: Is the era of the monolithic RIA custodian coming to an end?

RIAs, small custodians, co-ops, study groups, roll-ups, TAMPs, compliance shops, OSJ and IBDs are all chipping away at much of what fit under the roofs of Schwab, Fidelity, TD and Pershing

November 1, 2013 at 4:51 PM

Lauren Schadle: We need to go back to our roots with a laser-like focus for why FPA was created in the first place -- and that is to support the CFP professional.

Lauren Schadle shows mettle as FPA stakes out turf in skirmish with CFP Board at its national conference in Orlando

Despite a no-show Phyllis Borzi, the FPA Experience was a substance-filled event in which the organization sought to redefine and reclaim its soul

October 22, 2013 at 5:00 PM

Fred Reish: It doesn't look good.

How the future of the 401(k) industry may hinge on the outcome of a lawsuit brought by Fidelity employees against their own company

The legal case is built on a Fidelity-only funds menu but the Boston 401(k) king intends to show these participating employees got a sweet, fair deal that went beyond DOL mandates

October 17, 2013 at 6:12 AM

Mike Durbin: We will be working very closely with those active clients with less than $15 million to see how we may be able to help them grow their business.

Fidelity's annual $10,000 custody fee will attach to a wider swath of small RIAs

The dinging of the under-$15-million crowd is painful for initiates but a pleasing prospect for competing custodians ready to welcome defectors

September 24, 2013 at 5:02 AM

Megan Carpenter: Custodian brands are not like McDonald's or Burger King.

Fidelity and TD Ameritrade show new teeth in RIA advertising -- albeit with giraffes, and children on summer porches

On the heels of Schwab's 'owning it' campaign, Fidelity aims to catch (and repaper) RIAs and TD goes for the soft belly of the industry

August 28, 2013 at 7:36 PM

Bernie Clark: I couldn't stress enough that if we didn't do well then our competitors would be right behind us.

A sometimes defensive Bernie Clark makes four points pertaining to Schwab's RIA custody business in an update to Wall Street

The overseer of Schwab RIAs explains the San Francisco giant's difficult-to-do-business-with reputation and the long rollout of SII

August 26, 2013 at 5:24 AM

Downtown Omaha is the fount of the RIA business with its critical mass of competent, cheerful people who can smile and work at an affordable rate.

How Omaha is emerging as the RIA business' center of gravity

With no mountains to block your views or salt air to rust your car, you can get down to business with no distractions and low expenses

July 30, 2013 at 5:42 AM

Jon Patullo: This isn't endorsing the [software] firm.

How TD Ameritrade is playing the logo game to spur 4,000 of its wavering RIAs to adopt its third-party hook-ups

'Veo Integrated' is a clunky name for smooth hand-offs of data from custodian to vendor to RIA -- and back

July 24, 2013 at 5:09 AM

Ron Rhoades: Shouldn't the phrase: 'member, FINRA' be viewed like the warnings on cigarette packages -- i.e., as a consumer warning sign?

FINRA's scandalous litany of failures and its efforts to redefine the true fiduciary standard out of existence

Our one-man think tank continues his scathing indictment of the SRO's disingenuous and downright fraudulent practices

July 17, 2013 at 3:10 AM

Scott MacKillop, Frank Trotter and Alex Potts on the high-risk, 18-hour rim-to-river-to-rim hike

RIA leaders venture to Grand Canyon to get beneath Earth's surface -- and their own

Business bound these execs and advisors on a self-inflicted adventure, but their bonds were tested on a deeper level

July 3, 2013 at 9:45 PM

Before the lights went out: A consumer panel says what it knows about what it doesn't.

TD throws its first client-best-interest summit, a micro-event, by 'candlelight' in Palm Beach and ideas rise from the RIA deeps

As members of a consumer panel bitch creatively, fed up advisors dig deep for ideas that depend less on DC vicissitudes and more on RIA will and unity

June 17, 2013 at 4:33 AM

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