Articles tagged "The Vanguard Group"
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Vanguard jilted RIAs 16 years ago. Now its CEO Tim Buckley is green-lighting RIA custody again -- with bells, whistles and added urgency
In a series of emails last week, Vanguard was coy but said its retail RIA platform for 600 staff advisors is getting retrofitted for non-Vanguard RIAs; the potential is huge and the potential pitfalls may be even greater, analysts say
May 23, 2019 at 6:16 PM
Oisin's Bits: Vanguard aborts banking effort, because it was more fixated on beating BoA than being itself, an analyst says; SEI is killing it in the Mercer/Russell realm by competing with a retrofitted TAMP-thingy
The $5.3-billion Malvern, Pa. monster finds its investors want it to stick to investing, not checking accounts and the Oaks, Pa. TAMP leader gets upmarket with no-conflict pitch and product fit and
March 22, 2019 at 11:22 PM
Mission accomplished, Jack Bogle dies at 89 and it's still way too soon, but his legacy looms larger than ever
Poetically born in 1929, and tragically afflicted by the Great Depression, the Vanguard founder's message, mission, impact and spirit never got old
January 16, 2019 at 11:33 PM
Channeling its inner BlackRock as bull market teeters, Vanguard Group gets constructively paranoid by creating chief risk officer role with big power including vast new software applications
With Aladdin overtones, the Malvern, Pa. asset-manager puts Joseph Brennan in charge with big stress testing on the agenda
October 19, 2018 at 7:41 PM
Taking the helm from famous founder, Jay Shah gets Personal Capital out of Vanguard's shadow with new shape, new deals and a 70% leap in assets
Still $93 billion-plus in arrears to Vanguard's $100 billion RIA, the new virtual-RIA CEO is making strides in the kinds of startup details that a venture capitalist can love
July 6, 2018 at 8:20 PM
Vanguard Group Makes Big Move on RIA Custody by Ending Commissions on 1,700 ETFs in Bid to Become Walmart of Financial Services
The Malvern, Pa.-based giant 'face slaps' Charles Schwab & Co. by undercutting it on ETF distribution fees the way Schwab did to it on ETF management fees
July 4, 2018 at 2:51 AM
TD Ameritrade scores sweet exclusive deal with Vanguard that includes RIAs managing otherwise self-directed 401(k) accounts
To make up ground, Vanguard Group also partnered with Newport Group
May 8, 2018 at 12:40 AM
How Vanguard lost a $19.4-billion 401(k) account to Fidelity and why it's the exception to the rule -- and isn't
Chevron boots the hyper-fiduciary Malvern, Pa.-based indexing giant in favor of Fidelity after two dismissed lawsuits
November 21, 2017 at 12:53 AM
TD Ameritrade angers RIAs who feel 'blindsided' after TD Ameritrade's actions prompt the departure of all Vanguard and some iShares ETFs from its NTF platform
The Omaha-based broker's roll-out of new ETF platform also removes Morningstar as ETF-picker as new State Street ultra-cheap fund line-up gets the Vanguard/iShares spoils
October 18, 2017 at 9:45 PM
Morningstar renders ETF verdict by discontinuing ETF-only conferences after category becomes the Vanguard-BlackRock show
Smaller, newer ETF players are forced to pursue micro-niches and active management -- only to encounter the big players lurking there, too
September 13, 2017 at 5:26 PM
Schwab CTO's speech in NYC spotlights an RIA business addicted to innovation – with no fresh fix in sight
Timothy Heier set the lower-morale tone at In|Vest 2017 of a B2B industry waiting for a Mark Zuckerberg to push it forward again -- perhaps with artificial intelligence as the final frontier
July 20, 2017 at 9:37 PM
What to make of Bill McNabb exiting Vanguard mid-rise, forsaking as much as a $15-million annual salary and what Jack Bogle might have to do with it
The Vanguard CEO played the indexing explosion to perfection and silenced the founder in 2016 as he kept his Malvern, Pa.-based giant on an investor-friendly course
July 14, 2017 at 12:01 AM
The smart beta ETF industry gets blasted at swank Manhattan summit by an unlikely group of critics
The active-but-passive category soared from $200 billion to $620 billion in the past four years, but Rob Arnott and other big smart-beta names at Convene were not in a gloating mood
June 15, 2017 at 2:44 AM
Vanguard RIA's growth leaps to $5B of assets per month in 2017 as Schwab's RIA robo jumps to monthly $1.3B
Vanguard Personal Advisor Services now has 500 advisors and Schwab, downplaying robo success, promises more advisors are its 'robo' future
May 9, 2017 at 7:12 PM
RIA lobby fires off letter to DOL claiming rules aimed at reining in overzealous stockbroker sales pitches chill RIA conversations with their prospects
The IAA's letter to the Labor Department asks that RIAs not get entangled in rules designed to prevent stockbrokers from making misleading pitches
