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Tom Gooley: You need to continue to evolve system and service platforms to make sure you're keeping up.

LPL taps the man who saved Morgan Stanley's bacon to take service to a Schwab RIA-level echelon

Tom Gooley sacrificed 36 weekends and a happy home life in Larchmont to smooth the way for 15,000 stockbrokers in the biggest wirehouse merger ever

June 29, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Sallie Krawcheck: We also didn't talk about my biggest asset -- which is me -- and if the market goes down, what are the chances of me keeping my job.

At Morningstar, Sallie Krawcheck blasts her own [presumably ex-] financial advisor -- and herself

What the serial ex-wirehouse chief left dangling was her future and whether she will launch a Ellevate robo for women

June 26, 2015 at 4:16 PM

David Benskin: Basically, I built 50 spreadsheets.

How a software-flummoxed ex-Merrill Lynch private banker set up shop, invented his own dashboard and is selling it to top RIAs

David Benskin is bringing on talent from eMoney, Black Diamond and Envestnet to grow Wealth Access

June 25, 2015 at 5:13 PM

James Osborne: I'm not management material.

James Osborne makes a waiting list part of his new RIA's business model after 18 months -- with client care and mountain biking in mind

The solo advisor has achieved an Eden of RIA simplicity that Deborah Fox counsels caution about -- along with congratulations

June 24, 2015 at 3:09 PM

Ted Eliopoulos is showing increasing intolerance for return-corroding fees.

CalPERS's hatchet man, Ted Eliopoulos, goes on a manager firing spree, shaving hundreds of millions in management fees -- but is it enough?

For its most recent fiscal year, the pension giant paid $1.6 billion in fees, with close to 90% of that money going to the real estate, private equity, and egregiously pricey hedge fund managers

June 23, 2015 at 3:04 PM

Alexey Sokolin:  If Stein and Bo Lu of Future Advisor are right, there will not be much left to unbundle.

An insider reveals turbo-contents of the In|Vest conference in New York, a summit of VCs, robo-founders and big banks

SigFig's Mike Sha talked Bank of the West, Motif's Hardeep called start-ups 'features' and the five-year number jumped to $2 trillion

June 22, 2015 at 4:02 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

Pete Hess: This business is addictive.

Pete Hess will shop for software firms to build in-house Black Diamond bundle

The Advent CEO says his firm, under SS&C ownership, will consider buying CRM, financial planning and rebalancing firms

June 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM

Jim Herbert: They align with and complement our existing wealth management capabilities.

First Republic buys an eight-year-old RIA for $115 million

The BoA spin-off gets Paul Tramontano's Constellation Wealth Advisors and its $6.1 billion of assets

June 17, 2015 at 4:12 PM

David Welling: eMoney has undergone a transformation from planning to a platform. We want Black Diamond to be your platform.

Black Diamond partners with MoneyGuidePro to create a turnkey product

David Welling also adds Salesforce, Redtail and Junxure to a bundle that mimics Tamarac and Orion in creating foolproof integration

June 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM

Tom Bradley and Tom Nally may now have a relationship of coopetition

With Tom Bradley heading a new high-net-worth effort, TD Ameritrade will compete with RIAs, at least obliquely

The Omaha-based broker will use the ex-RIA chief to go after $1-million-plus accounts

June 12, 2015 at 10:38 PM

Colleen Jaconetti:  Investors should consider spending from their taxable accounts before spending from their tax-deferred or tax-free accounts.

Why proper spending order is critical, to the tune of 70 bps, for RIAs to optimize client draw-down of retirement savings

A senior Vanguard analyst lays out a logical, if counterintuitive, method by which to extend savings

June 12, 2015 at 5:04 PM

Jason Roberts: This could be a great prospecting tool.

After growth dip, BrightScope takes a whirl at mutual fund data -- but in a way that Morningstar claims it bypassed

The La Jolla RIA-tracker will gear data toward the 401(k) market and knock down a paywall

June 11, 2015 at 7:09 PM

William McNabb: What's an appropriate margin? Is it 40% in our business or is it 35% or 25%? I don't know the answer to that. I don't have to worry about it.

Vanguard Group, set to gather $300 billion in 2015, is crushing it on every level but could it succumb to its own success?

The Financial Times points out that too-big-to-fail is coming into play along with growing channel conflict and investors (a big maybe) sated with passivity

June 10, 2015 at 6:28 PM

April Rudin: Trust me, I have seen this before.

Casting a marketer's eye on Pershing INSITE, April Rudin pleads with promoters to tone down the digital doublespeak

Digital enablement of mobile robo-automation? The consultancy veteran expresses frustration as she tries to translate opaque, self-important terminology

June 9, 2015 at 10:46 PM

Ron Rhoades: I say let these firms so depart the marketplace! There are many, many investment advisory firms willing to provide trusted advice for reasonable fees.

Why Wall Street's DOL killer threat -- that 'millions' of IRA investors will go unadvised under new rules -- is hogwash

Investors already have options and Wall Street's withdrawal, already in progress, can only improve investor outcomes

June 8, 2015 at 10:29 PM

Margaret Hartigan: We are not here to disrupt advisors at all and is why we launched into the institutional space first.

At INSITE in Orlando, Pershing outs its robo-religious conversion complete with open API store, Silicon Valley and India skunkworks, Marstone robo deal and unabashed digi-speak

Mark Tibergien says Pershing has gotten BNY to chum the RIA waters with loans and anticipates a 'flood' of billion-dollar wirehouse breakaways

June 8, 2015 at 7:34 PM

Kate Aronowitz: Millennials are the people who try things first. They have a higher bar for design but I don't think you choose one [demographic] or the other.

After Schwab and Betterment catch up to Wealthfront's AUM, the Palo Alto robo pioneer makes a stunning hire

Facebook's former design chief will use millennials as an acid test but she's designing for a broader market

June 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM

Michael Kitces: CNBC is now literally contradicting the statements of the firms themselves as written in their ADV documents.

Michael Kitces attacks CNBC for its top-100 fee-only list because so many listed RIAs disclose non-fee comp on their ADVs

The New York-based news organization fires back by encouraging a closer reading of its methodology

June 4, 2015 at 7:45 PM

McKinsey & Co. might not know everything but its office location map shows it is omnipresent.

McKinsey: Robo-advisors have a cloudy future but 'virtual advice' delivered by 24-hour super-centers with experts and algorithms will win the day

Using ChinaTrust’s 'Air Financial Advisor' and Itau’s 'Personalite' service, Schwab -- even E*TRADE -- as examples, the global consultant says the future will splinter 'digital' and 'automated'

June 2, 2015 at 11:58 PM

Shawn Carpenter: The reason we did the capital raise is growth has really accelerated pretty dramatically since mid-last year.

Morningstar throws more money -- and loses one of its own -- at keeping its stake in a Bloomberg-lite venture intact

The bullish Chicago data company leads a fourth round of funding for YCharts and one of its managers left to help the start up

June 2, 2015 at 5:03 PM

Matthew Audette: The firm's entrepreneurial outlook and strong track record of growing market share and attracting new business provides an ideal opportunity.

LPL poaches E*TRADE's CFO and turnaround specialist as its chief financial officer

Matthew Audette, 41, is moving from New York to San Diego and will begin his new job in late September

June 1, 2015 at 10:33 PM

James Osborne: For those of us in the sweet spot, ignoring the slam-dunk of an Individual 401(k) is regrettable.

Why as a self-employed RIA I love my individual 401(k) -- really

With no discrimination testing necessary, I reap the rewards without toting the baggage

June 1, 2015 at 5:13 AM

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