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John Bunch: I felt like I can go out on top and do something different.

A few words with John Bunch as he steps into the CEO spot at The Mutual Fund Store
Getting recruited away from TD Ameritrade was a shock but ultimately one that captured his heart

Tuesday 2.14.12
Derek Holman: We had grown to the point where the business took up most of the day.

Looking for a second growth spurt, a billion-dollar-plus RIA hires away a Nuveen global ops man
Patrick Goshtigian, new president of EP Wealth Advisors has taken over back-office operations from its founders and is also heading up its expansion efforts

Friday 2.10.12
John Bunch's decision to join The Mutual Fund Store sets up a major expansion.

John Bunch is hired as the new CEO of The Mutual Fund Store
The TD Ameritrade and Schwab veteran is charged with dotting the country with MFS company outlets as Adam Bold moves over

Wednesday 2.8.12
Tom Bradley: It all came together over the weekend.

Why TD Ameritrade didn't reveal Tom Bradley's new executive position during its national conference
...and other things I learned from talking to the new president of TD retail and his replacement, Tom Nally

Wednesday 2.8.12
Tom Nally finally gets to step up into a role that has been synonymous with Tom Bradley's name.

Tom Nally to take the reins of TD Ameritrade's RIA business from Tom Bradley
Tom Bradley will become president of retail distribution, setting him up as a potential successor to Fred Tomczyk in the CEO role, one expert says

Monday 2.6.12
Tom Bradley has achieved impressive results by not taking life too seriously.

What Tom Bradley's 25-year reign at TD Ameritrade says about the RIA business
People in this industry can be themselves while prospering and inventing a profession

Monday 2.6.12
Dick Cheney expressed some gloomy views about the economy and the terrorist situation.

TD Ameritrade brings some Florida heat to the RIA winter
The custodian rolled out a major event sprawled across multiple hotels

Monday 2.6.12
Tom Bradley: We're not seeing any inroads to our business from these smaller players.

Tom Bradley answers 10 questions about TD Ameritrade's competitive stance in his 25th year
The industry veteran takes time out from TD's Orlando, Fla. conference to talk about about how his RIA custodian can compete with bigger and smaller competitors alike

Friday 2.3.12
David Barton: We have to live with the decision for a long time.

The TD Ameritrade-Orion pairing again proves productive -- this time to wrest assets from a $3.6 billion Schwab RIA
As part of a barrage of big moves by Mercer Advisors, Tamarac gets superseded for rebalancing

Wednesday 1.25.12
Andrew Salesky: We're very optimistic with the ability to build this model.

The 10 most influential figures in the RIA business going into 2012
The RIA power elite: Part 1 of 2

Tuesday 1.3.12
Brian Hamburger: I think that number [from BCG] is a very conservative and kind number.

FINRA attacks Boston Consulting Group over SRO study
BCG sticks to its guns saying that the double-dip cost of SEC oversight makes any FINRA numbers moot

Friday 12.16.11
Scott Slater says a study by his firm, Schwab, shows that 88% of advisors are looking at an internal succession plan.

3 notable RIA happenings in the past week
CFP Board says it's changing hearts and minds of affluent Americans, studies find more advisors making succession plans and RIAs find clients can't get over their allergy to risk

Monday 11.21.11
Neesha Hathi: It would be much simpler to say: Let's make Schwab Advisor Center the center of the universe.

What Neesha Hathi has to say about Schwab's oh-so-slow-but-steady technology initiative
The big custodian is more concerned with error-free melding than quick milestones -- but are competitors pulling ahead while Schwab tinkers?

Wednesday 11.16.11
Scott David: We said: how can we make this happen?

Schwab and T. Rowe Price finally strike a OneSource deal with help from an ex-Fido exec
Scott David has only just arrived at the Baltimore mutual fund giant from Fidelity in May and he's already pulled off a coup that was 20 years in the making

Monday 10.31.11
Fred Tomczyk: My main message to [TD Ameritrade Institutional president] Tom Bradley is: keep it up.

TD Ameritrade chief calls RIA growth a significant factor in 44% 4Q surge
Improved technology geared at recruiting more RIAs and offering a greater breadth of products to long-term investors were cited as growth engines

Tuesday 10.25.11
Mike Durbin: We want to have the largest clients with the most assets. We're going after the largest teams and getting them.

Mike Durbin is putting his stamp on Fidelity as an RIA custodian for asset-flush breakaways
The leader is working to improve its customer services as the custodian pours big bucks into upgrading its tech offerings

Tuesday 10.25.11
Bob Veres is helping provide the practice management twist to this new conference series.

What Messrs. Bruckenstein, Drucker and Veres cooked up in a Chicago airport hotel
The pilot effort to make a T3-like event with heavy admixtures of wealth management and practice management looked good

Tuesday 10.18.11
Tom Bradley: We consider ourselves the Apple of the industry.

Once good for a few million, TD Ameritrade's foot-in-the-door strategy is starting to net billions
With the paperwork signed, TD goes to work wooing big RIAs with technology, special pricing and a maverick culture

Tuesday 10.11.11
Neal Ringquist: We're doing it from the top down through enterprises and bottom up trying to convince advisors to buy it themselves.

Long a tech innard for Schwab, LPL and TD, Advisor Software is looking to push its own brand with new product
Its new software, goalgamiPro, is able to make sense of multiple housebold balance sheets and come out with a plan

Tuesday 10.11.11
TD Ameritrade Institutional is moving staff into this San Diego building as part of its growth

What's happening at RIABiz this week and why it matters
We've got our eye on TD Ameritrade's growth, do-it-yourself hedge fund analytics and two elite conferences starting Wednesday

Monday 10.10.11
Jim Weil: There was no straw that broke the camel's back. There was no dirty secret.

Big Chicago advisory firm exits Raymond James; forms its own RIA with Pershing
After a dozen years with the big broker-dealer, the group saw advantages to using NetX360 and working with Mark Tibergien

Friday 10.7.11
Brian Hamburger, founder of MarketCounsel's Member Summit 2011, expects 200 advisors with between $100 million and $1 billion in assets

MarketCounsel, CFDD, T3 and Schwab vie for advisors to attend their fall conferences
As competition for RIA time and money grows, many events are catering to more defined niches

Monday 9.26.11
Frank Noto saw no sun in San Diego as the FPA conference warmed to its task.

An advertiser's-eye view from among the booths of the FPA convention's exhibit hall
Technology companies, Chubb, TD Ameritrade and BrightScope get special notice

Sunday 9.18.11
David Canter: We hear from advisors at least on a weekly basis that they're looking to upgrade technology.

Fidelity jumps into the game of providing technology for picking RIA technology
Unlike Actifi technology used by TD Ameritrade, the Boston giant's gizmo declines to suggest vendor names

Thursday 9.15.11
Bernie Clark: We win a disproportionate share of business.

Schwab Advisor Services is nearing $800 billion of RIA assets but analysts are split over whether it can continue to dominate
Fidelity keeps flexing its muscles as Schwab raises its hybrid-friendly profile, reaches out to IBDs and rolls out an ambitious vendor platform

Tuesday 9.6.11
Tim Oden: The amount of due diligence they're conducting is so deep. I just can't imagine they'd go to that trouble to just kick the tires.

Breakaway Movement II is kicking in, say Schwab and Fidelity execs
Spurred by waning wirehouse retention packages, a wave of advisors are poised to jump ship in 2012

Wednesday 8.10.11
Bill Dwyer: We decided you were right.

What's behind LPL's decision to slash its ticket charges for advisors
The IBD is in a generous mood as it also pays dues to FSI on behalf of thousands

Tuesday 8.9.11
Watson is expected to help achieve the company's goal of establishing increased personal contact with advisors

LPL lures a TD Ameritrade talent across the San Diego street
Mike Watson will bring his practice-management expertise to 1,400 LPL reps

Friday 8.5.11
Alois Pirker: Firms will have to renew retention bonuses next year or brokers will jump ship.

RIAs and online brokers are winning the market-share game
Wirehouses will have to re-up retention bonuses or see mass migrations of top producers

Wednesday 7.27.11
Griffin Meyers: Although not mandatory, providing a competitive GIPS-compliant track record can also help demonstrate a firm's track record.

How an RIA can capitalize on referral programs offered by Schwab, TD and Fidelity
Success in converting leads favor the firm that makes dedicated hires

Monday 7.18.11
David Booth: We work so hard it's a shame to call us passive.

Dimensional Fund Advisors tells RIAs it's getting active in its quest for 401(k) assets
DFA says this new plan will complement, not compete with, the services an advisor offers

Thursday 7.14.11
Tom Bradley: It’s common practice to give pieces of tech to advisors coming on to a platform.

TD Ameritrade will continue to provide free software to breakaways on an ad hoc basis
Tom Bradley takes exception to how the giveaways are characterized

Friday 6.17.11
Fred Tomczyk: [We’re] protective of [our] brand and client experiences. Owning is the right experience for us.

TD Ameritrade and Schwab at odds on franchise model
TD's CEO Fred Tomczyk questions Schwab's approach to greater distribution using independent contractors

Thursday 6.16.11
Scott Dell'Orfano: Two years ago, advisors were all about calming clients down.

What a slew of recent RIA surveys say about the firms' hunger for growth
Firms are ready to hire and recruit investors but they're aware that pitfalls abound

Thursday 6.16.11
TD Institutional president Tom Bradley opened the conference with TD president and CEO Fred Tomczyk.

High-earning RIAs gather at TD's Elite Advisor Summit
Many 'first-timers' journey to the Fountainebleau in Miami Beach to glean leadership tips to grow their businesses

Wednesday 6.15.11
Lauren Lindsay had one client whose adult children cost them $800,000.

RIAs grapple with a rising threat to retirement: Adult kids that move back in with mom and dad
Charging rent and creating a chore list are two ways of keeping mooching grown kids from getting too comfortable back in the nest

Tuesday 6.14.11
Bill Belichick's presence helps explain a big jump in attendance this year at Pershing's conference

Pershing, TD, Schwab set to raise the curtain on late-spring conferences
Pershing's event has presidents, prime ministers and Bill Belichick

Monday 6.6.11
Tom Bradley: We’d better be getting our act together and find out the issues so we can do a better job.

TD Ameritrade launches an effort to develop women advisors
Schwab and Fidelity do not share the philosophy of specifically targeting female RIAs - and female investors

Thursday 5.26.11
Deb Wetherby: Form a girls’ group.  Attitude matters – find and hang out with women who inspired you.

Eavesdropping on the NAPFA's pre-conference Women's Initiative
A daylong 'conversation café' emphasized communication, leadership and personal presentation; some guys crashed the party

Thursday 5.26.11
Rob Major: If you have 200 reports that do everything but cook you breakfast in the morning, you have a system that is unaffordable for 80% of the advisors that are out there.

After tortoise-like beginnings, AssetBook is now on-the-hop in portfolio management software
Rob Major takes what he learned in building Techfi to make AssetBook a functional, no-frills system

Wednesday 5.25.11
Brent Burns: Advisors who take on a fiduciary role have a lot of branding work to do.

NAPFA conference hits hopeful note as members look to the future
Unfazed by venue change, advisors mixed, mingled, blogged and tweeted their way through the three-day meeting

Wednesday 5.25.11
Redtail's Brian McLaughlin: Are we on the same page, and are we ready to go with the ability to open a new account through Redtail?

TD Ameritrade brings software elite to Dallas for an API summit
The number three custodian its letting its technology partners put the final touches on a low-walled garden

Tuesday 4.26.11
TD's Skip Schweiss: “We have advisor demand for it. We started offering it (to a small handful) and doing manual processing to make it work.”

TD Ameritrade beats Schwab to the punch with ETF option for retirement plans
Platform allows advisors to sell mutual fund and ETF capability

Thursday 4.21.11
Richard Prout: We found TD to be really interested in the growth of our firm, and they put together an economic package that was superior to the Schwab package.

TD Ameritrade uses greater financial incentives to attract custody clients
Breakaways say they appreciate the economic boost and that it makes them feel welcome

Monday 4.18.11
Tom Nally: It was a small network of folks and it was referrals; they’ll tell you who their friends are.

TD Ameritrade makes a clean sweep of five IBD reps in New England with about $1 billion of combined AUM
The five big Commonwealth advisors had some knowledge of each other but made their own decisions

Monday 4.18.11
Mike McNamara: The numbers were staggering.

How Mike McNamara became a TD Ameritrade RIA and pruned his book in one move
The former Commonwealth advisor also had goals related to succession, compliance and a bigger bottom line

Thursday 4.7.11
Chatham Wealth Management's Dan Moskowitz: When I started to hear that the TD program was getting a lot better, I said “Let’s see if there’s a way we can make this work.”

Advisor spotlight: TD Ameritrade referrals help turn quiet advisory into a fast-growth operation
Chatham Wealth Management doubles assets in two years

Wednesday 3.30.11
Bernie Clark: Why would you claim the middle ground of being a quasi-employee (at an IBD) with a lesser brand name?

Virtually all big IBD reps covet the independent RIA life, Schwab study says
Schwab's Bernie Clark and TD's Tom Nally see IBD reps undergoing a palpable mood switch, but Fidelity's Mike Durbin and Pershing's Mark Tibergien are unconvinced

Tuesday 3.29.11
Mike Golaszewski: One of the things that brought me 3,000 miles across the country (from Schwab) was that Pershing actually does a really good job of knowing where the puck’s going.

Pershing keeps ahead in the mobile space with an Android app and mobile trading
The adoption rate by advisors is still very small but the big clearing is undeterred

Tuesday 3.15.11
Mercer Bullard: "If the CFP Board, the Financial Planning Association or the Investment Adviser Association finally get their act together, they might want to get involved."

Mississippi lawyer Mercer Bullard volunteers to form an RIA SRO and nobody's laughing it off
IAA won't join forces; annual cost to run an SRO could top $150 million

Thursday 3.10.11
Jeff Geygan: We have clients that are professional golfers, state senators, movie actors ... a leading scientist in his field.

Milwaukee Wealth Management was born when Jeff Geygan's investing strategy hit the UBS wall
A value devotee, his picks at times conflicted with the wirehouse's research department

Tuesday 3.8.11
Bruce Meyer expects to double assets in first year as a Beacon Pointe employee

Beacon Pointe launches advisor-aggregating effort with first deal in Arizona
TD Ameritrade is 'in the foxhole' in this venture and will send many referrals to these advisors

Thursday 3.3.11
In February, Walt Bettinger sketched out two major retail and retirement strategy shifts for Schwab.

Walt Bettinger's big moves drew RIABiz readers in February
TD Ameritrade's sunny conference also made the top 10 in February, along with a retirement-world story that seems a harbinger of a changing market

Thursday 3.3.11
Diane Pearson: We are different genders; we do think differently.

Advisor Spotlight: Diane Pearson is building Legend Financial with sensitivity to women
The difference is not what's said but how it's communicated

Wednesday 2.23.11
Tom Bradley: Let’s not exclude any option out of emotion.

Tom Bradley makes the case for regulatory efficiency -- and maybe, FINRA, especially for the dually registered
TD Ameritrade's chief says it's too soon to reject any idea out-of-hand.

Friday 2.11.11
Jeremy Siegel: Short of a collapse in the global economy or hyperinflation people who buy gold today will be disappointed in five years.

Eavesdropping on TD Ameritrade: Jeremy Siegel's investment ideas for 2011, Colin Powell's definition of leadership, plus the key to erasing the budget deficit
What's the new definition of an earmark? A sparrow's belch in a typhoon

Tuesday 2.8.11
Colin Powell mentioned RIAs by name in his speech, showing a familiarity with the business that's has been uncommon among outsiders.

TD Ameritrade's conference gives rise to 9 reasons for optimism about the RIA business
The industry is advancing across a wide swath; one sign is TD's self-assessment

Monday 2.7.11
Tom Bradley: Tony Blair was very gracious, and I was gracious back.

Icy runways and Egyptian rebels had an effect, but TD Ameritrade plows ahead in San Diego
Snow adventures and Blair-on-the-phone mix with RIA growth strategies for siphoning wirehouse assets

Friday 2.4.11
Eric Clarke: We’ve struggled with the lack of a standard, but with TD we’re taking a step forward.

Third-party vendors vouch for TD Ameritrade's API at first general session
The days of batch downloads may be numbered

Thursday 2.3.11
Tony Blair was called to the Middle East and will miss TD Ameritrade conference

TD Ameritrade replaces Tony Blair with Colin Powell for 2011 national conference
Events in Egypt precipitate change of speakers

Wednesday 2.2.11
Brian Hamburger: The SEC is lining up the facts so that later the conclusion becomes obvious (it can’t regulate advisors with current resources). ... It’s genius, what they’re looking to do, but it’s incredibly transparent.

The RIABiz list of winners and losers in the wake of the SEC's fiduciary study
The race is on as laggards adapt to new vision of the future

Friday 1.28.11
Brian Stimpfl: There's an attraction and a curiosity to a different way of doing business.

Brian Stimpfl resurfaces in an entrepreneurial mode
The TD Ameritrade fixture teams up with Spenser Segal at Actifi; he took a few yoga classes

Friday 1.28.11
Bernie Clark: Advisors are back.

With a rebound in net flows from its biggest advisors, Schwab finishes 2010 with a flourish
Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services records a $100 billion asset jump

Thursday 1.20.11
The Top 10 on RIABiz last month included a story about Charles Goldman.

What advisors care about: technology, hiring, Schwab's lawsuit against a broker hit top RIABiz stories this month
A new platform for alternative assets, plus the regulatory moves expected this year also make the list

Monday 1.17.11
Nick Georgis: Schwab has had conversations with SEC staff.

Schwab takes high-profile stand opposing self-regulatory organization for advisors
Largest custodian opposes FINRA on heavily lobbied issue

Friday 1.14.11
Mark Hurley touched a nerve in 2010 by questioning the enterprise value of RIA practices.

The next 20 top stories and what they say about where the RIA business is headed
Big companies, big innovators, exclusive conferences and the 401(k) market riveted advisor attention

Wednesday 12.29.10
Skip Schweiss: RIAs are at full throttle, increasing spending on staffing, professional development and technology enhancements.

The RIA consensus heading into 2011: hire more and invest in more infrastructure
TD Ameritrade survey shows advisors have big concerns over regulatory changes

Tuesday 12.21.10
Melanie Senter Lubin: Advisors should get their ADV form ready to filed by March 31 and also make sure they know which states they’re going to need to file with.

Wondering whether to register with the states or the SEC? It's a moving target.
New York advisors still left to wonder who has power over them

Monday 12.20.10
Bernie Clark: An advisor coming to Schwab with alternative assets to custody needs to be able to provide some transparency.

Schwab leads effort to create industrywide solution for alternative assets
The San Francisco custodial giant is now working to recruit other members to DTCC innovation

Friday 12.17.10
The buzz at the TD Ameritrade booth was that Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, is schedule to speak at TD's annual conference to be held in San Diego.

Eavesdropping on the Women Advisors Forum: Rainmakers share their secrets. Hint: They revolve around finding a niche
Women at the top of the profession have learned to give each other the look: "Like ‘I’ve got your back, sister.’”

Tuesday 12.14.10
Skip Schweiss: We think it’s time to ramp it up.

TD Ameritrade and Pershing are making moves to win RIA 401(k) assets
Little-known Matrix is strong with 401(k) business for advisors and Fidelity's new 401(k) RIA solution is well-received

Wednesday 11.3.10
Matt Judge: We want increased share of wallet.

Relentless TD Ameritrade antes up a killer ETF platform
The number three custodian of RIA assets is finding ways to lead

Tuesday 10.12.10
Fred Tomczyk: Whenever there’s uncertainty, it breeds opportunity. That’s where I think the next wave is.

Fred Tomczyk: Upcoming regulatory uncertainty could spark 'next wave' of wirehouse breakaways
Wirehouses may buy and sell parts to protect their golden egg-laying investment banking franchises

Tuesday 9.21.10
Matthew Judge: Breakaway brokers don't want to explain to brokers why they can't have the same separate account managers.

TD Ameritrade paves the way for breakaway books of business to transfer intact
PlaceMark deal modifies unified managed account platform so advisors can plug in their former wrap managers

Wednesday 9.15.10
Mike Durbin: WealthCentral eliminates a major difficulty in breaking away

Fidelity wins converts to WealthCentral, but most of its advisors have yet to make the switch
The giant technology project is behind Fidelity's schedule but ahead of one analyst's expectations

Tuesday 8.31.10
Ben Welch: iRebal’s client base, currently at 67 firms, has doubled in the last two year. It has also experienced a five-fold increase in developers to five full-timers

Tech Review: iRebal thrives after TD Ameritrade acquisition
The trailblazing rebalancer is tweaking its business model but staying focused on big RIAs

Thursday 8.5.10
Jon Patullo: No other custodian actually engaged [these vendors] in this fashion and set up a summit, so they're very excited about it.

Joining the industry-wide trend, TD Ameritrade announces its upcoming project for "open architecture" technology integration
Custodian hopes to open the platform to all vendors that pass a security check

Friday 7.30.10
Scott Dell'Orfano: Bigger teams are more educated, thoughtful, diligent. They’re asking pertinent questions.

Fidelity weighs in with breakaway results reinforcing the big-advisor trend
Are cost-cutting wirehouses creating a farm system for top entrepreneurial teams?

Thursday 7.29.10
Bernie Clark: The average assets of new teams that custody with Schwab has doubled compared to 2009.

Both Schwab and TD Ameritrade smash breakaway recruiting marks from last year
Schwab nets eight breakaway teams with more than $250 million of AUM each

Thursday 7.22.10
Joel Bruckenstein: iRebal is still better technology but Tamarac is 'infinitely better' than it was two years ago.

Tamarac claims what was unthinkable two years ago -- that it is on the same playing field as iRebal for rebalancing software
Tamarac has made leaps, say iRebal loyalists, but it had a long way to go

Friday 7.9.10
Catherine Ayers-Rigsby: When someone wants to use a new product, we don’t shy away from it. We research it and say: ‘Let’s go forward.’

Ceros Financial hangs a 'welcome' sign out for RIAs who trade actively
The former Rydex RIA unit is starting new life under German ownership

Thursday 6.24.10
Julie Sunwoo: Advisors tell us that maximizing productivity and efficiency to enable growth is one of their top business priorities

Schwab launches 'university' for advisory personnel
The San Francisco-based custodian is taking a self-service approach to a crying need for training employees of RIA firms

Wednesday 6.16.10
Condoleezza Rice: The U.S. has no heir apparent as the leader of the global economy despite rumblings.

Condoleezza Rice wins the hearts of attendees at the TD Ameritrade Elite Advisor Summit
She still prefers Fox News but she also sounded a more moderate tone when questioned about the 'present administration'

Wednesday 6.9.10
David DeVoe: The numbers have slowly crept up in terms of advisors that have these plans in place but we still see situations where folks don’t.

Favorite succession plan of RIAs remains the same: none at all
The biggest impediment to planning is finding a successor

Monday 6.7.10
Tom Nally: I think joiners are going to take the breakaway trend to the next level.

9 things to know about the breakaway-to-RIA movement and why it's likely to get bigger
In a down market, RIAs need a new growth strategy and small brokers a safe landing place

Wednesday 5.26.10
Jon Patullo: [Advisors] were stoked that Veo was available on a Mac.

TD Ameritrade's technology, Veo, wins high praise from advisors so RIABiz took a look
Veo got a head start and has unique third party tools

Monday 5.3.10
Paul Zettl: We target around 100 advisors because we want to keep it intimate and allow advisors to ask questions and network.

TD Ameritrade is pulling out the stops for 100 advisors in Laguna Beach
Smaller custodian is starting to make a habit of 'going big'

Thursday 4.29.10
Barron's Top 100 advisors paid for their own Ritz-Carlton rooms but didn't seem to mind

Enthusiasm simmers in the wake of the by-invite-only Barron's Top 100 conference
The purity of the all-independent crowd was palpable, powerful for attendees

Monday 4.26.10
Bernie Clark: Our competitors are still treating this [custody of alternative assets] as an accommodation.

After a wait, Schwab has a program for alternative assets
The giant custodian will hold many of the assets itself

Thursday 4.22.10
Fred Tomczyk told Reuters: E*Trade 'is on a better footing today than they were a year or two ago, no question.

Analysts issue opinions on Merrill Lynch and TD Ameritrade based on new information
Merrill Lynch or another wirehouse, not a discount broker, should acquire E*Trade, researcher says

Monday 4.19.10
Matthew McGinness: It would not be surprising to see the toll go up.

TD Ameritrade's raised its NTF fee to mutual funds and analysts believe rivals may hike theirs, too
Schwab and Fidelity have ample leverage with mutual funds to raise their toll, analysts say

Wednesday 4.14.10
Scott Dell'Orfano: The average is well up from what we saw at this time last year

Breakaway broker signings get off to hot start in 2010 for Fidelity, TD and Schwab
RIA custodians report big increases in both size and number of recruits from wirehouses

Tuesday 4.13.10
Brian Stimpfl: It was the hardest decision of my career.

[Updated] Why Brian Stimpfl left TD Ameritrade and where he is headed
A right-hand man to Tom Bradley takes a mid-career leap

Monday 4.12.10
Mike Watson: A lot of advisors went into hibernation the last couple of years.

M&A market for RIAs sprints to record start in 2010
Deals are mostly smaller thus far but activity behind the scenes is intense

Friday 4.9.10
Readership on RIABiz has been surprisingly international

What do RIAs care about?
A breadcrumb path through RIABiz into the mind of financial services entrepreneurs

Wednesday 4.7.10
Mike Durbin: Fidelity's investment management heritage and capital markets resources are unique qualities among custodians

Fidelity plows ahead in the RIA business with overhauls of service, technology and management
Stagnant for more than a decade, the Boston-based RIA custodian has become a cauldron of dynamic change in last few years

Tuesday 3.30.10
Bob Adams: Advisors can rest assured that we will meet the needs they have. We're acting in their best interests.

Fidelity delivers a white paper and a warning to RIAs regarding new cost-basis rules
Multi-custody arrangements and third party platforms can lead to troublesome data fragmentation, the Boston custody giant says

Friday 3.26.10
Custodians are aggressively hiring good talent to keep up with RIA demand. Schwab's hire of Nick Georgis was a good example of that.

Part II: The things 11 through 20 that show the RIA market is really heating up in 2010
Everything from New York Times recognition to accelerating executive hires suggest the RIA realm is getting hot

Tuesday 3.23.10
Christopher Dean, managing director of Summit Partners in Boston, invested VC money in RIAs

10 things that show the RIA movement is really heating up in 2010: Part I
Observers need a scorecard to keep track of all the advances that RIAs are making

Monday 3.22.10
James Poer: NFP Securities has undergone a vast evolution and now aims to serve a broader market.

With Schwab [and maybe Fidelity] as custody partners, NFP is positioned to make a run at the hybrid market
If NFP IndeSuite catches on, the success could make up for some struggles on the roll-up side of the business

Friday 3.19.10
Charles Huebner: You can see it in their eyes. They say: You can tell what it is like to take the risk.

Two senior UBS brokers pass on retirement to pursue aggressive breakaway plan
Huebner and Jagger are winding up, not down with multi-faceted growth strategy

Tuesday 3.16.10
Mark Tibergien: We are managing risk. That is what B-to-B firms do.

Pershing is working to create a better alternative assets experience
The Jersey City RIA custodian believes a defined list of criteria gives it an edge

Monday 3.8.10
Mark Tibergien: We were so impressed with Schwab's service that we hired 14 of their people in the past two years.

Mark Tibergien is making Pershing an industrial strength custodian with an RIA service touch
The feisty CEO of Pershing's RIA unit believes his offering will speak to big RIAs

Thursday 3.4.10
Joseph Vietri: Check-up calls on wire transfers will continue indefinitely and more safeguarding steps will be added to the program

Schwab won't stop at wire transfer check-up calls in its quest for airtight security of RIA client assets
Top service exec at big custodian says the tumult of the last 18 months led to the escalation of asset safeguards

Thursday 2.25.10
Steve Walkenbach is heading Scottrade's RIA custody unit but the company is seeking a replacement for Doug Talir

Scottrade is ramping up marketing -- with an interim leader at the helm
The St. Louis-based discount broker has big momentum and a big position to fill

Wednesday 2.24.10
George Tamer let it be known that technology without a dedicated effort by the financial advisor won't yield great results

The T3 conference hit its stride Friday with key speeches and a hum of activity
An IBM big wig cleared up some issues surrounding 'cloud' computing

Monday 2.22.10
Bernie Clark: We will be spending a great deal of money

Schwab is a big custodian with plans to step it up in 2010
Bernie Clark will have a juggling act of keeping service top notch and shoring up the hybrid offering

Wednesday 2.17.10
Joel Bruckenstein says it was the final straw when his speech at a big industry conference got bumped into nighttime.

The T3 conference has a rebellious air and the makings of success
Bruckenstein and Drucker channeled their frustration about industry conferences into creating a tech mecca for RIAs

Friday 2.12.10
Fred Tomczyk: RIAs will continue to get what they need from TD

7 signs that TD Ameritrade's big conference may be a harbinger of bigger things
The #3 custodian is choosing its own path

Monday 2.8.10
Ed Clark told Fred Tomczyk to 'blow Schwab and Fidelity out of the water.'

Ed Clark: TD Ameritrade will not compete with RIAs through its branches
'Absolutely not' he says in response to RIA's quiz about spread of Canadian practices to US

Monday 2.8.10
Kenneth Kaltman bags the Clinton, Bush chairs in lunchtime auction

Distant snows and lunchtime auction keep TD Ameritrade conference buzzing today
Some East Coast attendees rearrange schedules to avoid spending unplanned weekend in Orlando

Friday 2.5.10
Tom Bradley: Says TD Ameritrade's conference, long second to Schwab's, now is the industry's  best-attended

Tom Bradley and Fred Tomczyk team up to give forward-looking state-of-the-TD Ameritrade speech
The Omaha-based parent of the RIA custodian is launching a four-year push on technology

Thursday 2.4.10
Patrick Burns: You want your full book protected -- not half your book

An ex-wirehouse broker and a regulatory lawyer divulge breakaway insights at TD Ameritrade conference
Burns recommends to TD breakaway prospects that they resist discussing with clients the reasons they broke away

Thursday 2.4.10
Tom Bradley: We were very, very pleased with how we did across our advisory service business, and we’re set up well for 2010

Where TD Ameritrade has come since its 2006 merger and where it is headed in 2010
The Jersey City-based custodian keeps finding ways to grow, improve and land on its feet

Wednesday 2.3.10
Derek Bruton's hybrid RIA platform receives an endorsement from an unlikely source: Morgan Stanley

Top 10 findings of Morgan Stanley report include: Schwab as the best RIA custodian, LPL for highest advisor satisfaction
Wall Street's endorsement of the RIA model is a sign of the times in the industry, analysts note

Tuesday 2.2.10
Stephen Finn is betting on  Maiorano to keep his growth streak alive

Stephen Finn taps Maiorano to take small custodian to the next level
Schwab RIA pioneer plans to make his custodian more mainstream

Monday 2.1.10
Brooke Southall: The Custody Project has grown to do justice to the scope and quality of the material it covers

Asset Custody Project rolls forward
The scope of the RIABiz plan for 2009 recaps and 2010 outlooks of RIA custodians took on a life of its own

Monday 2.1.10
Charles Goldman still embodies a service ethic for many advisors

Advisors can tolerate Goldman departure from Fidelity if service doesn't suffer
Fidelity says to expect no change in service approach because of executive changes

Thursday 1.28.10
Barnaby Grist says that wirehouse data on attrition is accurate but not telling for breakaways

Schwab and TD Ameritrade pipelines brim with breakaway prospects
Growth rate accelerates despite slowing attrition at wirehouses

Tuesday 1.26.10
Derek Bruton is now in charge of LPL's hybrid business after years of RIA experience with Merrill Lynch, TD Ameritrade and Schwab

LPL's hybrid RIA platform is fast off the mark and names new leaders for 2010
The giant IBD has already surpassed Raymond James' RIA assets but Derek Bruton plans to build on momentum

Monday 1.25.10
Paul Zettl: Conference registrations are running at double last year's rate

TD Ameritrade revs up to have the biggest three-day RIA rally in its history
Early attendance figures and a full agenda bode well for the rising custodian's 2010 National Conference

Friday 1.15.10
Bernie Clark: We’ll continue to build the connectivity that will make it better

A giant is awakening in the hybrid RIA market
Schwab vows to spend big in 2010 and 2011 on better connections to IBDs

Thursday 1.14.10
Dan Skiles: It doesn’t matter from a passion standpoint whether the RIA has $50 million or $2 million

How Schwab's top tech executive for RIAs ended up with a fledgling competitor
Dan Skiles makes conscious decision to stop his 'Up in the Air' life and discovers the joys of being an entrepreneur

Monday 1.11.10
Peter Mangan: [RIAs] like that we’re a boutique operation

A small RIA custodian in San Diego faces a new challenge: accelerating growth [updated]
Peter Mangan is creating a company that resembles the old Jack White more every day

Monday 1.11.10
Walt Bettinger: After the past two years, our clients are thinking more than ever about their financial future

Morgan Stanley report: TD Ameritrade and other rivals may face pricing dilemma after Schwab price chop
San Francisco broker can cut commissions with relative impunity now that it has shifted primarily to fees

Friday 1.8.10
Terry Reitan: Inefficiencies can be hidden when times are good, but when markets are down, the efficiency our technology provides becomes invaluable.

How a small RIA custodian is making big waves
Trust Company of America invested heavily in technology to make RIAs efficient with an array of advisory representatives

Tuesday 1.5.10
Expect to hear more in 2010 from Mike Durbin, who leads Fidelity's fast-growing RIA custody unit

Percolating: RIA custody roundup for 2010
New faces, new programs, new technology and new assets

Thursday 12.31.09
Brooke Southall: I asked John, 50, why he didn’t hire a financial advisor and he said that the system was “crooked” and “corrupt.”

What I learned about E*TRADE, Bank of America, Google and the Bubble Lounge during pre-holiday conversations
Just because a wirehouse broker doesn't win the account doesn't mean that another advisor will

Tuesday 12.22.09
Tom Bradley: The success of this program is the result of a powerful structure of goal-setting, follow-up and follow-through.

TD Ameritrade takes on Schwab with big consulting push
Smaller custodian will seek to democratize consulting advice on behalf of smaller advisors

Monday 12.21.09
John Furey: Top advisors only engage professionals referred within their networks

Deal killers for almost-breakaway brokers
How to break the dam of 60,000 wirehouse employees

Wednesday 12.9.09
Jim Warren: I promised Art [Tambaro] I would seek out reasons to stay as opposed to reasons for leaving

Why a Royal Alliance champion gave up the cause after AIG made changes
Jim Warren made personal pleas to Art Tambaro but a small IBD nabbed his RIA

Monday 12.7.09
Like Tom Turkey, many RIAs were thankful to survive 2009

Taking A Break From the Turkey?
RIABiz's top 10 stories from the past month offer a window into what RIAs care about

Thursday 11.26.09
Charles Goldman: Service and knowledge of clients’ accounts is not the place to skim.

Goldman aims to make red carpet service for RIAs universal at Fidelity Investments
Boston investing giant is showering tip-top clients in service but it won't stop there, advisor exec says

Tuesday 11.24.09
Jim Scanlon: I was not a big producer so [my boss] could say: I need you to be in this meeting.

How TD Ameritrade wins clients $47 million at a time
UBS brokers double take-home pay with breakaway

Friday 11.13.09
Eliza De Pardo: “The data is a starting point but it’s not the end game.”

Will the real Moss Adams please stand up?
Two companies with ties to the Seattle-based consulting firm seek to fill a void

Monday 11.9.09
Dan Inveen: “It’s almost laughable now that the employer was worried about the scarcity of labor and the scarcity of talent”

10 key points made in new FA Insight personnel study
Report: Smart firms grab talent while it's available

Monday 11.9.09
With Doug Talir gone, Scottrade is already seeking a new leader for its custody unit

Doug Talir, director and founder of Scottrade's RIA custody business, departs
Scottrade is seeking to fill position

Friday 11.6.09
Peter Hess: “It’s more affordable and it’s more of an offering.”

Outsourcing begins to catch fire at Advent Software
Hess recognizes that a new breed of advisor doesn't want the 'dirty work'

Wednesday 10.28.09
James Burton sought to create easy-to-use platform

Fidelity to provide Wall Street-style access to international investments
Boston brokerage gets edge on close rivals but State Street is still king for global investing diehards, advisor says

Thursday 10.22.09
Mike Di Girolamo: “Advisors want to find out who their peers are.”

Raymond James shows it's serious about winning bigger RIAs
Raising minimums is part of creating an atmosphere more conducive to elite advisors

Thursday 10.22.09
Brian Hamburger: “I’ve been critical of investment advisers. I don’t think they’ve taken advantage of this time [of upheaval].”

Merger and breakaway experts convene near Princeton at old Merrill Lynch lair
Attendees will shares notes on how to dismantle wirehouse salesforces

Thursday 10.22.09
Barnaby Grist: “We think the rest of the year looks good but we can’t expect the strength of September to continue.”

Schwab and TD Ameritrade go on breakaway recruiting tear in September
Larger number of bigger teams seek greener pastures as RIAs

Friday 10.16.09
Obama's quest for harmony may create dissonance for RIAs

Eight things necessary to keep RIAs from answering to SIFMA
Multiple strategies needed to counter deficit in numbers

Thursday 10.15.09
Tom Bradley: Appreciated for making the big speech at small-budgeted conferences

The FPA convention hits its stride on Monday
Harold Evensky, Tim Kochis and Lou Stanasolovich provide lift during time of hard questions

Tuesday 10.13.09
Steve Disenhof: The service offered by the broker-dealer's team will make or break the relationship

How to choose between the bewildering custody choices
Litman/Gregory took its time and checked all the boxes

Friday 10.2.09
Schwab IMPACT: Advisors come for its punch

The 10 top things to know on the eve of Schwab IMPACT 2009
A fragmented industry gets under one tent

Saturday 9.12.09
Doug Talir: Ameritrade went upscale

Scottrade rakes in small RIAs
Discount retailer turns its sights on advisors

Friday 9.4.09
Say good-by to this website

Schwab technology undergoes metamorphosis
Beta tester still has wish list for Schwab upgrades

Tuesday 9.1.09
Schwab, TD disclose magnetic effects

With big assist from RIAs, Schwab is still a net new asset magnet
Wirehouses keep net flow numbers to themselves

Thursday 8.6.09
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