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Kelly Brewster: There are so many things that we can make available that Envestnet may never even consider touching!

Buckingham Strategic Wealth and Private Ocean hire startup Flourish as agent of FDIC-insured cash in rebuff to more established players like MaxMyInterest

Flourish sees a window to contest the incumbents with 'easy button' software that lures Greg Friedman's and Adam Birenbaum's RIAs, which combine for nearly $55 billion of AUM

February 11, 2020 at 11:37 PM

Adam Birenbaum: We haven't scratched the surface.

Buckingham becomes KKR-fueled, check-listed M&A 'machine' that now feeds on BAM TAMP clients

The Focus Financial-owned DFA RIA faces hazards of going '100 miles per hour' but Buckingham CEO Adam Birenbaum has no fear

March 2, 2018 at 9:28 PM

Alex Murguia rolled up his sleeves after the product fit wasn't quite right initially.

Why a $25 billion RIA just went with Alex Murguia's startup's financial planning software

The Buckingham Companies chose inStream to overcome the 'dead' plan problem

November 18, 2014 at 7:00 PM

Adam Nash [with Andy Rachleff]: Wealthfront automatically ensures that every withdrawal minimizes the taxes owed and keeps your portfolio balanced.

Wealthfront's advice is now an employee benefit for Google employees' non-401(k) savings

Employees at the search giant with less than $100,000 get their balances managed for free -- as do employees of the San Francisco 49ers and Palantir

September 23, 2014 at 2:56 AM

Abby Johnson interviewed by NPR's Tom Ashbrook: Lean on Fidelity.

Abby Johnson tells RIAs to have all employees, up and down the chain, think client thoughts at Fidelity's 2014 Executive Forum

Advisors -- many with assets in the tens of billions -- were on hand along with New Yorker writers, NPR and other super-thinkers

May 19, 2014 at 1:51 AM

Rudy Adolf: There is no other business in the RIA space that has even close to this level of capital.

What bet Rudy Adolf is making on RIAs by pre-borrowing $550 million from Bank of America and a wider syndicate

The Focus Financial CEO sees lending rate at rock bottom and ROI on RIA investing with room to rock

January 8, 2014 at 9:41 PM

Adam Birenbaum: Someone will emerge from the RIA space to be the size and scale to compete with the largest wirehouses -- so why not us?

How a $20-billion RIA is buying its 'Microsoft' marketing agency as the engine for propulsion to $100-billion

Adam Birenbaum is betting on David Levin to be his J. Pierrepont Finch but to succeed by really trying

October 10, 2013 at 5:19 AM

Stephen Bozeman: There were some problems.

Unfazed by its misfire, BlackRock is taking a second shot at the 401(k) market, this time with a whiter hat

Skeptics abound but the world's largest asset manager aims to fill a mega-void by bringing payout precision of DC plans to the best-guess 401(k) business

October 3, 2013 at 5:15 PM

Dan Solin: I think the forces aligned against evidence-based investing are far more powerful than anyone can really appreciate.

The 401(k) industry braces itself for fruits of a CalPERS rethink that reflects a cut-the-crap mentality about active investing

A giant staff of researchers and managers -- not always in accord -- manages $260 billion of assets exerts psychological weight, and active management is losing friends in a place where it once thrived

September 12, 2013 at 8:30 PM

Karl Thunemann: Tibergien stops me and says, 'I want to be very emphatic about this. There is nothing wrong with a solo practitioner. Nothing at all.'

Investor Karl interviews Mark Tibergien -- guru, author, chief -- who tells why solo practices are far from extinct

The gospel of RIA says these days that big and complex is The Way, but the Pershing Advisor Solutions chief proves an unexpected champion of the mom-and-pop advisory shop

July 3, 2013 at 4:31 AM

Adam Birenbaum: We can't compete against Morgan Stanley from an advertising budget.

Focus Financial gets a long-sought $400 million DFA RIA in Dallas -- with Adam Birenbaum's firm as the final added ingredient

Rudy Adolf's roll-up-like team used crerativity and persistence to get Jim Whiddon out for coffee; Matt Brinker at United Capital also closed a small deal but projects bigger revenue will come aboard soon

July 2, 2013 at 5:30 AM

Matt Sonnen: I made a lot of mistakes along the way, and I hope I can help others avoid those.

Focus Financial goes after $100-million wirehouse brokers after hiring five employees suited to the task

The big New York aggregator will put the brokers through a one-year seasoning process before placing them in RIA foster homes

April 15, 2013 at 5:16 AM

Adam Birenbaum: We don't think it's happening anywhere else.

A $17-billion RIA doubles down on a social media strategy that netted it 50 Facebook employees

Super bloggers with real street cred are the missing ingredient for casting a Web net

January 11, 2013 at 5:28 AM

Adam Birenbaum: What better place for them than with their current partner?

Buckingham Asset Management creates a structure with Focus Financial that enables it to roll-up the 120 RIAs that entrust it with $13 billion of DFA TAMP assets

With this co-creation of a de facto ISO-9000 for succession plans, smaller RIAs may have more options and metrics on the back end

November 13, 2012 at 7:07 AM

David DeVoe: Literally hundred of firms need to be sold over the next several years -– just to solve for succession.

The RIA M&A market continues to be a no-show, though 2012 pace is ahead of 2011

Only the roll-ups seem to have the focus, knowledge, capital and deadly intent to get results in this market

October 23, 2012 at 3:29 AM

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