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Colleen Bell: “We see this as an opportunity”

Lisa's Bits: Commonwealth and Cambridge jump into RIA custody game bigger; Goldman Sachs buys $600-billion 401(k) RIA as Wells Fargo reportedly eyes 401(k) exit ; Mercer does four deals in one month; LPL slashes an important advisor fee; A $13 billion advisor's fate is uncertain

Commonwealth launches its own RIA unit, Mercer goes on a one-month buying spree; Wells Fargo seeks to escape retirement low margins and Goldman buys in; Cresset looks to reinvent itself,

December 7, 2018 at 6:36 PM

Wayne Bloom:  We're really a great big RIA.

What's up with J.D. Power naming Commonwealth top IBD for the fourth straight year

One trick, Wayne Bloom says, is that he relentlessly squeezes feedback out of his 1,600 advisors

July 2, 2014 at 12:32 AM

Diane Russell:  It's just not been at the top of advisors' lists for running their businesses.

Why RIAs are shunning mobile apps and why Black Diamond, Orion, Fidelity and others are still placing their chips on an iPad future

Many providers are stuck at 10% mobile adoption rate, but Fidelity has hit 40% and Orion 30% with their RIA clients

March 19, 2012 at 5:48 PM

Lou Harvey: It's really going to annoy the hell out of the plan sponsors.

Which three of DOL's new 401(k) rules represent the biggest land mines for financial advisors and plan sponsors

Accepting gifts, estimating fees and using asset allocation models all demand treading lightly

February 14, 2012 at 6:06 AM

Ryans Shanks: What’s stopped you in the past is that internal mechanism that tells you not to run your own business. Now, you can see all of the firms.

Ryan Shanks and Ned Van Riper eHarmonize big-fee broker recruiting

JoinAFirm.com is expected to give independent firms more play by offering more options and keeping it casual

October 27, 2011 at 3:47 AM

The herd of advisors has been culled but the ones remaining may be better ones.
August 31, 2011 at 2:27 PM

John Smallwood: We knew we made the wrong decision but that was July 2008 and the world blew up and we were stuck.

Three advisors tell why they fled Securities America for Commonwealth

Scandal soured the advisors on the Securities America and set them on a search for a firm with a compatible culture

August 3, 2011 at 6:06 AM

Commonwealth's Todd Estabrook: “This is one of the things that are really important. We believe it’s important to be part of an integrated marketing strategy.”

Cambridge, Commonwealth vault advisors into social media; the boost is mostly free, for now

Will partnerships with, respectively, Socialware and Erado, translate into elusive growth-via-networking?

May 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM

Merion's Richard Hughes: HIs job will be to integrate advisors who want to offload back-office operations and remain active equity partners, the company said.
March 18, 2011 at 1:35 PM

Eric Schwartz: The SEC and FINRA obviously didn’t ask the right questions when they were in Madoff’s office. So, there’s a much higher burden (now) and they don’t go by the same cook book.

Cambridge, Commonwealth see reverse breakaways due to compliance fears

Some IBDs are morphing into Super RIAs that make money by charging for oversight of fee-based assets

March 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM

Jim Roth says that the economic of the IBD business have shifted to make a hybrid model a necessity for IBDs.

Pershing warns IBDs to embrace hybrid business model or risk being marginalized

Schwab gives hybrid advisors another vote of confidence in its own new study yesterday

February 25, 2011 at 3:12 PM

Legislators haven't been under this much pressure to reform financial services since after the Great Depression.

Regulatory Wire: Everything an RIA needs to know about the reform agenda in Washington

If major change doesn't occur, it won't be for lack of effort

April 9, 2010 at 6:20 AM

Frederick Van Den Abbeel has made CNBC his ally in recruiting RIAs to his Florida-based custodian

Trade-PMR is elbowing its way into the RIA custody market with cheap software and expensive advertising slots

Florida custodian is opening its doors to career-changers and smaller IBD reps who want to become RIAs

February 10, 2010 at 5:35 AM

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

December 7, 2009 at 5:09 AM

Brooke Southall: I separate brokers as people from brokers as an institution

Welcome to RIABiz on day one

Online publication for financial advisors debuts from Sausalito, Calif.

August 6, 2009 at 4:20 AM

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