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Greg Fink: We went through a process at Fidelity to make sure Triad and parent owner [Ladenburg Thalmann] was OK with us breaking away.

Three advisors in Atlanta break away with $1.8 billion and make seven-year Fidelity relationship manager their CEO -- whose duties now include managing a lawsuit from former IBD

ACG Wealth replaced Triad with their own broker-dealer and allegedly depended on a verbal assurance that may be tested in court

July 27, 2017 at 11:41 PM

Fred Tomczyk: It's getting more competitive. There's no question people have noticed our success.

TD Ameritrade CEO sees RIA custody competitors adjusting to his killer strategy -- even as he whips his in-house RIA into shape

The Jersey City, N.J. custodian's under-the-radar hypergrowth rate is now also big in absolute terms, which may attract unwanted attention from absolute giants

November 5, 2015 at 8:34 PM

David Steele: I still wasn't an entrepreneur in what I was best at. Nobody knew that.

How David Steele opened six restaurants in the toughest foodie market in the US and then found the nerve to leave JP Morgan

The Bear Stearns veteran deliberately chose Uber-, Twitter- and Dolby-adjacent offices in a trendy San Fran neighborhood

September 14, 2015 at 6:01 PM

Edmond Walters is making an exit, as bold in nature as his entrepreneurial reputation.

Edmond Walters bolts from eMoney and Fidelity Investments scrambles to manage the jilt

Six months after the $250-million deal, the entrepreneur leaves with no public explanation and Mike Durbin takes his CEO spot for now

September 3, 2015 at 7:44 PM

 Dave Romhilt: I was having all of these conversations separately and Tom Palecek said, 'What are we going to do about this?'

How exactly five ex-Barclays advisors and one analyst across three time zones combined to make a $3 billion RIA

A 38-year-old researcher played point man in the offensive that formed Summit Trail Advisors with offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco

August 3, 2015 at 6:35 PM

Bob Oros has climbed about every rung on the RIA ladder

Bob Oros jumps to the top 'RIA' spot at Fidelity

With Mike Durbin taking a new day job at the Boston giant, the sales journeyman of Schwab, LPL and TCoA fame gets a coveted title

March 5, 2015 at 8:59 PM

Jon Stein: Every month is bigger than the last.

On strength of $1.4 billion of AUM and 90 RIA clients, Betterment raises $60 million of VC funding as it looks to disrupt RIA custody

The New York City-based robo added $1 billion in 11 months and (sources say) has bigtime RIAs contemplating it as a primary platform, CEO Jon Stein says

February 19, 2015 at 2:01 PM

Shirl Penney [l.] listens to Bernie Clark (far r.) response as Mike Durbin and Mark Tibergien listen in.

Schwab, Fidelity and Pershing custody chiefs square off in Vegas but not before a private meeting in San Francisco

Fresh off a Schwab-hosted meeting to find common ground, Bernie Clark, Mike Durbin and Mark Tibergien each gave a two-minute pitch on their company and hashed out robo-advisors

December 11, 2014 at 9:19 PM

Walt Bettinger: And by the way, we never said that it would be free, but rather that it will fund itself from the revenues of the underlying ETFs.

A charged-up Walt Bettinger slams all non-Schwab robos at IMPACT 2014 with an energy appreciated by RIAs

The Schwab CEO's feistiness was just one unusual occurrence at the all-stops-out fete for high-end RIAs in the Mile High city

November 10, 2014 at 7:57 AM

Robert Moore: Today, our independent RIA business accounts for approximately 65% of our new business development.

LPL Financial shares hit rough patch on $18-million surprise as RIAs now represent the vast majority of the firm's business development

Wall Street dings the IBD for spiralling compliance costs but hybrid RIA assets are serious bright spot

October 23, 2014 at 3:44 AM

Jon Stein: We've been working on it for the last six months. We wanted to wait until tax loss harvesting and trust account support was in place.

Fidelity and Betterment sign a deal with Steve Lockshin and Marty Bicknell as groomsmen at the altar

The RIA principals are distributing the online asset manager service to fellow RIAs, and Fidelity is quelling an uproar of demand from RIA clients for robo answers for the mass affluent

October 15, 2014 at 1:00 PM

Jon Jones: I'd gone full-force in terms of how to make myself replaceable; that was my goal in hiring a director of finance, hiring a director of marketing, hiring a director of technology, hiring a COO to basically take over the daily management.

How a Deloitte breakaway built a $3.8 billion RIA rapidly in Seattle -- and why those billions moved from Schwab to Fidelity as part of the story

Jon Jones took a year off to hike 35 countries with four kids but a vendor really made his patience run thin

October 7, 2014 at 11:52 PM

Dan Seivert says new math is needed to do credit to the number of deals going down.

Dan Seivert drops M&A data bombshell at his Dealmakers Summit to gasps

At his LA event, Dan Seivert revealed the thousands, yes, thousands of RIA deals going down this year despite limited activity from roll-ups

October 1, 2014 at 8:19 PM

Bill Hortz: I'm not going to waste anyone's time.

An RIA innovation co-op is born with Fidelity and Pershing among the founding members

Schwab Advisor Services declines comment and TD Ameritrade respectfully declines, citing a full plate of Veo initiatives

August 19, 2014 at 12:14 AM

Nick Georgis: We're told by our clients that they're not getting this help anywhere else.

What tidbits jumped out of Schwab's business update to Wall Street -- including the two underscored advantages relating to Schwab Advisor Services

Braving 'ahems' from Fidelity and Pershing, Bernie Clark claims Schwab is now the preferred vendor to roll-ups and Nick Georgis says Schwab stands alone as a business consultant to RIA firms

August 4, 2014 at 11:21 PM

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