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Tracy Calder spent 18 years at UBS before leading efforts at JP Morgan Securities.
January 26, 2016 at 4:11 PM

The 2014 RIA hype frenzy may have peaked when suddenly Tony Robbins was everywhere.

Why the RIA business starts 2016 without its swagger: 2014 and 2015

What's hot right now? Almost nothing and nobody. But it might be a 'healthy correction' of equilibrium

January 11, 2016 at 11:42 PM

Joan Khoury: What I'm drawn to here is the ability to create the narrative and the story. This firm isn't as well known but it has good name recognition.

Joan Khoury gets hired as CMO to revive brand of the other Oppenheimer

LPL's ex-marketing chief comes to the long-forgotten wirehouse believing its long history provides grist for a compelling narrative

January 5, 2016 at 11:10 PM

Bucking industry skepticism, Jon Stein is pitching his robo as a one-stop 401[k] shop for legacy firms.

The 10 biggest RIA moves of 2015 and what conclusions to draw from them

PE dollars, succession angst, women executives seeking same and, of course, the robo sweepstakes spurred these advisor-entrepreneurs to dare and to risk much

January 4, 2016 at 9:28 PM

Tom Gooley: We're setting up specialized queues for death, divorce and retirement.

LPL Financial undertakes painstaking overhaul of service spurred by capacity overwhelm and RIA demand for Schwab-style pods

In addition to aggressive hiring, training and creating 'queues,' Tom Gooley and Tim Hodge are tackling the big one -- service culture

November 24, 2015 at 5:51 PM

Matthew Audette: There's not a bunch of balance sheet capital that's necessary.

How hedge fund control and E*Trade's former CFO helped Mark Casady see that making LPL a blue chip was a fool's errand

Matthew Audette concedes that he came to LPL lured by its potential for higher leverage

November 2, 2015 at 10:00 PM

Mark Casady: That is an extreme. I don't see that happening, but that is kind of the range of the thinking.

LPL CEO floats orphaning 3% of its brokerage business in prelude to DOL 'travesty'

Mark Casady says he may lop off brokerage accounts of $15,000, citing looming rule changes

October 30, 2015 at 6:28 PM

John Scully was on the Advent Software board and his firm, SPO, now controls 9.2% of LPL's outstanding shares.

After stealthily buying up LPL stock, a 'wolf pack' of activist hedge funds has a leg hold

San Francisco-based SPO, FPR and Marcato are forbidden to coordinate their efforts per SEC rules but seem to be looking in the same direction

October 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM

Ken Fisher finally found the 401(k) business to his liking after Ascensus sliced costs and proprietary funds enabled fat profits.

Capitalizing on 'unintended consequences' of DOL changes, Ken Fisher pounces on a fat-margin 401(k) opportunity

DOL greased the skids for closed-architecture approach of $60-billion RIA -- as long as it is discloses use of proprietary funds and sets flat fees that apply to them

October 15, 2015 at 5:28 PM

Emily Gordy: I will be able to have an effective dialogue with FINRA.
October 6, 2015 at 9:19 PM

Anthony Perkins: When they started poaching from Morgan and Merrill, I started to take notice.

LPL installs a former Wells Fargo tech-meister as it races to replace software, RIAify itself, for 14,000 restive advisors

The No. 1 IBD has miles to go in its mission to strip down and rebuild its once 'pretty horrible' platform but CIO Victor Fetter says dramatic changes are already evident

August 31, 2015 at 6:19 PM

Burt White: History suggests stocks are capable of posting total returns this year in the range of 5% to 9% including dividends, despite touching negative territory on the year in August.

Why a flat start doesn't mean a flat finish for the S&P 500

Halfway-point blues notwithstanding, strong earnings and other catalysts that could push the S&P 500 into the black by Christmas

August 20, 2015 at 3:53 PM

Greg Verfaillie: In the conversations I've been having with advisors, it's clear this decision is not going to be made on product or platform; it's about the relationship.

Curian Capital predators position to pounce -- but a few copiously keep their distance to avoid quills

As smaller TAMPs play the finesse game, SEI, AssetMark and Envestnet, with combined $100 billion-plus AUM, see a path to play up their size and scale after the smaller TAMP falters

August 17, 2015 at 4:51 PM

Dan Arnold: We want to hit this head on and deliver a complementary robo-solution.

LPL will launch third-party robo for advisors and eliminate some fees

Dan Arnold laid it on the line: LPL is being disrupted but taking the challenges head-on

July 27, 2015 at 5:28 PM

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

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