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Jay Shah: We have an incredible opportunity to deliver... financial planning experiences.
July 11, 2023 at 2:46 AM

Rob Foregger: I have no question that they ran a great auction process.

IPO dreams die, but Personal Capital gets '$1 billion' price tag from life insurance giant's 401(k) unit that includes a de facto discount from early-bird VC dollars

Empower's sister company has built a 25% stake in Personal Capital since 2016 and test drove the company with two board members.

July 1, 2020 at 2:26 AM

Can Personal Capital (with Redwood Shores HQ in photo) get $1 billion ask price with fair M&A skies on the fade?

JPMorgan's reported balk on Personal Capital bid is latest Covid-19 M&A infection as Yodlee, Brinker, Orion sale claims also fade from the radar

Moelis is overseeing an 'auction' of the Redwood Shores, Calif., online RIA, which manages about $12 billion, and buyers are not ready to pay the $1 billion ask -- with JPMorgan Chase pulling out entirely, three sources told Barron's

May 13, 2020 at 8:44 PM

Porter Gale: We just have to be smarter and more creative.
December 11, 2019 at 5:26 PM

Peter Mallouk: 'They have better onboarding software, communication software and reporting.'

Jilted once, Creative Planning gets Personal Capital's former 401(k) company, simplifies its ADV and cuts a remaining Tony Robbins thread in the bargain

CEO Peter Mallouk now has the onboarding software he coveted and the chance to make his $43-billion RIA hum in the micro-plan market

September 27, 2019 at 1:17 AM

Michael Cohan: No information can be revealed at any point, lest laundering proliferate unchecked and unabated around the cosmos.

Wealthfront busts through $20 billion mark with its 'break things but make it happen' approach, but it's bedeviled by details when it comes to customers

CEO Andy Rachleff near doubles assets with high-interest paying robo-bank as new tailwind, but with brand risk as customer service may not be keeping pace, according to one cautionary tale.

September 15, 2019 at 2:42 AM

Porter Gale was the marketing guru that took Virgin America from challenger to up-market darling, but can she repeat the trick at Personal Capital?

With IPO clock at 10-years and ticking, Personal Capital makes two big, out-of-character moves to go upmarket and downmarket

With $9 billion in assets, the Redwood City-based national RIA hired the ex-Virgin America CMO Porter Gale to make one brand investors associates with both the freebie tools and the full-priced financial advice its advisors provide mostly from call centers

March 22, 2019 at 7:55 PM

Jeff Carney: Personal Capital is uniquely positioned with its offering of smart technology accompanied by human advice for mass affluent and high-net-worth clients.

Power Financial, Jeff Carney and Personal Capital tighten bond with $50-million cash raise-- not that it needed the money, says CEO Jay Shah

The $154-billion AUM in Toronto headed by Schwab's ex-retail chief who sits on the board under Charles Goldman and the $8.5-billion Silicon Valley virtual advisor have been close since 2016

February 12, 2019 at 8:50 PM

Jay Shah: One of the first things I did as CEO was introduce a tiered service model … Our average initial client investment has grown 37% since last year, and our average client has more than $400k in a personalized portfolio.

Taking the helm from famous founder, Jay Shah gets Personal Capital out of Vanguard's shadow with new shape, new deals and a 70% leap in assets

Still $93 billion-plus in arrears to Vanguard's $100 billion RIA, the new virtual-RIA CEO is making strides in the kinds of startup details that a venture capitalist can love

July 6, 2018 at 8:20 PM

Bill Harris: We are constantly showing what your cash flow is, you have to be good at saving.

Power Player: Bill Harris raises yet another $40 million on strength of winning big accounts willing to pay a grown-up price

Personal Capital has a leg-up in the mass production of classic RIA-to-high-net-worth services using technology, people and process, even if the brand elicits shrugs

July 31, 2017 at 11:46 PM

Mike Sha (center): We’re not gonna disrupt a crusty industry. Discretion is the better part of valor for start-up people.

Schwab CTO's speech in NYC spotlights an RIA business addicted to innovation – with no fresh fix in sight

Timothy Heier set the lower-morale tone at In|Vest 2017 of a B2B industry waiting for a Mark Zuckerberg to push it forward again -- perhaps with artificial intelligence as the final frontier

July 20, 2017 at 9:37 PM

Andy Rachleff: You know what? It’s going to keep getting better. Because software is better than people

Andy Rachleff blasts flesh-and-blood advisors -- even planners -- as Wealthfront returns to offense in robo game after losing ground under former QB Adam Nash

The Redwood City robo's founder and CEO sneers at the traditional retirement planning process even as Wealthfront concedes it's still chasing the essential snark of automated advice: artificial intelligence

February 24, 2017 at 5:33 PM

Brett Thorne: It is always up to the individual advisor working with the client to assess the client’s goals and to help the client get the right investments.

RBC Wealth Management adds NextCapital to its robo lineup with a head-scratching explanation about its earlier pick of FutureAdvisor

It appears Rob Foregger's robo-come-lately has leapfrogged its bigger, better-funded automated portfolio offering -- although the 'why' of it is open to interpretation

November 21, 2016 at 6:51 PM

Bo Lu: What's a phone?

The odd and open courtship between the SEC and robo-advisors plays out again -- this time at an SEC-hosted webcast panel in Washington, D.C.

Mary Jo White introduced a forum with representatives from FutureAdvisor, Betterment and Personal Capital who mostly just nodded in assent at each other

November 15, 2016 at 10:22 PM

Bill Harris: We're running hot.
September 21, 2016 at 9:12 PM

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