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Seth Worby: Financial services is second-largest industry represented on LinkedIn -- and 67% of the profiles are adults with investments portfolios to manage.

How exactly RIAs can get the something for almost nothing they expect from 'free' social media

Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter basics can be a gateway to a broader cyber existence, maybe

May 29, 2015 at 4:57 PM

Jamie Dimon: We are completely comfortable with partnering [with startups] where it makes sense.

JP Morgan gets a 39-page blasting of its corroded culture and ground lost to Silicon Valley robos -- authored by its CEO Jamie Dimon

The letter to shareholders by Wall Street's sultan shows uncharacteristic humility but some analysts question the missive's sincerity

May 28, 2015 at 6:41 PM

Keith Block: You're also going to see our industry strategy come into greater focus this summer when we introduce our first industry solution in wealth management.

Salesforce discloses upcoming RIA CRM product, cryptically and to some jeers

Losing its cloud edge with Redtail, Junxure -- and with a dubious social media strategy -- the San Francisco software giant needs to play catch-up

May 27, 2015 at 8:21 PM

Mike Alfred: The DC business isn't growing as fast. There aren't as many new plans and now there are assets leaving plans. So to me, this is a natural way to find more growth.

What exactly to make of the big robo-advice deal that, according to Reuters, Financial Engines and Wells Fargo are nearing

The pieces -- 401(k) pricing, DOL, Supreme Court and massive scale -- are all in place to make the Silicon Valley-San Francisco deal make sense, analysts say

May 26, 2015 at 7:56 PM

Mike Foy: We call them self-directed. There's been blurring of the lines.

JD Power crowns Schwab as tops for 'self-directed' investors for its ability to provide investors greater direction

Scottrade plummets from first place to fifth as Fidelity and Vanguard come in a hair behind Schwab

May 22, 2015 at 5:26 PM

Sukanya Kuruganti did M&A for Citi and Barclays but has now joined Focus Financial as part of a series of M&A hires.

Focus Financial doubles down on financial engineering by making five hires -- four of them deal hounds

With $325 million in revenues and a big line of credit, the New York roll-up machine is playing to its M&A strength

May 21, 2015 at 8:57 PM

Tom Dorsey specializes in point and figure charting, which was invented in the 1890s by Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones industrial average.

Virtus bites bullets with F-Squared firing, Dorsey Wright hiring and an admission that it'll likely pay a $5-million-plus SEC settlement

The Hartford fund company set aside $5.2 million, warned it may need more and is replacing interstellar algorithms with a Virginian's figurings

May 21, 2015 at 6:13 PM

Fred Reish: Participants will be able to sue for plans that were selected for inclusion in the plan more than six years ago but haven't been removed from the plan within the last six years.

How 12(b)-1 fees and revenue sharing may be the real victims of Monday's 'narrow' Supreme Court ruling

By unanimous decision, a conservative nine showed no tolerance for retail mutual fund share classes that achieve such status with fat fees that directly or indirectly pay 401(k) administration freight

May 20, 2015 at 4:18 PM

Andy Putterman: They are likely unhappy.

Gladstone commandeers the Four Seasons as Andy Putterman and Brian Hamburger command the buzz

The M&A firm's event is about zzzzzzuccession planning but the event got un-boring fast when the two CEOs spoke their minds

May 19, 2015 at 8:08 PM

Brad Matthews [r.] with Jason Novotny: I guarantee, I promise there will be a big institution [using Trizic] in the next 12 months.

After Schwab robo launch, Trizic phones leap off the hook as Wall Street brokers and bankers come calling -- and VCs write checks

Ex-JP Morgan Trizic founders say their giant enterprise prospects went from 'denial' to 'how?'

May 18, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Brooke Southall, Michael Lock, Megan Carpenter and Jason Lahita : I don't expect to see [Google and Facebook] in heavily regulated businesses, Lock says.

Credible reasons Facebook and Google won't become robo-RIAs and other things I learned at Hearsay Social-Pershing event in San Francisco

The atmosphere was SOMA startup, the 20-plus RIAs wore suits and dresses and Mark Tibergien was in listening mode

May 15, 2015 at 7:08 PM

Secretary of Labor Tom Perez [l., with Matt DiGennaro] was clearly not there to lobby.

What happened when a Florida RIA brought DOL's Tom Perez to his local business elite

The corporate stewards of a cumulative $1.57 billion in assets seem OK with -- if a bit confused by -- the new fiduciary world order

May 15, 2015 at 4:02 PM

Mark Hurley: You're not going to be dead when you sell your business.

Mark Hurley's new report analyzes the pathology of the aging RIA and the illiquidity it exacts

The leveraged buyout specialist posits thousands of principals trapped in their practices, unable to sell, victims of psychological unpreparedness

May 14, 2015 at 4:57 PM

Jon Sundt: In 27 years of tracking, the average private equity return has outpaced the S&P by 2.5 times.

Feeling its oats in post-Genworth life, Altegris does a deal with KKR anchored by a big Merrill Lynch brokerage commitment

Using a deli-slicer approach, the San Diego liquid alts firm will make KKR billions available in $25,000 portions

May 13, 2015 at 5:55 PM

Shirl Penney at home in Eastport, Maine: There's no question that this deal speaks to me.

Why quiet co-breakaway of LPL and Ameriprise advisors in Downeast Maine speaks so loudly to Shirl Penney

Penney, who arrived in New York in a $13 suit and built Dynasty, is reconnecting with his home state by signing on a Brunswick breakaway

May 12, 2015 at 4:57 PM

This is not 1950; these are pilots in Omaha picketing the 2015 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

My trip to Omaha with 40,000 of the Buffett faithful and what questions the Oracle didn't answer

Nuggets of Buffett and Munger wisdom were abundant and provided a window into the Warren succession -- plus plenty of Berky Briefs and Dilly bars

May 11, 2015 at 9:30 PM

Justin Carbonneau: Even though we're active, we always make changes on a Friday and it's a 28-day-cycle and we're changing 10% of the portfolio each month.

Fleet-footed RIAs storm into the active ETF market as fund giants tie pretzel dough

Front-running is real concern for the likes of American Funds or Fidelity Investments but not for little guys with no track records

May 11, 2015 at 7:32 PM

Major league Wall Street firms grapple with the millennial conundrum.

After LinkedIn's stock retreats, LinkedIn CEO hosts NYC event with Merrill's Thiel, Allianz's El-Erian, BNY's Hassell and a robo-panel

The loose theme was millennials, the takeaway was nada and a panel of female industry execs stole the show

May 8, 2015 at 7:56 PM

Jud Bergman: They all tell me that their clients don't want it.

Jud Bergman defies advisor feedback as Envestnet stares down the barrel of change

The Envestnet chief executive invokes railroad pioneers to explain why he is erring on the side of the theoretical over hard feedback

May 7, 2015 at 8:31 PM

Oleg Tishkevich will join Envestnet as financial planning chief.

Envestnet acquires Finance Logix on heels of Upside

The Chicago outsourcing behemoth seeks to unify investment planning and financial planning

May 6, 2015 at 9:57 PM

Tony DiLeonardi: I respectfully disagree with Jack Welch.

Why I disagree with Jack Welch about the '08 crash as the root of employee disengagement

Welsh sees happiness, trust and truth as problems and the author sees intimacy as the weak link

May 6, 2015 at 8:13 PM

Call-center associates and engineers sit side by side at Future Advisor's gritty San Francisco digs.

FutureAdvisor responds to Schwab's market entry with a truly free offer and big backing from Fidelity and TD Ameritrade

The San Francisco-based RIA is automating parents' investments into 529s, Coverdell ESAs, UTMAs or UGMA for tax-free savings, no paperwork

May 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM

Steve Lockshin: If you are charging 1% for asset allocation and security selection, then you are dead.

News that AAA -- the tow truck guys -- are entering the robo-advisor business made the Finance Logix point in Vegas

The Pacquiao-Mayweather crowds added to the surreal Las Vegas scene and underlined the pace-of-change theme

May 4, 2015 at 7:37 PM

Peter Lawler: We've invested a lot of money in our technology platform and have multiple APIs, which cater to those firms. Those firms don't like paper.

With robo-advisors on the rise, robo custodian Apex is rising with them, a diamond mined from the rubble of the Penson Worldwide debacle

Cheaper, more paperless and early to market, the Dallas-based clearing house/broker-dealer is out to protect its lead as big RIA custodians play robo catch-up

May 1, 2015 at 6:19 AM

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