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Scott MacKillop: We participate in these programs because they are not pay-to-play programs.
October 15, 2022 at 12:38 AM

Gary Gensler: There’s a reason why the ’33 Act was called the Truth in Securities Law.

RIAs may face ticking time bomb after SEC slams a $1.9-billion RIA for neglecting 'orphan' accounts while charging fees, a problem that may be industrywide

Thousands of clients may be getting lost in the shuffle in the face of strong inorganic RIA growth -- an obscure problem until federal regulators gave Regal Investment Advisors the royal treatment, in part, for charging full fees and failing to disclose reduced service.

October 26, 2021 at 7:39 PM

Scott MacKillop: This flat-fee TAMP idea has legs after all.

After a 2018 cash scare, Scott MacKillop got a $1.5 million lifeline and -- boom -- RIAs rewarded his flat-fee TAMP with 1,000% AUM growth in 35 months

First Ascent now has $1.1 billion in RIA AUM and reached a sweet milestone -- its founder has a take-home salary and apparent sustainability.

June 14, 2021 at 8:41 PM

Jake Gilliam: For advisors who prefer to use the framework and implement it on their own, they certainly can.

Cozier (and nearer zero-fee) by the day, Schwab again teams with Envestnet-- this time tapping the outsourcer's reach to 103,000 IBD reps to launch super-cheap model portfolios

Already bonded through PortfolioCenter and MoneyGuidePro, the San Francisco-based broker's Charles Schwab Investment Management unit chose Envestnet's supermarket with 100,000-plus advisor-shoppers for a key launch

September 2, 2020 at 6:31 AM

Chip Roame brings equal ardor in leading CEO Summits and leading a sub-culture to mountain peaks.

Skip Schweiss and Chip Roame reward RIA super-hikers with soft beds, sharp rocks and 'junk food' to slog New Hampshire's Presidential Traverse

The Excellent Adventure crew of Tiburon CEO Summit origins glamped it and roughed it on a hike famously dangerous despite low elevation peaks

July 29, 2019 at 7:46 PM

Scott MacKillop: Anyone ever involved in fundraising for a new venture knows how time consuming and emotionally draining it is. Now that we are financially secure for the foreseeable we can focus on the positive aspects ... I have a smile on my face again and my creative juices are flowing.

Liberated (in part) by an Envestnet deal, Scott MacKillop isn't ho-humming a second-round infusion of $1.5 million

Asking first-round funding friends and family to extend support stressed out First Ascent's CEO but the fresh capital arrives as new sources of asset inflows kick in

December 10, 2018 at 11:25 PM

Tackling the wilds of Alaska more imposing than balancing a portfolio

Chip's and Skip's 'Excellent Adventure' breaks RIA stereotypes, sheds risk aversion for 'gut-busting' Alaska hike; black bears, grizzlies and moose, oh my!

This year the Excellent Adventure crew assembled in Girdwood, Alaska for a trek up the Crow Pass Trail, which meanders through a rain forest inhabited by black bears, grizzly, and moose.

August 20, 2018 at 5:30 PM

Jeff Raupp: Whenever you say we're going to make some changes, it creates a little bit of uncertainty, but I feel like we were fortunate ... we were able to dig in and quickly address what we felt needed changing.

As Brinker Capital embraces RIA future, it ends two-year period of being an outsourced CIO with no named CIO

After the hasty exit of Bill Miller in 2016, the $22B TAMP downplayed insurance brokerage assets, played up RIAs and incubated Jeff Raupp as chief investment officer instead of seeking a ringer

June 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM

Paul Gamble is selling what academics do as he did at Financial Engines -- and that worked out.

After losing Lee Kranefuss and raising $10M, 55ip gets RIAs to buy Ph.D. smarts, though a critic calls it gussied-up market timing

Guided by an ex-Financial Engines ringer, Paul Gamble, the New York startup is now portfolio modeler for $100 million

April 19, 2018 at 10:38 PM

Scott MacKillop: Much of successfully completing these long hikes is mental rather than about pure physical strength.

Skip Schweiss and Chip Roame lead risky, if risk-managed, hike of RIA types on famously perilous trail -- with danger striking right on schedule

Wild boar, spinner dolphins and Portuguese men o' war looked on as we essayed Hawaii's Kalalau Trail, finding out firsthand why it's called the 10th-most dangerous hike in America

July 21, 2017 at 6:21 PM

James Gorman is lowering wealth management fees and lowering boom on unhelpful fund firms.

In echo of DFA-RIA custody strife, Morgan Stanley nixes new Vanguard mutual fund account openings

As the idea of a fund shelf diminishes, the Malvern, Pa.-based firm's refusal to pay such fees earns cold shoulder from the top New York wirehouse

May 4, 2017 at 10:56 PM

Scott MacKillop: You can see it's going to work now. There's no way I'm going to let this thing fall apart.

Scott MacKillop applies shock-and-awe pricing to SMA market to good effect after merely lower fees left RIAs flat

Using a robo out of a yoga studio, First Ascent is using a flat, capped fee to fulfill a founder's vision

March 14, 2017 at 10:47 PM

Scott MacKillop: Your theory assumes that if some rebalancing is good, then a lot must be better.

The three big defects in Andy Rachleff's theory of robo-advisors' ineluctable destiny of domination

Robos no doubt are tireless machines that perform tasks like tax-loss harvesting at a higher frequency than RIAs. But at what cost?

February 27, 2017 at 6:23 PM

Scott MacKillop: The public sees us all as being members of the same club.

RIAs should ask not for whom the DOL-rule sharks swarm ... they swarm for you, too

Advisors who truly aspire to be part of a respected profession need to oppose the furious efforts to revive the commission-broker ethos from the top seat of government

February 9, 2017 at 10:39 PM

Scott MacKillop: The real concern is that the rule will prevent the industry from charging retirement plan clients high fees and offering them conflicted advice.

The time is now for the investment industry to shed its shameless culture or pay a steep price

Enough feeble excuses and convoluted rationalizations for delaying the DOL rule

January 19, 2017 at 7:03 PM

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