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Adam Bold was a showman as an RIA who had started out as a Smith Barney broker.

Adam Bold, the RIA who went Hollywood -- literally -- after his Mutual Fund Store cash out, is accused of 'general chaos' at his Tinseltown talent agency

Business partners made the lurid allegations in a lawsuit that's scandalous even by Hollywood standards, charging Bold's aberrant behavior has driven the agency to the brink of bankruptcy; Bold calls it a 'shakedown.'

February 14, 2024 at 3:58 AM

Adam Bold: What if the casual observer isn't able to discern what one franchisee does versus another.

Alleging gambling habits, SEC concerns and steady AUM declines, The Mutual Fund Store is offering $5.5 million to Jeff Roper to sell and walk away

What Adam Bold wants, he says, is to force a settlement to keep the reputational fire from spreading out of control

November 14, 2013 at 8:39 PM

Jeff Roper: It's hundreds of pages for millions of dollars.

The Mutual Fund Store sues its own mega-franchisee to force sale of three stores

Franchisee Jeff Roper says he's good on the price and terms but still not comfortable about the 'hundreds of pages' accompanying the term sheet

November 5, 2013 at 12:14 AM

Christopher Dean: Our view is that more assets are going to move out of the traditional brokerage channel.

The 19 ways private equity has juiced up the RIA business and how it's working out

RIAs, rollups, technology companies, RIA-friendly IBDs are among the firms soaking up the high-ROI capital

January 2, 2013 at 5:40 PM

Mitchell Reiner: It's advisors that created this, [it's] not a 1-800 number.

How a $1 billion Atlanta RIA is getting fellow RIAs to funnel it their small-ticket clients

Wela nabbed $40 million right off the bat from its parent, Capital Investment Advisors LLC, and has Schwab veteran Paul Scudellari to ensure that assets are soon measured in billions

October 4, 2012 at 4:23 AM

John Bunch's decision to join The Mutual Fund Store sets up a major expansion.

John Bunch is hired as the new CEO of The Mutual Fund Store

The TD Ameritrade and Schwab veteran is charged with dotting the country with MFS company outlets as Adam Bold moves over

February 8, 2012 at 9:04 PM

Gene Goldman: I had butterflies in my stomach because I was so excited about the opportunity to work here.

Commonwealth, Cetera and The ETF Store take notable actions

Commonwealth replaces Fidelity technology; Cetera snags Gene Goldman; an LPL vet, and upstart ETF Store takes another page out of Adam Bold's book

August 22, 2011 at 2:48 AM

Adam Bold says to expect more stores and more marketing

Mutual Fund Store sells controlling interest to Warburg Pincus

Giant of private equity world will play a passive role and Adam Bold will continue to run the show

July 29, 2011 at 9:30 PM

Adam Bold: I got calls 10 years, 10 weeks and 10 days ago and as a prudent person, I listen to these things....clearly the bigger the company gets, the bigger all the numbers get in terms of growing the business.

Adam Bold: The Mutual Fund Store is not for sale

Company owner denies report but says he takes phone calls of outside financiers

June 27, 2011 at 10:18 PM

Brian Keil: We’ve not seen a change this big industry wide in a very long time.

12 takeaways for RIAs from a Schwab report about complex cost basis rule changes

The onus is on the custodians but advisors will be expected to help, especially during tax season

June 17, 2011 at 2:31 PM

Andrew Salesky: It’s come up many times in the past. The timing is right.

Schwab spells out the details of its franchise plan

The San Francisco broker is making five-year deals with dozens of financial advisors from across advisory channels

June 8, 2011 at 1:28 PM

Ric Edelman: It hasn’t proven to be a problem for Charles Schwab.

Radio-star RIAs drive giant growth at national chains one $400,000 investor at a time

Edelman and Mutual Fund Store each surpass $6 billion of assets and, post-recession, they're throwing up stores with abandon

March 25, 2011 at 1:12 PM

Walt Bettinger: The Schwab brand is under-distributed.

Schwab eyes massive branch network expansion using independent operators

Leaner concept could become dominant retail channel for big San Francisco broker

February 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM

Paul Weisbruch: ETFs can trade at a discount or premium to NAV, but the statistically insignificant differences are used as a device of fear.

Criticism of ETFs is based on fear more than factual basis: columnist

Concerns over the illiquidity, manipulation and prices of ETFs get way overblown

June 22, 2010 at 5:13 AM

Adam Bold: Higher trading costs will offset in whole or part ETFs’ lower operating costs.

How ETFs have been oversold when it comes to flexibility, lower costs and tax efficiency

ETFs are the new sacred cow, but Adam Bold calls them hamburger

May 10, 2010 at 6:19 AM

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