Can Schwab, six years late to the robo party, 'freeze the market', catch up and blow doors?
The potential is awesome but the San Francisco giant is currently generating PR for an offering that does not yet have a launch date
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December 20, 2021 at 11:59 PM
Stephen Winks
As John Bogle observes the brokerage industry is “mostly about illusion, wanting for substance.”
So when Walt Bettinger (a former institutional consultant) interjects substance, greatly elevating the discussion of advice, we all learn how empty the discussion has been to date. The brokerage approach to advice is exposed which treats advice as a product which brokers sell rather than an expert prudent process that advisors manage (as required by statute.). Brokers have no control over their value proposition, cost structure, margins or professional standing which represents a c-change in how advisory services (as opposed to products) are delivered.
Schwab may well transform the entire financial services industry by actually introducing large scale institutionalized support for advice in accord to fiduciary responsibilities required by statute in the best interest of the investing public.
Supporting professional standing in advisory services will win Schwab incredible market share and certainly the preference of every consumer interested in fair dealing and their best interest being served. Everyone is tired of Wall Street placing its best interest ahead of the consumer.
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Jack Waymire
How can this Schwab service not compete with the interests of the RIAs and IARs that use its platforms? The typical 100 bps service fee that is charged by most advisors will be a huge disadvantage for investors who put less emphasis on relationships. Perhaps this is a thinly disguised power play by Schwab that says to RIAs, use our free service or run the risk of losing relationships to lower cost service providers. Schwab has the brand name and horsepower to make this happen. How can RIAs compete with free Schwab investment advisory services? Offer integrated planning, investment, insurance, and tax services. The more services you offer the tougher you are to replace. If you don’t offer these services in-house create a team of professionals who work together to provide integrated solutions.
