RIABiz

News, Vision & Voice for the Advisory Community

RIABiz

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

Author Lisa Shidler March 14, 2017 at 10:47 PM
Admin:
no description available
Scott MacKillop: You can see it's going to work now. There's no way I'm going to let this thing fall apart.

Related Moves

Fidelity Investments' plan to hire 12,000 by October hit wall of macro-headwinds; no problem, it landed at 15,000; Schwab keeps hiring, too

The Boston giant's people grab could be derailed by indigestion -- the inability to assimilate staff -- an analyst says; but it has yet to materialize so the hiring spree rolls on.

October 29, 2022 at 12:02 AM

Apex nabs Jon Patullo from 'Schwabitrade' to 'raise the bar' and make his new firm's RIA system as 'frictionless' as the old one

The loved and admired TD Ameritrade software chief will bring his playbook -- and possibly Schwab's -- to Apex, which continues to try putting a winning front-end on its old Penson backend, a source says

October 11, 2022 at 12:40 AM

Robinhood gets 'brilliant' upper manager -- and a spare CEO -- by nabbing TD Ameritrade's ex-thinkorswim top exec, hopefully to throw a lifesaver to Robinhood's sinking stock

The Menlo Park, Calif., firm nabbed Steve Quirk as first-ever chief brokerage officer to 'bridge the gap between academia and reality.'

January 6, 2022 at 10:33 PM

Oisín's snippets: Charles Schwab brand goes up on Omaha's TD Ameritrade stadium, home of college baseball world series • Interactive Brokers lands an RIA custody insider, Charlie Latimer, to climb the custodian ladder

The TDA brand lives on until the techies figure out how to make two systems into one, but change is in the air in Omaha, while Interactive Brokers gets a leg up in the custody business with a new hire.

December 27, 2021 at 9:58 PM

See more related moves

Mentioned in this article:

Tiburon Strategic Advisors
Asset Manager for RIAs
Top Executive: Charles Roame

TD Ameritrade
Asset Custodian
Top Executive: Tom Nally




Stephen Winks

Stephen Winks

March 15, 2017 — 8:17 PM
Once you isolate cost, the opportunity to ascribe value added becomes more clear. Ultimately it is a question of determining what you are paying for. Skill becomes more quantifiable and hyperbole much less so. SCW
Bukhara CFA CAIA

Bukhara CFA CAIA

March 16, 2017 — 1:22 PM
Why does the age of his staff matter?

RIABiz Directory

The Industry Sourcebook for RIAs

   |    LISTING


RIABiz Directory sponsored by:

Directory Sponsor Logo