RIABiz

News, Vision & Voice for the Advisory Community

RIABiz

Articles published 5/2016


Headline

Publish date


Ryan Parker: I want to say in the clearest way possible that there's nothing driving me away from LPL

Edelman Financial gets its CEO from LPL but the chief executive's job description isn't exactly what the old one was

The $16-billion-AUM RIA's poach of Ryan Parker gives Ric Edelman the bandwidth to exert more of his people power

May 31, 2016 at 8:47 PM

Paul Kingsman: I knew my new business partner well -- she was my mother-in-law!

How my mother-in-law steered my career from Olympic swimming in New Zealand to fee-based advising in the US

I was a 1988 bronze medalist -- a first for a Kiwi male -- taught swimming, sold Speedos, but wanted to help others avoid the fate of my badly advised parents -- a path that took me to the World Trade Center as a Morgan Stanley trainee in 2001

May 27, 2016 at 3:49 PM

Tom Faust: I thought it would be an hour commitment and we'd move on.

Eaton Vance leads a $40-million investment round in SigFig with an eye toward capturing some of its lightning to spark NextShares

For his millions, Eaton Vance's Tom Faust gets a seat at the SigFig table, which he hopes his firm can leverage

May 26, 2016 at 8:18 PM

Pete Hess [at Nasdaq opening bell with Advent board chair Stephanie DiMarco in 2012]: I'm going to take six months off after 23 years. I want to come back fully regenerated.

Pete Hess steps down at Advent Software just as Axys gets whodathunkit fix

Dave Welling will co-head Advent with Robert Roley as Black Diamond reporting is introduced to to Axys users

May 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM

Bill Harris: We don't consider the robos our competition.

How Personal Capital plans to spend its $75 million of green to grow and become better known as the un-robo robo

Using the Denver locale as lure, the Silicon Valley RIA will bulk up on advisors, engineers and marketers

May 24, 2016 at 12:32 AM

Marion Asnes of the Idea Refinery [r.] with Nicole Newlin of Efficient Advisors: Until Big Data reveals all of their clients' habits and motivations, advisors will just have to work at winning their attention.

With a nod to OSJ power and DOL rumblings, Gladstone convenes 100 advisors in Philly

10 OSJs walk into a room and the rest is silence for 90 locked-out attendees

May 23, 2016 at 4:22 PM

Paul Damon: I’d advise more balance and consideration in your reporting on alternatives, which seems to be lacking of late.

Citing two RIABiz recent articles, a longtime reader tells us why our hedge fund coverage is skewed

There's a place for alternatives in the post-crash era, our correspondent writes, especially when 60/40 portfolios are not a universal panacea

May 20, 2016 at 5:51 PM

Sallie Krawcheck: When we took away the jargon and put it into plain English, all of a sudden she said, 'you know what? I can do this.'

As a self-aware Sallie Krawcheck launches at TechCrunch Disrupt, Ellevest embraces the peril of selling algorithms to women

Automation is hard enough but the ex-Merrill chief is resolved to deliver to women what they want even if its means giving them what they don't think they want

May 20, 2016 at 5:35 PM

Jeff Carney is returning to his US retail roots as Personal Capital board member.

Personal Capital gets $75 million investment and an ex-Schwab retail chief in Jeff Carney

The Bill Harris-founded call-center RIA, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, hits it $500-million bogey for valuation

May 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM

Scott Zipfel: Those who redeemed in the first half of the first quarter missed the rebound in the second half.

What's up with Mercer blaming 'political pressure,' bad press and even investor bad timing for hedge fund ills

The big NY talent consultant counters the national media's growing attention to the stumbles and pitfalls of these managers of $3 trillion of assets

May 18, 2016 at 9:21 PM

Bill Butterfield: I'm sure other wirehouses won't be far behind.

Why there's more to the UBS-SigFig deal than meets Sergio Ermotti's gimlet eye

UBS's New York and Switzerland C-suiters tromped through the San Francisco robo's digs for months before striking this bellwether deal

May 17, 2016 at 6:52 PM

James Mendelsohn's expertise in digital marketing is a relatively untapped vein at Edelman Financial

Ric Edelman hires former what's-in-your-wallet Capital One CMO to replace former Verizon can-you-hear-me-now? guy

James Mendelsohn aims to realize the 'potential energy' of the growth-stalled RIA empire Edelman Financial by exercising branding and marketing skills

May 16, 2016 at 8:20 PM

Peter Swisher: The DOL's authority is limited to ERISA plans. The IRS retains control of enforcement. The DOL therefore gets to write the rules for IRAs though they have no power to enforce them.

How the DOL brought the IRS wolf to the RIA door with its 'rule' -- think IRAs

The Internal Revenue Service was always the IRA cop for individuals but now advisors may answer to the tax man

May 13, 2016 at 10:19 PM

Ashley Curtis: Money is boring. I like what it could give me -- it is not that I wouldn't like to be rich -- but the expense of spirit required to actually get rich presents a hurdle I am incapable of overcoming.

Why the 56-year-old scion of Wall Street barons is 'broke' but unforgiving toward the financial advisors who might have kept him rich

From a golden childhood in Buzzards Bay to a goat barn in the Alps, the baby boomer searches for the source of his paycheck-to-paycheck reality

May 11, 2016 at 11:17 PM

What started with Aequitas in this building in the Oregon woods has spread.

TD Ameritrade threatens to cut loose Aequitas-tainted RIAs as the bad-college debt-fueled conflagration continues to burn

The Aequitas Ponzi revelation in February -- that 1,500 investors were owed for more than $300 million in alternative asset notes -- did not begin to realize the depth of ties between the bilkers and bilkees

May 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM

Former DFA exec John Blood is migrating his portfolios toward 'factor' ETFs, and away from DFA mutual funds.

How an ex-DFA exec created a $1.2 billion TAMP in three years and why he's phasing out DFA funds for factor ETFs

After calling on DFA TAMPs like Loring Ward and Symmetry, the owner of Efficient Advisors saw an opening and a way to shave costs

May 9, 2016 at 8:30 PM

The author with Mark Tibergien at the Pershing Symposium this week in southern California

After her Stanford B-school classmates rip on FAs at reunion, a stung Min Zhang takes uber north to Pershing RIA event to hear out Kitces, Tibergien and Poirier on the topic

Mark Tibergien, Mike Kitces, Addepar CEO and others in San Francisco show pathway to capturing the hearts and savings of 'bankless' millennials

May 6, 2016 at 9:05 PM

Gary Carrai is the executive who maintains an LPL tie with Fortigent.

LPL invites 180 of its bigger-book reps to Dana Point as part of its latest Fortigent-fortified bid to move upmarket

Attendees said fast-talking presenters belied LPL's aspirations but perhaps bolstered its claim that the hoi polloi won't be forgotten

May 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM

Mark Tibergien: That's probably our highest priority -- an API store.

Mark Tibergien reveals big Pershing robo future as his firm partners with Vanare, SigFig and Jemstep -- and follows TD Ameritrade's open API lead

In speech at St. Regis in San Francisco, the BNY Mellon RIA unit CEO says Pershing is taking a deeper robo plunge by signing on marquee names

May 4, 2016 at 6:11 PM

Phyllis Borzi: Invesco Trust stepped up to the plate.

DOL glows and Invesco glowers over $10 million settlement of alleged ERISA infraction

Labor Department's Phyllis Borzi praises Invesco Trust Company for 'stepping up' but the Atlanta fund company says it did nothing wrong and was merely extracting itself from DOL overreach

May 3, 2016 at 7:34 PM

Schwab teamed with AmEx months after rival Fidelity switched from AmEx to Visa

As Fidelity divorces American Express, Schwab steps in to launch AmEx cards -- with help from RIAs -- as part of broader effort

Fidelity says the average user got $1,500 in cash back last year, suggesting the average annual card-holder spend is around $75,000

May 2, 2016 at 6:37 PM

RIABiz Archives

RIABiz Directory

The Industry Sourcebook for RIAs

   |    LISTING


RIABiz Directory sponsored by:

Directory Sponsor Logo