The ex-CEO of Yodlee left his executive role at the Chicago outsourcer a while back but TIFIN is on an upswing

BlackRock has about $1 trillion of defined contribution assets while Fidelity and Vanguard both administer multiple trillions, so the New York giant is dangling defined benefits as a way to win the defined contributions game.

The old line Baltimore firm adds a quick $53 billion of managed capital that garners fees of 1.5% and that's before taking a cut of the gains.

The $7.6 trillion in administered assets giant sees mixed signals from regulators who are drawing lines as it goes along -- treacherous regulatory conditions for a big company not built to shift course at a whim.

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.

InvestmentNews is adding people on the business side and losing veterans on the editorial side after suffering staggering COVID hit to live events, and its publisher calls modus operandi changes 'permanent.'

The 12-year old Mountain View, Calif., performance reporter, with $3 trillion plus of adminstered assets, is buying the 18-person, third-year startup to apply to its 600 clients.

The head of Schwab Advisors Services and the head of the RIA unit of Fidelity Institutional are caught in an existential debate to preserve their right to play favorites based on economics, observers say.

With Matt Middleton and other ex-Informa guys as masterminds and Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz providing muscle, the confab's aspiration is to be the Envestnet of RIA events.

Interactive Brokers lets RIAs -- even Schwab and Fidelity RIAs skimming the service -- do one screen for conventional securities and Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash.

Michelle Seitz opened the playbook to allow RIAs more autonomy, and the firm will use wholesalers based less on channel and more on geography.

The Westlake, Texas broker-dealer's market cap surpassed $152 billion today after disclosing year-to-date assets have grown by close to $1 trillion

Eying projected 300% plan sponsor growth, Aaron Schumm has promoted one executive, added another and reshuffled Vestwell's board, putting Hardwick on top.

The Labor Dept. stops short of giving fiduciaries environmental, social and governance factor carte blanche but recognizes non-pecuniary factors are legit considerations.

Both Genstar and Mercer female staff are singing the CEO's praises after he took a sleepy $10 billion AUM firm to $32-billion AUM, where 40% of client-facing staff and 33% of leaders are women.

The Malvern, Pa., giant maintains a towering lead in managing 401(k) assets in TDFs, but it'll take a merger and not a flick of the pen to post prices that could keep it near 37% market share.

The Westlake, Texas, custodian is cracking down at a time when states are mandating errors and ommissions policies, RIAs are getting bigger, more complex and phishing attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication.

Like with digital assets, the Boston giant is dangling the nascent service with faith that RIAs will seize the opportunity but its Westlake, Texas, rival wants to see better evidence of demand before prioritizing such a big push on its institutional platform.

The New York-based manager of $1 billion-plus of FDIC insured cash is banking on not getting ahead of the curve and getting crushed by Bitcoin ETFs down the road.

Just a day after Franklin Templeton bought RIA DI software provider, Canvas, the $8.3-trillion Malvern, Pa., giant announced it closed on its purchase of Just Invest today.

The XPYN founder wants the SEC to honor its 'Merrill Lynch Rule' promise from 15 years ago, demanding the most fundamental truth in advertising.