Articles tagged "Roger Hewins"
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Free of 2012 merger entanglements, Roger Hewins's second RIA act is on a hiring binge after zeroing in on women as target market -- knowing full well the gender tilt never seems to work
'Team Hewins' has some old hands from Redwood City, San Francisco, Boca Raton, and Miami overseeing billion of dollars and a push to create a place where the culture trumps pink-and-shrink in making notoriously leery women get invested
April 23, 2019 at 6:31 PM
After tasting the 'nightmare' of FINRA confines, Roger Hewins buys back his $1.8B RIA from Midwestern CPAs -- with the new freedom worth leaving $3B of AUM behind
The $4.8-billion RIA mega-marriage of Hewins Financial and Wipfli in 2012 took 13 years to complete. The split in 2018 was more like lightning after brokerage regulators bellied up to the bar
June 4, 2018 at 4:51 PM
What an RIA should make of Wall Street Journal's expose of how Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade's advice machines steer client assets
Product of a six-month of investigation, the Jason Zweig and Anne Tergesen-authored article alleges conflicts at the discount brokers are rife -- but RIA reactions to the revelations are textured
January 27, 2018 at 12:43 AM
DFA RIAs remain in turmoil as Schwab and Fidelity ponder matching TD Ameritrade pricing deal and a key couple of basis points
The Austin, Texas-based asset manager says its door is open for negotiation but the two big custodians in San Francisco and Boston remain mum as RIA CEOs are pressing for clarity
May 2, 2017 at 9:32 PM
Schwab unveils its virtual future to plaudits but using green CFPs as its real people, mandatory 6% cash, could prove troublesome
Move to launch 28 basis-point Schwab Intelligent Advisory by summer checks all boxes on price, robo, planning, ETFs -- and commoditizes what RIAs sell for three times the fee
December 15, 2016 at 6:11 PM
How DFA is putting its John Hancock on the ETFs category
The deep-in-Texas manager is lending index help to the Boston giant but dodging cannibalization and channel conflict
July 15, 2015 at 4:45 PM
With apprehension in the air, Schwab invites its RIAs to a one-hour meeting about robo-advice
Many of Schwab's 7,000 advisors are eager for robo-technology but are wary of what's behind the amiable blue facade
March 13, 2015 at 5:47 PM
Framing it as opportunity, Bernie Clark delivers a chilling market warning at EXPLORE about the coming post-baby boom market
The Schwab chief tells 160 RIAs with $200-billion-plus of assets to learn to love and attract a poorer, younger, higher maintenance -- but lower mileage -- client pool
June 27, 2014 at 6:41 AM
Fidelity counsels RIAs to suck it up and go after 'millionaires of tomorrow' but with a strict discipline
RIAs need to chop fees, stop counting pennies and, yes, babysit a bit to wrest these financial tweeners from discount brokers
January 24, 2014 at 6:36 PM
How Schwab is calling out wirehouses with its 'accountability' blitz and what collateral effects could hit RIAs
Chuck's new money-back guarantee sends a 'shot across the bow' to wirehouses but Schwab RIAs won't be untouched
December 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM
Schwab drops pretense: $2-million clients its staple branch diet in bid for fresh $2 trillion
The San Francisco-based broker has named its composite perfect ideal client 'Tobin' -- representing a graying, masculine entreprenuer
November 5, 2013 at 6:07 AM
How Schwab's new 'owning it' advertisements position the firm to offer more advice -- and how RIAs factored into the brand rethink
CEO Walter Bettinger wants his company, long a kingpin in the discount brokerage realm, to become a 'challenger brand' again
August 6, 2013 at 2:32 AM
Industry leaders puzzled by RIAs' being paid by Schwab and Fidelity for investing in funds
Some RIAs see it as an unacceptable conflict, but the custodians are unabashed about the arrangements
April 19, 2013 at 5:11 AM
Why Schwab handed Facebook and Apple 'F' ratings -- and why advisors seem unfazed
Clients may be perturbed by the flunking grades meted out to the popular Silicon Valley firms even as some RIAs discount the data as 'backward-looking'
January 21, 2013 at 2:53 AM
A look inside Schwab's second big deal with a small asset manager
Using its RIA custody unit as a talent pool, the San Francisco giant is bringing ThomasPartners into primetime.
