TD Ameritrade makes play to become top robo by 2016 with out-of-the-gate $100-million revenues -- albeit with some risk attached to the power play
Tom Bradley is cobbling together Amerivest and its $11 billion AUM adding iRebal and Morningstar and tasking engineers with bringing the robo aspects of the site up to snuff
Stephen Wnks
Cerulli tells us that b/d managed portfolios out perform the broker’s ability to pick stocks which in concert with the SEC’s concern about the ongoing viability and continuity of advisors (necessary for fulfillment of ongoing fiduciary duty), argues for large scale advisory services.
TDA’s entry into that space is the industry’s first attempt at institutionalizing large scale institutionalized support for advisory services and ultimately professional standing. We still have a long way to go, but it is a start worthy of encouragement. The missing links of (1) expert authenticated prudent process and (2) a more modern approach to portfolio construction that assures continuous, comprehensive counsel; will re-price and transform the industry in the consumer’s best interest as demonstrated by our top private trust banks at the top of the advisory services food chain.
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Apex nabs Jon Patullo from 'Schwabitrade' to 'raise the bar' and make his new firm's RIA system as 'frictionless' as the old one
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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.'
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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.
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