Articles tagged "Charles Schwab & Co."
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With 15,000 Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard staffers there, Dallas metroplex notches Fisher Investments headquarters almost as a formality; Ken Fisher and 1,200 staff are already Lone Star denizens
The $189-billion national RIA of Camas, Wash. evinced being incensed over a Washington state court ruling upholding a state capital gains tax--the final straw behind the move.
April 1, 2023 at 3:42 AM
Another RIA whisperer, Julian Lopez, has left Schwab Advisor Services after 24 years to join LPL, which he sees as more advisor-focused and 'entrepreneurial'
The Houston executive, like Kelly Smith in Chicago, was considered a key service talent for RIAs though Lopez says his circumstances differ.
February 23, 2023 at 8:14 AM
Biz Briefs: Schwab puts checks for $52 million in mail to robo-RIA customers allegedly misled about cash allocations • BlackRock blacklisted (again) • iShares beats NZAM-exiter Vanguard • Fidelity makes first acquisition in eight years • CFP board realizes Moms don't like CFPs
BlackRock gets Kentucky coal in stocking, and Vanguard keeps skating; iShares inches above -- by 2.8% -- Vanguard's annual net new ETF asset haul; Fidelity takes "natural next step" for stock plan business; new CFP chair outlines plans and the DOJ is set to become a major Robinhood shareholder..
January 13, 2023 at 3:01 AM
After Fidelity grabs huge slice of NTF market, Charles Schwab & Co. undercuts OneSource by creating a second NTF program where zero commissions apply to 930 mutual funds for half price
The Westlake, Texas broker will now take a 12- to 19-basis-point fee on the new (institutional no-transaction fee) INTF platform versus the 40-basis-point shellacking by OneSource.
November 8, 2022 at 1:13 AM
Schwab Advisor Services refuses to flinch in the face of fresh claims that TD Ameritrade RIAs will do 'significant' repapering when Schwab accounts for all aspects of the merge
The $3.5 trillion custodian concedes a count-on-one-hand number of RIAs have such exotic systems that manual intervention is needed, but otherwise, it's all good.
October 13, 2022 at 11:02 PM
Schwab Advisor Services denies reports of a Sept. 2023 'hard date' to finalize TD Ameritrade merger as new details emerge about behind-the-scenes efforts to accomodate TDA RIAs
Since at least February, Schwab has been running 'JumpStart' a new program to let TDA RIAs add net new assets onto the Schwab system ahead of the mass conversion of legacy assets.
August 12, 2022 at 1:29 AM
Charles Schwab & Co. turns an RIA page by killing its 'Schwab Private Client' brand to make Schwab DIY investors, with $3 trillion of largely unadvised wealth, 'aware' of its in-house wealth management services
The $145 billion RIA is now 'Schwab Wealth Advisory' with a new president, Rick Wurster, recently taking the RIA under his oversight and software MoneyGuidePro dialed in.
July 11, 2022 at 8:58 PM
Charles Schwab & Co. will pay $187 million settlement after SEC drops its 'pre-set for business reasons' case
Federal regulators claimed Schwab pre-set client cash allocations without making proper disclosures to Schwab Intelligent Portfolios clients.
July 7, 2022 at 12:10 AM
With crypto landmines to fear greater than each other, Schwab and Fidelity co-invest in a cryptocurrency mega-startup with Citadel, Virtu and VCs Sequoia and Paradigm
The discount brokerage super-rivals are investing in a market maker venture with fellow [crypto retail] come-latelies, Virtu and Citadel -- a sign that the crypto winter hasn't chilled big investment in digital assets, even if liquidity occasionally freezes up.
June 30, 2022 at 1:49 AM
Charles Schwab Corp. is jacking down ETF prices again (like a Jack Bogle) after Vanguard, again, raises a series of fund prices -- albeit with a net fee reduction
The Westlake, Texas, super-broker is making clients 'beneficiaries' while the $7-trillion Malvern, Pa., behemoth is raising prices as both firms make strategic calculations about the future.
June 27, 2022 at 3:26 PM
Stephen Greco's six-year quest to prove Creative Planning, Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade engaged in a 'conspiracy' against his RIA has even the experts baffled
In his latest move, the Spotlight Asset Group founder files a 'RICO' civil suit in federal court that one defendant calls 'ludicrous.'
June 7, 2022 at 4:27 AM
RIABiz Skinny: Vanguard purges a last vestige of crypto from its platform • Onramp raises cash lifeline after CEO kerfuffle • Max Schatzow questions whether Cathie Wood gets SEC hall pass • Schwab shares correct on earnings then get re-walloped 'sorting'
Malvern, Pa. giant does opposite of hedge crypto • Onramp lives on despite Tyrone Ross off ramp • RIA blogger sees SEC double standard • Schwab's revenues and 'sorting' have Wall Street out of sorts.
April 23, 2022 at 1:44 AM
T. Rowe Price gains house brand status on Schwab's active fund platform and will pay up to $10-million yearly for the honor, but the deal is not without potential conflicts of interest
In today's earnings release, Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger talked up the arrangement, which rolled out in February as part of Schwab's 'Fund Finder,' after first announcing it for RIAs in December.
April 19, 2022 at 1:58 AM
Charles Schwab Corp. files to launch 'crypto' index ETF and 'jumps the track' of its product development guardrails, while Vanguard and others will likely heed the locomotive roaring into the market
The Westlake, Texas broker-dealer and custodian of $8 trillion of AUA promises an in-house 'crypto-tangential' index that is all but certain to disrupt pricing and send alarms to other holdouts.
March 3, 2022 at 12:07 AM
Toronto-Dominion Bank's bid to reestablish the TD brand for U.S. wealth management takes a $13-billion step forward
The Toronto owner of Cherry Hill, N.J.-based TD Bank is adding First Horizon and its 412 branches to its growing U.S. footprint -- sweeping East to West
