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David Laibson says investors could "steer the horse over the cliff."

With up to 25% of assets exposed, Schwab, Fidelity and Vanguard add algorithms to spot decreased mental capacity among aging clients, but RIAs are sitting ducks, a new report states

The leading edge of the boomer generation is now 75, near the average for Alzheimer's onset, and up to 25% will suffer diminished capacity, making them vulnerable to poor decision-making or exploitation

June 12, 2021 at 12:25 AM

Adam Schouela: We continue to experiment ... and explore how technology can help simplify other aspects of investing in this space.

Fidelity Investments unveils 'Sherlock' -- a dashboard that gives advisors data on 80 digital assets that can be used to justify buying and selling crypto

The Boston giant is plowing ahead with its controversial endeavor even as Bitcoin plummets in value and data analytics firms like Morningstar, BlackRock (Aladdin) and Bloomberg hang back.

June 9, 2021 at 2:34 AM

Step CEO CJ MacDonald posted this photo on Twitter with 'Tyler' who banks on his Step mobile app -- one of more than 500,000 accounts.

Fidelity claims the sub-Robinhood segment for itself (among majors) by offering 13- to 17-year-old investors a parent-lite, zero-fee trading app to go with a neobank

The Boston giant -- after the success of Step and others -- is going after this largely virgin market with a hard-knocks philosophy of teaching and a seamless transition to a regular brokerage account when the teen turns 18

May 25, 2021 at 1:25 AM

Abby Johnson blared no trumpets about her firm hitting $10 trillion.

Fidelity Investments flies past staggering $10T milestone, but Schwab, finally fully loaded with Q1 results from TDA merger, steals some of the Boston giant's thunder

The Boston and Westlake, Tex., companies are both on fire -- even showing surprising strength in the 'Robinhood' sector -- but Schwab's rollup of TD Ameritrade and USAA radically reduced a yawning gap

May 14, 2021 at 11:25 PM

Cynthia Lo Bessette: Any reforms must preserve and protect the availability of money market funds.

Fidelity and Schwab oddly take opposite sides on issue critical to money market funds as an SEC, alarmed by systemic risks, puts NAVs under spotlight

The Boston and Westlake, Tex., providers disagree about whether the once sacred $1 net asset value should now float accross prime money market funds -- and potentially municipal money market funds.

May 10, 2021 at 5:28 PM

Mark Barlow: The pandemic this past year has had clients reaching out to us more and more.

Fidelity Investments is set to make 4,000 new hires at the same time senior staff may accept buyouts, an arbitrage to match talent with digital needs

The Boston giant is now advertising approximately 2,500 'client-facing' roles, in addition to the 5,150 it filled last year. It will also bump its technology headcount by 10% and hire 1,000 new financial planners.

April 20, 2021 at 9:06 PM

Damon Deru: This isn’t just a third-party integration with a retail digital asset vendor such as Coinbase - that’d be a fairly easy to pull off.

Envestnet, Orion and Schwab will all launch crypto capabilities soon enough, insiders say, but Damon Deru just beat them all to market with more than a hack

AdvisorPeak launched a virtual means for RIAs to trade, rebalance and custody cryptocurrencies with Prime Trust; Fidelity will soon add Ethereum

April 15, 2021 at 6:04 PM

Charles Goldman: 'Our angle, rather, differentiation, we believe, is that we know each other well...'

Brooke's Bits: Charles Goldman's SPAC has a 'unicorn' pitch• Why Fidelity's bitcoin ETF application might have a shot • Investment bank to RIAs makes amends with staff who cranked out deals in overwrought 2020

The ex-AssetMark CEO says his new gig is anchored by a well-oiled team • Fidelity has crypto heft and bitcoin's history moved a decade in a year • Moelis pays $10,000, in installments

April 1, 2021 at 9:36 PM

Doug Scott: We have grown our assets approximately 10-fold since our last round of funding in 2019, which underscores the incredible demand that we continue to experience.

'Several of the largest RIA firms' move assets to Ethic, enough for Fidelity Investments to join the start-up's $29 million B round

The Boston giant  doubled down on the New York City firm, encouraged by internal RIA flows and after seeing Schwab, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock all make moves toward hyper-personalized indexes in 'white-hot' market.

March 31, 2021 at 2:19 AM

Schwab moved to Westlake for glassy, commodious digs but it'll hold off on embracing the Covid-19 all-clear from Texas.

Schwab and Fidelity join other Fortune 500-size companies, sticking with CDC guidelines and declining the Texas roll-back of COVID-19 restrictions

The two retail finance giants keep restrictions on thousands of staff in Texas even as governor nixes mask mandate and opens businesses 100% in the name of business interests.

March 6, 2021 at 5:03 AM

Adam Schouela: We're looking for those technologies that truly have that potential to displace technologies we're using today.

Fidelity Investments leaps back to the future in an experiment to restore active management to its lofty perch, using technology that is still more science fiction than fact

The Boston giant is renting a special corner of Amazon's cloud to remake Monte Carlo and do hyper-quant investing like an AI Peter Lynch, with no experience as a golf caddy.

December 21, 2020 at 11:45 PM

Peter Jubber: Every incumbent should be spending time and money on this topic to understand it, at least to understand the threat.

Fidelity Investments applies its proven Peter Jubber to its unproven bitcoin unit and its launch of Fidelity Digital Funds signals it's all in on blockchain currency

By launching Fidelity Digital Funds under an 18-year seasoned exec, the Boston giant is signalling no let-up by putting something scarcer than capital into the crypto-pot -- its seasoned talent

September 9, 2020 at 2:20 AM

Jim Dickson: You will see Merrill shrink [its] training program ... and follow Fidelity's lead.

Fidelity, Schwab, Robinhood and even (days numbered) TD Ameritrade are hiring thousands of staff -- even as Merrill Lynch hits a snag-- what's that say about free trading?

Schwabitradehood's growing pains aren't just in website glitches but also to keep hold times to a mimimum in the phone service queue

September 1, 2020 at 1:37 AM

Christine Sandler: Support[ing] natively digital assets is a marathon, not a sprint ... this year in particular, we’ve seen more interest than ever.

Fidelity bags $13 billion AUM digital assets win to its custody, as federal regulators attempt to move Bitcoin custody from 'weirdo websites' to mainstream banks

Backed internally by CEO Abby Johnson, the Boston giant spent five years working in silence on its crypto subsidiary, Fidelity Digital Assets. In 2018, it launched. Now clients, like Kingdom Trust, with RIA assets, are validating Abby's gamble.

July 29, 2020 at 7:27 PM

Nancy Prior: A lot of this decision [​was made based on] investor behavior ... [and] liquidating these two funds, less than two percent of our assets ... [will have] no impact on any other part of our business.

Fidelity Investments intends to 'hard close' two institutional money market funds to curb exposure to COVID-19's high-volatility market

Each fund is of the prime institutional money market that comprises up to 7% of the $4.6 trillion US money market fund industry, but use has dwindled from $1.1 trillion in 2011 to today's $356 billion.

June 23, 2020 at 1:35 AM

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