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Joe Duran: This is the most single important thing I have done in my career.

Framing it as a wildly disruptive 3,300-basis-point fee on de novo revenues, Joe Duran's United Capital digital reboot is apparently raking in RIA assets and revenues

The charismatic CEO's launch of FinLife Partners -- with unabashed Fidelity support -- is in effect selling revenues to advisors but taking a risk on their success

March 28, 2017 at 7:40 PM

The FPA finally puts on a better CFP face and she lights up the hall in Baltimore

Gigi Guerra was the 75,000th CFP recipient and she captured an air of revitalization the Financial Planning Association will need to survive and thrive amid massive industry changes

September 17, 2016 at 12:24 AM

Bo Lu was adamant that, post-BlackRock, FutureAdvisor remains autonomous and is not a thinly veiled conduit for iShares.

The overnight maturation of In|Vest 2016 was like green bananas going straight to brown for some but Joe Duran made sure it bore fruit

A pure robo, a quasi-robo, an RIA-herder and an insurance man walked onto a panel, riffing on Jon Oliver's scathing fiduciary take

June 20, 2016 at 8:41 PM

Neesha Hathi was coy about whether the 500 RIAs using Schwab's robo have contributed to the 'well over'  $7 billion of assets attributed to it.

What Neesha Hathi told the In|Vest 2016 in NYC crowd in her debut as Schwab robo chief -- and how she elicited one gasp from the crowd

Though declining to offer a glimpse of the future, Hathi surprised with stats showing Schwab is succeeding against the upstart robos with older, less web-savvy customers

June 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM

The author with Mark Tibergien at the Pershing Symposium this week in southern California

After her Stanford B-school classmates rip on FAs at reunion, a stung Min Zhang takes uber north to Pershing RIA event to hear out Kitces, Tibergien and Poirier on the topic

Mark Tibergien, Mike Kitces, Addepar CEO and others in San Francisco show pathway to capturing the hearts and savings of 'bankless' millennials

May 6, 2016 at 9:05 PM

Peter Mallouk: I basically said: I've got a bit of a monster here and what am I going to do?

What to make of Peter Mallouk's sweeping deal with Tony Robbins -- and where the unlikely pairing goes from here

After deliberately relinquishing his cherished anonymity, the CEO of $18-billion AUM is using the Robbins deals as part of a larger charge from the bulrushes

April 5, 2016 at 3:58 AM

Gail Graham: We think of ourselves as the ultimate design and delivery firm.

After spending millions and getting cozy with Salesforce, United Capital is morphing, maybe big-time

Gail Graham is bringing the $15 billion 'roll-up' into the third-party white label business -- intending to license its system to RIAs

March 10, 2016 at 9:37 PM

The 2014 RIA hype frenzy may have peaked when suddenly Tony Robbins was everywhere.

Why the RIA business starts 2016 without its swagger: 2014 and 2015

What's hot right now? Almost nothing and nobody. But it might be a 'healthy correction' of equilibrium

January 11, 2016 at 11:42 PM

Rudy Adolf: There is no equivalent proposition to Focus available in Canada.

Roll-ups are off at an acquisition clip in 2015 as $2 billion washes over the transom in a single week

Focus follows Dynasty into Canada as the three big aggregators toggle between organic and inorganic growth

April 17, 2015 at 6:20 PM

Joe Duran: We think this is the closest example to what Dimensional Fund Advisors does.

United Capital chases DFA's MO, trains '1099 advisors' and co-opts Starbucks brand guy

The multitasking Newport Beach-based national RIA also announced closing on two more RIA purchases with about $625 million of AUM

April 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM

Matt Brinker: It wasn't technically a transaction for various reasons.

How United Capital's unconventional rolling up of a $2 billion RIA reveals how close the roll-up model is to extinction

Joe Duran's Newport Beach firm does cryptic non-transactional acquisition as Focus Financial becomes a tuck-in machine and HighTower sells de facto franchises

March 3, 2015 at 6:43 PM

Edmond Walters: We've integrated MoneyGuidePro. People say they are our competition. We don't care.

What to make of Fidelity Investments paying $250 million out of the blue for eMoney

The price paid is about right, experts say, but in the hands of the giant, it could be worth more -- or less

February 12, 2015 at 6:06 AM

Peter Giza: My take is that changing a significant portion of a firm's technology platform without changing operational psychology is a fail.

Some notes at MarketCounsel from the pad of a skeptical Peter Giza

The Wealthsite exec zeroed in on Sallie Krawcheck, and all things tech

December 15, 2014 at 5:55 PM

Jon Stein: Efficiency is streamlined, but with human checks throughout the process.

How to hold 1,000 hands: Robo CEOs lay out a stark choice for traditional advisors at MarketCounsel Summit

RIAs who comfort themselves with the thought that automated advice caters to their 'non-core' clients are in for a rude shock

December 15, 2014 at 4:53 AM

Being heedless of competitors is dangerous but crying wolf has its own perils.

Why Joe Duran is dead wrong on 2015 marking the end of the Golden Era of the RIA

The serial entrepeneur's column in InvestmentNews forgets that RIAs are also advancing and that the 'new competitors' carry baggage and have fatal shortcomings

September 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM

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