Articles tagged "Michael Kitces"
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Totum's bid to beat Riskalyze, including its own 1 to 99 risk number, gets reward -- acceptance by Black Diamond and CircleBlack
CEO Larry Shumbres says financial advice industry is in for a shock, as thousands-strong uptick in users shows Totum Risk is the real deal
March 30, 2018 at 8:39 PM
After PayPal demurs, Michael Kitces and Alan Moore launch online payments firm for RIAs
Advisors and two Missoula, Mont. angels will fund AdvicePay for increased staffing to sell and service software so that advisors can do billable hours without triggering a custody audit
January 25, 2018 at 7:41 PM
Vanguard's new CEO Tim Buckley hints the next move for his firm's RIA's 30-basis-point fee may be down, down, down
As the Malvern, Pa. fund giant's VPAS passes the $100-billion mark it doesn't rule out automated advice or greater robo-ization to follow asset management fee play where cost savings get passed along
January 8, 2018 at 10:22 PM
Greg Friedman pockets maybe $20 million, subtracts one full-time CEO job and goes all in on Private Ocean
WisdomTree pledges $30 million of cash and 56 year-old seller will pour his energies into building $1.2-billion RIA with new roll-up strategy
January 2, 2018 at 10:28 PM
Why Brent Brodeski, a $6-billion GOP RIA, is in a furious full-time fight against the Republican RIA-unfriendly tax bill
The Rockford, Ill.-based owner of $6-billion Savant Capital makes appeals to Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson and other GOP higher-ups after LLC income gets short shrift
December 14, 2017 at 12:44 AM
TD Ameritrade calms the RIA Twitter storm but not questions about the spreads on the ETFs replacing the super-liquid Vanguard and Core iShares
The additional 60-day extension lets advisors breathe but even Wall Street analysts wonder just how far TD Ameritrade should go in inflaming 'consternation' of 'golden goose' RIAs
October 27, 2017 at 12:45 AM
TD Ameritrade is 'gathering feedback' after Michael Kitces's blogged overture for RIA collective bargaining on wholesale ETF line-up shift
The blogger and RIA platform owner offered three compromises and one request for a deadline extension but the RIA custodian is thus far having none of it
October 20, 2017 at 11:47 PM
TD Ameritrade angers RIAs who feel 'blindsided' after TD Ameritrade's actions prompt the departure of all Vanguard and some iShares ETFs from its NTF platform
The Omaha-based broker's roll-out of new ETF platform also removes Morningstar as ETF-picker as new State Street ultra-cheap fund line-up gets the Vanguard/iShares spoils
October 18, 2017 at 9:45 PM
Caveats galore, Redtail attempts CRM revolution based on texting starting with 27,000 firms who use its software
Compliance experts and advisors throw down the gauntlet on CRM chat challenges but CEO/CTO Brian McLaughlin is unfazed
October 11, 2017 at 7:30 PM
The 2017 FPA conference leans heavily on a Michael Kitces unimpressed with the group's 'silence' on the CFP Board
Although its theme was elusive, the Denver-based advocacy group and standard-setter drew 1,800 advisors to the Country-Western capital
October 9, 2017 at 7:57 PM
Michael Kitces attacks CFP Board for jacking fees 17% in name of 'strategy' when the certificant is flush with $20 million in reserves
The Board defends murky financials and a 'buried' hike as overdue -- even when it's operating at a $1.3 million surplus
September 18, 2017 at 7:23 PM
Eric Clarke keeps FUSE lit by rebalancing deep-suburbia hackathon with BlackRock and DFA real economiks
The event's subversive air drew the local police, yet again, to the door of the Park City, Utah weekend hackathon
September 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM
Jack Bogle's ICI grumbles and Kunal Kapoor's 'future' mode make Morningstar's 2017 conference sparkle with an uber relevance
The Vanguard founder made a dig at ICI and the Morningstar CEO put RIA bloggers on even agenda-slot footing with BlackRock CEO and IBM's Sironi
May 4, 2017 at 3:17 AM
Betterment's 'call me a masochist' co-founder goes in search of more acute pain and Jon Stein flies solo
Eli Broverman leaves the table 14 years after meeting Jon Stein over a poker game
April 10, 2017 at 10:24 PM
Andy Rachleff blasts flesh-and-blood advisors -- even planners -- as Wealthfront returns to offense in robo game after losing ground under former QB Adam Nash
The Redwood City robo's founder and CEO sneers at the traditional retirement planning process even as Wealthfront concedes it's still chasing the essential snark of automated advice: artificial intelligence
