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Kings of RIA custody Mark Tibergien. Bob Oros, Tom Nally and Bernie Clark in a panel moderated by Sterling Shea -- and a pesky mobile app

How an iPhone app cut through stilted questioning at Barron's RIA custody panel in Scottsdale

Sterling Shea invited advisors to vote on pressing RIA questions via iPhone -- and they acidly asked Bernie Clark whether Schwab is robo-competing against them

March 27, 2015 at 7:13 PM

Mike Durbin: We're clearly serious about being a technology company in the arms race but not necessarily to the exclusion of other third parties.

The mission-critical task Abby Johnson has entrusted to Mike Durbin regarding Fidelity's RIAs and automation

The Fidelity CEO's move reflects a paradigm shift for RIAs, for the whole company

March 16, 2015 at 8:17 PM

Bob Oros has climbed about every rung on the RIA ladder

Bob Oros jumps to the top 'RIA' spot at Fidelity

With Mike Durbin taking a new day job at the Boston giant, the sales journeyman of Schwab, LPL and TCoA fame gets a coveted title

March 5, 2015 at 8:59 PM

Ten-foot-tall sculptures inside the Grand Hyatt's lobby lent a tone.

Grand thoughts at the NYC Grand Central Hyatt from Fidelity Investments and RIAs

Part rally, part book launch, the Boston-based custodian rolled into NYC for the last gig of a whistle-stop tour

October 30, 2014 at 6:11 PM

Shirl Penney: The whole idea is to make it engaging and for the most pressing questions to be asked.

Shirl Penney will grill three of his big vendors on stage in Vegas: Mike Durbin, Mark Tibergien and Bernie Clark

At the MarketCounsel event, the Dynasty Financial chief promises not to toss softballs at the RIA custody heads, saying he knows their strengths and weaknesses

July 10, 2014 at 11:42 PM

Abby Johnson interviewed by NPR's Tom Ashbrook: Lean on Fidelity.

Abby Johnson tells RIAs to have all employees, up and down the chain, think client thoughts at Fidelity's 2014 Executive Forum

Advisors -- many with assets in the tens of billions -- were on hand along with New Yorker writers, NPR and other super-thinkers

May 19, 2014 at 1:51 AM

Joe Piazza: I prefer to let my actions and the success of our firm speak to the doubters.

Swatting aside 'doubters,' Joe Piazza uses an improbable hook to nab Wells Fargo private bankers -- pent-up Addepar lust

Robertson Stephens chief learns it's easier to court advisors winning Silicon Valley wealth using Made-in-Mountain-View software

April 30, 2014 at 5:26 PM

Steve Anderson became RIABiz' top Q1 newsmaker when he announced his firm had 'fired' $25 billion worth of 401(k) clients.

How rising RIA super-bloggers, 401(k) brush fires and a short RIA-Salesforce courtship captured RIABiz readership

As we examined our top 10 articles Q1, the common denominator was ... an RIA intangible that you know when you see

April 24, 2014 at 6:28 AM

Alois Pirker: Innovation is now more of a visionary thing, and an appetite thing, rather than about the monetary angle.

The 6 biggest trends affecting the RIA business

Alois Pirker, Mike Durbin and Meredith Rice help RIABiz paint the Big Picture for private wealth management in the U.S. and beyond

February 24, 2014 at 5:35 AM

Mike Durbin: I won't be threatened until one of these folks wakes up and decides to be a custodian or a clearing firm. I don't find that to be a near- or medium-term risk.

Part II: RIA custodians' answer to challenges to their monolithic control: We still have big-time scale advantages

Roll-ups and other mezzanine firms are squeezing RIA custody margins as a value proposition but the big-brand custodians -- and some new ones -- are liking the cards they have to play

November 11, 2013 at 6:53 AM

Mark Tibergien in Part II: The balance of power has shifted to advisors, regardless of whether they are on a broker-dealer platform or a custody platform.

Part I: Is the era of the monolithic RIA custodian coming to an end?

RIAs, small custodians, co-ops, study groups, roll-ups, TAMPs, compliance shops, OSJ and IBDs are all chipping away at much of what fit under the roofs of Schwab, Fidelity, TD and Pershing

November 1, 2013 at 4:51 PM

Mike Durbin: We will be working very closely with those active clients with less than $15 million to see how we may be able to help them grow their business.

Fidelity's annual $10,000 custody fee will attach to a wider swath of small RIAs

The dinging of the under-$15-million crowd is painful for initiates but a pleasing prospect for competing custodians ready to welcome defectors

September 24, 2013 at 5:02 AM

The lobby at 315 Summer St. is airy, high-ceilinged, adorned by bright modern art and nobody engaged in conversations qualified in my mind as a dour New Englander.

My day of visiting the Fidelity campus in Boston and what vision and vibe I experienced

There's a Silicon Valley feel of natural light, spread-out buildings and sleeve-rolling that contrast with previous visits

July 12, 2013 at 1:39 AM

Mike Durbin: Our attitude is the world is an absolutely enormous place so the overlaps don't bother us at all.

Fidelity reorganizes its advisor business and extrudes a custody unit aimed at outsourcers, roll-ups and TAMPs

The move is the biggest effort yet to wield the combined capacities of National Financial Services and Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services as a single Fidelity weapon

July 10, 2013 at 1:09 PM

James "Chip" Mahan: If you ask any banker about the SBA, they'll say it's messy with a lot of paperwork and sometimes the SBA won't pay. But we disagree.

Fidelity's M&A program reload looks 'game-changing' after it partners with a middleman to get Uncle Sam to guarantee RIA deals

The piece de resistance is a maverick-owned North Carolina bank with an RIA-savvy ex-Schwabbie and software that fights SBA red tape

June 20, 2013 at 5:53 AM

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