Articles tagged "Personal Capital"
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How Personal Capital plans to spend its $75 million of green to grow and become better known as the un-robo robo
Using the Denver locale as lure, the Silicon Valley RIA will bulk up on advisors, engineers and marketers
May 24, 2016 at 12:32 AM
Personal Capital gets $75 million investment and an ex-Schwab retail chief in Jeff Carney
The Bill Harris-founded call-center RIA, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, hits it $500-million bogey for valuation
May 19, 2016 at 11:30 AM
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
Betterment raises $100 million a year after a $60-million round, enabling it to step up efforts to win the HNW wallet
The conversation is moving from play money to competing with Fidelity, Merrill Lynch and Schwab as it seeks build out a full-service offering to win plan sponsors, rich individuals and RIAs
March 29, 2016 at 11:57 AM
NextCapital raises $16 million as its founder goes where Financial Engines' 401(k) robo strategy didn't
Betting giant asset managers will carry the day, recovering co-founder of Personal Capital Rob Foregger seeks firms like Russell Investments, Alliance Bernstein as VC investors and as enterprise clients
December 17, 2015 at 7:17 PM
Amid growth slowdown, Personal Capital lists with an investment bank but critics debate if it means 'blood in the water'
Bill Harris has done things his way until now but may hand over control to a giant for a $500 million payday
December 11, 2015 at 10:58 PM
Almost lost in the robo shuffle, Personal Capital, in its 'special category,' is winning as told by an overlooked metric: revenues
Silicon Valley pioneer Bill Harris is struggling to goose the faltering free-to-premium conversion rate while keeping a weather eye on the big guys barging onto the field
September 15, 2015 at 6:11 PM
At INSITE in Orlando, Pershing outs its robo-religious conversion complete with open API store, Silicon Valley and India skunkworks, Marstone robo deal and unabashed digi-speak
Mark Tibergien says Pershing has gotten BNY to chum the RIA waters with loans and anticipates a 'flood' of billion-dollar wirehouse breakaways
June 8, 2015 at 7:34 PM
What exactly are robo-advisors, why did they steal the 2014 show and what will a 2015 repeat take?
We're talking 500 people, $250 million in capital with identifiable characteristics and 5,000 nervous legacy providers
January 2, 2015 at 5:36 PM
The steps Personal Capital is taking to win bigger accounts after a year of 100% growth and 95% of them small fish
This call center advisor is handing out free iPads to its wealthiest clients along with bulk pricing and concierge services that include two human advisors per family
September 29, 2014 at 6:05 AM
How Vanguard Group's robo-countering effort got to $1.3 billion of AUM so easily and why its future seems bright
Executed almost shyly, the hints-of-vanilla Malvern indexing giant is the unlikely Silicon Valley nemesis in automated services
June 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM
Thoughts on 'robo-advisors' served cold, compliments of Kitces and Waymire
With the potential for channel conflict, wirehouses are the most handcuffed in thwarting automated financial 'advice'
June 15, 2014 at 7:40 PM
How the RIA business made a dent at the 2014 Finovate conference in San Jose
Personal Capital and Motif presented and United Capital was there in force
May 2, 2014 at 6:20 AM
Why I find the term 'robo-advisor' objectionable and unhelpful
In the end, all good advisors will likely be both bionic and biological and terms of art creating a false distinction are unhelpful
April 1, 2014 at 4:14 AM
How one 'robo-advisor' got $25 billion on its platform with a Mint.com mindset, 401(k) friendliness, a merger and 16 years of work
NextCapital has deals with Barron's, Dow Jones and Russell Investments as part of a brick-by-brick history in a put-up-your-robo-shingle world
