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Ben Harrison: This is a very conservative number. If we were to continue with hybrid the number would be considerably higher.

The old trick of new math Pershing used to make its RIA assets in custody soar from $200 billion to $615 billion in one year

Citing 'evolution,' the other Jersey City, N.J.-based custodian redefined 'RIA' to leapfrog itself over TD Ameritrade and into the rear view of Fidelity

June 12, 2018 at 5:01 PM

Bernie Clark: Andrew and I have worked closely together on many projects over the past two decades at Schwab.

Bernie Clark gets an A-level exec to help him futurize Schwab's RIA platform

After Lightyear's Advisor Group nabbed Ed Obuchowski, Schwab went big in replacing him with Andrew Salesky

June 6, 2018 at 3:21 AM

Ed Butowsky: Imagine if your entire life has been picked apart and destroyed over the last eight months. It’s important to get this right.

What to make of a $239M-AUM RIA dwindling to $191M then suing Schwab for $100M as the alleged cause of the asset hemorrhage

Ed Butowsky says the San Francisco-based custodian played politics illegally by using a beltway scandal involving murder, WikiLeaks and collusion as a smokescreen to steal his clients

May 2, 2018 at 9:06 PM

Tim Hockey: In the industry, retail has a higher return on client assets on a higher revenue base. But both businesses have a strong operating margin.

Tim Hockey goes to Florida with an RIA 'problem' that's not RIAs

The TD Ameritrade CEO relies on 6,000 registered investment advisors for 80% of growth -- skewed by big, big 'bus drivers' like Ric Edelman and Ron Carson

February 1, 2018 at 11:17 PM

Alex Bryan: Schwab is on the cusp of making that bridge to the top space in ETFs

Charles Schwab & Co.'s vertical play to monopolize ETF market -- to be its low-cost maker, distributor and manager -- diesels ahead as ETF OneSource grows again

San Francisco giant executes macro strategy to underprice Vanguard, get paid big bucks to sell third-party funds for free, sell ETF portfolios gratis in its industry-leading robo-advisor and keep custody of $1.4T of RIA assets fast-converting to ETFs

July 14, 2017 at 8:51 PM

Matthew Celenza: The barriers are now broken.

Schwab and Dynasty break $1B Celenza team out of Merrill Lynch five years after Barclays effort flags

Matthew Celenza reunites with former Citi contacts Shirl Penney and Todd Thomson to resume shared vision

July 11, 2017 at 2:01 PM

Jim McCool got off on the wrong foot with RIAs, paving the way for a Bernie Clark era.

Eight years after historic Schwab-RIA rift, Jim McCool, the controversial former RIA chief and original Bettinger partner, exits

After McCool hastily axed alternative investments from Schwab RIA platform, Bernie Clark took the chief custody role as part of the healing process

July 6, 2017 at 11:07 PM

Phil Fiore: It gave us the kick to make Procyon happen.

Triumphant Phil Fiore set to regain $8.4 billion of AUA that UBS stripped away by firing him in November

Reunited with former partners at newly founded RIA Procyon Partners, and despite a last-minute UBS lawsuit seeking a restraining order, the wirehouse veteran appears to be back in the driver's seat

June 19, 2017 at 2:00 PM

Robb Baldwin: If an advisor is not meeting the expectations set out in the LOU, difficult conversations can be made much easier for both parties.

TradePMR is making RIAs sign a promise to succeed -- to good effect

The low-profile Gainesville, Fla. custodian is using the inked compact to motivate, make hard conversations softer and make purges of the small and stagnant practices less frequent

May 18, 2017 at 11:47 PM

Neal Simon:  We will see the emergence of five to 10 very large regional and national RIAs, and that Bronfman Rothschild is well-positioned to become one of them.

How Neal Simon parlayed a hoity-toity family office RIA into a $5 billion serial buyer in two years by letting the whale swallow him first

The CEO of Bronfman E.L. Rothschild engineered nine roll-ins and liftouts since 2015 and, with a key Cantor Fitzgerald hire, is now turning a hungry eye on NYC

May 11, 2017 at 9:52 PM

RIA and film producer Jim Casey is dead at 52 in the wake of accusations of malfeasance.

Owner of $1.2 billion RIA dies in Palm Springs under mysterious circumstances after swirl of allegations

One client accused Jim Casey of using her assets, unbeknown, to fund ill-fated movie ventures and his Integrated Wealth Management is being sued for misappropriation and mishandling of pension funds and client assets

May 5, 2017 at 6:45 PM

Scott Smith: Schwab and Fidelty can simply decide not to compete with this arrangement.

DFA RIAs remain in turmoil as Schwab and Fidelity ponder matching TD Ameritrade pricing deal and a key couple of basis points

The Austin, Texas-based asset manager says its door is open for negotiation but the two big custodians in San Francisco and Boston remain mum as RIA CEOs are pressing for clarity

May 2, 2017 at 9:32 PM

Christopher Van Slyke: That pricing is very persuasive. As fiduciaries we'd have to consider TDA the favorite.

DFA and TD Ameritrade strike 'strategic' deal with potential to shift RIA custody power axis

Tension in the three-way relationship between Fidelity, Dimensional Fund Advisors and the RIAs who use both vendors creates opening for Tim Hockey

April 24, 2017 at 6:33 PM

When Dave DeVoe (l.) started DeVoe & Co., Tim Kochis was on hand to advise. Now Kochis is managing director.

After sticking his own succession landing, Tim Kochis bags 'retirement' and joins forces with DeVoe & Co. to help other RIAs do same

Tim Kochis helped David DeVoe with his business plan and may become a shareholder as soon as next year

March 13, 2017 at 6:09 PM

Dan Arnold: Let me expand on our first priority: growing our core business.

New LPL CEO Dan Arnold thrills Wall Street in debut by laying out vanilla vision

Deflecting talk of RIA strategies and alliances with giants aside, Mark Casady's successor says LPL Financial's recruiting machine is poised to crank in DOL turmoil cast-offs

February 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM

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