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When the fog lifts, San Francisco has a case to make.

Why the San Francisco Bay area is almost certainly the capitol of the RIA business

Companies like Schwab, Advent-Black Diamond and Salesforce are based here for starters -- but big wealth managers and lots of open-minded rich people clinch the matter

July 23, 2012 at 3:31 AM

Eric Clarke and Chip Roame atop Mount Whitney

How RIA industry execs took on the ultimate teamwork challenge: Conquering the highest summit in the lower 48

Training regimens for the group -- including a Green Beret and a Gulf War veteran -- ranged from crossing the Brooklyn Bridge to Google searches for portable bottles of oxygen

July 12, 2012 at 3:35 PM

Steve Hirsch: We didn't want to invest in something that wouldn't be used.

Schwab finally hops on the iPhone app bandwagon -- to the iTune of 30,000 potential RIA employees

The big custodian went live on Thursday morning after a pilot with 15 advisors -- and about 18 months after Fidelity

June 29, 2012 at 4:37 AM

Chris Cordaro: We have 25 different workflows in our system....If we waited for Schwab to develop best business practices for us we'd be five years behind.

Schwab escalates the RIA custody arms race by releasing more plug-in business practices called workflows

TD Ameritrade, Schwab and others have designs on inserting neural pathways into advisor practices but one expert questions the workability of automated workflows

June 22, 2012 at 3:36 PM

Frank Troise: There's exceptional demand. We just don't have enough advisors on the platform.

How one firm is supposedly cracking the lead generation code to the tune of 50,000 advisors supplied -- by, for now, not trying to create referrals

Investor Watchdog, FreeRetirementReport and Vestorly are among the firms seeing growth but are grappling with vetting issues -- of both advisors and clients

June 21, 2012 at 4:39 AM

 Phil Chiricotti: It's a needless requirement that just can't be met.

New DOL rule effectively kills off open-architecture option favored by some big plan participants -- and sets off the 401(k) industry

The wrinkle aimed at self-directed accounts is seen as an unnecessary eleventh hour blindsiding by Fidelity, TD and the CFDD among a broad constituency

June 20, 2012 at 5:44 AM

Tom Nally: There are less hand offs and what used to take five hours now takes five minutes.

Ten questions for Tom Nally as he gets going filling Tom Bradley's shoes

TD's new RIA chief is drawing a target on the IBD back and he challenges the 'rollups' to better define their value

June 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM

James Carville lent his big presence and Louisiana accent to a small event with large ambitions.

TD Ameritrade's 2012 Elite Advisor Summit gathers $89 billion of RIA assets under one Laguna Beach umbrella

Fresh off a week of D.C. intensity, the annual event crackled with strong opinions and offensive strategies

June 15, 2012 at 2:45 AM

Ken Robinson: It's a thinly veiled hostile takeover of independent fiduciary advisors by those who fear them the most.

RIAs flood Capitol Hill with protests against a SRO-FINRA future on the day of the Bachus Bill hearing

Schwab's Clark and TD's Schweiss lead the charge, arriving in D.C. with impassioned advisor missives predicting an 'avalanche of costly regulation'

June 6, 2012 at 5:24 AM

Bernie Clark: I'll personally deliver your message to the representatives with whom I'll be meeting.

Bernie Clark and Skip Schweiss head to Washington next week to fight on behalf of RIAs in Bachus bill showdown

With FINRA threat looking real, the Schwab and TD Ameritrade executives are urging letters and Tweets

June 1, 2012 at 4:13 AM

Timothy Welsh: Campanale and his team were caught somewhat flat-footed when the story broke.

How Frank Campanale's E.F. Hutton resurrection, a TD management hire and upbeat advisors electrified IMCA's annual conference

More than 1,500 advisors came to the Potomac -- including more than a few of Campanale's Smith Barney Consulting alumni

April 26, 2012 at 5:40 AM

"We don't have to work with aggregators," says Tom Muldowney, pictured here (l-r) with Glenn Kautt and Brent Brodeski, Dick Bennett, Tom Muldowney

Why a pair of Zero Alpha RIAs are combining and out-and-out avoiding roll-ups and private-equity money

Savant Capital and Monitor Group will have a combined $2.7 billion of AUM and hot prospects for gobbling up more firms

April 25, 2012 at 2:58 PM

Tom Nally: I think RIAs are finding they're bringing in assets more easily than recently.

'Little' TD Ameritrade keeps moving toward being a big custodian

The custody unit continues to roll at a 100 breakaway per quarter pace as Tom Bradley's replacement settles in

April 18, 2012 at 3:52 AM

Jon Patullo: If they're on the golf course, they can place the trade and have somebody back in the office make the allocation .

TD Ameritrade makes trading on iPads for RIAs available before mobile devices

Jon Patullo encourages RIAs to leave the laptop at home on travels to avoid back pain

April 5, 2012 at 1:56 AM

Peter Dorsey already knows the ropes at TD Ameritrade and knows plenty about Fidelity's ropes, too.

In his first big move in his new job as TD's RIA chief, Tom Nally picks the replacement for his old one

Peter Dorsey is ex-Fidelity and ex-Bear Stearns but also a real veteran of the TD sales staff

March 30, 2012 at 4:01 PM

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