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BloombergBlack, which registered as an RIA with the SEC in 2010, has 33 employees, including former branch managers from TD Ameritrade and Fidelity will occupy a few square feet of this building.

What is up with Bloomberg launching an RIA, BloombergBlack, and hiring a bunch of ex-TD, -Fido and -Schwab folks to staff it?

It's not clear how this fits in with Bloomberg's bigger plan and the effort seems a little tentative but the data giant has resources

May 8, 2013 at 4:13 PM

Mark Hurley: The middle ground [of tweeners] is going to go away and there's a staggering amount of opportunity.

Mark Hurley drops a new wealth management prognosis on the industry with a zero-sum flavor

With the best clients aging, RIA business will be shaped by how about 2,000 'tweener' firms react to fast-deteriorating business conditions

April 29, 2013 at 6:06 PM

Philip Palaveev: Client service expectations are ... more difficult to manage profitably.

Round 2 in Vegas: Finance Logix advisor conference ponders simplicity as sophistication

As the RIA industry matures, first-time buyers are gone and differentiation is the name of the game

April 29, 2013 at 6:04 PM

Jesse Mark: The RIA channel is probably the most sophisticated of the distribution channels. [Wholesalers] need to be able to speak at the level of that RIA.

How RIAs are forcing mutual fund wholesalers to lead or get out of the way

Numbers of internal salespeople are fast on the rise as the old-model external forces hit a plateau, according to Ignites research

April 9, 2013 at 4:47 AM

Joe Piazza:  I have always felt that I was "interrupted" 10 years ago.

With big LPL backing, the Robertson Stephens brand revives to roll up advisors to the suddenly wealthy

Joe Piazza is taking the once-premium San Francisco investment banking brand and combining with Fortigent to lure brokers to a hybrid platform

March 12, 2013 at 6:24 AM

Can RIAs do TED? George Tamer gives it a go.

How the FPA sexed up its 2013 Business Solutions Conference

One session was so successful that the attendees wouldn't let it end -- surely a conference first, our correspondent believes

March 11, 2013 at 6:07 AM

Chris Kojima told FundFire: The RIA business is a smaller part of the assets that AIMS manages, it has more than doubled in the last two years and it is growing

Sparks fly after FundFire reports that Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are offering some RIAs their corner-office research

The Financial Times publication stands by its story, but Merrill won't comment, making the fiery situation smokier; Goldman is unabashed

March 8, 2013 at 4:59 PM

Tim Welsh: If you're not there people say, Why isn't so and so there? It's the missing persons effect.

Postscript: What exactly should we make of the T3 phenomenon?

True, software vendors themselves may be more enthused than advisors, but the conflagration of information-sharing ventures on RIAs' behalf is no footnote

February 15, 2013 at 6:02 AM

Fidelity brought to T3 a smart TV using Aviya technology that provides avatars for an online, remote meeting.

T3 goes big in Miami but Fidelity steals the show with avatar advisors and smart coffee tables

Joel Bruckenstein's hype about his event's must-see status ain't hype as virtually every RIA technology vendor -- from behemoth to garage dweller -- put on a show for advisors

February 14, 2013 at 3:43 PM

Esther Stearns: We are not really recruiting advisors in the sense LPL does. We're training them to become good advisors.

NestWise is starting to take shape and take flight under LPL's wing -- and from under Schwab's shadow

The San Fran-based venture, headed by a former Schwabie, is pioneering technology, mass-affluent retainers and choice of labor pool, for starters

February 13, 2013 at 5:44 AM

Flash mob dance crew 'The Poreotics' take center stage at the 17th annual industry conference.

TD celebrates its $200 billion tipping point with an exuberant, VIP-rich conference in San Diego

Malcolm Gladwell, Pat Benatar and Condi Rice were on hand as TD served notice it's going after the $28 trillion millennials will soon bring to the table

February 4, 2013 at 5:49 PM

Tom Bradley and Tom Nally are still very much at ease sharing a stage.

Tim Welsh grills Tom Nally and Tom Bradley at TD's annual conference

The two Q&As reveal where the president of TD's RIA business is looking for the firm's next $100 billion and that Tom Bradley isn't saying never to rejoining RIAs

February 4, 2013 at 4:35 AM

Mike Durbin is not shy about going and getting top sales talent from competitors large and small.

Power shift in Fidelity's RIA sales: Scott Dell'Orfano is out; Rich Policastro defects from Schwab

Bob Oros has his hands full as the Fidelity sales effort gains more of a Schwab presence and feel

December 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM

Rob Mooney: This is not about Merrill Lynch.

A mini-Merrill springs up with its own broker-dealer and plans to grow

Two former Merrill higher-ups brought aboard two teams of Merrill brokers -- and they're just getting started

December 3, 2012 at 6:56 AM

Michelle Draper: Bringing in other custodians to RIA Stands for You is still on the table.

Schwab is set to connect RIAs outside its referral network to HNW investors through its 'Got-milk'-style campaign

RIA Stands for You will use things like digital New Yorker ads, messaging and candid videos with RIAs is funneling down to phone calls from virgin prospects

November 19, 2012 at 5:12 AM

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