Articles tagged "Wealthfront"
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Adam Nash makes direct 'CEO-to-CEO' plea to Schwab to rethink its robo
In a blistering blog entry, the Wealthfront chief executive expresses outrage at the Schwab robo's ADV contents -- and gets an earful back from the San Francisco giant
March 11, 2015 at 4:16 AM
Wealthfront throws engineering at its large-account 'problem'
The Palo Alto-based automated money manager addresses tax slippage from transfers of HNW accounts to its website
February 23, 2015 at 8:39 PM
Schwab tells the SEC its robo-advisor has a 30 basis-point fee and big-time cash allocations held by Schwab Bank
The Schwab Intelligent Portfolios ADV says as much as 30% of clients assets are being sent to Schwab Bank
February 18, 2015 at 7:59 PM
Has indexing become too popular?
The Princeton senior economist who pioneered index funds ponders whether sheer investor tonnage on the bandwagon could flatten tires
February 17, 2015 at 10:08 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
Wealthfront's high-net-worth cat leaps out of the bag -- keeping it one robo 'pivot' ahead of Schwab
The Palo Alto firm with $1.7 billion of managed assets reveals that its little secret is big accounts
December 19, 2014 at 7:33 PM
Wealthfront responds with force to Schwab CEO's robo announcement
The Silicon Valley-based auto-advice leader stokes its aura of invincibility by raising $64-million that it won't need anytime soon
October 28, 2014 at 7:49 PM
After bagging Google, Wealthfront hires a Facebook web-traffic pied piper to manage mega-prospects knocking at the door
With 'bigger' deals than Google in the works, Alison Rosenthal hits the ground running -- fast -- at the online RIA
October 2, 2014 at 11:31 PM
Wealthfront's advice is now an employee benefit for Google employees' non-401(k) savings
Employees at the search giant with less than $100,000 get their balances managed for free -- as do employees of the San Francisco 49ers and Palantir
September 23, 2014 at 2:56 AM
Why Joe Duran is dead wrong on 2015 marking the end of the Golden Era of the RIA
The serial entrepeneur's column in InvestmentNews forgets that RIAs are also advancing and that the 'new competitors' carry baggage and have fatal shortcomings
September 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM
What's up with Schwab getting into the robo-style online advice business and is Windhaven the linchpin?
Walt Bettinger's options for building using existing ETF portfolio capabilities or buying one of the many robos in existence point to a no-lose move
July 25, 2014 at 11:15 PM
How exactly Vanguard Group -- with a dash of robo and lots of mojo -- went from a virtual unknown in wealth management to posing a threat to Merrill Lynch
The fund giant has 250 CFPs on staff for VPAS in Malvern, Charlotte and Scottsdale and virtually no minimum or maximum client size
July 14, 2014 at 12:00 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
Mark Wiedman vows to ETF managers that BlackRock won't compete (directly) in the asset allocation game
The iShares chief encouraged the entrepreneurs, many of whom are ex-RIAs, to see themselves as primary purveyors of BlackRock ETFs