Articles tagged "Will Trout"
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Wealthfront CEO flames Betterment's 'outrageous' fees and 'abhorrent' ways; Betterment strikes back labeling the screed a Trumped-up PR play
In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'
July 9, 2015 at 12:57 AM
CalPERS's hatchet man, Ted Eliopoulos, goes on a manager firing spree, shaving hundreds of millions in management fees -- but is it enough?
For its most recent fiscal year, the pension giant paid $1.6 billion in fees, with close to 90% of that money going to the real estate, private equity, and egregiously pricey hedge fund managers
June 23, 2015 at 3:04 PM
After Schwab and Betterment catch up to Wealthfront's AUM, the Palo Alto robo pioneer makes a stunning hire
Facebook's former design chief will use millennials as an acid test but she's designing for a broader market
June 5, 2015 at 6:04 PM
McKinsey: Robo-advisors have a cloudy future but 'virtual advice' delivered by 24-hour super-centers with experts and algorithms will win the day
Using ChinaTrust’s 'Air Financial Advisor' and Itau’s 'Personalite' service, Schwab -- even E*TRADE -- as examples, the global consultant says the future will splinter 'digital' and 'automated'
June 2, 2015 at 11:58 PM
After Schwab robo launch, Trizic phones leap off the hook as Wall Street brokers and bankers come calling -- and VCs write checks
Ex-JP Morgan Trizic founders say their giant enterprise prospects went from 'denial' to 'how?'
May 18, 2015 at 6:33 PM
FutureAdvisor responds to Schwab's market entry with a truly free offer and big backing from Fidelity and TD Ameritrade
The San Francisco-based RIA is automating parents' investments into 529s, Coverdell ESAs, UTMAs or UGMA for tax-free savings, no paperwork
May 5, 2015 at 5:07 PM
With robo-advisors on the rise, robo custodian Apex is rising with them, a diamond mined from the rubble of the Penson Worldwide debacle
Cheaper, more paperless and early to market, the Dallas-based clearing house/broker-dealer is out to protect its lead as big RIA custodians play robo catch-up
May 1, 2015 at 6:19 AM
Schwab grabs astounding $1.5 billion of robo assets in six weeks, but mostly from itself
Walt Bettinger boasts of 'hundreds of new accounts daily' for Schwab Intelligent Portfolios then fences with Wall Street analysts who beg details
April 24, 2015 at 9:58 PM
Covestor becomes latest robo site to sell out and become a bauble on bigger chain
Interactive brokers buys the New York-based SMA-robo that has struggled to gain assets
April 24, 2015 at 7:30 PM
Orion and Jemstep form first big marriage of non-robo and robo software -- at advisor behest -- to create RIA e-commerce
The Nebraska-based conventional provider and the Silicon Valley whiz-bang, with Salesforce and TD Ameritrade as common bonds, found it easy to partner with each other
April 22, 2015 at 1:40 PM
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
What Vanguard revealed under webcast pressure about its phono-robo's vulnerability
Already gathering $1 billion per quarter, the index giant holds off on VPAS launch for fears of post-beta traffic overwhelm
January 15, 2015 at 5:09 AM
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
