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Investment Advisor
June 2006 |
Upgrades At the Fidelity Brokerage Company's Executive Forum, President Ellyn McColgan said FBC is increasing overall technology spending to $950 million... A report reveals that advisors fleeing the wirehouses are primarily interested in... etc.   |
Financial Advisor
April 2008 |
Advisor Emporium Fidelity Enhances RIA Management Platform... Vanguard Changes Investment Advisory Teams... New ETF Revenue-Based Index Launched... Lehman Brothers Creates An ETN Platform... RCB Small Cap Value Re-Opens... etc. |
Investment Advisor
October 2009
James J. Green |
Fidelity Cuts Costs on Technology, Trading Fidelity Institutional announced a range of price cuts and time-bounded fee waivers for advisors who custody client assets at Fidelity. |
Registered Rep.
March 2, 2015
Diana Britton |
Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear. |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2007
Jeanne Lee |
Fidelity Ups Its Game The Boston behemoth is introducing new, integrated technology that promises practice management nirvana. Will it captivate -- and capture -- the RIA market? |
Investment Advisor
May 2006 |
Upgrades Standard & Poor's launched the S&P Completion Index... Rydex Investments received a private letter ruling from the IRS... Fidelity Investments registered with the SEC... etc. |
Investment Advisor
March 2010
Robert F. Keane |
Changes at the Top for RIA Units at Fidelity and Schwab At a time when growth in the RIA channel has been robust to say the least, the two largest custodians have announced executive changes and restructuring of their units serving RIAs. |
Registered Rep.
October 21, 2015
Ryan W. Neal |
MoneyGuidePro, eMoney Join Forces The two biggest names in financial planning software are now partners. |
Financial Advisor
February 2006 |
Advisor Emporium Funds Target RIAs... Fund Supports Assisted Living Facility... T. Rowe Price Adds Funds... Charitable Planning Sales Kit Launched... Treasury Bond Index Funds Launched... etc. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Fidelity's Silver Bullet If WealthCentral meets expectations, it will create significant efficiencies and cost savings for those who take full advantage of it. If Fidelity can pull it off, it will leapfrog the technology offerings of other custodians, as well as those of independent providers, by a significant margin. |
Financial Advisor
August 2006
Raymond Fazzi |
Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Vanguard's Best Index Funds Which index funds should you have in your portfolio? Vanguard 500 Index Fund... Vanguard Small-Cap Index... Vanguard Total International Stock Index... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
The Best Small-Cap ETFs These exchange-traded funds win the best-in-class award. Let's take a closer look at the iShares Russell 2000 Index ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap ETF, the iShares Morningstar Small Core ETF, the iShares S&P 600 Value ETF, and the Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF. |
Registered Rep.
October 25, 2010
Charles Paikert |
Fidelity Targets RIAs with UHNW Clients In an effort to attract more financial advisors who have -- or would like to have -- ultra-high-net-worth clients, Fidelity Investments is offering them the same high-end services it offers to family offices. |
Investment Advisor
December 2007 |
Upgrades LPL Financial Services has partnered with Fiduciary360... Kochis Fitz of San Francisco and Quintile Wealth Management of Los Angeles say they will merge... etc. |
Financial Advisor
January 2007 |
Advisor Emporium Pershing Launches NetExchange Investor Platform... CurrencyShares ETFs Garner $1 Billion... Fundamentally Weighted Mutual Funds Introduced... New Index Families Hunting Alpha... etc. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Upgrades What's going on...with investment and insurance companies in the news. |
Registered Rep.
September 28, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Custodians Seek Integrated Solutions To FAs' Tech Needs As custodians compete to draw advisors into the fold, they often tout the superior quality of their technology. |
Financial Advisor
February 2009
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
The Case For Integration Fidelity thinks Registered Independent Advisors will benefit from integrated platforms like its new WealthCentral. |
Financial Advisor
September 2010
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Key Role Custodians are upping their technology offerings to RIAs. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
Andrew Gluck |
The Gluck Report, Part I: The Big Three's Tech Plans for 2006 New tech initiatives from the leading custodians have lots of features aimed at attracting and winning over RIAs without making them feel like they're losing their independence. We talk to the tech heads at Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Waterhouse. |
Financial Advisor
April 2009 |
Advisor Emporium Products of interest to advisors: AdviceAmerica launches ClientVision Web-based client relationship management tool... Genworth Financial Investment Services is launches fee-based, money management platform, Managed Wealth ADVANTAGE... etc. |
Financial Advisor
December 2007
Andy Gluck |
What The Tech Deals Mean To You Nearly a decade since the first Internet applications for advisors appeared, we are seeing their adoption and acceptance in all corners of the industry. What does it mean now? |
Investment Advisor
January 2009
James J. Green |
Schwab Reorganizes; Fidelity Hires; Pershing Provides The three major custodians of RIA assets announce big executive changes and a new practice management program. |
Registered Rep.
September 22, 2008
John Churchill |
Wall Street's Pain Is RIAs' Gain: Reps Flee Wirehouses, Bring Assets to Fido And Others Despite the still-outsized signing bonuses offered by most Wall Street firms, the steady trickle of brokers leaving wirehouse firms to join or form their own RIA firms is growing. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Kristen French |
Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice. |
Investment Advisor
August 2006 |
Upgrades The Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund announced the Charitable Investment Advisor Program... Dan Skiles, chief of technology for Schwab Institutional, said that as of May 1, more than 500 Schwab-affiliated advisory firms... etc. |
Financial Advisor
February 2008
Joel Bruckenstein |
Custodians Beef It Up Since advisors' work flows are often intertwined with custodian-supplied technologies, let's take a look at what the custodial firms have in store for 2008. |
Registered Rep.
June 25, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Vanguard Broadens ETF Platform The company that made its reputation with low-cost indexed investments said it will launch 19 new index funds and related ETFs over the next year, as well as an ETF that tracks its $91 billion Vanguard 500 Index Fund. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2010
Kristen French |
Fidelity Makes Trade Pricing Uniform For RIA And Retail Clients Fidelity's RIA custody division, Institutional Wealth Services, said it was cutting fees for U.S. equity and options trades. It also began offering commission-free online trades for its iShares ETFs and Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index Tracking Fund. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2006
Scott A. Leonard |
The Smaller, the Better Rumors that the small-cap effect is dead are most definitely premature. By focusing on the smallest of the small caps, financial advisors can see that the small-cap effect appears to be alive and well. You just need to know where to look for it. |
Financial Advisor
June 3, 2010 |
Advisor Emporium Advisor news: Fidelity Unveils Fully Bundled 401(k) Plan... Pershing Offers Practice Health Checkup... Ave Maria Offers Equity Fund... Equinox Creates Actively Managed Fund... Vanguard Offers Commission-Free Trades... more... |
Registered Rep.
September 10, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Fido's RIA Unit Cuts Fees The average financial advisor has taken a big hit in production and therefore net income. But RIA custodians are turning that into something of a marketing tool. |
Investment Advisor
April 2010 |
Changes Personnel moves: The board of Raymond James Financial confirmed February 19 that Paul Reilly will succeed Tom James as CEO... Scott Dell'Orfano, currently VP and head of sales, will assume the additional duties of overseeing FIWS's relationship management team... more... |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2008
Brian Richards |
Avoid This Ticker ... for Now Vanguard Small Cap Value is an ETF to avoid for now, although it still may be a winning fund for patient long-term owners. |
Registered Rep.
October 15, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Schwab Q3 Earning Down, But the Race For RIA Assets Is Hot Charles Schwab reported a 34 percent drop in its third quarter earnings, the firm's third consecutive quarter of slowing earnings this year. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2011
Craig L. Israelsen |
Multiply Returns by Dividing Gaining exposure to U.S. stocks by using three equally weighted index funds produced better performance than a single mega-market index fund during the Lost Decade of 2001 to 2010. |
Financial Advisor
July 2006 |
Advisor Emporium The Potomac Funds Changes "Direxion"... Fidelity Launches Value International Fund... Vanguard Offers New Retirement Funds... Support Platform For SMAs Introduced... etc. |
Financial Advisor
November 2005
Tracey Longo |
All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance. |
Financial Planning
October 1, 2010
Joel Bruckenstein |
What's Next for Technology This is a time of creativity and evolution in technology, and advisor technology is no exception. As a result, RIA firms can make changes to their infrastructure and in the process create new efficiencies while actually lowering operating costs. |
Investment Advisor
November 2006 |
Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Jared Cummans |
Simplifying Investing: 5 All Cap ETF Options Get exposure in all the right places. |
Financial Advisor
August 2009
Marla Brill |
Small-Cap Bounty Small-cap ETFs have grown in number and offer some interesting choices. |
Financial Advisor
January 2004
Dorothy Hinchcliff |
Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers. |
Financial Advisor
September 2010 |
Advisor Emporium Advisor Emporium: Schwab Offers Integrated Technology Platform... National Planning Holdings Launches WealthOne... BlackRock Increases ETF Offerings... Goldman Sachs Adds Fund... more... |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Amanda B. Kish |
Foolish Weekly Fund Wrap-Up Fidelity reorganizes on a massive scale... Vanguard introduces managed-payout funds... |
The Motley Fool
December 18, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Improving on Index Funds As the fund universe continues to evolve, new funds have emerged that try to improve on their first-generation counterparts. One fund in particular has its sights set high -- the Rydex S&P Equal Weight ETF. |
Financial Advisor
December 2006 |
Advisor Emporium Gemini Fund Launches Series Trust... Equal-Weight Sector ETFs Launched... Index Based On Intellectual Property... etc. |
Financial Advisor
July 2011 |
Advisor Emporium Fidelity Launches Advisors' Marketing Program... Vanguard Reduces Investment Minimums... Wells Fargo Provides Consultation Services... etc. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Stan Luxenberg |
The Smart Way to Use Index Funds Now In the cold light of the bear market, advisors have discovered inherent flaws in the indices and the funds that track them. |
