The NYC-based auto-advisor will flash tax ramifications at investors as they test drive trades

The name chosen for the second-largest retirement firm hits a mark but may face the challenge of seeming jargony

Part rally, part book launch, the Boston-based custodian rolled into NYC for the last gig of a whistle-stop tour

The potential is awesome but the San Francisco giant is currently generating PR for an offering that does not yet have a launch date

The Silicon Valley-based auto-advice leader stokes its aura of invincibility by raising $64-million that it won't need anytime soon

In the wake of DOL and Treasury rulings, some fiduciaries, certainly not all, seem willing to give the oft-reviled instruments a chance

The Convergent executive's death was likely a suicide related to non-Convergent money managed for family and friends by Zier in a 'personal account'

The chief executive of Convergent Wealth Advisors was only 44

The AssetMark deal adds $1.7 billion and 600 advisor-clients

Recruiters are still a little baffled as to why the $2.5-billion firm skipped a chance to go independent with a 'compelling story' but chose the comfort of the familiar business model -- and an office of their own

Wall Street dings the IBD for spiralling compliance costs but hybrid RIA assets are serious bright spot

The esteemed study contingent tapped Trisa Summers, an elementary school teacher by training who now leads a $1.7-billion RIA

The $40-billion RIA/asset manager plans to combine $2 billion from Randy Long's RIA to $1 billion of existing 401(k) assets

Funds under Schwab discretion exited the Bill Gross fund three weeks ago

It wasn't what Ned Johnson's daughter said; she mostly let her ears do the talking

Brent Burns counter-dissects the Sanders Wommack vivisection of an article written by experts from LPL and Google

Windhaven's reverses are official, Schwab is minting advisors at its 'Wealth Academy' and the ETF 401(k) plan found just one taker but Schwab's asset growth is stellar

In post-IPO, post-rebranding mode, the No. 2 defined contribution company is open to big change in the face of 401(k) hyper-competition

The RIA principals are distributing the online asset manager service to fellow RIAs, and Fidelity is quelling an uproar of demand from RIA clients for robo answers for the mass affluent

Conflicting forces of change have made the question harder to answer but has sweetened the pot

The confab also extruded real news on the St. Petersburg custodians' roll-out of an no-transaction-fee platform and its de-manualization of social media for RIAs

FINRA may decide whether the wirehouse pulled the trigger too whimsically on its PBIG stars

An article by LPL's Adam Cohen and Google's Jingwei Lei in IMCA's publication flukily conicided with the revelation of Bill Gross's new job managing just such a fund

A transcript of the recent webinar includes thoughts from an RIA owner, a top RIA lawyer and RIABiz reporter

Direxion hands over much of its management fee to Schwab, its CEO says, but the rewards are worth the sacrifice

Without a say-what-he-wants-when-he-wants 70-year-old to hold to account, PIMCO is reduced to a robo status that makes many decisionmakers nervous

Jon Jones took a year off to hike 35 countries with four kids but a vendor really made his patience run thin

The $10.5-billion RIA spent millions of technology but client habits may delay use of the electronic version

The former LPL executive's roll-up effort absorbs accounts of West Coast Asset Management, after it had challenges as a stand-alone RIA

The pair's modest RIA and immodest following could come catch fire with Upside as a partner

With 'bigger' deals than Google in the works, Alison Rosenthal hits the ground running -- fast -- at the online RIA

Queasy about wirehouse practices, Rich Dragotta broke away to LPL 11 years ago but missed the old brass, glass, mahogany bullpen

Like all matters related to advice, advisors are determined to be decisive and articulate to clients

At his LA event, Dan Seivert revealed the thousands, yes, thousands of RIA deals going down this year despite limited activity from roll-ups

The Denver-based fund company now has its chairman, CEO and star manager seats filled by PIMCO alums