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    Steve Anderson: We made the decision and notified these clients that we're going to resign our services. I personally made the call and explained our thinking.
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    Schwab shoos $25 billion of client assets out the door as it calls the bluff of employers with lopsided 401(k) contracts

    February 28, 2014 at 8:49 PM

    The San Francisco giant is trading recordkeeper revenue for the prospect of wielding its mighty brand directly at plan participants

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    Justin Richter: I wanted to avoid the tortured stares of my older colleagues, who went into investment banking and sold their souls.
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    A 32-year-old Kansas advisor -- at all upheaval costs -- followed his mentor to Mariner Wealth Advisors

    February 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM

    Losing clients and leaving money on the table are risks that more young advisors are willing to take, especially with social media as a viable workaround to the non-solicitation straitjacket

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    David Welling: The large firms are starting to outsource. I feel like the momentum is building. We're in a great spot.
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    Black Diamond blows the lid off asset growth in Dave Welling's first year in charge

    February 26, 2014 at 8:00 AM

    Assets jumped about 65% and the former Schwabbie says that growth is accelerating

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    Brodie Cobb: The culmination was just the unlucky perfect storm.
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    How the founder, CEO of a $4-billion RIA survived a brutal bike accident and kept his firm rolling

    February 25, 2014 at 4:33 AM

    First Brodie Cobb needed a saw to reset bones, now he's sawing apart silos to make Presidio Group function as a unified team

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    Alois Pirker: Innovation is now more of a visionary thing, and an appetite thing, rather than about the monetary angle.
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    The 6 biggest trends affecting the RIA business

    February 24, 2014 at 5:35 AM

    Alois Pirker, Mike Durbin and Meredith Rice help RIABiz paint the Big Picture for private wealth management in the U.S. and beyond

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    Erik Strid will head the new company and execute under a new brand and plan after what he calls a decade of pseudo independence.
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    Schwab wins $350-million Philly RIA from Wells Fargo Profit-Formula program with Dynasty Financial's help

    February 20, 2014 at 8:02 PM

    The Main Line Strids set the stage for a succession plan and a new round of growth from a King of Prussia perch

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    Al Berkeley: I definitely would not have demanded payment if he had not told me someone else had [filed a demand].
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    Under the bankruptcy gun, Invest N Retire will sell its patented 401(k) technology to the highest bidder

    February 20, 2014 at 3:41 AM

    The firm's patented technology received a surge of interest after Schwab pulled the trigger on a plan utilizing ETFs, Darwin Abrahamson says

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    Dan Arnold: The advisor today spends roughly 35% to 40% of their time on prospecting for acquiring new assets or working with existing clients.
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    LPL gets the question from Wall Street analyst: How much more can you squeeze from your financial advisors?

    February 18, 2014 at 9:49 PM

    The broker-dealer's CFO pointed to a 65% chunk of time not used to prospect or service clients

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    Steve Anderson: None of the consultants are utilizing our business model.
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    Schwab 'fesses up to Wall Street just how hard winning plan sponsors to its 401(k) ETF platform will be

    February 18, 2014 at 4:11 PM

    Convincing plan sponsors and pension consultants to join a ETF paradigm shift to ETFs is a big ask, its executives tell Wall Street

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    David Givner: They're playing catch-up on an investing challenge so widely known and monumental that it manages to be both familiar and shocking.
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    How to gird clients for the approaching $500K tsunami of college costs without killing their retirement dreams

    February 17, 2014 at 7:49 AM

    529 college savings plans are still on the table as well as alternative strategies for those who have made ill-timed, post-crash retreats from investments

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    Neal Simon: We decided to put our money where our mouth was and we hired a full-time [recruitment] person.
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    This MBA chose an RIA, now with $1.4 billion AUM, but as a business model, not as professional choice per se

    February 14, 2014 at 5:26 PM

    Neal Simon says that -- Ric Edelman aside -- nobody is plotting expansion like him

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    Abby Salemeh: There is a 35% increase in click-through rates for websites and bloggers who have a professional headshot on their sites.
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    The one act of image-ination RIA's must undertake before debuting on social media

    February 14, 2014 at 6:45 AM

    When clients Google you, there had better be a photo of you -- and there's a way to think about what represents a good one

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    Greg Friedman and Neesha Hathi may symbolize how companies like his Junxure and her Schwab are getting close, but not too close.
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    How big companies stampeded to T3 with big bucks and how it affects the once maverick RIA software show

    February 13, 2014 at 5:49 PM

    Broker-dealers, custodians, Salesforce and TAMPs are paid more and played more in Anaheim

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    Bernie Clark: Fidelity is half our size and TD is half their size and Pershing is half their size ... It's a long ladder.
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    Bernie Clark discloses that Schwab Advisor Services hit $1 trillion of assets -- and why the order for commemorative T-shirts is still on hold

    February 12, 2014 at 10:07 PM

    The RIA custody leader may find it easier to promote its size as an advantage with a nice round nine-zero number

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    John Rourke: I've never seen a more wide-open industry.
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    VC-backed RIA CRM firm bursts onto the T3 scene looking to knock off Redtail, Salesforce etc.

    February 12, 2014 at 7:25 AM

    Gotham Tech Labs seeks to blur the line between CRM and social media -- for a bargain

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    Tom Bradley, seen here snapping a selfie at TD's national conference Orlando: I'm incredibly proud of these numbers.
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    Tom Bradley pollinates TD Ameritrade branches and RIAs get sweet referrals in return

    February 11, 2014 at 8:30 PM

    Bradley is teaching retail advisors to spend more time with clients -- and local RIAs

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    Marty Bicknell: Sales in the wealth division is hand to hand combat, sometimes in the asset manager world, reputation and being on the right platforms drive business on their own.
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    The explosive growth to $20 billion AUM of Marty Bicknell's second roll-up-like venture, Montage Investments, and where his $8 billion wealth manager fits in

    February 10, 2014 at 5:23 AM

    With admirers saying he takes a page from Warren Buffett, the Mariner Wealth CEO 's side bet on disenfranchised, unappreciated A-grade money managers

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    Clayton Hartman (left) with Tim Kneen: We thought UBS was transitioning to a different kind of wirehouse.
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    How heavy the lifting was to get a $1-billion wirehouse team to independence in 2014 after a de facto false start in 2007

    February 7, 2014 at 6:20 PM

    Kneen and Clayton were still on Windows 2003 version at UBS, a metaphor for why they have moved to Focus Financial and Tamarac software

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    Tom Nally: You've got to build a good team and it's not a one-man show.
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    What two things Tom Nally says 'no' to in managing his $270-billion RIA empire

    February 6, 2014 at 5:10 AM

    The TD Ameritrade chief of RIA custody sees no reason to handle advisor commission business or serve roll-ups geared to hybrids

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    Trey Tune: It's the right place to build a business in the private client space.
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    How an Alex. Brown spin-off grew to be a $46 billion RIA and how a Brown Brothers breakaway fits in to its plan for accelerated growth

    February 5, 2014 at 2:51 PM

    The Baltimore-based firm, Brown Advisory, will invade Bank of America's hometown with an up-to-date investing approach and Old Money flavor

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    Christine Gaze developed her practice-management chops at Morgan Stanley Private Bank.
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    Christine Gaze exits TD Ameritrade

    February 4, 2014 at 7:56 PM

    The ex-Morgan Stanley Private Bank exec was brought in to bring practice management and technology together under Zohar Swaine, who has since departed

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    Nicholas Schorsch: We don't want more product sales.
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    Nicholas Schorsch explains why buying Cetera makes him a white-hat magnate in a black-hat world

    February 4, 2014 at 3:00 PM

    The RCS chairman says the whole purpose of buying IBDs is to diversify away from product sales

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    Mitt Romney: It's not just America. There needs to be a global understanding and a real global effort.
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    At TD event Mitt Romney ressurrects his Massachusetts stance on global warming and throws cold water at Obama

    February 3, 2014 at 7:13 PM

    The former presidential candidate pushed the reset button on his acerbic tone and now sounds more Al Gore than Bain Capital

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    What looks disorderly at TD has the dead reckoning of dollars following ROI opportunity.
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    An advertiser's-eye view of TD Ameritrade's national conference

    February 3, 2014 at 4:40 AM

    Firms that rarely advertise had booths, including mega-RIAs, competing custodians and Marty Bicknell

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