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    Joe Piazza: I prefer to let my actions and the success of our firm speak to the doubters.
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    Swatting aside 'doubters,' Joe Piazza uses an improbable hook to nab Wells Fargo private bankers -- pent-up Addepar lust

    April 30, 2014 at 5:26 PM

    Robertson Stephens chief learns it's easier to court advisors winning Silicon Valley wealth using Made-in-Mountain-View software

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    Jeff Maurer: At no point did we say let's go hire as many people from GenSpring as possible.
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    How Jeff Maurer is now ploughing into Florida using his old Evercore tricks but with new GenSpring wrinkles

    April 29, 2014 at 6:28 AM

    The U.S. Trust-alumni RIA shows no sign of let-up at $5 billion of AUM

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    Dave Welling accepts congrats from Gov. Rick Scott in Florida for creating a mini-Silicon Valley in Jacksonville.
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    Advent Software hits the local news in Jacksonville

    April 28, 2014 at 11:56 PM

    Florida Gov. Rick Scott comes calling as the software maker's East Coast hub hits 145 employees with plans for a quick doubling

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    Stuart DePina: It does close the gap with Salesforce.
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    Tamarac doubles down on Microsoft to be more like Salesforce

    April 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM

    Stuart DePina has beyond-skin-deep reason for liking Microsoft Dynamics but Salesforce has prettier-girl attributes

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    Oleg Tishkevich: If the 2045 Avatar Project is successful, we will have to expand the Finance Logix technology platform to creating financial plans for immortals.
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    Oleg Tishkevich lets loose a de facto RIA future-shock think tank in Vegas

    April 28, 2014 at 6:13 AM

    A Heartbleed super-expert, Sochi Olympics security chief, Joel Bruckenstein's woodshed talk and Oleg's own Year 2045 post-robo oration set the shocking tone

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    Joel Bruckenstein: When you're strong you can afford to overpay a little bit.
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    How Joe Mansueto's purchase of ByAllAccounts is mostly a show of faith in the Morningstar brand, global reach and the future of asset-quarterbacking as a billable service

    April 25, 2014 at 5:28 AM

    The Woburn, Mass.-based aggregator has the dubious distinction of being a near-monopolist that can't quite crack the profits puzzle, sources say

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    Cathy Clauson will act as the connective tissue between sales and the C-suite.
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    Charles Goldman recruits his one-time Schwab leftenant to be his right-hand woman at AssetMark

    April 25, 2014 at 12:08 AM

    Cathy Clauson fills newly created position related to TAMP sales

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    Steve Anderson became RIABiz' top Q1 newsmaker when he announced his firm had 'fired' $25 billion worth of 401(k) clients.
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    How rising RIA super-bloggers, 401(k) brush fires and a short RIA-Salesforce courtship captured RIABiz readership

    April 24, 2014 at 6:28 AM

    As we examined our top 10 articles Q1, the common denominator was ... an RIA intangible that you know when you see

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    Lauren Schadle: Nothing has changed to accommodate MetLife.
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    The FPA is now brought to you by MetLife, for better or worse

    April 23, 2014 at 5:42 AM

    The insurer's cash is the good news but some see it as tainted money

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    Jon Stein: I think anything's possible. That  [Betterment RIA business] could be the larger business [than the retail one] in the long term.
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    How Jon Stein plans to make the most of $45 million of VC money in remaking the RIA business

    April 22, 2014 at 6:03 AM

    The Betterment founder says he is open to his B-to-B, read RIA unit, knocking his B-to-C business out of the spotlight

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    Victor Fettter: We believe there's a special sauce that LPL can provide and I don't think there's one size fits all.
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    Victor Fetter turns his guns on LPL's thorniest software challenge -- 21st century performance reporting

    April 21, 2014 at 3:36 AM

    The former Dell guru eschews a best-of-breed strategy as his firm plays a game of catch-up under a big tent

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    Tom Valverde's hire is part of Fidelity's new 'geographical' sales strategy.
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    Fidelity Institutional bags Pershing's RIA sales chief and gives him a lesser title

    April 17, 2014 at 3:20 PM

    The prize is Tom Valverde who Pershing replaces with Ben Harrison

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    Mike Alfred: If you're hoarding all of this data and won't help wholesalers to help everyone get better they won't work with you.
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    BrightScope sees sales soar as formerly adversarial big 401(k) companies buy data about their own business

    April 16, 2014 at 7:58 AM

    The business model of the La Jolla-based maverick evolves and triggers millions in new fee revenue and some big hires

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    Libby Cherrington (right) and Krista Dunton have two kids and have been married almost five years.
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    How Morgan Stanley and a lesbian super-producer came to grief in South Carolina and why she alleges bias

    April 15, 2014 at 6:24 AM

    The wirehouse's response: Libby Cherrington is using the gay issue to distract from a $6.7 million loan that has gone unpaid by the AIG rep

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    Bill Morrissey epitomizes LPL's ability to grow rapidly.
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    What Derek Bruton's replacement may say about the departure that still has people shocked

    April 14, 2014 at 6:52 PM

    Bill Morrissey is known to grind out quantifiable results

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    Eduardo Repetto: He is an excellent person to take on this critical role.
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    Dimensional Fund Advisors gives its globe-trotting co-CEO some relief by elevating another literal rocket scientist

    April 11, 2014 at 9:11 PM

    The Austin-based firm is putting more CEO duties on Eduardo Repetto, and letting Gerard O'Reilly do the heavy CIO lifting

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    Patrick Sheppard: Getting back into the retail world and getting back into the high-net worth world was more fulfilling than dealing with institutions on a global basis.
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    Why a $500-million RIA Rt. 495 start-up hired a no-book ex-BNY Mellon Asset Management CFO

    April 11, 2014 at 8:03 PM

    Patrick Sheppard is ready for the hands-on life and New England Investment and Retirement is looking for a steady executive hand

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    Ned Johnson is pitching his fund brethren on a trading club concept.
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    In wake of high frequency trading hoopla, Fidelity Investments is designing 'Sakura' to secure better trades for its 'shareholders'

    April 10, 2014 at 6:51 PM

    Chairman Ned Johnson is personally pushing the bold move

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    Charles Goldman: We bought the firm hoping the CEO would be there.
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    Charles Goldman speaks from the CEO Summit hotel about what he didn't see coming at AssetMark and how it changed his life

    April 10, 2014 at 3:27 AM

    The Fidelity and Schwab veteran is criss-crossing the country as managing principal rather than part-time coach

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    Steve Lockshin: I wrote a big check.
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    Tiburon CEO Summit extrudes big news: Betterment Institutional is born

    April 8, 2014 at 9:39 PM

    Steve Lockshin lays out his plans for TAMP-like venture and how Michael Kitces, a public critic of the Betterment CEO, very much fits in

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    Fidelity's alt investments brain trust: 'It used to be three guys and a dog in Greenwich.'
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    Fidelity, Goldman Sachs and Morningstar call 16 top reporters to New York to define the RIA alts problem -- and to explain how their Dream Team solves it

    April 8, 2014 at 4:42 AM

    The conundrum: In the dawn of the Age of Transparency, alts makers still favor pulling down the shades, and charging a premium for the disservice

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    Philip Chao: Captain Phillips was not thinking if he should serve in the best interest of his crew ... rather, his fiduciary commitment was on autopilot.
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    What I learned at Putnam Investments' analyst meeting from the real Capt. Phillips

    April 7, 2014 at 5:03 PM

    The harrowing tale of a man charged with a boat, cargo and human lives helped think about fiduciary care

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    Derek Bruton: It allowed me to step back and look at all I had accomplished to date and where I wanted to go from here.  In the short term, I will be taking some time to prioritize and recharge.
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    What is the story with Derek Bruton's sudden LPL departure?

    April 6, 2014 at 5:23 PM

    The powerful veteran seemed to be in the prime of his career and rising with a long track record of goodwill

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    Bob Reynolds: They reached out and asked if we'd like to buy their proprietary business.
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    Just what good Bob Reynolds' purchase of J.P. Morgan's billions -- sans sweet brand -- will do for his Great West-Putnam 401(k) empire

    April 4, 2014 at 5:01 AM

    The Boston exec was opportunistic in getting this deal and remains open to others but the 'O' word that made Whole Foods famous is holding sway

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    Walter Bettinger and Charles Schwab: It is time to treat the cancer aggressively.
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    Chuck Schwab and Walter Bettinger issue call to squash flash traders but RIAs question hysteria over the issue

    April 3, 2014 at 10:56 PM

    Calling robo-traders a 'cancer', the Schwab execs lash out while Norm Boone and other advisors question whether this is a battle to pick

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    Bob Reynolds: In this business especially it's a game of scale.
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    Bob Reynolds strikes again in his 401(k) quest -- this time buying JPMorgan's retirement recordkeeping business

    April 3, 2014 at 5:37 PM

    The deal includes blue chip 401k accounts of Procter & Gamble, American Airlines and JPMorgan itself

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    Scott Hanson:  I felt a little intimidated ... [at first] as a state school grad I didn't feel like I could cut out on anything.
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    What they do teach at Harvard Business School that's worth learning even after banking monetary success

    April 3, 2014 at 6:19 AM

    Personally, I have accumulated sufficient assets, but ironically it took the famed business institution to give my career a deeper purpose

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    Joe Mansueto sees the buy 'particularly bolstering our offerings that support an advisor’s workflow.'
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    Why Morningstar's purchase of ByAllAccounts might be a bigger deal than its paltry $28-million price tag shows

    April 2, 2014 at 5:49 AM

    The Chicago firm becomes the king of charging for held-away assets facilitation and has a view into the data of its competitors

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    Brooke Southall: By using 'robo' we say to snippy entrepreneurs: Take your cutesy website, your fancy VC backing, your geeks and your Harvard, Stanford or MIT degree and go back to your ivory tower.
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    Why I find the term 'robo-advisor' objectionable and unhelpful

    April 1, 2014 at 4:14 AM

    In the end, all good advisors will likely be both bionic and biological and terms of art creating a false distinction are unhelpful

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