In hindsight, the $11-billion Denver TAMP had made some moves like removing key managers and installing interim ones in the wake of troubles its parent entity referred to US regulators

The only constant for LPL is Mark Casady and change as the broker-dealer slogs to the far shore from the 'messy middle'

HighTower gets a substantial bounty of fee-generating assets and clients and Guggenheim avoids having to scale up

Best pals since middle school and partners since 2001, the advisors use their mad depostition skills to hone in on client needs and their tenacity to make sure of follow-through

Dan Arnold laid it on the line: LPL is being disrupted but taking the challenges head-on

Newbie Terri Kallsen gets the Bettinger nod to spend big on doubling advisor force and growing branch count to 500

Complacency is still the rule but a personality-changed Credit Suisse and the rise of Swiss RIAs are signs of Swiss innovation, adaptability and -- gasp -- customer service

Pete Hess will be the asset management czar and David Welling will rule all things RIA in the new framework

Through its Bank of the West subsidiary, Paribas is hiring Prostano to gun for San Francisco rival First Republic -- but questions about the state in which he left Silver Bridge remain

The San Francisco-based robo-advisor has trepidation about the scale it would take to handle the conversions after bad experience

The RIA founded in 2005 made out of spare parts of E&Y and PWC needed a blue chip succession plan from the Beverly, Mass. asset management roll-up

The radioactive grudge match, avidly covered in the press, began when the mortgage-backed bond maestro left TCW in 2009 and is now playing out on DoubleLine's $46.3 billion flagship fund

Now at $21 billion, Vanguard Personal Advisor Services is cannibalizing as a segmentation strategy and emphasizing new technology that edges it toward a more robo-centric, less call center-oriented model

The deep-in-Texas manager is lending index help to the Boston giant but dodging cannibalization and channel conflict

With $1-billion RIA firms abounding, the New Jersey lawyer breaks away legal talent from Wall Street to address a blizzard of change

ALTS, DarcMatter, Crystal Capital Partners, Aequitas Capital, CAIS, iCapital, HedgeCoVest are out to create a market -- not quite as dirt cheaply as classic robo-advisors

Know the law, sure, but more importantly treat the smartest, most creative employees as the valuable assets they are

The embattled Wellesley, Mass.-based ETF manager filed Chapter 11 to make a sale contingent on transitioning its remaining $5 billion of managed assets

In all-out blog war, Adam Nash accuses Betterment of 'payday lending' and Jon Stein decries Wealthfront's cynical 'hatchet job'

The founder of the Newport Beach bond giant says his former firm's supposed practice is just another form of leverage that would increase velocity of the unravelling process in the event of a run on assets

With $325 million in revenues, the jumbo New York roll-up seeks to assuage a host of liquidity challenges

The Chicago event's social media center was once a lonely place and RIAs didn't know a hashtag from tic-tac-toe

Tom Bradley is cobbling together Amerivest and its $11 billion AUM adding iRebal and Morningstar and tasking engineers with bringing the robo aspects of the site up to snuff

Doug Hodge and Dan Ivascyn walked a tight rope that left usual skeptics still skeptical