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    Articles published 6/2016


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    JB Sullivan: They never talk about 'volatility' when there are wild swings to the upside.
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    How RIAs took one approach to Brexit and asset managers another -- and why only the latter group has egg on its face

    June 30, 2016 at 8:09 PM

    With the markets virtually even with a week ago, asset managers now need to contend with all those already shopworn webinar ideas that followed their inability to predict the Leave vote

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    Jon Patullo [r.] with Jim Dario: We started here in Texas with nine vendors in 2010 to start the conversation.
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    Alert to Pershing's API move and eMoney's dashboard acumen, TD Ameritrade brings its API partners to Texas to drive home its first-mover advantage

    June 30, 2016 at 12:05 AM

    TD does (almost) Dallas as it announces 100-plus third-party vendor integrations while keeping an eye on the competition

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    Jon Stein [to CNBC]: The only thing I would do differently is I would put a notification in the app and say, 'By the way, we delayed trading right now,.
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    Betterment explains why its Brexit-sparked trading halt on Friday wasn't 'suspended' trading

    June 28, 2016 at 10:43 PM

    The $4.8-billion robo-advisor frames its trading actions in terms of discretionary management of assets but the prerogative it asserts puts RIA clients in a tight spot

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    Kathleen McBride: [Non fiduciaries] want to be able to check off the box and in so doing find ways to work around the rule.
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    DOL rule still has feet tangled in the struggle to define difference between 'suitability' and 'fiduciary'

    June 27, 2016 at 6:26 PM

    Fiduciares keep flunking a definition of useful accountability and the giant brokerage lobby keeps exploiting its 'F'

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    Tom Kimberly: Given the magnitude of today's news and the corresponding market reaction, we have elected to suspend trading during this initial period of increased volatility.
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    Betterment shut down trading post-Brexit to dodge 'trading blindly into extraordinary volatility'

    June 24, 2016 at 7:08 PM

    The New York-based robo takes a 150-minute time-out saying to do otherwise would have been 'irresponsible'

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    Jon Stein: I really don't know about the ... presti-i-i-ige ... of a wirehouse.
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    The inverted reverence dynamic at The In|Vest event and why Bill Crager is so over it

    June 23, 2016 at 6:19 PM

    Tomorrow is here: Wirehouse execs and IBM types play groupies as robo-founders leaned back in their chairs

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    Christopher Norton: This campaign shows they are willing to ... run the type of national campaign these advisors could not execute on their own
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    Schwab wows EXPLORE 2016 crowd with revived bid to advertise RIAs with two magic ingredients: Schwab branding and a budget of 'millions' of dollars

    June 22, 2016 at 7:50 PM

    Though skeptical observers call the effort window dressing, the San Francisco custody giant is incorporating lessons learned from the lackluster RIA-Stands-For-You campaign of 2011

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    Herb Hopwood: Institutional funds are of great interest in the new fiduciary standard world we live in, plus it's the right thing to do.
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    At mostly morose Morningstar conference, mutual fund wholesalers play cards face-up on perma-dislocation -- and the glimmers of hope that innovation provides

    June 21, 2016 at 8:04 PM

    The Chicago conference had a somber feel as it sought answers and as RIAs bemoaned structural impediments to using low-cost institutional retirement funds

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    Bo Lu was adamant that, post-BlackRock, FutureAdvisor remains autonomous and is not a thinly veiled conduit for iShares.
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    The overnight maturation of In|Vest 2016 was like green bananas going straight to brown for some but Joe Duran made sure it bore fruit

    June 20, 2016 at 8:41 PM

    A pure robo, a quasi-robo, an RIA-herder and an insurance man walked onto a panel, riffing on Jon Oliver's scathing fiduciary take

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    Neesha Hathi was coy about whether the 500 RIAs using Schwab's robo have contributed to the 'well over'  $7 billion of assets attributed to it.
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    What Neesha Hathi told the In|Vest 2016 in NYC crowd in her debut as Schwab robo chief -- and how she elicited one gasp from the crowd

    June 17, 2016 at 8:58 PM

    Though declining to offer a glimpse of the future, Hathi surprised with stats showing Schwab is succeeding against the upstart robos with older, less web-savvy customers

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    Bill McNabb mingled at Morningstar conference -- here stopping for a post-speech word with John Rogers, CEO of Ariel Investments
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    Vanguard CEO says: 'We are a technology company' and hints strongly that robo-for-RIAs may be in the offing

    June 16, 2016 at 8:17 PM

    Bill McNabb oversees 3,000 engineers who are willing to pay for 'dry holes' in drilling for the next Shaybah Oil Field of financial advice

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    Joshua Pace: Some advisors have grown so frustrated that they make a change to go to independent custodians. We don't compete on any level with advisors.
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    How an eclectic trio of RIA custodians are willfully gaining ground with snail-like precision -- Part 2 of 3

    June 15, 2016 at 8:08 PM

    Lazarus-like RBC has another new leader, as does Trust Company of America and Shareholders Service Group, which is selling itself as a Pershing reseller of high security, but with more agile service

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    Lorenzo Esparza was not interested in a 'faux-nership' roll-up model, which he says pretends to offer independence but provides little more than a subsidiary existence under a larger RIA platform.
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    Lorenzo Esparza leaves JP Morgan in LA to start Manhattan West with tutelage from Schwab

    June 14, 2016 at 8:29 PM

    Honoring his immigrant parents' wish, he toiled for 10 years as a lawyer at Paramount before staking out ground in a market with few Hispanics

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    Charles Biderman: Our shareholders have expressed disappointment that they would now be forced to accept a different investment strategy.
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    How Charles Biderman hopes to parlay his 'insane' firing by AdvisorShares from his five-star ETF into a win

    June 13, 2016 at 9:04 PM

    TrimTabs' CEO is taking competitve action against the Maryland-based asset manager of $1.1 billion and seeking redemption by luring the investors he served into a startup ETF

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    Skip Schweiss: We contacted each of the three guide services on Mount Shasta, inquiring about guiding our group up the mountain in that time frame. Two of them told us we were crazy.
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    After guides say no to RIA adventurers' proposal to scale Mount Shasta, ankles snapped, teams faded and only a few saw the summit

    June 13, 2016 at 5:26 PM

    The experts said it couldn't -- shouldn't -- be done but 17 advisors and execs from 10 states displayed true RIA mettle on the harrowing climb

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    Mark Tibergien dodges F-Bombs from Julia Louis-Dreyfus -- allowing women to dominate Pershing's grab for change.
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    Spinning 200+ years of legacy culture as a virtue, BNY Mellon uses Pershing INSITE to show its software side, softer side -- as it gets beyond NetX360 and men with a hard-wired approach

    June 10, 2016 at 4:20 PM

    Whether real fire follows these new clouds of smoke remains to be seen but Pershing's open API, robo strategy and feminine revolution project an aura of uplift

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    LPL put four people in a new Washington D.C. office with a criss-crossing legislative agenda in mind.
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    LPL Financial dumps FSI then goes full swank on lobbying office -- but legislative agendas of FSI and LPL don't reveal any divide

    June 8, 2016 at 10:19 PM

    The big broker-dealer stopped paying dues to the Financial Service Institute but it'll pay up for hot offices near the White House

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    Robb Baldwin: Dealing with advisors who require lots of effort with very little assets, you realize that some of the greatest risk you end up facing is from small advisors.
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    The non-Big Four RIA custodians, no longer runts but stunted in growth, are applying tougher love to hobbyist RIAs

    June 7, 2016 at 10:14 PM

    In part one of a three-part series, we examine how seven small custodians -- starting with Trade PMR and Scottrade -- are evolving away from the Utopian model of 100% inclusivity

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    Lou Harvey: One of the ways to attack the reasonableness of the regulation is to allege that it is 'arbitrary and capricious,' which the complaint does repeatedly.
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    Why SIFMA & Co.'s trip to a friendly North Texas court to upend the DOL rule looks more like its Alamo

    June 6, 2016 at 9:47 PM

    Little credence is being afforded anti-DOL rule crowd that is trying to flip the script on who is screwing whom

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    Skip Schweiss: You will be making a decision on a discretionary basis that will increase your compensation and create a conflict of interest, which is prohibited.
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    Skip Schweiss awakens FPA NorCal crowd with must-do DOL laundry list that starts with IRA billing and the need for chief laundering officers

    June 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM

    The regional event in San Francisco with national draw -- even global draw -- gets a guy from Scotland to keep its lofty reputation up there

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    Bill Winterberg: My attorney, Robert Graziano, has documentation for the numbers, revenue and expenses for all three years of T3 Enterprise.
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    As legal battle erupts between Bill Winterberg and Joel Bruckenstein, T3's allegedly wild profits from pay-for-play content get dragged into court of RIA opinion

    June 2, 2016 at 6:39 PM

    In need of a partner when David Drucker retired, Bruckenstein brought in friendly rival Winterberg on a handshake coopetition deal; now Bruckenstein has Brian Hamburger defending him

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    Paul Pagnato: Elliot and Michael did the right thing.
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    After chats with Phyllis Borzi, a flagship HighTower team executes a 'deliberate' breakaway to form a $2.5-billion RIA

    June 1, 2016 at 9:00 PM

    Citing post-DOL-rule concerns about serving their super-rich clientle and hungering for more alternative alternatives, Paul Pagnato and David Karp have ankled the captive brokerage world but are keeping ties to the Chicago roll-up

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