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Summary: Though initially slow to gather investor assets, low-cost robo-advisors have begun to accumulate an impressive amount over the past year or so. The largest, Wealthfront, just topped $2 billion under management. More impressive, big platform providers like Fidelity and Envestnet have bought or cut deals with robos as the backbone for consumer or institutional offerings.
Added on July 2015 in M&A Issues
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Summary: A half dozen financial advisers from Barclays PLC’s U.S. wealth-management group, including its former head, have left the firm to form a multi-billion-dollar independent practice with national ambitions.
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Summery: Summer has finally arrived, ushering in some welcome rest – and hopefully some time for a good book. Advisors and other wealth management execs share their top picks for planners. These titles cover all the bases, from practice management and leadership development to behavioral finance and personal finance.
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Summary: Eric Roberge dedicated three years to helping an adviser develop a business he expected to take over one day. He quit, though, when the adviser offered him a handshake promise instead of a written succession plan that spelled out his future with the firm.
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Summary: There comes a time in every growing advisory firm's life when the owner has to stop managing a practice and start running a business. Adviser Gerard Klingman explains his process for shifting to professional management