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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Week In Preview, April 16-22
The teams at ALFI, InvestmentNews, MFDF, and MFEA are all hosting events this week...
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Monday, April 16, 2018
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CLS and Gemini's PE-Backed Parent Buys a TAMP
This is the firm's first acquisition since a private equity giant bought in three years ago...
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Friday, April 13, 2018
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Week In Preview, April 9-15
Invesco closes a deal, while the teams at AAII NYC, Eaton Vance's Calvert, Tiburon, and Tortoise all host events in the Big Apple...
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Monday, April 09, 2018
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What a $64B Multi-Boutique's Chief Looks For
This asset manager's president talks M&A and distribution expansion...
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Monday, March 19, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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Macquarie IM Keeps M&A Hunting Amid Thoughtful Expansion in the U.S.
Shawn Lytle talks about what's next after the multinational asset manager's latest acquisition...
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
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Fidelity Institutional AUA Rises 18.5 Percent
Within FI, the Boston Behemoth's broker-dealer- and RIA-support unit saw $120 billion in net client inflows. Meanwhile, Fido's asset management biz more than doubled its net inflows, despite net outflows in active equity funds.
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Thursday, March 01, 2018
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As Cetera Reorgs, the Platform Remains Unchanged and an Ex-Fundster Departs
The chief of the indie B-D network is making big changes...
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Friday, February 16, 2018
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Quill Takes Over as UMBFS Shifts
The 22-year company veteran takes the reins of UMB Fund Services from Tony Fischer...
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
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A Gotham ETF Strategist Startup Focuses Distro
The new shop is targeting two channels after launching its debut offerings, in SMA form...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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The SEC Starts a Four-Month, Share-Class-Disclosure Countdown
Avakian and Peikin make an offer to RIAs who haven't disclosed their use of higher-fee share classes...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018
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Week In Preview, January 29-February 4
DAI Partners, the Expect Miracles Foundation, FSI, and TD Ameritrade are all hosting events this week...
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Monday, January 29, 2018
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Eu Creates a Distro Silo Under a 10-Year Allianz Vet
The new unit combines several channels that previously fell under other parts of the multinational asset manager's U.S. distribution efforts...
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Friday, January 26, 2018
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Are Wholesalers Giving Advisors Enough Attention?
In a new survey, advisors hint at wanting more meetings with wholesalers. ..
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
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TD's Fava Hunts For More Model Managers
Eight managers already offer models through the new TD Ameritrade Institutional Platform..
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Friday, January 19, 2018
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Is It Worth Nurturing A Long Term Relationship With Advisors?
New research suggests that asset managers looking to win new business should look to invest in long-term relationships with advisors. ..
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Friday, January 19, 2018
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Franklin Reaches For Better Branding Atmosphere
A NYC agency helps launch a global campaign around this multinational asset manager's philosophy. ..
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
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Putnam Transforms a $4.75B Pair of Funds
The move is a part of "a major strategic initiative" by Bob Reynolds and his team at the Beantown mutual fund shop...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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With a $7.3B-AUM Deal, a Chi-Town Shop's Team Doubles
After absorbing a Denver-based asset manager, the combined firm's new AUM will increase to nearly $20 billion. ..
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Friday, January 12, 2018
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A 30-Year Columbia Vet Helps Launch a Private Wealth Group
He's now part of annuity giant's first efforts in the private wealth and trust channel...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2018
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Reader Rating: 5
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2017's Most Popular MFWire Stories
Here are our most read stories of the year...
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Friday, December 29, 2017
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This MF Startup Aims For 50 People By the End of 2018
A year and a half in, they now work with $10 billion in AUM, including about $1 billion in mutual fund AUM...
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Monday, December 18, 2017
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Yes, RIAs Are Fueling the Discount Broker Boom
The WSJ ponders the importance of independent RIAs to the growth of Schwab and TD, yet largely ignores their two biggest competitors...
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Friday, December 15, 2017
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Under Its First CMO, PGIM Investments Will Take a More Customized, Targeted Approach
Last month Prudential's retail asset management unit hired its first chief marketing officer. Stay tuned for changes...
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Thompson Continues Building Out Allianz's RIA Channel
She's on the hunt for two more external wholesalers...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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RIAs Dodge the Boston Behemoth's Web Woes
Fidelity suffered an online and app outage yesterday, yet systems are back online and the advisors it custodies for were reportedly unaffected...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017
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Fischer Advances a More Holistic View of Schwab's Platforms
A new but familiar face now leads both the mutual fund and ETF OneSource platforms at the RIA custody and discount brokerage giant. Watch for her to find more ways to break down the walls between Schwab's mutual fund and ETF platforms...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2017
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Schwab's Hanson Shifts
The RIA custody giant's mutual fund OneSource supermarket is in new but familiar hands...
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Monday, November 20, 2017
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Impact 2017 Recap
Last week more than 2,000 advisors and their allies gathered in Chitown for Schwab's 27th annual RIA conference...
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Monday, November 20, 2017
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Impact, Day 3 — Awards, Leon Bridges, and More
The 12th annual Impact Awards, a former prime minister, and the final night party are on the agenda today for the giant, RIA-focused conference...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017
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A Ten-Year Neuberger Vet Takes Over Biz Dev For an Alts Shop
An alternative asset manager, based in the Midwest and with $13 billion in AUM, just hired a top key accounts exec...
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Friday, November 03, 2017
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A $250B Alts Shop Buys Most of a Mutual Fund Biz
The multi-part deal amps up the institutional asset manager's liquid offerings and distribution. Meanwhile, one of the sellers will reinvest in its biz to build out again...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017
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The Curse of Common Names
In the age of Google and social media, it's become harder to hide if you have a unique name. Yet it's also become easier to get mistaken for someone else if you have a common name, as an FA in the Midwest discovered this week...
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Thursday, November 02, 2017
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Lytle Shares Macquarie's Potential Acquisition Dreams
The Australian multinational is on the hunt for deals, both in the U.S. and abroad...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Are Your FA Allies About to Get Less Mobile?
A wirehouse giant is dropping out of a 13-year-old treaty that opened the door to less-litigious advisor movement. Will other big B-Ds follow this wire's lead?..
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
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Despite a Delay, Nally Sticks to His NTF ETF Guns
TD Ameritrade is giving RIAs more time to brace for the removal of some popular ETFs from the commission-free platform. Yet the end result will remain the same...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
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TD's NTF ETF Platform Expands, Minus a Giant
The online brokerage and RIA custodian is nearly tripling the number of ETFs available through its commission-free platform. Yet one of the big three ETF shops is no longer a part of the program...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
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OpFunds Teams Up With a PE Giant
The MassMutual-backed mutual fund giant in Gotham is creating a joint venture to give high net worth investors access to a growing, but less-liquid investment space...
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Monday, October 16, 2017
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A 28-Year-Old Administrator Is Now On Base With ETFs
A fund administrator, accountant, and transfer agent launches an advisory shop and debuts its first ETFs...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
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Roberge Consolidates MFS Distro Under a Single Chief
Meanwhile, a 30-year company veteran is stepping back at the Beantown mutual fund shop owned by SunLife...
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Friday, October 06, 2017
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For $1.2B, Marty Flanagan Does It Again
As long rumored, Invesco is buying another ETF business, this time in the U.S...
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Thursday, September 28, 2017
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An Oregon Fund Firm Expands Its Tech Team
A mutual fund entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest is leaning on technology more than traditional wholesalers...
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Monday, September 25, 2017
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Week In Preview, September 25-October 1
eMoney Advisor, FIASI, Fund Intelligence, the ICI, informa, LPL, NAGDCA, the PSCA, and WiPN are all hosting events this week...
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Monday, September 25, 2017
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Follow the Fundsters - September 18, 2017
Hires, fires and the like!..
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Monday, September 18, 2017
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Week In Preview, September 18-24
The fall event season is in full swing...
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Monday, September 18, 2017
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What Advisors Want - Jeff Fishman
An FA to the behind-the-camera folks in Hollywood talks about how asset managers can best work with his firm...
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Friday, September 15, 2017
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Follow the Fundsters - September 12, 2017
Hires, fires and the like!..
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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Moninger Brings a Top RidgeWorth Alum to Eaton Vance
The new hire will focus on the independent broker-dealer channel for the Beantown mutual fund shop...
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Monday, September 11, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Week In Preview, September 11-17
A 401(k) conference gets delayed as Irma batters Florida and Houston recovers from Harvey...
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Monday, September 11, 2017
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Sorry, Fundsters: Fees and Wholesalers Don't Sway RIAs
New research sheds light into what matters, and what doesn't, when it comes to winning advisors over to your asset managers' wares...
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Thursday, September 07, 2017
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Remember F-Squared? The SEC Just Attacked an Old Client
Three years after the highflying ETF strategist's fall from grace, the regulatory agency is accusing an RIA of fraud in its F-Squared-powered book of business...
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Friday, September 01, 2017
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Reader Rating: 4
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Will B-Ds Kill or Keep Direct Fund Biz? Is There a Third Way?
Two firms are teaming up to help broker-dealers and their FAs adapt to a changing environment, without shifting their mutual fund only clients into traditional brokerage accounts...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Follow the Fundsters - August 29, 2017
Hires, fires and the like!..
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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Advisors Still Use More Active Than Passive
MFWire digs into new research from FUSE...
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Friday, August 18, 2017
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A Thematic Startup Sports Its First ETF Launch
The Bay-area shop plans to create more products, too...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017
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Should Fundsters Sweat Fidelity's Rationalization-Lite?
New MFWire research sheds light on how the industry is reacting to big changes at the RIA custodian and broker-dealer clearing giant...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017
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Nally Expands a TDA Institutional MD's Role
Two other TDA institutional execs are also on the rise.....
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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AllianzGI Hires a NSM For Retail Distro
The company has announced the hire of a Nationwide alum.....
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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T. Rowe Expands NTF Distro Through a Key Platform
The Baltimore-based mutual fund shop adds its Investor Class shares to a mutual fund supermarket...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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Post-Strategic Review, Beaulieu Brings Three Senior Execs to Altegris
The liquid alts shop expands its leadership team as part of its evolving strategic priorities.....
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
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Broadridge Buys an Institutional Asset Management Data Specialist
Broadridge expands to combine retail and institutional data analytics. ..
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Tuesday, July 11, 2017
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The Myth of Indexing
As Burton Malkiel himself lends his weight to a new smart beta player, it's worth remembering that investors aren't really passive, even when they own index funds...
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Friday, June 30, 2017
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Levinson Brings a Cohen and Steers Alum to Hartford
The new hire will be focused on growing and strengthening Hartford's B-D relationships.....
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
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These 7 ETF Shops Are Teaming Up With Pershing. Here's Why.
MFWire talks to the firms on new NTF ETF Platform. ..
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Friday, June 23, 2017
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McDonough Builds Out a New OpFunds Institute
The Gotham mutual fund shop's distribution and marketing chief is also hiring in several areas and looking at artificial intelligence...
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Monday, June 19, 2017
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What Will Aaron Rodgers Tell FAs and Fundsters?
After the Pershing team and attendees took over a whole San Diego block last night, this NFL star will take the main stage this morning for the final session of Insite 2017...
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Friday, June 16, 2017
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Reader Rating: 3
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Seven ETF Shops Power a New NTF Platform
A key ally to broker-dealers and RIAs is creating a platform with 120 ETFs out of the gate...
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
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Reader Rating: 3
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Pershing Insite 2017 Begins!
The broker-dealer and RIA clearing and custody ally is gathering FAs and fundsters for its annual conference, this time in SoCal...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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Broadridge Makes an Asset Management Data Alliance
The partnership will bring together global retail and institutional asset management data...
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Monday, June 12, 2017
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Week In Preview, June 12-18
Fundsters in Berlin and SoCal, 401(k) folks in the Big Apple, and deadlines for applying for two awards...
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Monday, June 12, 2017
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Reader Rating: 3
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A Third-Party Marketing Firm Launches a Mutual Fund Newsletter
This company focuses on helping the underdogs in the world of mutual fund investing. Now they aim to take a new approach to helping clients...
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
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Four Veteran Sales Execs Join An Alts Distro Startup
S2K Financial hires four financial veterans to join their team. Steven Kantor, the former global head of Credit Suisse Capital Markets and current CEO of S2K, plans to take product distribution by storm with his team's new approach...
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Thursday, June 01, 2017
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A 27-Year-Old Fixed Income Shop Is Looking For Wholesalers
A San Diego-based firm enters the intermediary market...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
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Family Offices Bet $25MM on a Cyborg Advisor Alliance
Forget roboadvice! With $25 million in a funding, a Silicon Valley startup teams up with a Midwestern advisory firm to create a hybrid...
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Friday, May 26, 2017
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What Will We See From Putnam in Q3?
The Beantown fund firm teams up with a nearby ally and preps a liquid alts trio.....
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017
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Reader Rating: 4
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Sullivan Anoints Sales and Marketing Chiefs at Legg
One exec shifts, three join the executive committee, one leaves and one no longer shares his role. ..
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
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Follow the Fundsters - May 16, 2017
Hires, fires, and the like!..
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
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Brady Hires Thornburg's First Global Distro Chief
An intermediary distribution veteran returns to the mutual fund biz in a top role for the New Mexico-based mutual fund shop...
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Monday, May 15, 2017
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After Adding Two Third-Party Strategists, Pershing Hunts For More
Yet don't expect the BNY Mellon subsidiary to become a supermarket of strategists. ..
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
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This Week In Preview, May 8-14
Events this week include: an MFEA council in Baltimore; ALFI, MMI, and Sohn events in NYC; and P&I events in Dallas and San Francisco...
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Monday, May 08, 2017
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Betterment's Co-Founder Talks to Fundsters
A Betterment cofounder takes the ICI GMM main stage alongside a private bank chief, a mutual fund chief, and a wirehouse bigwig...
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Friday, May 05, 2017
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Will This Empire State MF Shop Transform Instead of Exiting?
A TBD product launch accompanies a mutual fund close. ..
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Monday, May 01, 2017
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Axa Replaces Kraus and Shakes Up AB's Board
AB's CEO and chairman says goodbye, and a new duo fills his shoes. And the publicly-traded asset manager's board is transforming, too...
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Monday, May 01, 2017
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TD Ameritrade Makes a Strategic Deal With DFA
The RIA custodian dramatically cuts the price of trading shares of one mutual fund shop...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
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M* Is Creating a New Asset Manager Marketplace
Kunal Kapoor gives advisors and fundster a glimpse of what the investment research giant is working on next...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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A Midwestern Advisory Firm Enters the Retail Fund Biz
Chicago-based Hedeker Wealth Management launched its first mutual fund...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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A Hays Alum Teams Up With an Asset Allocation Specialist
This vet will have a similar role in his new position, and he's looking for move folks to team up with..
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Friday, April 21, 2017
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A 7-Year-Old RIA Launches its First Mutual Fund
This RIA chose to work with Ultimus Solutions to enter the mutual fund business...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017
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TCA Hunts for More ETF Allies
The independent, Denver-based RIA custodian launched an NTF-like ETF platform...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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A Beantown Shop Builds Advisor Distro
LMCG Investments just hired a managing director of national accounts...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
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ProShares Makes the First Move Away From This Platform
The ETF shop is the first to voluntarily removed itself from Schwab's NTF platform...
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Friday, April 07, 2017
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Follow the Fundsters - April 4, 2017
Hires, fires, and the like!..
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017
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T. Rowe's Larson Triples Down on National Accounts
The platform services chief expands his team with two new hires...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
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A New Player Squeezes into the ETF Market
A Connecticut-based firm powers its first ETF...
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Friday, March 24, 2017
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Truscott Shifts Columbia's RIA Distro
The move comes as a 30-year company veteran is preparing to leave the Ameriprise subsidiary...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017
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Follow the Fundsters - March 15, 2017
Hires, fires, and the like!..
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
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A Year-Old RIA Acquires a $4B Shop
The freshly combined shop may create its own mutual funds...
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Friday, March 10, 2017
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Reader Rating: 5
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Fund Rationalization Fever Spreads Beyond the Wires
Watch for smaller B-Ds to make some tough lineup choices, too, even as fiduciary reg limbo continues...
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Thursday, March 09, 2017
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Who Are the Best Marketers in Asset Management?
As the industry gets more competitive, small firms need to find a marketing focus...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017
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Steinmetz Does a $2.7B Deal
OpFunds is acquiring a West Coast fixed income shop...
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Monday, March 06, 2017
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A 16-Year Goldman Due Diligence Vet Exits
A Goldman gatekeeper has left the firm...
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Friday, March 03, 2017
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