Industry

A private equity firm will help the robo RIA evaluate financing options.

"I don't see a top in valuations," says Marty Bicknell, CEO of Mariner Wealth Advisors.

Two advisors with $136 million in client assets left the wirehouse to join the regional B-D.

The new recruits join from Wells Fargo and Oppenheimer.

It’s rare that advisors leave the Christian-oriented independent firm, a spokeswoman says.

Exencial’s John Burns is looking to buy RIAs and his phone “has been ringing a lot."

Cybersecurity is a “huge, huge, huge issue” for advisory industry, says John Burns of Exencial Wealth Advisors.

Nothing in the 401(k) plan market changes overnight and some caution that while robos may have a valuable role to play in helping prepare employees for retirement, employers need to do their due diligence.

The firm could resurrect its U.S. brokerage business online, analysts say. However, Deutsche executives have said they were unsure about their U.S. plans for automated advice.

Expect an "increasing adversarial relationship between industry and regulators" says MarketCounsel’s Andrew Wels.