RIAs

The deal underlines the bank’s focus on Folio's clearing and custody capabilities, as well as its 450 RIAs.

The wirehouse is also tweaking pay related to cash solutions for clients.

The Boston-based boutique oversees the assets of roughly 140 full- service clients and 800 individual households.

The custodian is upping the number of scholarships set aside for women and people of color.

Orion, Riskalyze and AdvisorPeak hope to offer a replacement to TradeWarrior, which will close on Dec. 31.

More clients are also looking for financial advice within the custodian’s retail channel, which offers a robo advisor and full-service wealth management arm.

Advisors will face a drastically changed industry landscape and Schwab, already an industry leader, will play an even more outsized role in the marketplace.

This year’s report on advisor compensation shows how RIAs and IBDs are attracting, retaining and rewarding talent.

In a bid to attract clients left out by AUM fees, IBDs are enabling advisors to take approaches first made popular in the full RIA channel.

Coronavirus has accelerated trends in advisor compensation as firms move to an ensemble model and enhance their benefits packages.