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LPL offers new custody service

The largest IDB will allow RIAs to hold fee-based assets with outside custodians; it's also rolling out its own custody platform for RIAs later this year.

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  • April 21, 2008

Custodians target Bear advisers

Attention, registered investment advisers who keep assets at Bear Stearns: The big custodians are out to bag you.

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Automating saves bucks, says study

Brokerage firms blithely doing mutual fund and annuity transactions by hand are paying a far greater cost than they realize, according to a report published today by Aite group LLC of Boston.

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Efforts to bolster bank’s appeal to advisers

Charles Schwab Corp. is off to a good start at peddling home loans and insured deposits to its brokerage customers, but it remains to be seen whether the fledgling banking effort will be a big hit.

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Soundness of Schwab’s play for research arm questioned

Charles Schwab Corp. is making another push to graft a big brain onto its athletic body as an earlier effort sputters.

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Technology spending growth takes baby steps

The Nasdaq Composite Index is pushing 2000 again, but real technology growth is much more restrained, Silicon Valley…

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New hire’s Capital idea: Target high-end advisers

Matthew D. Mason III thinks of his recent stint at SEI Private Trust Co. in Oaks, Pa., as…

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Latest fund probe: Selective disclosure

The next big shoe to drop on the mutual fund industry may be masquerading as a slipper in…

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Harris Trust breathes new life into MyCFO

My goodness, MyCFO lives. Harris Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago quietly scooped up the majority of the…

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Schwab’s separates success a warm-up

Now nobody stands between Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. and the wirehouses in the managed-accounts business. But the…