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News Stories Archives - Since 1998
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Week In Preview, May 5 - 11
This week, the teams at ALFI, AMG, Citywire, Expect Miracles, MFDF, Voya, and WE will host events...
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Monday, May 5, 2025
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Morgan Stanley Builds 5 Free MFs, But ...
A money center bank's asset management team is rolling out a new suite of mutual funds, exclusively for use by one arm of its wealth management business...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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April Fools For Fundsters
A veteran asset management industry consultant and his team offer up some laughs with their annual "news" roundup for April Fools' Day...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025
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Reader Rating: 5
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Week In Preview, March 31 - April 6
This week, the teams at ICI, IDC, Informa, and MFDF are hosting events...
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Monday, March 31, 2025
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Week In Preview, February 24 - March 2
This week, the teams at Citywire, Expect Miracles, IDC, IMEA, MFDF, MMI, Nicsa, and WE are hosting events...
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Monday, February 24, 2025
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At a Gotham AM, a 1YO Team's MFs Near $5.4B, And ...
UPDATED | The new team also recently made another senior addition to their ranks...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2025
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Stumm Completes a $380MM-AUM Pair of Adoptions, And ...
A third adoption deal is expected to close in about three months. All three deals involve funds from the same multinational asset manager, which becomes the adoptees' subadvisor...
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Thursday, November 21, 2024
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IMPACT 2024 Is Schwab's Changing of the Guard
Nearly 5,000 people have converged on the RIA custodian's former hometown for the three-day conference, now in its 34th year...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
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Week In Preview, October 7 - October 13
This week, the teams at Alger, BlackRock, BNY Mellon, Expect Miracles Foundation, ICI, J.P. Morgan, MFDF, WE, and WealthManagement.com will host events...
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Monday, October 7, 2024
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In 2025, an Ex-Chief of a $1.2T-AUM AM Will Take Over Its Parent
A former PM has been appointed as the next CEO of a publicly traded brokerage...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
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A $148MM-AUM Liquid Alt Fund Turns 20
The subadvised mutual fund comes in two flavors and is powered by a charity-owned subadvisor...
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Friday, September 13, 2024
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Focused On Family Offices, an MA Startup Plants ETF #1, And ...
Near Boston, a new shop's team is entering the ETF space with one fund and preparing to launch another...
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Monday, September 9, 2024
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Fixed Income Drives Voya's $8.3B Turnaround
A publicly traded firm's $389-billion-AUMA asset management arm got a big flows boost last month...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
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Teaming Up, a Georgia Boutique Adds ETF #2
The new, actively managed fund debuted yesterday, with help from a familiar pair of allies...
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Tuesday, July 30, 2024
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A SoCal Fund Firm Sails Into the ETF Space, And ...
The tactical quant shop's team is launching their first four ETFs...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024
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Victory Is Officially Engaged to Its Biggest Target Yet
David Brown and his team are preparing to move forward on a deal first publicly proposed three months ago...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2024
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The Answer to Your ETF AUM Problem Starts With Marketing
A marketing ally to fundster offers pointers to folks looking to make a splash with new ETFs...
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Monday, July 8, 2024
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Week In Preview, June 17 - June 23
This week, the teams at IMEA, MFDF, and MMI are hosting events...
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Monday, June 17, 2024
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Targeting Income, an Ohio RIA Rolls Into the ETF Space
A Buckeye State firm is teaming up to debut its first ETF...
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Monday, June 10, 2024
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In SoCal, a $6.2B-AUM AM Teams Up For Its 1st ETFs
A 56-year-old asset manager now subadvises a pair of actively managed ETFs...
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Friday, June 7, 2024
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2 B-D Leaders' New Shop Enters the ETF Sector
A Sunshine State fund firm's team is rolling out their first offering...
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Monday, April 29, 2024
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Brown Preps a $104B-AUM Addition to Victory
The proposed deal would also bring the publicly traded multi-boutique a new strategic partner across the pond...
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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After 37 Years, a Fund Firm's RIA Channel Founder Exits
The executive held a variety of leadership roles at a recently acquired Beantown fund firm...
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Monday, April 8, 2024
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With a New Ally, a Subadvised Firm Targets Munis
Updated | An insurer's mutual fund team is partnering up to power a trio of new offerings...
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Thursday, February 8, 2024
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A $573B-AUM AM Is Phasing Out Multiple Brands
A publicly traded, multinational asset manager's team is preparing to consolidate their U.S. branding...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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A Cali Fund Firm Turns 35
The now-publicly-traded asset manager entered the mutual fund space in 1996...
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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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A 20-Year-Old Growth Equity Shop Sells
The deal is expected to close by January 31...
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
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12 of MFWire's Most Popular 2023 Stories
Here's a glimpse at what MFWire readers checked out in this crazy year...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
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Within a $131B-AUM RIA Aggregator, a Boutique Designs an ETF
The new, actively managed fund debuted on Monday, with help from an ETF-in-the-box shop...
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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Invesco and Russell Win Big In Texas
A trade group and an investing publication give out their 15th annual awards...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2023
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An ESG Activist Investor Finalizes His ETF Exit
A 52-year-old fund firm in SoCal has snapped up the $682-million-AUM, three-ETF business, as expected...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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21 Years Later, an ETF Strategist Regains Its Independence
The 33-year-old, $3-billion-AUM firm is now 100-percent employee-owned...
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
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One Putnam Succeeds Another Putnam's Successor
A 49-year-old fund firm's CEO passes the reins to a familiar scion...
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
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Baird Bets On a Liquid Alts Shop, And ...
Updated | Watch for the Midwestern financial services firm to increase its new stake down the line, without becoming the target's majority owner...
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Thursday, September 7, 2023
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BondBloxx's O'Donnell Hires In Philly
The new hire's most immediate past position was at BlackRock...
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Monday, July 31, 2023
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Brian Brings an NY Key Accounts Vet to a CA Shop
This New York-based veteran is reporting to a familiar face...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2023
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A Blockchain Creator Joins the Mutual Fund World
Corrected | A startup RIA with a famed founder from the blockchain world is seeking to shake up the mutual fund industry...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
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Fewer Fundsters Plan Channel Tweaks In 2023
New research from an industry consulting firm shows where national accounts executives plan to adjust their channel coverage. Yet the vast majority of firms say they plan no changes at all...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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The Mountain Comes to Bob. Jenny Makes the Deal
Franklin gains a strategic partnership and is poised to snap up a $169-billion-AUM fund firm.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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Will the Mountain Come to Bob?
What are the Desmarais thinking? Word is that a sale of a Beantown fund firm is close...
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Friday, May 26, 2023
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Reader Rating: 5
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A Florida CPA/RIA Enters the ETF Biz
Its first ETF is an actively managed, tactical, focused equity fund...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
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Jenny Bets On a Managed Options Specialist
The acquired firm's three partners are staying on board with Franklin, leading a new unit within the firm's product solutions division...
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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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An NFL Alum Is Buying Into the ETF Biz
A footballer-turned-mortgage-banker agrees to buy a shop that runs and subadvises mutual funds...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2023
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12 of MFWire's Most Popular Stories of 2022
Here's a glimpse at what MFWire readers checked out in this crazy year...
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Friday, December 30, 2022
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Morgan Stanley Brings on an ETF Marketer
The new hire previously hailed from Columbia Threadneedle...
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Friday, November 25, 2022
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An Ex-Pimco EVP Co-Founds an RIA
He's teaming up with a former partner at a longtime Pimco ally...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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A New Prez Takes Over a $13B-AUM Fund Fam
A 16-year company veteran is passing the reins and leaving the firm...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022
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$504MM In 21 Months
A $121.1B-AUM fund firm's team is celebrating a big milestone for an interval fund...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022
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Reader Rating: 1
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Coming Soon For a Quant Startup: Hiring, Subadvising, and More ETFs
The active manager's first three funds launched last month. One of the three co-founders talks about what's next...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
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Fundsters Golf to Support DEI
90 golfers participated in the charity fundraiser, and additional industry insiders attended the associated dinner...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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What an $81B-AUM Firm's New Chief Is Hunting
Watch for this multiboutique to continue taking majority stakes in asset managers with differentiated capabilities...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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A $322B-AUM Firm Will Buy In CT
The deal is expected to close next quarter, and pricing and terms have not been publicly disclosed...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
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A Distro Leader Retires From a $65B-AUM Firm
His duties will be handled by other members of the asset manager's management team...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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Will a $4.1B-AUM Fund Firm Sell?
Two hedge funds offer to snap up a publicly traded mutual fund and ETF shop...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
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Week In Preview, May 31 - June 5
This week, the teams at AB, Deutsche Bank, Informa, and Irish Funds are hosting events...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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A 58-Year-Old Shop Enters the ETF Biz
A wealth management RIA with about $20 billion in AUM (mostly from high net worth investors) is rolling out an actively-managed, high-conviction, translucent ETF...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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Barclays Teams Up With a $134B-AUM Fund Firm
The British bank will help its new ally with that ally's new ETF business...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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A $160B-AUM Firm Adds Two Bond Funds
The pair of launches are the first from an investment team that joined the fund firm last year...
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Friday, April 8, 2022
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April Fools For Fundsters
A veteran asset management industry consultant and his team offer up some laughs with their annual "news" roundup for April Fools' Day...
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Friday, April 1, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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Ned Johnson Dies
The former Fidelity chief was 91 years old...
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Thursday, March 24, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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Fidelity Leads As 97 Fund Firms Win Big
An industry research organization's team reveals the winners of their 2022 fund awards...
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Thursday, March 10, 2022
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A New RIA Sails Into the ETF Biz
The startup's first fund is an active strategy focused on the U.S. residential real estate market...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2022
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An Ally to Nearly 50 Asset Managers Rebrands
The two-year-old TPM's network of firms has more than $235 billion in combined AUM...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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Reader Rating: 5
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Three Years In, a $29MM Pair Transforms
Updated | An institutitonal Midwestern asset manager's team converts their mutual funds into ETFs...
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Monday, March 7, 2022
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ETFs: Not Your Grandfather's Mutual Fund
Two readers contemplate generational challenges and opportunities in fund marketing...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022
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Harbor Gains SVPs on Opposite Coasts
The new hires both join the Chi-Town fund firm's distribution team...
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Friday, February 11, 2022
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A $78B-AUM Multi-Boutique's M&A Strat Targets Four Areas
The five-boutique group is poised to add a sixth, which is expected to boost its AUM to about $90 billion...
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Thursday, February 10, 2022
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A Product Strat SVP Joins a $102B-AUM Firm
The executive most recently spent nearly 11 years with Allianz Global Investors...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2022
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The Current State of Martech Stacks at Asset Managers
Two readers weigh in with an update on the industry's changing use of marketing technology...
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Monday, January 24, 2022
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Two Fund Firms Invest In a PowerShares Vet's Direct Indexer
The Bay Area startup started in 2020, and their mission is to democratize access to custom index SMAs through FAs...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
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Where Will Allspring Expand Under Sullivan?
The freshly independent asset manager's chief talks about what's next for the $587-billion-AUM firm now that it doesn't have "multiple masters."..
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021
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A 21-Year-Old RIA Enters the ETF Biz
The $400-million-AUM firm's debut fund combines a pair of tactical strategies...
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Friday, December 10, 2021
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A Texas Fund Firm Seals a $65MM Deal
The acquisition brings the multiboutique its 11th boutique..
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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500 Fundster Volunteers, 35 Committees
A 59-year-old industry trade group kicks off its virtual annual conference...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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A $4.1T-AUM Titan Is Hiring Thousands, But ...
Most of the new roles will not be investment ones...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021
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A $9B-AUMA Tactical Fixed Income Trio Gains a Chief
The new hire will be the first-ever CEO for the group, which includes a mutual fund shop, plus a model portfolio shop and a retail WM RIA...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021
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A $100B-AUM AM's Wealth Channel Chief Passes the Reins
The exec is retiring after 35 years in the industry. A 20-year industry and NFL alum is taking his place...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
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Embracing the Hybrid — Digital Engagement For a Post-Covid World
A readers discusses the new, hybrid WFH work environment as many folks mix home and office time...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2021
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iM Global Invests In a $14.6B-AUM Shop
The deal is the European firm's second U.S. deal of 2021. They now back seven boutiques, including six on this side of the pond...
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Monday, August 2, 2021
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So You Want to Launch an ETF
Several allies to fundsters offer tips to those looking to enter the exchange-traded side of the business...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
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Vanguard and BlackRock Bet On a Pair of Startups
The world's largest fund firm is buying a five-year-old firm, while the world's largest asset manager is investing in a different...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021
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After 34 Years With Franklin, a Senior Exec Joins a Faith-Based Shop
The new hire serves as the religiously managed mutual fund firm's director of strategic planning...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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Will a $345B-AUM AM Chief Find Simple Excellence In More M&A?
A publicly traded, multinational asset manager's chief talks about industry consolidation, active management's prospects, and more...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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A $1.7B-AUM Fund Family Merges Into a Sibling
The deal, which will include fund mergers and a close, is expected to close in Q4...
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Friday, May 7, 2021
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Two Years In, a Five-Fund Shop Reaches Out
An RIA is expanding the distribution scope of his subadvised mutual fund family...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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What a Two-Year-Old Acquirer Is Hunting For
So far, the fund firm has bought 12 funds, and it now has about $700 million in AUM...
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Friday, April 9, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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A $47B-AUMA Firm's Board Grows to Seven
This mutual fund firm's board now includes four independent directors...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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April Fools For Fundsters
A veteran asset management industry consultant and his team offer up some laughs with their annual "news" roundup for April Fools' Day...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021
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An Acquirer Finds Its Foundational U.S. Centerpiece
Watch for the firm to take minority stakes in more boutiques, too...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
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A European AM Network Buys a $4B-AUM U.S. Fund Firm
The deal is expected to close in Q2 2021...
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Tuesday, March 9, 2021
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At a $146B-AUM Shop, a New Channel Chief Taps a Service Leader
The new hire at the Lone Star State firm hails from the Denver area...
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Monday, March 8, 2021
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A Kudu-Backed Multiboutique Builds an AM Incubator
A veteran asset management chief will lead the new venture...
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Friday, March 5, 2021
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Reader Rating: 4
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From Platform Chief, to Fund Marketer: A Multi-Channel Vet Takes Over a TAMP
The exec first joined the firm nearly seven years ago...
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Friday, February 26, 2021
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Sullivan Resurfaces As PE Agrees to a $2.1B Acquisition
A pair of private equity firms will spin out a $603-billion-AUM asset manager while keeping a key alliance...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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A Midwestern FA Hunts For RIAs to Power ETFs
A new ally launched its first ever ETF last month...
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Thursday, February 11, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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Post-Transition, a Tactical PM Seeks a Strategic Partner
A veteran liquid alts entrepreneur is looking for a distribution ally...
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Thursday, February 4, 2021
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Reader Rating: 3
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An Alts Giant Circles an $809MM Fund Firm
The deal is expected to close later in Q1 2021...
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Friday, January 29, 2021
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A 27-Year-Old Firm's New CEO Picks a Distro Chief
The freshly promoted exec has 17 years at the mutual fund firm and its parent...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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A $23.1B-AUMA Shop Sells
A publicly traded acquirer north of the border buys a Midwestern asset and wealth management shop...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Reader Rating: 5
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Two PE Firms May Buy a $607B-AUM Asset Manager
The rumored bidding partners are not strangers to the asset management business...
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Friday, January 15, 2021
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