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SMArtX issues its own press release one day ...

SMArtX issues its own press release one day ...

June 26, 2024 - Daily Newsletter for RIABiz subscribers

GETTING SMART
Dan Phillips [Northern Trust photo]: I’m excited to be a part of the rapidly ev…
The West Palm Beach, Fla., TAMP had the Chicago company as a white knight customer and VC backer but the vendor relationship might be in peril, analysts say
44 minutes ago Brooke Southall and Rogers Crowley

Just a day after Morningstar reported deal news that could subtract $12 billion from SMArtX's AUA, the West Palm Beach software company issued its own release about a big-time hire to lead it to smarter pastures.

QUICK PUNT
Daniel Needham: Our strategy is always a thesis.
Morningstar nets a cash windfall, a better distribution deal, and it reduces conflicts with its clients, but SMArtX is the likely loser, which will no longer administer Morningstar's TAMP assets.
Monday 6.24.24 Oisin Breen

Morningstar's eye-opening sale of its TAMP's $12-billion book of business to AssetMark signals the end of a two-year run at cobbling together software and research into a TAMP for RIAs and IBD reps.

THEN LIFE HAPPENED
Sheryl Garrett: I got called an idiot.
Members are broadening the business model, with her blessing; Garrett will retain a board seat and focus on raising fruits and vegetables on her Arkansas farm
Friday 6.21.24 Lisa Shidler

Sheryl Garrett has just sold the Garrett Planning Network (GPN) while saving her soul, which has been severely tested by tragedy for the past eight years.

TRIAL BY FIRING
Vanguard's Buckley is exiting as CEO right as draconian new anti-phone policies…
Investors who 'excessively rely' on telephone calls may first face longer hold times and pay fees for overburdening call centers after the $9-trillion manager amended its brokerage compact with new terms
Wednesday 6.19.24 Oisin Breen

Brooke's Note: My guess is that this gobsmacking set of legal clauses in the new Vanguard contract will, in retrospect, be the high point of the seeming absurdity at the grand old Malvern, Pa., fund company. The provisions, especially No. …

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