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Vanguard Group is a major asset manager known for low-cost index funds and ETFs, managing trillions in retirement and investment assets.
Gallagher's survey of 3,717 US employers found that 5% offer a formal emergency savings program. Vanguard's separate data show hardship 401(k) withdrawals rising, and neither firm's numbers settle what is driving them.
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SEI hired Kristie Edling-Day from LPL Financial to run technology and product at a firm reporting about $2.1 trillion in assets. CEO Ryan Hicke spoke as much about scale and technical debt as about AI, and said AI spending sits inside the existing technology budget.
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Fidelity will require RIAs already on its custody platform to hold at least $100 million there by June 30, 2027, or leave. AdvizorPro data counts about 1,150 firms below that line, The Daily Upside reported, while Fidelity puts the number at a few hundred.
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Vanguard says 51% of its 401(k) participants earning $150,000 or more maxed out last year, down from 60% in 2018. For employers, the open question is whether senior staff are leaving the plan or trimming what they defer above the company match, and the one case reported in detail is a trim.
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RQD's $74 million Bain-led raise was focused on international clearing, Datos Insights analysts say, as Fidelity moves to drop smaller RIAs. Fidelity's July 2027 cutoff at $100 million held with it gives a lift to an RQD adviser business of roughly 50 clients.
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Fidelity's plan to drop custody clients under $100 million has Schwab, Axos and Betterment courting advisors who have to move assets by June 30, 2027. The only offer with published terms loses value each month an advisor waits.
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Vanguard says the share of $150,000-plus earners in its plans hitting the 401(k) max fell to 51% from 60% in 2018 as limits and incomes rose. Planners say savers who keep the employer match are sending the next dollar to Roth IRAs and brokerage accounts, so the advice now turns on where the money sits.
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Cerulli Associates and Morningstar found 53.4% of advisors who don't prioritize wealth growth rank help converting 401(k) participants a top-three need. Recordkeepers are courting the same savers, so an advisor who turns away small accounts risks the sponsor and the eventual rollover.
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Bond ETFs and funds took in $26.4 billion in the five days through Oct. 1, a week when the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.35%, its highest since April 2002. Vanguard's Joyce Huang says most of the recent buying sits at the short end, where savers get yield with little exposure to further rate rises.
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France's five-year default swaps rose to 81 basis points on Friday as its 10-year yield hit 4.989%, the highest since 2002. Macquarie's Thierry Wizman calls outright default unlikely but puts the odds of a budget-straining National Rally presidency near 50%.
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Shareholders approved about 80% of 2026 Texas reincorporation proposals, Pay Governance found, though ISS and Glass Lewis opposed nearly all of them. Support varied by company, so a board weighing the move needs a case built on its own ownership and pay record.
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More than 80% of 401(k)s default into mostly cap-weighted target-date funds that buy more of the Magnificent Seven, about 30% of the S&P 500, as they grow. At Amazon, a paper gain on Anthropic supplied almost $17 billion of nearly $30 billion in first-quarter net income.
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Pay Governance found just 19% of S&P 500 pay plans opposed by both ISS and Glass Lewis failed in 2026, down from 50% in 2022. The weight now sits with the five largest asset managers, whose own voting frameworks backed pay 95.6% of the time.
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The largest acquisition in Vanguard's history is a distribution deal with a second target: the net interest income rival custodians earn on client cash.
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Claude for Financial Advisors integrates 11 wealth and asset management platforms, with Schwab Advisor Services the only custodian among them. Advisors who adopt it pay Anthropic for licenses, and Schwab's connectors arrive in the fourth quarter.
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Entrepreneur's September 2026 profile has the Main Street Millionaire author warning that a buyer who copies the wrong operator will build a disaster. Her case for buying laundromats is unchanged.
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David Booth told The Daily Upside that neither mutual funds nor ETFs are inherently superior, and the work that made his $1.1 trillion firm a top active ETF manager was a regulatory petition plus a run of fund conversions.
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Interactive Brokers is selling advisors published pricing, no custody fees and no ticket charges, while declining to say how much advisory money it actually holds, which leaves the wedge visible and its results unmeasurable.
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TradePMR will not quote from a rate card, and it reopens each negotiated rate once a year, because the line Robinhood is underwriting is net deposits from the advisor channel rather than custody fees. The referral volume that would settle it is undisclosed.
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Terms are undisclosed and the close is still conditional, so the only firm figure is the advisor count, 6,500, set against a reported price above $4bn. Jason Wenk says a cash-management agent follows within a year.
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