Bolstered by VC funding, Compound mixes human advice with a technology approach.

In some cases, applicants claimed they’d gained years of experience in just a few days, or that their annual incomes increased less than one day after a prior application had been denied.

The famously anti-human advice platform is being purchased by UBS for $1.4 billion.

The deal will give UBS $27 billion more in assets and over 470,000 more clients in the United States.

The Massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth said the alleged actions by Vanguard and others left smaller investors vulnerable to increased risk and larger tax liabilities.

New strategic partnership with The Retirement Advisor University will build an omnichannel platform designed to bring wealth management and financial planning to an increased number of retirement plan participants.

Informa and WealthManagement.com’s partnership with The Retirement Advisor University aims to educate and empower retirement plan advisors, plan participants.

The move signals the escalation of the convergence of wealth, retirement and benefits at work.

Merchant provided capital to become a minority investor in Southwestern Investment Group, as well as the debt facility for the principals and their advisors to buy their shares from the hybrid RIA's parent company.