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Aug 27, 2026
Vanguard Acquires Altruist: What It Means for Advisors and the Industry
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4:36Louis DiamondHOST
You really had an oligopoly between Schwab and Fidelity.
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4:40Louis DiamondHOST
Sure, there's a number of compelling, say, more boutique custodians, whether Pershing Advisor Solutions, Goldman Sachs, which was another newer entrant to custody, LPL, Raymond James, First Clearing, and a number of others are also in the space.
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4:56Louis DiamondHOST
But it is a market that is dramatically dominated by the two largest players.
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5:01Louis DiamondHOST
So I think this matters because you add an amazing, venerable brand and reputation of Vanguard with this scrappy upstart custodian.
16 MINS LATER
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20:52Louis DiamondHOST
I have no idea.
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20:53Louis DiamondHOST
I'm also excited to see, we'll call it the tech face-off between Altruist and Robinhood.
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20:59Louis DiamondHOST
Robinhood acquired Trade PMR, which is on the Wells Fargo first clearing platform and is in the process of launching an RA custodian themselves.
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21:08Louis DiamondHOST
So now you have, I think, two pretty incredible tech forward custodians really trying to gain market share.
27 Million Clients Walk Into an RIA
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28:44Michael BatnickHOST
My last question is, how does the operational integration work? How much of a pain in the ass is it for the advisors to get integrated with the platform and vice versa on the client side?
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28:56Robb BaldwinGUEST
Okay, well, real simple, just so you're still aware, we still clear all of our business, 100% of it today at Wells Fargo First Clearing.
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29:06Robb BaldwinGUEST
Not one nickel is currently custody at Robinhood on the advisory side at this point in time.
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29:12Robb BaldwinGUEST
So while that is being built out to make sure we've done that, which we will have a version of that by the end of this year, I hope, for people to be able to customize our custody at Robinhood with some things, we will always give advisors the choice of where they want to custody, whether it be at Wells Fargo or at Robinhood long-term.