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Martin Flanagan: Invesco has a long history of providing advisors with the tools and digital solutions they need ... through a broad range of active, passive and alternative capabilities.
December 16, 2019 at 10:56 PM

Andy Rachleff is staying the course on a minimum viable product philosophy that has benefits -- and embarrassments.

Wealthfront is again forced to disclose a bad mistake --testing how far the move-fast, break-things -then-apologize culture can go

The Redwood City robo issues erroneous 1099 data in 2017 that it just discovered. It happened around the time it dumped Apex.

October 19, 2019 at 4:13 AM

Raj Udeshi: Here's a seven-figure deal I just beat Blackrock on.

HiddenLevers' Raj Udeshi takes victory lap after nabbing Focus Financial account: 'We dropped a bomb in BlackRock's backyard;' But it's just a battle not the war, analysts say

The founder's analytics software firm had to beat out Aladdin but the reward is a doubling of assets and $1-million-plus contract

March 27, 2019 at 9:41 PM

Phil Snow: “Distributed architecture allows us to deploy a lot more desks at a lower price point.

After winning Merrill Lynch, FactSet CEO Phil Snow is challenging Big Data for downmarket RIAs, but convincing them to buy a box is an up-sell nightmare

FactSet scored its largest deal ever this August, landing the 15,000-strong Merrill Lynch wealth management arm; Next, CEO Phil Snow is targeting RIAs, but they'll be a much harder audience to undercut than the terminal-using crowd at institutions

September 12, 2018 at 8:08 PM

David Ireland: We started with Advent and Black Diamond integrations, then APX … now we're talking with other [SS&C] portfolio systems.

As Salentica settles into life as SS&C's fair-haired CRM, downsides of being a sheltered software child are also apparent, critics say

Black Diamond and Advent are still in reach but the firm's appeal to smaller fry in need of low pricing is more limited

May 15, 2018 at 5:26 PM

Brian McLaughlin: I wouldn't say we're directly targeting a go against a Salesforce, [But] from serving a lot of smaller advisors and firms, we are seeing a shift to larger AUM firms.

Downmarket Redtail hustles at 'crazy pace' to steal march upmarket as CRM rival Junxure wires merger and Salesforce relaunches as an off-the-rack product

The Sacramento-based CRM firm moves to 'Transaction Alley' in Atlanta from the Georgia 'burbs to attract urbane engineers

May 10, 2018 at 9:00 PM

Alexa von Tobel will keep her title with the relaunch of LearnVest but her idealistic mission may or may not survive.

Why exactly Northwestern Mutual bought a digital darling for $250 million, shut it down, orphaned its customers and declared progress

When the Milwaukee-based mega-insurer relaunches in six months, the one aspect certainly subtracted from the mix will be the cash-draining 8,000 mass market customers

May 9, 2018 at 9:23 PM

Eric Clarke: Brian [Hamburger] is right. If you don't have a culture of compliance, it's going to be difficult.

After Orion user conference, CEO Eric Clarke greenlights new software layer -- spearheaded by his general counsel

RIAs told horror stories to the Omaha software firm in Phoenix about SEC compliance -- encouraged by presentation by NorthStar's Kylee Beach -- and it fell on receptive ears this time

March 27, 2018 at 11:50 PM

MIchael Kitces: Do the math.

After PayPal demurs, Michael Kitces and Alan Moore launch online payments firm for RIAs

Advisors and two Missoula, Mont. angels will fund AdvicePay for increased staffing to sell and service software so that advisors can do billable hours without triggering a custody audit

January 25, 2018 at 7:41 PM

Marty Bicknell: Someone in the audience can even come in and out-bid one of us, too.

Five RIA principals with $60 billion of combined AUM form ScratchWorks as 'publicity stunt' and serious effort to fund fintech startups

With Fidelity Investments as sponsor, Barron's hiring the hall and Marty Bicknell cracking the whip, an RIA 'Shark Tank' will bow in Orlando

November 3, 2017 at 10:09 PM

Kevin Knull: Despite frigid temperatures, an old sports injury, and fluid in my lungs from acute mountain sickness, we made it to the summit in 6 hours and 9 minutes.

Talent exodus at MoneyGuidePro revealed by posting from Mount Kilimanjaro includes two Knulls

The big execu-shuffle may reflect influx of power players into the business of financial planning software -- perhaps hottest of RIA technology categories

April 7, 2017 at 8:03 PM

Joe Duran: This is the most single important thing I have done in my career.

Framing it as a wildly disruptive 3,300-basis-point fee on de novo revenues, Joe Duran's United Capital digital reboot is apparently raking in RIA assets and revenues

The charismatic CEO's launch of FinLife Partners -- with unabashed Fidelity support -- is in effect selling revenues to advisors but taking a risk on their success

March 28, 2017 at 7:40 PM

Eric Clarke: When we did the agreement with TRX we knew there would be key learnings we could pick up along the way.

The four-year ordeal Orion's president underwent to launch Eclipse -- a sprint to stay in the race with Tamarac and Black Diamond for rebalancing

Eric Clarke tried to build, failed, bought, but kept on building until he got Amazon-ensconsed Eclipse

February 28, 2017 at 2:31 AM

Andy Rachleff: You know what? It’s going to keep getting better. Because software is better than people

Andy Rachleff blasts flesh-and-blood advisors -- even planners -- as Wealthfront returns to offense in robo game after losing ground under former QB Adam Nash

The Redwood City robo's founder and CEO sneers at the traditional retirement planning process even as Wealthfront concedes it's still chasing the essential snark of automated advice: artificial intelligence

February 24, 2017 at 5:33 PM

John Rourke: The name of the game is 10-person startups actually having a chance of taking down huge, established players.

VCs back Wealthbox with another $6 million as improbable play to upend CRM giants like Salesforce, Microsoft and Redtail by 'Facebooking' its look and shanghai-ing data from LinkedIn

CEO John Rourke recognizes that CRM and social media are birds of a feather and he is starting to make his startup fly with the power and simplicity of the Silicon Valley giants

February 13, 2017 at 8:22 PM

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