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Dave Welling: Joe [Duran] does a reasonable job but we're further out on the spectrum of integration.

Determined to out-Joe-Duran Duran's United Capital, Dave Welling moves his $12B roll-up's HQ to Denver

As Mercer's torrid growth accelerates, its new CEO will hyper-unify investments and operations, make deals, pit software vendors against each other and hire like crazy

February 14, 2018 at 6:18 PM

Joel Bruckenstein: MoneyGuidePro is looking to grow into the more complicated planning space with larger RIAs and family offices, where eMoney has been the tool of choice.

At T3 eMoney and MoneyGuidePro redraw the lines of battle and post-API-era blockchain discussion begins

Financial planning software giants zig to each other's zags, Ric Edelman rips the robos and Joel Bruckenstein bobbles

February 12, 2018 at 10:29 PM

Ron Carson: I feel like Netflix.

Ron Carson 'arrived' after investing $52 million, grabbing Orion and TD talent and letting his hair down

Pumping out content 'like Netflix' and preparing for an Amazon fee squeeze, the Omaha entrepreneur is set to just keep investing in growth

January 23, 2018 at 7:44 PM

Kelly Waltrich headlined a raft of sales marketing and client-support hires by Orion.

'New Moves in the Biz' section rises as human assets in RIA business flow

The RIABiz micro-stories are diverse. A robo startup star migrates to legacy-land, Sallie Krawcheck hires a CMO, an ex-NBA player bounces out of Goldman and an advisor moves back to Cleveland to put the '& son' in his father's RIA

January 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM

David Canter: It's not precipitous. It's sort of this slow-melting ice cube.

Fidelity sounds alarm over RIA discounting but Mark Tibergien, Eric Clarke and others see it differently

Pershing's Gabe Garcia sees more RIAs raising fees than lowering them but Fidelity's David Canter says he observes real-life discounts that support survey results

December 21, 2017 at 5:05 PM

Gary Zimmerman:  My wife was worried about whether I'd lose my job, but I wasn't worried. I was worried about all of our cash.

Citi exec 'accidentally' invents cash-robo with 400 RIAs as distribution channel

Gary Zimmerman scrambled in 2009 from Tokyo to shield millions in uninsured cash, leading to MaxMyInterest, which RIAs now use to automate process of getting $5 million under FDIC protection -- and often earning an extra 100 basis points in the bargain

December 7, 2017 at 8:00 PM

Tim Welsh braved the Utah wilds to write this report and found DFA and BlackRock had joined the hacker scene.

Eric Clarke keeps FUSE lit by rebalancing deep-suburbia hackathon with BlackRock and DFA real economiks

The event's subversive air drew the local police, yet again, to the door of the Park City, Utah weekend hackathon

September 11, 2017 at 6:43 PM

Scott Hanson: We weren't going to get to $10 billion in my lifetime.

Scott Hanson sells RIA to Parthenon after 'semi-retirement' drove him half-crazy -- so he could work full-time to get to $10 billion

The Sacramento RIA turned 50, adopted two children and realized he needed a plan to embrace even more challenges and chaos

July 28, 2017 at 10:08 PM

Mukesh Mehta and Charles Goldman are friends who have made a point of having dinner together a few times a year.

In poaching coup, Charles Goldman hires open-API wizard Mukesh Mehta to AssetMark from Cetera

The legendary chief information officer headed Schwab Institutional's efforts before shepherding in TD Ameritrade's legendary open API

March 15, 2017 at 8:09 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

Eric Clarke: The perception is that they're being charged for investment management. That's not really the case.

Eric Clarke hatches plan to put RIA fees front and center by applying sunlight to 1.5 million accounts

The president of Orion Advisor Services mined the fee information of the 1,000 RIAs who use his software

December 23, 2016 at 7:25 PM

Aaron Klein [with chief of staff Evan Pope]: My Risk Number is 88 and it’s probably a pretty good guess as to why we waited so long before raising capital!

How Aaron Klein plans to make Riskalyze the epicenter of the RIA business with $20 million of fresh private equity money

The CEO startup already has 15,000 users but now he sees the Risk Number as the skeleton key for unlocking robo potential by eliminating two-tier, two-business problem for B2B robos

November 30, 2016 at 10:08 PM

Todd Feltz (center, flanked by Brent O’Mara and Wade Behlen): They let us run our RIA business, allowed us to broker business with them, provided compliance and supervision -- and then the game changed.

Why exactly a $2.2 billion RIA hybrid abruptly dumped LPL for Securities America -- and Schwab, Fidelity and TD Ameritrade

Besides cost savings of using diverse custodians, WealthPlan gets past 'crippling workflow' by forming new partnerships with Orion, Salesforce, eMoney and Advisory World

November 7, 2016 at 7:50 PM

Bill Rourke: You don't need a program to make it work. Everyone else is doing APIs. We're doing connections.

Advent's parent buys Salentica to bolster Black Diamond CRM

SS&C promised to buy David Welling lots of M&A toys to sweeten his firm's Black Diamond offering and now the big Salesforce-Microsoft reseller begins to fulfill that promise

October 24, 2016 at 2:48 PM

Jeff Remming: We saw the ineffectiveness of PortfolioCenter itself after a few years but there weren't many choices back then.

Orion lands $27-billion AUM account as BAM Alliance phases out its homemade system built on Schwab PortfolioCenter

The choice of the Omaha-based, open-source system by the giant DFA TAMP reflects the diverse needs of 140 RIAs -- and the need to up-robo client experience

October 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM

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