Articles written by Kelly O'Mara
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How one 'robo-advisor' got $25 billion on its platform with a Mint.com mindset, 401(k) friendliness, a merger and 16 years of work
NextCapital has deals with Barron's, Dow Jones and Russell Investments as part of a brick-by-brick history in a put-up-your-robo-shingle world
March 31, 2014 at 4:53 PM
The face of Addepar leaves the company amid intrigue about just where it stands with the RIA market
Mike Paulus was company president during its formative time and exemplified its faith in youth
March 24, 2014 at 3:33 AM
A 32-year-old Kansas advisor -- at all upheaval costs -- followed his mentor to Mariner Wealth Advisors
Losing clients and leaving money on the table are risks that more young advisors are willing to take, especially with social media as a viable workaround to the non-solicitation straitjacket
February 27, 2014 at 6:21 PM
VC-backed RIA CRM firm bursts onto the T3 scene looking to knock off Redtail, Salesforce etc.
Gotham Tech Labs seeks to blur the line between CRM and social media -- for a bargain
February 12, 2014 at 7:25 AM
How an Alex. Brown spin-off grew to be a $46 billion RIA and how a Brown Brothers breakaway fits in to its plan for accelerated growth
The Baltimore-based firm, Brown Advisory, will invade Bank of America's hometown with an up-to-date investing approach and Old Money flavor
February 5, 2014 at 2:51 PM
How Ric Edelman's bounty of radio and TV leads pushed his $12-billion RIA from Microsoft to GoldMine to Salentica
The secondary effect was a muscle flexing that brought about a TD integration with Schwab's gritted-teeth blessing
January 21, 2014 at 6:40 AM
How Schwab is calling out wirehouses with its 'accountability' blitz and what collateral effects could hit RIAs
Chuck's new money-back guarantee sends a 'shot across the bow' to wirehouses but Schwab RIAs won't be untouched
December 26, 2013 at 5:17 PM
Envestnet increasingly cuts Schwab out of its RIA software mix and 39 RIAs are leading the way
As new owner of Tamarac, the Chicago outsourcer has its own portfolio accounting, not Schwab PortfolioCenter, as the guts of its mini-ecosystem for the first time
December 11, 2013 at 6:41 PM
Envestnet struts upmarket stuff by signing a $1.5-billion, a $3.3-billion, a $2.3-billion and a $4-billion RIA to big technology deals
Post-Tamarac acquisition and bolstering, the Chicago-based king of SMAs to IBDs poached accounts from the likes of The Colony Group, Henssler Financial, Laird Norton, RegentAtlantic from legacy RIA providers
November 25, 2013 at 9:13 PM
Schwab drops pretense: $2-million clients its staple branch diet in bid for fresh $2 trillion
The San Francisco-based broker has named its composite perfect ideal client 'Tobin' -- representing a graying, masculine entreprenuer
November 5, 2013 at 6:07 AM
Mystery solved: Josh Brown and Barry Ritholtz start RIA -- or is that actually where the intrigue begins
After a couple of years of 24/7 tweeting and blogging, the duo is poised to scoop up talent on the cheap, keep it simple and dare to offend but experts say they also need to avoid 'talking heads' syndrome
October 11, 2013 at 6:19 PM
How a 33 year-old advisor ditched the Midwest for California and used mad blogging and SEO skills to hijack annuity-bound web traffic to propel giant growth
With $40 million and counting in new business this year alone, Jason Wenk expects to double his AUM by year's end in part by mining clients' keyword gold
October 2, 2013 at 5:26 PM
GenSpring offshoot poaches four more as it reimagines the service model for UHNW families
With new talent from Bessemer, HSBC, the SEC and -- of course -- GenSpring, W.E. Family offices is betting that putting the client back in charge is really the way to go
September 23, 2013 at 6:29 PM
How a $2.5 billion Boise RIA will use Merrill Lynch's former SoCal overseer to win the over-sunned of The OC
The former Bank of America market president stepped back into the industry after a two-year hiatus following an epiphany and will be recruiting families, not his former flock of brokers
September 9, 2013 at 5:10 PM
Why exactly LPL Financial nixed NestWise and how OSJs, once again, may be wagging the big dog
The event is eerily similar to BloombergBlack's full stop, one analyst says, but LPL's story has its own twists, it seems
