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Ed O'Brien: Any of the custodians could probably put together an offering like this ...  but they haven't.

Is Fidelity's move to put RIAs deeper into the cloud gonna make it rain?
'First to market' crows Fido. 'Not even close' counter other custodians. But one expert says the Boston-based firm's one-click platform could change everything

Wednesday 5.1.13
Philip Palaveev: Client service expectations are ... more difficult to manage profitably.

Round 2 in Vegas: Finance Logix advisor conference ponders simplicity as sophistication
As the RIA industry matures, first-time buyers are gone and differentiation is the name of the game

Monday 4.29.13
Fidelity brought to T3 a smart TV using Aviya technology that provides avatars for an online, remote meeting.

T3 goes big in Miami but Fidelity steals the show with avatar advisors and smart coffee tables
Joel Bruckenstein's hype about his event's must-see status ain't hype as virtually every RIA technology vendor -- from behemoth to garage dweller -- put on a show for advisors

Thursday 2.14.13
John Prendergast: [Current data aggregation is] like buying copper pipe when you want a finished bathroom. Blueleaf is the finished bathroom

How Blueleaf sees itself taming the RIA's two betes noire -- and how it is being challenged on that
The new-ish Cambridge-based company has big deals with Redtail and MoneyGuidePro and hopes, amid skepticism aplenty, to literally change wealth management

Monday 2.11.13
Mike Golaszewski: If your product has an advisor end-client-facing component and it's not mobile, you probably don't have a product in two years.

Where RIA technology stands heading into 2013 after 2012 lost some steam
Philip Palaveev, Mike Golaszewski, Spencer Segal and Joel Bruckenstein weigh in on whether the 'mega-solution' will gain traction vs. the mix and match option

Wednesday 1.2.13
Joel Bruckenstein: As things turned out, some better pure technology opportunities came along.

Joel Bruckenstein and Bob Veres part ways to do their own conferences
Veres sees a glut of conferences but has a passion to change that with a new-concept event

Monday 11.26.12
Neesha Hathi: We think we can bite this off.

Schwab bids to become the 'Zagat' of RIA technology and to nix ink signatures from RIA life
Neesha Hathi presents the dueling intiatives as next steps in her custodian's march toward serving 7,000 advisory firms

Wednesday 11.14.12
Brian Shenson: It's getting more looks (from legacy RIAs) as we add value.

Schwab adds element to plug-and-play technology with eye toward existing RIAs, not just fresh wirehouse recruits
NetDocuments will put electronic files right into the CRM window for RIAs using Schwab OpenView Integrated Office

Friday 10.26.12
Bob Veres engages CEO of Moss Adams Wealth Advisors Rebecca Pomering and Tim Kochis, former CEO of Aspiriant, on issues of scale.

Veres and Bruckenstein lure big RIAs to Denver to discuss getting even bigger
Tim Kochis and the virtual Moss Adams all-stars brought firepower to the 2nd annual Business and Wealth Management Conference

Monday 9.17.12
Advisors converged at the Bellagio this week to witness the ongoing integration of Advent and Black Diamond.

Advent envisions a cloud-based world under stormy Las Vegas skies at the software giant's annual confab
With more than 100 breakout sessions -- not counting Black Diamond's dozen -- the conference provided deep dives into the joined firms' bag of wares

Thursday 9.13.12
Launch No. 2: RIABiz correspondent Timothy Welsh and T3's Joel Bruckenstein set sail.

After a year under wraps, Laser App unveils a new "anywhere" product at its sixth annual conference in San Diego
Laser App Anywhere is, from its cloud, fundamentally different from the company's legacy desktop, server-based software products

Monday 8.27.12
Ben Welch: This is a big advancement.

TD Ameritrade showcases what API can do with slick Veo-iRebal harmonization
The RIA custodian is creating -- and third parties are applauding -- a time-saving, low-error way to trade and rebalance

Tuesday 8.14.12
Oleg Tishkevich: What if we took an employee retreat and brought our clients with us?

Finance Logix makes a splashy bid for RIA business with its inaugural conference in Las Vegas
The coming of Windows 8, the cloud, the massive adoption of mobile technology and tools for retirement income planning were hot topics at the Sin City confab

Monday 4.30.12
Franklin Tsung: It is a messy business and not for the meek.

How AppCrown got a big RIA footprint overnight by handling Salesforce implementations
TD and Fidelity are in with both feet but some are taking a wait-and-see attitude

Monday 2.27.12
Joel Bruckenstein (with David Drucker): It is the only time during the year that all of the technology vendors to the industry are gathered in one place.

RIAs flock to Dallas for the T3 technology conference
The seventh annual gathering drew 500 advisors, execs, software vendors and custodians with integrations, mobile apps and clouds on their minds

Tuesday 2.21.12
Dick Cheney expressed some gloomy views about the economy and the terrorist situation.

TD Ameritrade brings some Florida heat to the RIA winter
The custodian rolled out a major event sprawled across multiple hotels

Monday 2.6.12
Mark Evans: Zywave's proven track record as a highly regarded innovator and commitment to advancing next-generation financial planning technology for advisors and their clients make it the ideal partner.

EISI strikes a deal to cash out its shareholders
The buyer, Zywave, is a force in the property-and-casualty world

Tuesday 10.25.11
Bob Veres is helping provide the practice management twist to this new conference series.

What Messrs. Bruckenstein, Drucker and Veres cooked up in a Chicago airport hotel
The pilot effort to make a T3-like event with heavy admixtures of wealth management and practice management looked good

Tuesday 10.18.11
Dominick Paoloni: I think every money manager secretly does want to become a hedge fund - at least if they can break the code.

Macro-economic analysis comes to the everyday RIA, and is welcomed post-2008
Still not the kind of power an RIA would need to run a hedge-fund like operation, say analysts

Wednesday 10.12.11
Peter Hess: We are continuing to aggressively reinvest Black Diamond’s profits back into the business to accelerate our ability to expand [its] feature set and serve even more clients.

How Advent plans to make money with purchase of 'break-even' Black Diamond
Company execs tell Wall Street analysts that in-house Axys migrations will be more likely and more profitable

Thursday 9.1.11
Jon Patullo says that advisors will be able to test TD Ameritrade's iPad app next month at the national conference.

(Updated April 11) Fidelity, Schwab and TD Ameritrade prep for arms race in mobile technology for advisors
Pershing appears to have a lead in this area

Monday 4.11.11
Gregory T. Friedman: We weren't looking like market leaders.

Junxure moving to the cloud amid market pressures
In an unusual move, CRM Software's Greg Friedman pre-announces the product release by nearly a year

Wednesday 3.23.11
Nevin Freeman: The next decade in advisor tech will see radical new user interfaces that will make typing in a client's address seem like an arcane waste of time.

T3 reflections: Where to watch for the next big advances in RIA technology
Vendors are turning their attention to the part of the software that you see

Monday 2.28.11
Bob Veres: In my mind, this is the place you come to find out where the future is.

Eavesdropping on the T3 conference by four bloggers with four missions as attendees
Social endurance needed as much as technical savvy at this technological event

Wednesday 2.23.11
Joel Bruckenstein and David Drucker welcome 450+ attendees to the official start of conference

T3 Friday Liveblog - updated every two hours - latest: RIA and vendor critiques
First day of official conference sessions kicks off bright and early at 8:00am

Friday 2.18.11
Jonathan Heck: The Axys software might as well be an entirely separate business and it’s in run-off mode.

Advent Software is squandering its market leadership by keeping focus on Axys, according to a hedge fund analyst's report
The San Francisco-based leader is slow to react with new technology, web-based solutions, pricing, and ease of upgrades and integration, the report says

Monday 12.6.10
Neesha Hathi: We know there are going to be disappointed clients and vendors.

Schwab chooses some giant software partners, apparently with big RIAs in mind
Experts say it chose well but advisors may have to wait for IMPACT 2011 for a demo of integration

Thursday 10.28.10
Marie Swift: Advisors are at risk if they don't show their clients how much they are cared for.

Eavesdropping on a Cetera company's elite conference
What have you done for me lately: a strategy to head off DIY clients

Monday 10.25.10
Eric Higginbotham explained that his company has many technological objectives but the iPad app won priority status.

Black Diamond releases BlueSky Mobile for the iPad
Leaving nothing to chance, the Florida up-and-comer is including the Apple tablets in the deal

Wednesday 10.20.10
Mike Williams: We’ve been completely rewriting our reporting capability to get it up to this day and age.

Schwab PortfolioCenter may be poised to shed its utilitarian image
Long a favorite for the small RIA, its spiffier reports and early admission in Schwab's grand technology plan give it a bigger future

Friday 9.17.10
Joel Bruckenstein: iRebal is still better technology but Tamarac is 'infinitely better' than it was two years ago.

Tamarac claims what was unthinkable two years ago -- that it is on the same playing field as iRebal for rebalancing software
Tamarac has made leaps, say iRebal loyalists, but it had a long way to go

Friday 7.9.10
Neesha Hathi: No one in the industry is doing anything like this.

Schwab unveils a plan to create a grand ecosystem of top technology vendors to RIAs
Executives of the San Francisco RIA custodian believe they can take integration further than Fidelity's WealthCentral

Tuesday 5.11.10
Joel Bruckenstein: Now this may come as a shock to readers, but I think it was rather reckless of Mr. Gluck to make such an outrageous statement.

A war of words flares up between Andy Gluck and Joel Bruckenstein
On Financial Planning magazine's website, Bruckenstein questions Gluck's impartiality

Friday 4.16.10
Julie Littlechild: There is so much in this industry about talking. This is about doing.

The FPA's practice management event boasts two hot speakers in its first day
California entrepreneur and NSA star are among the top draws

Tuesday 3.2.10
Joel Bruckenstein says it was the final straw when his speech at a big industry conference got bumped into nighttime.

The T3 conference has a rebellious air and the makings of success
Bruckenstein and Drucker channeled their frustration about industry conferences into creating a tech mecca for RIAs

Friday 2.12.10
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