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Alan Carlisle: Between Orion and Envestnet, it came down to pricing.

Orion wins another RIA with $1 billion-plus in AUM
Hanson McClain is switching over from Schwab PortfolioCenter and Envestnet was the runner-up

Thursday 9.22.11
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
Steve Ambuul: One of the things I'm doing right now is making sure that we can get data feeds from Orion, AssetBook, and other competitors of ours.

Ebix may hit a CRM sweet spot for some RIAs
The strategic acquirer bought its way into wealth management CRM in 2009 but the 'rollup' label helped depress the company's shares

Thursday 8.4.11
Joseph Theisen was looking for better CRM and more customized reports.

Orion wins software accounts of two $1-billion-plus firms - one a broker-dealer and one an RIA
Advance Capital leaves IAS and United Planners gets performance reporting for the first time

Monday 7.18.11
Tom Bradley: It’s common practice to give pieces of tech to advisors coming on to a platform.

TD Ameritrade will continue to provide free software to breakaways on an ad hoc basis
Tom Bradley takes exception to how the giveaways are characterized

Friday 6.17.11
Benjamin Baldwin: I did my August monthly statements for my clients, had them up on the website by the first week of the month, and they were already completely out of date!

One RIA's unvarnished views on Advent, Black Diamond, Tamarac, IAS, Orion and Schwab PortfolioCenter after an odyssey of test drives
Benjamin Baldwin is making the jump from PortfolioCenter to Orion after a brief affair, and lingering love, for Black Diamond

Monday 6.6.11
Rob Major: If you have 200 reports that do everything but cook you breakfast in the morning, you have a system that is unaffordable for 80% of the advisors that are out there.

After tortoise-like beginnings, AssetBook is now on-the-hop in portfolio management software
Rob Major takes what he learned in building Techfi to make AssetBook a functional, no-frills system

Wednesday 5.25.11
Redtail's Brian McLaughlin: Are we on the same page, and are we ready to go with the ability to open a new account through Redtail?

TD Ameritrade brings software elite to Dallas for an API summit
The number three custodian its letting its technology partners put the final touches on a low-walled garden

Tuesday 4.26.11
Richard Prout: We found TD to be really interested in the growth of our firm, and they put together an economic package that was superior to the Schwab package.

TD Ameritrade uses greater financial incentives to attract custody clients
Breakaways say they appreciate the economic boost and that it makes them feel welcome

Monday 4.18.11
Mike McNamara: The numbers were staggering.

How Mike McNamara became a TD Ameritrade RIA and pruned his book in one move
The former Commonwealth advisor also had goals related to succession, compliance and a bigger bottom line

Thursday 4.7.11
Eric Clarke: We’ve struggled with the lack of a standard, but with TD we’re taking a step forward.

Third-party vendors vouch for TD Ameritrade's API at first general session
The days of batch downloads may be numbered

Thursday 2.3.11
Eric Clarke: It's definitely a unique approach

Orion Advisor Services goes mobile with advisor-branded apps for the iPhone and Android
App relies heavily on HTML5, in line with the trend for portfolio management mobile applications

Thursday 1.6.11
Aaron Grey: People working with us don’t have to sacrifice anything in terms of life’s little conveniences.

How Orion Advisor Services became a mobile device pioneer and how competitors plan to react
The first-mover edge may hold for a while for Black Diamond and Orion

Thursday 1.6.11
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
Boston Convention Center: Advisors were swarming exhibitor booths for much of IMPACT 2010

Eight software vendors give insider accounts of their IMPACT 2010 booth experiences
Non-stop booth traffic -- including visits from giant RIAs -- suggests advisors came to Boston in a code-buying mood

Tuesday 11.9.10
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
Peter Giza: We’ve been desperate to not pigeonhole RIAs into a situation where they cannot afford us or can’t use us.

RedBlack's Peter Giza gives RIABiz a look under the hood of its Rebalance Express software
New Hampshire-based software maker competes with a lower price and an easy-to-use interface

Tuesday 9.7.10
Dave Welling: That ability to get data quickly is very powerful.

Already known to be cutting edge, Black Diamond shoots for the bleeding edge with total rewrite of its software
RIAs can multi-task, upgrade and customize better with the new portfolio management system

Monday 6.21.10
Peter Hess: [The concern] is getting existing Advent clients to rethink their relationships with us. That’s our biggest uphill challenge.

Advent Software is moving ahead in the RIA tech market-- even if most Axys users refuse to budge
Advent Portfolio Exchange is hitting its stride but mostly thanks to a whole new generation of customers

Monday 5.10.10
Bob Adams: Advisors can rest assured that we will meet the needs they have. We're acting in their best interests.

Fidelity delivers a white paper and a warning to RIAs regarding new cost-basis rules
Multi-custody arrangements and third party platforms can lead to troublesome data fragmentation, the Boston custody giant says

Friday 3.26.10
Eric Clarke: Growth-minded advisors have made Orion's pipeline of prospects fatter than ever

Orion is outshining competitors in the eyes of some RIAs
The Omaha-based portfolio management outsourcer is winning on service and innovation

Wednesday 3.17.10
Facebook:

Orion will take a page out of Facebook to help RIAs achieve better inter-office chats
The Omaha-based portfolio management outsourcer sees potential in co-opting social media methods

Wednesday 3.17.10
Heather Underwood: Orion is planning on integrating some well known social media constructs, most notably the Facebook Newsfeed or

A closer look at Orion Advisor Services' software and what's in store for its next release
Eric Clarke's Omaha company has wedged its way into the RIA consciousness with good reason

Monday 3.15.10
Advent Software's five-year non-compete clause was not long enough to suppress Matt Abar

The executive Advent bought and buried is back with a vengeance
Matt Abar's second act looks formidable, say beta clients and industry experts

Wednesday 12.2.09
Reed Colley: “If we can’t make an advisor happy, we encourage them to find another solution that will.”

Black Diamond is winning big accounts from Advent at an impressive clip
The Florida-based upstart has tripled its pipeline of customers since 2008

Monday 10.26.09
Brian Hamburger: “I’ve been critical of investment advisers. I don’t think they’ve taken advantage of this time [of upheaval].”

Merger and breakaway experts convene near Princeton at old Merrill Lynch lair
Attendees will shares notes on how to dismantle wirehouse salesforces

Thursday 10.22.09
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