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Peter Hess has been putting Advent through a crash course of reinvention but now he may be seeking a buyer.

Advent Software is for sale, with Frank Quattrone as the sales agent, reports say
The owner of Black Diamond is well along in the process of seeking someone to take it private, according to a Reuters report and anonymous RIABiz sources

Wednesday 3.13.13
Peter Hess: They don't feel the same urgency.

How Black Diamond is working out -- or not -- as Advent's agent of deliberate cannibalization
The great migration from Axys to Blue Sky is still not a torrent -- and has actually slowed from pre-merger days -- thanks to an unforeseen psychological freeze from Axys clients

Wednesday 3.6.13
W. Patrick Clarke and his son Scott were killed when their Cessna 410C went down on Nov. 10.

A terrible loss in the RIA business of the original breakaway broker
A plane crash takes Patrick Clarke, the founding owner of Orion, Gemini and CLS, who leaves behind a family and friends in grief and three booming companies

Wednesday 2.6.13
Ben Welch: We are bridging that gap.

TD Ameritrade will make iRebal software available free to all its RIA clients
The custodian may disrupt both the RIA technology and RIA custody businesses -- but not inexpensively

Thursday 1.31.13
Travis Rychnovsky: We wanted functionality that PortfolioCenter didn't have.

Orion bags Schwab's 'best' advisor -- a $1.3 billion RIA weaned on Schwab PortfolioCenter
Eric Clarke will serve Foster Group but he's also becoming a vendor of the firm's startup, Orchestrate, which automates work flows through Salesforce

Wednesday 1.9.13
Zohar Swaine: InStream does not intend to limit an advisor's choice of which financial provider to use -- this key point may have been misreported or not understood by others.

Could inStream be the Next Big Thing in RIA technology?
Alex Murguia is assembling a minor Dream Team of RIA execs including Zohar Swaine, but the revenue model is causing some consternation

Monday 1.7.13
Aaron Rowe of Edelman Financial and and Eric Clarke take the field of the Dallas Cowboys Stadium

Eric Clarke delivers a behind-the-scenes account of his own Gemini & Orion Advisor Forum
The Orion chief was taken aback by overwhelmed advisors but found time for predawn runs, a pep talk from a legendary coach, a tour of the Cowboys' stadium and the launch of 80 apps

Tuesday 9.25.12
Dean Cook: In the end it came down to Pershing and TD.

TD Ameritrade wins a $2.5-billion RIA custody client on the strength of its delivery of B-to-B capabilities using Orion, Veo and API
FTJ FundChoice took its assets from a bank in the name of efficiencies aimed at big growth

Wednesday 9.12.12
In the heart of the SF financial district, the FPA uses The Palace to pull of one of the best regional events on the RIA calendar

At FPA's Norcal event, wary advisors are told how to stop worrying and love the cloud
RIABiz' editor storms The Palace at the San Fran conference, listens in on tech chiefs soothing mobile angst and checks out the after-party in an old-time saloon

Tuesday 6.5.12
Alex Potts: It's the biggest investment we've ever taken on.

With help from Envestnet and a former Genworth technology whiz, Loring Ward is revamping its TAMP platform
The San Jose firm is counting on competitors and former talent of competitors to make sure it spends its millions efficiently

Tuesday 5.8.12
Diane Russell: It's just not been at the top of advisors' lists for running their businesses.

Why RIAs are shunning mobile apps and why Black Diamond, Orion, Fidelity and others are still placing their chips on an iPad future
Many providers are stuck at 10% mobile adoption rate, but Fidelity has hit 40% and Orion 30% with their RIA clients

Monday 3.19.12
Sean Gultig: It's not often in business that you get to do a mulligan.

Ex-Fiserv executives bid to create a new force in RIA custody by taking the Equity Trust bull by the horns
The year-old Denver-based firm touts technology cost savings via its Orion-driven platform

Wednesday 3.14.12
Ron Carson: It came to me that there was a better way to approach the industry.

The top 10 people to watch in the RIA business in 2012, Part 1
Forces changing the trajectory of the RIA movement

Monday 3.12.12
The FPA put on a humble but eye-opening event in Burlingame, Calif., this week.

A reporter empties his notebook after attending FPA's Business Solutions event
Marty Kurtz lets crowd in on peer review plan, big custodians square off on tech and Eric Clarke yields interesting thoughts in a one-on-one interview

Thursday 3.8.12
David Barton: We have to live with the decision for a long time.

The TD Ameritrade-Orion pairing again proves productive -- this time to wrest assets from a $3.6 billion Schwab RIA
As part of a barrage of big moves by Mercer Advisors, Tamarac gets superseded for rebalancing

Wednesday 1.25.12
Erik Clarke: We went through quite a process with them.

Orion wins a $2-billion RIA account from Advent after two very long drives across the prairie
The second round-trip Omaha-to-Kansas City drive -- three years after the first -- led to the win of Mariner Wealth Advisors' private client assets

Tuesday 12.13.11
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
Frank Noto saw no sun in San Diego as the FPA conference warmed to its task.

An advertiser's-eye view from among the booths of the FPA convention's exhibit hall
Technology companies, Chubb, TD Ameritrade and BrightScope get special notice

Sunday 9.18.11
Frank Germack: We wanted to show performance and we also wanted the ability to aggregate accounts as part of it.

Orion snags $2 billion Rehmann Financial account from Black Diamond
The mega-Michigan-based RIA had hyper-specialized needs

Tuesday 8.23.11
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