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Jason Wenk speaks to RIABiz by Zoom: "We're a lot bigger than people realize. I don't think it's going to be the case in 10 years."

With Vanguard and Venrock as backers, Altruist is taking careful aim at RIA custody power, with SSG a big building block and an even bigger sign

The Los Angeles custody startup is playing small ball and bully ball with an approach aimed as much at TAMPs and fintechs as RIA custodians.

March 16, 2023 at 4:29 AM

Sean Gultig: We’d love to talk to them.

Small RIA custodians eye 400-plus RIAs who may come into play thanks to TD Ameritrade-Scottrade deal -- but with a cultivated calm

Accepting RIA orphans is less automatic than more-the-merrier policy of RIA inclusion that traditionally held sway at TradePMR, Folio Institutional, Trust Company of America, Equity Advisor Solutions and Shareholders Service Group grow, learn and seek profits

June 12, 2017 at 7:36 PM

Joshua Pace: Some advisors have grown so frustrated that they make a change to go to independent custodians. We don't compete on any level with advisors.

How an eclectic trio of RIA custodians are willfully gaining ground with snail-like precision -- Part 2 of 3

Lazarus-like RBC has another new leader, as does Trust Company of America and Shareholders Service Group, which is selling itself as a Pershing reseller of high security, but with more agile service

June 15, 2016 at 8:08 PM

Ryan Hughes:  I should’ve launched the firm in LA ...  but I was married with two small children and we both wanted to raise our children in San Diego.

20 months in: A field dispatch from an advisor who started an RIA in a strange city with no clients

After stints as a Beverly Hills broker for Merrill and a salesman for Schwab, the Navy veteran went deep into academia to learn his trade

December 23, 2015 at 7:49 PM

Brooke Southall: There are only so many flavors of trust, integrity and character.

The 10 biggest threats to the RIA business heading into 2014

The fiduciary planning model is taking shots from every angle but the jugular looks inaccessible

December 27, 2013 at 11:02 PM

Reed Colley: I love solving problems and I've not always been the best at implementing solutions.

Reed Colley steps down from executive-level duties after selling Black Diamond

With bucks in the bank and his Advent mission largely accomplished, the 36-year-old entrepreneur is eyeing ventures, offering his two cents at Advent when asked

September 26, 2013 at 3:55 AM

Lyman Howard: We feel we could have gotten away with cobbling together some freeware ... That option, however, would have left us with zero customer service.

How I picked technology -- from Black Diamond-in-SSG to Dudamobile -- to use in my startup RIA

We're free of legacy systems and just in time for mobile computing, cloud storage, and social media's adoption by the masses

February 12, 2013 at 5:23 PM

Suresh Kumar's name was synonymous with NetX360 and now he's watching from a loftier BNY perch.

Suresh Kumar moves on to BNY Mellon and Pershing and NetX360 adjust to life without the maestro

The Jersey City-based clearing and custody company is filling the big shoes of its former chief information officer with two of his former underlings

October 9, 2012 at 4:22 PM

Matt Judge: Demand reached a head recently.

Not without criticism, TD Ameritrade opens an 'insurance agency' for RIAs that want to provide annuities

Schwab says it will also use more annuities to meet the swelling demand for retirement income but Jefferson National's CEO questions the custodians' focus on traditional annuities

September 28, 2012 at 4:19 PM

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

August 27, 2012 at 3:29 AM

Reed Colley: We don't make people pay twice for two programs.

Black Diamond is setting its sights on smaller advisors and other things I learned over breakfast with Reed Colley

Advent Custodial Data and Moxy are now part of the Black Diamond arsenal and pricing may become attainable for small RIAs with moxie

June 6, 2012 at 2:44 AM

Black Diamond founder Reed Colley is relocating to San Francisco to help chart Advent's broader future with his knowledge of mobile, social media and the cloud.

A year after the Advent-Black Diamond deal, the merged company is making some big chess moves

Reed Colley switches coasts as new hire Mike Golaszewski heads the other way to Jacksonville and the Advent-Black Diamond sales teams merge

May 21, 2012 at 3:34 AM

1,600 Laserfiche users, vendors, resellers, consultants and technology partners assembled in Disneyland to learn about latest developments in content management.

Laserfiche user conference draws a big crowd that wants to toss filing cabinets

Dan Skiles, Bill Winterberg and Joel Bruckenstein lent an RIA air to the 1,600-person event

January 31, 2012 at 5:38 PM

Charles Goldman has kept a low profile but maintains an intense interest in the RIA business

Charles Goldman will give a speech and Shareholders Service Group will make noise in the marketplace

Over 300 independent RIAs are expected in San Diego along with Spenser Segal, Lou Stanasolovich, Bob Veres and Norm Boone

December 14, 2011 at 4:04 PM

Dan Skiles is adding RedBlack and Total Rebalance Expert to the SSG repertoire. Even small RIAs can benefit, he says.

Volatile markets spark interest in rebalancing software - along with questions about how much is necessary

The Wall Street Journal publishes an article looking at rebalancing's efficacy and tops execs at Tamarac and RedBlack offer thoughts

November 9, 2011 at 4:45 AM

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