Articles tagged "Aaron Klein"
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Six months after 'Nitrogen' reboot, Aaron Klein pulls rip cord on CEO job but will stay on board to jumpstart quest for $1-billion valuation under hand-picked replacement
The Nitrogen CEO is still the largest 'individual' shareholder and promises not to start a new company but he's already launched a side-hustle consultancy
November 15, 2023 at 3:24 AM
Riskalyze taps Stephen Brandes as final hire, stakes flag in Manhattan, ahead of imminent rebrand that's part of push toward a $1-billion valuation
The Auburn, Calif., software firm is ready to shift from a 'point solution' to a 'growth platform' -- and now has a Yale/Harvard guy who just went through a similar drill at a non-financial digital firm.
April 15, 2023 at 1:41 AM
Riskalyze co-founder and CTO steps down; Aaron Klein hires a headhunter to replace him and nab a CMO, too
Right out of Berkeley, Matt Pistone was serious engineering talent with little experience. The new person needs to bring a track record.
March 22, 2022 at 1:12 AM
Riskalyze replaces Lori Hardwick with Laurie Schultz at board chair and publicly tells her -- and the RIA industry -- it's moved the goalposts to a $1-billion valuation
The Auburn, Calif., firm's new chair already took one risk software firm to unicorn status and promises to 'do what it takes.'
November 24, 2021 at 11:12 PM
Morningstar stomps into the 'risk score' game with big weapons, miniscule market share and 'love' from Aaron Klein
The Chicago manager of $244 billion -- and ratings whiz -- will de-nerdify FinaMetrica, use portfolio-side data and push out risk software to 180,000 desktops-- all for free
August 3, 2021 at 2:40 AM
The ironic outcome of Riskalyze's negative advertising attack on Orion's risk subsidiary is a boost in fortunes for both, though the flare-up may also have unhelpfully awoken a sleeping Morningstar
The Auburn, Calif., firm still holds an '85% market share,' says Aaron Klein, and he also doesn't regret shining a spotlight on what he disparages as 'unfruitful guesswork'.
July 17, 2021 at 3:05 AM
Riskalyze blindsides Orion with full-scale attack on its new risk software unit, but Orion CEO Eric Clarke vows to take action if necessary to protect his brand
The Auburn, Calif., industry leader used a release, video and dedicated website to lash out at Orion's freshly acquired HiddenLevers unit, but a backlash may be brewing.
May 13, 2021 at 3:29 AM
Wealthfront's unlikely tapping of Sheila Bair and Tom Curry signals likely push to gain a bank charter, analysts say
The Redwood City robo-advisor's addition of two renowned former chief banking regulators brings legitimacy and guidance that could lead to a margin-fattening bank charter and help solve the robo-advisor's problem of high client acquisition costs.
December 31, 2020 at 4:37 AM
After the visions of this engineer and Wealthfront diverged in 2016, he left to write his own robo-investing code on a shoestring; now Riskalyze is his first customer
Iraklis Kourtidis takes Aaron Klein's 'Autopilot' product to another plane of efficiency with 'Rowboat,' software he largely wrote over four no-paycheck years
July 31, 2020 at 3:11 AM
Lori Hardwick steps down as AI Labs president and steps up as a gunslinging paladin for Riskalyze and other firms in new gig economy consulting role
The co-founder went to the Tiburon CEO Summit in April and came away with four big consulting gigs that morphed into a new career
June 13, 2019 at 2:48 AM
Aaron Klein sells against fear and risk in San Antonio -- and hits back at competitors
The Riskalyze CEO has three businesses, an expanding list of copycats, 600 close friends and a rah-rah message: Fearlessness
October 22, 2018 at 10:40 PM
Morningstar causes uproar with new study that upends everything RIAs assumed about retirement planning, and it all comes down to a number
In July, Morningstar published its latest retirement report, and its author David Blanchett poses tough questions, suggesting advisors risk “havoc” when predicting retirement. But the industry claims it's well prepared.
August 17, 2018 at 8:51 PM
LPL Financial is latest to go the 'risk number' route by signing deal with LifeYield, which signed a Riskalyze deal in February
The Fort Mill, S.C.-based IBD will use the software to help advisors arbitrage between taxable and non-taxable accounts to minimize the bite of the IRS
May 30, 2018 at 8:14 PM
Jud Bergman defines 'stupid' and post-'stupid' eras at his firm after Raymond James analyst dares to unearth the Yodlee question
The Envestnet CEO's rebuke, embracing the synonym for imbecilic and unintelligent, showed how raw feelings got in 2015 with the firm's purchase of Yodlee for about $600 million
May 29, 2018 at 11:03 PM
At T3 eMoney and MoneyGuidePro redraw the lines of battle and post-API-era blockchain discussion begins
Financial planning software giants zig to each other's zags, Ric Edelman rips the robos and Joel Bruckenstein bobbles
