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Devin Vigil: [If] you dangle some money in front of Abar in his 20s, it's a different story than dangling some now .… He wants redemption.

Matt Abar hopes three's a charm with FinFolio cloud launch and robo play

FinFolio finally goes 2.0 and gets $20-billion assets bump, but there's a lot of ground to make up

April 5, 2018 at 12:08 AM

Fielding Miller: We had it narrowed it down to Tamarac and Black Diamond.

CAPTRUST dumps Advent and Microsoft, flirts with Tamarac and Salesforce, then hires Black Diamond and Microsoft

As CAPTRUST switches gears from its $240-billion 401(k) business to its $6-billion wealth manager, it is forced to make mammoth and wrenching software moves

January 4, 2018 at 10:56 PM

Bill Stone: We are investing $150 million cash in R&D every year.

SS&C overlords culturally shock Black Diamond RIAs in Chicago with heaviness and wow them with well-funded competency

'Intense' SS&C CEO Bill Stone let 1,000-strong attendees know they are part of $500-million cash cow not afraid to make strategic purchases

September 15, 2017 at 7:10 PM

T3 organizer Joel Bruckenstein (l.) set the stage for a smorgasbord of announcements, acquisitions and integrations.

An e-marriage of Schwab and Fidelity, a reflective Ron Carson and good jargon-bashing made T3 take off like that helicopter outside

Addepar and FolioDynamix team up, Fidelity defends its robo-AMP and Carson tells why the Carson Wealth-LPL partnership failed -- and what blame he takes

February 21, 2017 at 6:52 PM

Bill Rourke: You don't need a program to make it work. Everyone else is doing APIs. We're doing connections.

Advent's parent buys Salentica to bolster Black Diamond CRM

SS&C promised to buy David Welling lots of M&A toys to sweeten his firm's Black Diamond offering and now the big Salesforce-Microsoft reseller begins to fulfill that promise

October 24, 2016 at 2:48 PM

Pete Hess [at Nasdaq opening bell with Advent board chair Stephanie DiMarco in 2012]: I'm going to take six months off after 23 years. I want to come back fully regenerated.

Pete Hess steps down at Advent Software just as Axys gets whodathunkit fix

Dave Welling will co-head Advent with Robert Roley as Black Diamond reporting is introduced to to Axys users

May 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM

Jon Baum: If you go and visit the company in Omaha, there's no sense that it's a family business. There are two main campuses and it's a very big and professionally run business.

Orion's parent NorthStar tops 700 employees, finishes second Omaha campus and taps a super-exec from central casting to run it all

With Eric and Todd Clarke handling day-to-day challenges at Orion and CLS, NorthStar finds an un-Clarke in Jon Baum, former CEO and chairman of The Dreyfus Corp.

March 24, 2016 at 7:02 PM

Tom McCarthy: With this capability, advisors will no longer need traditional portfolio accounting systems anymore.

What exactly to make of Fidelity's WealthScape and whether it's the bull in the third-party-equilibrium China shop

Calling it multicustody may be a stretch but the firm is determined to compete head-on with its own performance reporting software

February 17, 2016 at 10:34 PM

In his newly created position, Chris Whiting aims to eliminate Balkanization for RIAs using Black Diamond.

In first major act as Black Diamond/Advent owner, SS&C Technologies hires operation chief of $14-billion RIA to fill new role

Chris Whiting left Moneta Group in September after big changes at that RIA to join the software company that did his firm's performance reporting

December 21, 2015 at 9:11 PM

Pete Hess: This business is addictive.

Pete Hess will shop for software firms to build in-house Black Diamond bundle

The Advent CEO says his firm, under SS&C ownership, will consider buying CRM, financial planning and rebalancing firms

June 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM

David Welling: eMoney has undergone a transformation from planning to a platform. We want Black Diamond to be your platform.

Black Diamond partners with MoneyGuidePro to create a turnkey product

David Welling also adds Salesforce, Redtail and Junxure to a bundle that mimics Tamarac and Orion in creating foolproof integration

June 15, 2015 at 3:30 PM

Peter Hess: I don't think [our clients will] notice anything except more services coming down the line.

How SS&C muscle might be just what the Black Diamond and Advent Software doctor ordered

The portfolio accounting provider to giants like Voya, Barclays and New York Life may finally get Advent into the cloud and crack the alternatives challenge

February 3, 2015 at 8:16 PM

Bill Stone: We think there's a tremendous opportunity to cross-sell.

SS&C buys Advent for the Geneva crown jewels so what happens to Black Diamond and Advent Axys?

The Windsor, Conn. software roll-up wants blue chip asset managers, opening the door for a spinoff of RIA software

February 3, 2015 at 12:33 AM

Craig Pearson: It's us against Addepar and they're well-funded but we have a long track record of success and that helps.

How an under-the-radar UHNW performance reporting firm is taking on Addepar and Advent in a bid for RIA bucks

WealthTouch, which manages $200 billion for 300 clients, some with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan or Credit Suisse,is bulking up by merging with a mass-market-oriented firm and eschewing big PE cash to get ahead

December 3, 2014 at 4:27 AM

Jeff Ramseyer: My joining Addepar signals the company's successful growth trajectory, not a shift in strategy.

Addepar hires in the direction of revenues -- and maybe even an IPO

The mature start-up adds an ex-Advent sales chief a year after hiring a CFO with a nose for initial public offerings

September 23, 2014 at 7:57 PM

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