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Framing it as a wildly disruptive 3,300-basis-point fee on de novo revenues, Joe Duran's United Capital digital reboot is apparently raking in RIA assets and revenues

The charismatic CEO's launch of FinLife Partners -- with unabashed Fidelity support -- is in effect selling revenues to advisors but taking a risk on their success

Author Brooke Southall March 28, 2017 at 7:40 PM
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Joe Duran: This is the most single important thing I have done in my career.

Jeff Spears

Jeff Spears

March 28, 2017 — 10:48 PM
Looks like another firm is using its scale and IP to build 2.0. Will be interesting to watch the response of Dynasty and Focus.
brooke southall

brooke southall

March 28, 2017 — 10:49 PM
Good point, Jeff.
Fred D

Fred D

December 6, 2017 — 11:34 AM
⚆ _ ⚆ really tho?
JCL

JCL

March 9, 2018 — 4:03 AM
What happened to the FinLife Chief Business Officer? I am feeling hoodwinked

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