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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

Author Lisa Shidler January 4, 2018 at 10:56 PM
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Fielding Miller: We had it narrowed it down to Tamarac and Black Diamond.

Stephen Winks

Stephen Winks

January 5, 2018 — 2:20 PM
The brokerage business has a lot to learn from how CAPTRUST's technology and service rationale as it assesses its own capabilities and the shortcommings of proprietary systems geared toward transactions not expert advisory services. SCW
Jeff Spears

Jeff Spears

January 5, 2018 — 3:41 PM
Still searching for The Holy Grail. Seems like yesterday when the news of Presidio (now Tiedemann) made the switch from Advent and others to Black Diamond was the BIG NEWS event. Wonder how that change is going....

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