TAMPs
Outsourced investments are one of the fastest-growing categories in the financial advisory world. Perched between the asset custodian and the financial advisor, these (mostly) turnkey asset management programs can handle all or a portion of their investing, technology and fiduciary duties.
Advocates of using these TAMPs point to how it's better for the advisor because it frees up more time to spend with clients and prospects. It's also better for clients because the duties are being handled by specialized professionals who benefit from economies of scale.
Skeptics say that it adds a layer of cost and takes away an element of control from the advisors in executing according to a client's financial plan.
Larry Fink's New York City firm won 'whole portfolio advisor' OCIO accounts of AIG, British Air and General Dynamics by wholly accepting their fiduciary liability and headaches
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 – 2:02 AM by Brooke Southall
Brooke's Note: Forget ESG. It always seemed a little gimmicky, and too conundrum-freighted if hard moral choices have to be made -- like coal for freezing Europeans versus the Earth overheating. See: BlackRock to curb ESG 'social justice' proposals with its voting power this proxy season ...
The West Palm Beach, Fla., UMA provider grew about 40% in the six months ended July 29, thanks to a prior deal with the Chicago TAMP and by giving RIAs a power that other TAMPs can't provide.
Friday, July 1, 2022 – 12:47 AM by Brooke Southall
SMArtX Advisory Solutions is accruing assets this year at a heavenly rate by letting clients, on demand, get the hell out of stocks and into cash in a breeze.
Clarke now 'holds all the cards' to 'own the desktop' of hundreds of thousands of advisor firms, one consultant says, but analysts wonder whether Orion really has the 'bandwidth' to make a tech stack out of so many towering silos.
Thursday, June 9, 2022 – 1:39 AM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: We are writing [again] about a level of strategic action so big and complex that analysts -- egged on by reporters at RIABiz in two cases -- are doing their best to do a bite-sized assessment when any sensible person might be tempted to punt. The X factors ...
The Omaha, Neb., software and investments firm is buying Utah-based TownSquare to move upmarket to $2-trillion outsourced chief investment officer services
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 – 1:23 AM by Brooke Southall
Orion Advisor Solutions is buying one of its most explosively growing customers and getting an OCIO (outsourced chief investment officer) that thousands of RIA clients may find a better fit than a standard TAMP.
Investors responded to the Envestnet CEO's remarks -- and analyst takes - of yesterday's earnings call by sending company shares down sharply, while president Stuart DePina's future role remains murky.
Friday, May 6, 2022 – 7:24 PM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: I hope the new odds are right and Envestnet stays the course. The leadership and direction of the firm seem solid, and it's able to plow an annual $50 million back into reinventing the company. It's high-powered bootstrapping by a trustworthy crew with big ...
The Chicago TAMP grew fourfold in four years before J.P. Morgan Asset Management and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors made a big investment in the recharged no-name
Saturday, January 22, 2022 – 3:15 AM by Lisa Shidler
GeoWealth executed a poaching spree at the expense of AssetMark, Envestnet, Orion Portfolio Solutions and SEI on the heels of a $19-million funding round that includes an existing owner, J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
The Chicago giant sits on 180,000 largely unmonetized desktops thanks to its 'Work Station' and 'Office' software, but its RIA TAMP assets are meager after having no UMA to compete.
Friday, November 19, 2021 – 4:25 AM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: In financial journalism we throw around the term TAMP like it's candy, as if it stands for some defined, commoditized productized service that any fool would know, if they saw it. In this article, we commit the same misdemeanor because it beats the felony of ...
Orion CEO Eric Clarke purchase builds on a strategy of developing a data capability that helps his firm keep RIAs compliant and win enterprise deals head-to-head against Envestnet-Yodlee.
Saturday, November 13, 2021 – 3:38 AM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: It's almost hard to name a successful software company today that isn't succeeding because it has great sources of data and the ability to spin that straw into gold. Nobody in the RIA business has it nailed. Envestnet bought a big, fancy asset ...
The Concord, Calif., company, with $85 billion in TAMP assets, is rebooting with tighter manager curation and software that allows SMAs to work better in a portfolio with non-SMA products -- namely ETFs.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 – 10:26 PM by Brooke Southall
Brooke's Note: SMAs were always that place where Wall Street managers and fee-based advice could co-exist. Then things changed. Advisors got wise to the fact that fancy manager names in proliferation boosted expenses but did little to bolster returns. The big advantage of SMAs, thus, ...
The $10.8 trillion firm in Boston launched its first models in 2018 and with 7,000 advisors using them it has adjusted allocations to reflect preferences it couldn't have foreseen
Friday, August 6, 2021 – 4:33 AM by Oisin Breen
RIAs are again the tail wagging the dog; Fidelity Investments just added a 100%-equity model portfolio to its roster, citing RIA preferences -- not to expose clients to an ultra-bullish allocation -- but to gain more flexibility in asset allocation.
First Ascent now has $1.1 billion in RIA AUM and reached a sweet milestone -- its founder has a take-home salary and apparent sustainability.
Monday, June 14, 2021 – 8:41 PM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: First Ascent may be Scott MacKillop's first startup, and it has had its fair share of growing pains and moments of truth. But it was hardly the career money manager's first rodeo. When he had to decide whether to risk more of other ...
Hired to execute a revamp of old-line NaviPlan and keep the Milwaukee firm's 140,000-advisor installed base, the Advicent CEO played to the LA-based platform's mandatory acquisition of financial planning software to add to its $4 trillion of AUA.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 – 7:22 PM by Oisin Breen
InvestCloud just snapped up Advicent three months after inking its own $1-billion deal with Motive Partners, which now owns the lot.
Put in place by AssetMark's new high-powered chairwoman, the Charles Goldman protégé sees a way to take on Envestnet and Schwab after demoting MoneyGuidePro and closing the biggest deal in her company's history
Thursday, March 11, 2021 – 2:41 AM by Brooke Southall
Brooke's Note: AssetMark has long had what seemed to outsiders to be an RIA executive management Dream Team. The anchors were Charles Goldman, Michael Kim and Natalie Wolfsen, who joined the firm in 2014 following Myra Rothfeld's departure. Ex-TDA RIA software star Mukesh Mehta was added in 2017. ...
The Sand Hill Road VC leads biggest round of $45 million and adds former McKinsey analyst and KKR director Ravi Gupta, who leads new additions at the firm, which also include an ex-BlackRock CCO.
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 – 2:40 AM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: The robo-advice world is in a big transition. Wealthfront is becoming a bank. Jon Stein is moving on from Betterment. We no longer hear much about Trizic, Jemstep, SigFig or FutureAdvisor. AdvisorEngine is now part of Franklin Templeton. Personal Capital is part of Empower. Despite being ...
The famed JPMorgan CEO scooped up a Boston-based model portfolio startup that has a very RIA book of business.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 – 11:15 PM by Oisin Breen
Brooke's Note: The problem with RIAs and giant Wall Street firms getting along is that they never had anything in common to begin with. Or if they did, it created channel conflicts for the big firms and conflicts of interest for the RIAs. But times have ...