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Peter Hess: I am extremely optimistic that we can close that gap to greatness.
September 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM

Mike Golaszewski: With the right combination of hardware and software, most eight-character passwords can be brute-forced.

With your RIA practice as naked as Kirstin and Kate in the cloud, know two words: Google Authenticator

With advisors migrating their practices online, the vulnerability can't be overstated or easier to address

September 4, 2014 at 3:07 AM

Karen White: We're winning customers from Advent, Black Diamond every quarter.

Addepar has two new 'grown-up' leaders but the same mantra: double down, triple down then quadruple down on engineering

The almost unfathomable Silicon Valley investment being poured into creating wealth management software a catch-up move after decades of falling behind

July 21, 2014 at 7:59 PM

Anthony Sperling: We're de-coupling our growth from accounting systems.

Two years in, Advent Software gives itself a Sept. 30 deadline to release the middleware that will draw Axys users into the Cloud

Advent Direct is groundbreaking and breathtaking in its ambidexterity but is it enough to stop the feeding frenzy by Tamarac, Orion and other cloud natives

May 29, 2014 at 2:34 AM

Rob Fiore: Four years ago, it was a $40-million clients size average. We have seen a dramatic shift.

PCR singles out Advent/Black Diamond for reverse predatory pricing in bid to move further downmarket

The Wilton, Conn. white-shoe software firm wants to underscore its ultra-coddling that won private banks

March 3, 2014 at 9:21 PM

David Welling: The large firms are starting to outsource. I feel like the momentum is building. We're in a great spot.

Black Diamond blows the lid off asset growth in Dave Welling's first year in charge

Assets jumped about 65% and the former Schwabbie says that growth is accelerating

February 26, 2014 at 8:00 AM

Bill Rourke: If we don’t do this, we don’t get the business.

How Ric Edelman's bounty of radio and TV leads pushed his $12-billion RIA from Microsoft to GoldMine to Salentica

The secondary effect was a muscle flexing that brought about a TD integration with Schwab's gritted-teeth blessing

January 21, 2014 at 6:40 AM

Stuart DePina: They wanted to find a reach into the RIA channel and they placed their bet on Tamarac to make that happen.

Envestnet struts upmarket stuff by signing a $1.5-billion, a $3.3-billion, a $2.3-billion and a $4-billion RIA to big technology deals

Post-Tamarac acquisition and bolstering, the Chicago-based king of SMAs to IBDs poached accounts from the likes of The Colony Group, Henssler Financial, Laird Norton, RegentAtlantic from legacy RIA providers

November 25, 2013 at 9:13 PM

Tom Livergood: Everyone is grappling with the issue.

Why a disconnect between reporting software and advisors to UHNW assets persists -- and what makes the problem so thorny

Many big-time wealth managers are plagued by their own foibles, their clients' peculiar challenges and third-parties who haven't quite gotten a handle on the challenges

November 19, 2013 at 8:05 PM

Reed Colley: I love solving problems and I've not always been the best at implementing solutions.

Reed Colley steps down from executive-level duties after selling Black Diamond

With bucks in the bank and his Advent mission largely accomplished, the 36-year-old entrepreneur is eyeing ventures, offering his two cents at Advent when asked

September 26, 2013 at 3:55 AM

Under same management, but with a new logo,  Advent lowers the boom on its retired signage.

Advent unveils new logo at its annual San Francisco conference -- after discarding one that failed to elicit a sense of the progressive from RIAs

From signage to stationery to T-shirts to a new tech platform, Advent aims to move past its safe-as-houses reputation and up into the cloud

September 23, 2013 at 6:24 PM

Todd Morgan: It wasn't our fault it didn't work out the first time. We would have preferred to stay.

How 3 wealth managers at Goldman Sachs parlayed a $1 billion book of business into a $125-million payday -- after doing it once before for $217 million

Todd Morgan sold his practice to State Street the first time, bought it back and is now selling to an entity partially owned by the National Bank of Canada

September 5, 2013 at 3:37 AM

David Welling: We call these 'boomerang' folks. These people make a move as soon as they can get out of their existing contract.

Black Diamond divulges 'unbelievable' data about how Advent is doing, two years after its $73-million buy

The growth at the Jacksonville, Fla.-based RIA unit is pretty stunning, but competitors say that Axys users are still ripe for the picking

June 26, 2013 at 5:12 AM

Geoffrey Clauss: I'm coming in to help scale this.

Addepar hires an Advent talent to help head sales, an ex-Lehman exec as COO and an ex-Merrill Lynch strategist

Geoffrey Clauss, Eric Poirier and Caroline O'Mahony all took pay cuts to help position the firm to gobble serious RIA market share

May 3, 2013 at 5:11 AM

Bo Dong: We actually are helping Advent, not so much taking business away. Otherwise, you probably would have jumped.

How two ex-myCFO guys are winning big RIA clients by using a pilot fish strategy to win Advent clients without harming the host

WealthSite is a no-name, but its customers are not, and it's winning by skimming the performance reporting off the top of Advent and PortfolioCenter accounts

April 4, 2013 at 7:02 PM

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