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Bill Crager tightens his grip on power with promotion to CEO of Tamarac-holding unit.

Jud Bergman remakes Envestnet into two units and Bill Crager and Stuart DePina will head them as Anil Arora exits

Anora came three years ago in Yodlee deal and DePina came seven years ago with Tamarac purchase; Crager now oversees all advisors, including RIAs

January 10, 2019 at 11:11 PM

Bill Crager [to InvestmentNews]: Will BlackRock investment products benefit? Probably.

BlackRock buys Envestnet's love for $123 million to crack its 'open-architecture' platform and sets stage for another juicy Envestnet acquisition

The $6-trillion New York mega-manager buys 5% stake in the $2-trillion Chicago clearinghouse to get most-favored-vendor status in 'open architecture' environment

November 29, 2018 at 1:20 AM

Mike Sha (center): We’re not gonna disrupt a crusty industry. Discretion is the better part of valor for start-up people.

Schwab CTO's speech in NYC spotlights an RIA business addicted to innovation – with no fresh fix in sight

Timothy Heier set the lower-morale tone at In|Vest 2017 of a B2B industry waiting for a Mark Zuckerberg to push it forward again -- perhaps with artificial intelligence as the final frontier

July 20, 2017 at 9:37 PM

Jay Hummel: I would put our rep-assisted phone service up against anyone in the business.

After leaving Envestnet, Jay Hummel pops up at American Century with a 21st century plan

The former 'thought leader' is moving three children to Kansas City to more rapidly move the old-line mutual fund company to action

January 4, 2017 at 7:06 PM

Jon Stein: I really don't know about the ... presti-i-i-ige ... of a wirehouse.

The inverted reverence dynamic at The In|Vest event and why Bill Crager is so over it

Tomorrow is here: Wirehouse execs and IBM types play groupies as robo-founders leaned back in their chairs

June 23, 2016 at 6:19 PM

Jud Bergman: The biggest thing was the repricing due to the WMS client. That's the biggest single factor.

With Envestnet shares deeply depressed, analysts cut Jud Bergman little slack on 4Q earnings call

WIth a not-yet-integrated Yodlee, trouble with a big client, Lori Hardwick's departure and a recent history of muddy communication, CEO Jud Bergman worked hard to reassure

February 29, 2016 at 6:09 PM

Steve Dunlap: One of the things I was always so outspoken about was the engineering was great but the user-interface and the experience was something that could have been better.

Ex-Lockwood CEO Steve Dunlap takes on role at FolioDynamix after being a customer with a bone to pick

With new Actua ownership, Dunlap and capital, FolioDynamix CEO Joseph Mrak says his firm has Envestnet in its sights

January 29, 2016 at 9:04 PM

Greg Verfaillie: In the conversations I've been having with advisors, it's clear this decision is not going to be made on product or platform; it's about the relationship.

Curian Capital predators position to pounce -- but a few copiously keep their distance to avoid quills

As smaller TAMPs play the finesse game, SEI, AssetMark and Envestnet, with combined $100 billion-plus AUM, see a path to play up their size and scale after the smaller TAMP falters

August 17, 2015 at 4:51 PM

Anil Arora: There’s an enormous transformation going on in financial services, and we’re going to accelerate that.

Envestnet buys Yodlee and its treasure trove of 'permissioned' data by selling its vision of the future of financial advice

The Chicago overachiever's deal is its third Silicon Valley acquisition overall, and second this year

August 10, 2015 at 10:11 PM

Bill Crager: Financial planning creeps closer to us. We'd like to build or be strategic.

How it is that the new, new thing in financial advice is an old, old thing retreaded and vastly improved

Financial planning software is hot everywhere you look, from the M&A market to the robo pipelines, driven by a reframing of its very reason to exist

April 21, 2015 at 5:43 PM

Matthew McGinness: A lot of advisors have grown rusty in engaging clients.

Envestnet gets Matt McGinness as it launches an advisor consulting division

The problem for the Chicago outsourcer is that its insourcers are stung by 2008 and operating in suboptimal fashion

April 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM

Charles Goldman carries on the kind of side conversation that makes the Tiburon CEO Summit wheels spin.

Top RIA takeaways from my trip to New York City and my stop-by at the Tiburon CEO Summit

My trip spanned Midtown (Envestnet), the Flatiron District (Betterment) and Wall Street (periphery of the Tiburon CEO Summit)

April 13, 2015 at 7:48 PM

Gib Watson: A lot of these challenges revolve around fragmented data.

Envestnet turns its guns on the 401(k) business

With a 57% stake in a new venture, the Chicago SMA supermarketer tackles a second TAMP gusher

December 9, 2014 at 1:35 AM

Bill Crager: We will leverage our core competency of converting large books of business.

After years of working to stand on its own two feet, Placemark staggers into the arms of Envestnet

The future looked nova-bright in 2006 when Smith Barney labelled the Dallas-based advisor, but since then the UMA specialist has fallen short of expectations

July 3, 2014 at 3:24 PM

Stuart DePina of Tamarac is Envestnet's RIA connection

Observations on the Envestnet Advisor Summit from the carsick seat of a Chicago taxi cab

Brian Hamburger relayed his thoughts on 36 hours at Jud Bergman's 'house' on the way to the airport

May 16, 2014 at 9:05 PM

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