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Bill Crager: We're not going to be a robo advisor. We're not going direct to consumers.

Bill Crager: I've got your back against the attack of the killer robo-advisors

Bringing the wood at the Envestnet Advisor Summit, the president allows that online advisors are crackerjack at providing account views 24-7 but human advisors can close that gap

May 16, 2014 at 2:57 AM

Roger Paradisio: I think model delivery is early enough in its world—it's only been going on for so many years and it's small enough that we can contain it now.

How Envestnet is taking its stranglehold on money-managers-to-IBD reps distribution to a much wider channel base of financial advisors

The Chicago-based giant will use standards, critical mass, manager relations, folio technology and a special MMI blessing to cut costs and hassles in a way that shift the cost paradigm

March 17, 2014 at 6:40 AM

Alois Pirker: Innovation is now more of a visionary thing, and an appetite thing, rather than about the monetary angle.

The 6 biggest trends affecting the RIA business

Alois Pirker, Mike Durbin and Meredith Rice help RIABiz paint the Big Picture for private wealth management in the U.S. and beyond

February 24, 2014 at 5:35 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

Bill Crager: New chapter, full speed.

Envestnet goes back to its un-marketing marketing approach as Marion Asnes (mostly) leaves and her CMO spot gets deleted

On fire, Envestnet will still 'market' through conferences, advertisements and the like but with a more decentralized command structure

September 10, 2013 at 5:40 PM

Bill Crager: The content race will be on and we'll open up a whole new competitive landscape for asset management.

Having won advisor assets, Envestnet's next -- more Google-like -- play is for their smarts

The Chicago outsourcer will soak up and synthesize information from 23,000 advisors and distribute it in real time in an effort to create one big giant brain out of an atomized industry

May 10, 2013 at 5:40 PM

Sallie Krawcheck: I worry our industry will become the Republican party -- with middle-age white guys talking to middle-age white guys, saying that we need to change.

At Envestnet event, Sallie Krawcheck alludes to Crager alliance, blasts women-as-niche marketers and edges perhaps closer to endorsing the RIA model

The former wirehouse exec is satisfied with her own 'gal about town' status but not 'Republican' tendencies of financial advisors

May 7, 2013 at 4:27 PM

Jud Bergman: Many of them have experienced an ah-ha moment. That's the moment that all pioneers love. (Photo courtesy of Tiburon Strategic Advisors)

Envestnet breaks out ENV2 to oohs, aahs and a few groans at its bust-out event in Chicago

After years of cobbling on capabilities, the TAMP streamlined and made tablet-compatible its web presence, though not to pure approbation

May 2, 2013 at 5:17 AM

Adam Birenbaum: We fundamentally believe that a group will emerge as a large practice that will compete against the wirehouses.

Top 5 most influential RIA figures of 2012 going into 2013

Putting their own capital -- and that of trusting others -- into their own edge-cutting ideas, these guys plow ahead with smiles on their faces

March 13, 2013 at 9:11 PM

All roads led to Silicon Valley as technology firms serving the financial advisory industry found their groove.

Top 12 crucial technology happenings affecting RIAs in 2012, Part 2

Silicon Valley woke up to the potential RIA business, a phenomenon perhaps best embodied by the meteoric rise of one youth-fueled venture -- and our No. 1 pick on this list

January 22, 2013 at 4:15 AM

Shirl Penney: We're keeping the numbers small.

Dynasty Financial turns two, picks a new long-term goal and shows off $2 billion of SMA assets

The New York corner-office outsourcer guys leave plenty of room to grow but will never have Smith Barney numbers

December 17, 2012 at 3:55 PM

Todd Thomson lives on an evacuated island but decided to stay with neighbors and depend on generators.

How RIA business players in New York are roughing it through Hurricane Sandy

Principals at Dynasty, Envestnet and AppCrown are engaging in guerrilla tactics to brave near-impossible business conditions

October 31, 2012 at 6:57 PM

Alex Potts: It's the biggest investment we've ever taken on.

With help from Envestnet and a former Genworth technology whiz, Loring Ward is revamping its TAMP platform

The San Jose firm is counting on competitors and former talent of competitors to make sure it spends its millions efficiently

May 8, 2012 at 3:27 AM

Stuart DePina: Right after the deal was announced, we signed a $10 billion RIA who wasn't an Envestnet client.

As it closes its $54-million purchase of Tamarac, Envestnet details plans to deploy $7 million worth of retention incentives

The big outsourcer says it wants Tamarac's execs to stay aboard -- and not just for the a few months

May 3, 2012 at 5:17 AM

John Coyne: It wasn't that we had a problem with performance. The industry had a problem with performance.

With formerly hot TAMP category hitting a cold patch, Envestnet stays on a roll

Genworth had great annual results but hit an asset-gathering wall this summer; Brinker, a dark horse, makes solid showing

March 9, 2012 at 5:16 AM

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