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Pete Giza: You look at any portfolio accounting management system today, it’s archaic. I don’t care which one you choose ... [They're] being left in the cosmic dust.

Pete Giza and Damon Deru go for Holy Grail of portfolio rebalancing with software that shuffles stocks, bonds... and asset classes; Believe it?

The RedBlack and TradeWarrior executives see old systems as 'archaic' yet know that the Black Diamonds, Morningstars, Orions and Tamaracs see rebalancing as a loss leader

June 11, 2019 at 9:49 PM

Sallie Krawcheck: All this nonsense about lattes and shoes is shifting the attention -- and thus the blame -- for the underlying systemic money challenges women face, to the women themselves.

Oisin's Bits: Sallie Krawcheck defends latte-spending after high-net-worth pivot • Black Diamond surges past $1 trillion • Fieldpoint loses $400 million book of business to HighTower RIA sparking war of words

Sallie Krawcheck rails; the Jacksonville portfolio management firm dwarfs Advent; and a HighTower RIA airlifts $400 billion from Fieldpoint, sparking strong words

May 20, 2019 at 4:32 PM

David Waddell: If I were sitting on the board of one of these [portfolio management] companies, I’d say ‘stop what you’re doing and go hit the phones.'

Schwab PortfolioCenter sale to Envestnet signals open season on 2,300 RIAs in the deal; Orion bags six; 'Why didn't Tamarac call me?' some ask

Whether you are Bridge, BlackDiamond, FinFolio or Morningstar, you are not sitting out this once-in-a-generation orphaning by a legacy giant of portfolio accounting software

March 7, 2019 at 1:59 AM

David Ireland: We started with Advent and Black Diamond integrations, then APX … now we're talking with other [SS&C] portfolio systems.

As Salentica settles into life as SS&C's fair-haired CRM, downsides of being a sheltered software child are also apparent, critics say

Black Diamond and Advent are still in reach but the firm's appeal to smaller fry in need of low pricing is more limited

May 15, 2018 at 5:26 PM

Devin Vigil: [If] you dangle some money in front of Abar in his 20s, it's a different story than dangling some now .… He wants redemption.

Matt Abar hopes three's a charm with FinFolio cloud launch and robo play

FinFolio finally goes 2.0 and gets $20-billion assets bump, but there's a lot of ground to make up

April 5, 2018 at 12:08 AM

Larry Shumbre: Riskalyze doesn't work for any advisor who knows the basics of risk.

Totum's bid to beat Riskalyze, including its own 1 to 99 risk number, gets reward -- acceptance by Black Diamond and CircleBlack

CEO Larry Shumbres says financial advice industry is in for a shock, as thousands-strong uptick in users shows Totum Risk is the real deal

March 30, 2018 at 8:39 PM

Robert Roley: If we can make that pain go away, it's a huge value add for them.

How much of SS&C's $5.4-billion buy of DST Systems trickles down to Black Diamond RIAs? Maybe a good bit

The mother lode of DST data is expected to salve RIA data aggregation distress as the mega-vendor of data to Advent Custodial Data comes in-house

January 17, 2018 at 6:54 PM

Eli George: Surprisingly, a lot of the firms $1 billion and more were coming to us.

SS&C solves its Axys problem -- for now -- by acquiring Modestspark

The owner of Advent and Black Diamond buys tiny two-person Redmond, Wash. firm that also solves Schwab's PortfolioCenter problem with digital add-on

November 2, 2017 at 11:00 PM

Dave Welling: We will choose whatever technology best helps us deliver an outstanding experience to our clients.

Black Diamond loses serial white knight Dave Welling to a $10-billion RIA that uses Orion

The RIA performance reporting software giant in Jacksonville grew like crazy under its leader though two mergers but David Barton made an irresistible offer

August 3, 2017 at 4:43 PM

T3 organizer Joel Bruckenstein (l.) set the stage for a smorgasbord of announcements, acquisitions and integrations.

An e-marriage of Schwab and Fidelity, a reflective Ron Carson and good jargon-bashing made T3 take off like that helicopter outside

Addepar and FolioDynamix team up, Fidelity defends its robo-AMP and Carson tells why the Carson Wealth-LPL partnership failed -- and what blame he takes

February 21, 2017 at 6:52 PM

Pete Hess [at Nasdaq opening bell with Advent board chair Stephanie DiMarco in 2012]: I'm going to take six months off after 23 years. I want to come back fully regenerated.

Pete Hess steps down at Advent Software just as Axys gets whodathunkit fix

Dave Welling will co-head Advent with Robert Roley as Black Diamond reporting is introduced to to Axys users

May 25, 2016 at 2:49 PM

Jon Baum: If you go and visit the company in Omaha, there's no sense that it's a family business. There are two main campuses and it's a very big and professionally run business.

Orion's parent NorthStar tops 700 employees, finishes second Omaha campus and taps a super-exec from central casting to run it all

With Eric and Todd Clarke handling day-to-day challenges at Orion and CLS, NorthStar finds an un-Clarke in Jon Baum, former CEO and chairman of The Dreyfus Corp.

March 24, 2016 at 7:02 PM

In his newly created position, Chris Whiting aims to eliminate Balkanization for RIAs using Black Diamond.

In first major act as Black Diamond/Advent owner, SS&C Technologies hires operation chief of $14-billion RIA to fill new role

Chris Whiting left Moneta Group in September after big changes at that RIA to join the software company that did his firm's performance reporting

December 21, 2015 at 9:11 PM

Dave Welling will now get his crack at giving Advent Axys a clear way forward.

SS&C's first big act as Advent Software's new owner is to put RIAs using Axys and APX under Black Diamond

Pete Hess will be the asset management czar and David Welling will rule all things RIA in the new framework

July 23, 2015 at 6:32 PM

David Benskin: Basically, I built 50 spreadsheets.

How a software-flummoxed ex-Merrill Lynch private banker set up shop, invented his own dashboard and is selling it to top RIAs

David Benskin is bringing on talent from eMoney, Black Diamond and Envestnet to grow Wealth Access

June 25, 2015 at 5:13 PM

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