Articles tagged "Orion Advisor Solutions"
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Manish Khatta joins forces with HiddenLevers co-founder Praveen Ghanta to launch GuardRails, a risk analysis play that rejects raw 'risk numbers' -- a 'game-changer' in the scale-minded RIA space, analyst says
The new Miami, Fla. venture will be the first, but not the last one launched by Potomac Fund Management, which has roughly doubled its managed assets in the last 12 months.
January 26, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Orion Advisor Solutions calls 6% staff reduction a 'final action,' after ballooning headcount 40-plus percent since 2020 by gorging on Brinker, Redtail and five other companies
The Omaha, Neb., administrator of $3.6 trillion will cut 'duplicative' back office jobs to reduce staff to 1,320 from about 1,400.
September 30, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Orion names 'left-brained' Natalie Wolfsen as CEO to replace Eric Clarke, and AssetMark, which synchronized its announcement, hires Michael Kim as her replacement
Orion Chairman Charles Goldman again lures his protege to self-replace, while Michael Kim was 'integral to AssetMark’s record financial performance over the past several years'
September 8, 2023 at 11:58 PM
Schwab's agonizingly long, methodical process to absorb near 8,000 TD Ameritrade RIA custody accounts into its own system is odds-on to yield a sweet result over Labor Day
Schwab Advisor Services still faces the stiff challenge of cultural assimilation but would-be detractors (like trade publications and even competitors) see little possibility it'll bungle Labor Day's switchover and its worst-case scenario on RIA attrition of 5% seems like a 'major win'
September 1, 2023 at 2:23 AM
Biz Briefs: SmartAsset makes deal to dumb down selling for unsalesy RIAs • Vanguard re-explains conflicting ESG signals • Alex I jabs Alex II at Citywire in bare knuckle exit [to Goldman Sachs] Q&A • BlackRock has clear path to $15 trillion by 2028 says mega-client
SmartAsset uses M&A to rewire RIAs • Vanguard has made its first statement on climate since it left a climate lobby group • BlackRock gets Morgan Stanley praise • CRM giant RedTail increases ties with a New York cash sifter, Flourish • Orion gets into online education.
May 9, 2023 at 2:16 AM
The RIA world's provacateur, Raj Udeshi, left Orion to go 'nuts,' bears no grudges after the Riskalyze assault, and reveals his one regret was taking too little risk
Now in Kern County, Calif. the HiddenLevers founder, 45, is growing pistachios for 'single-digit' returns and maintains a great relationship with Eric Clarke and Orion.
March 22, 2023 at 1:48 AM
Charles Goldman takes seat on Orion board sparking thoughts about RIA custody comeback in Omaha and just what it can do with the Redtail, Brinker and TownSquare acquisitions
The ex-Schwab/Fidelity RIA custody chief was a turnaround CEO at AssetMark where he ushered in a custody offering and an IPO.
October 1, 2022 at 12:45 AM
Schwab Advisor Services scuttles Orion's sweetheart TD Ameritrade software deal, but Eric Clarke is hopeful a fresh romance with Apex Clearing may blossom the same way
The Westlake, Texas RIA custodian 'sunset' the 2009 Eric Clarke deal with former TDA CEO Tom Bradley that lifted both Omaha firms.
August 17, 2022 at 1:24 AM
Eric Clarke is now in the OCIO business -- shortly after 3,400 advisors attended a Redtail CRM webinar -- which 'unlock(s) incredible cross-selling opportunities,' and all but bakes in 'no summer slump'
Orion closed its Town Square deal to sell outsourced chief investment officer services, but Orion is still madly hiring more staff and won't get to kick back for a summer lull.
July 13, 2022 at 6:05 PM
Orion speed-closes Redtail purchase in 48 days, so Eric Clarke can get right to work stacking it with four other M&A deals in two years at his Omaha mothership
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.
June 9, 2022 at 1:39 AM
Orion enters booming OCIO market with $6-billion AUM startup purchase, based on very firsthand knowledge
The Omaha, Neb., software and investments firm is buying Utah-based TownSquare to move upmarket to $2-trillion outsourced chief investment officer services
May 11, 2022 at 1:23 AM
Orion buys BasisCode to tame its own data tiger including HiddenLevers and the roiling IT trove of 2,200 RIAs with $1.7 trillion AUA
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.
November 13, 2021 at 3:38 AM
The ironic outcome of Riskalyze's negative advertising attack on Orion's risk subsidiary is a boost in fortunes for both, though the flare-up may also have unhelpfully awoken a sleeping Morningstar
The Auburn, Calif., firm still holds an '85% market share,' says Aaron Klein, and he also doesn't regret shining a spotlight on what he disparages as 'unfruitful guesswork'.
