Ep. 140: Automating Advisor Workflows with Anand Sheth, Pulse360

Come on in, sit back and relax, you’re listening to episode 140 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group Consulting, and this podcast features interviews, news, and analysis on the trends and best practices all around wealth management technology. Our theme for this month is startups, we went […]
Ep. 139: The Connective Tissue Between Processes and Technology, with Matt Reiner, benjamin

Come on in, sit back and relax, you’re listening to episode 139 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group Consulting, and this podcast features interviews, news, and analysis on the trends and best practices all around wealth management technology. Our theme for this month is startups, we went […]
Ep. 138: Orion Advisor Buys Redtail Technology with Kristen Schmidt

This is a bonus episode that we recorded after the news dropped today about Orion Advisor buying Redtail Technology. With no preparation and at great personal expense, Kristen Schmidt and I had a discussion about the ramifications of this deal for customers, partners and competitors. We also covered messaging from Redtail, current CRM market share, […]
Ep. 137: Scalable Tax Planning for Advisors with Kevin Lozer, Holistiplan

Come on in, sit back and relax, you’re listening to episode 137 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group Consulting, and this podcast features interviews, news, and analysis on the trends and best practices all around wealth management technology. Our theme for this month is startups, we went […]
Ep. 136: April WealthTech News Roundup

Come on in, sit back, relax and enjoy episode 136 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, the founder and CEO of Ezra Group Consulting. Over the past 17 years, we’ve worked with hundreds of FinTech vendors and enterprise wealth management firms to guide them towards making better business and technology decisions. […]
Speaking Their Language: Integrating Insurance Data Into Wealth Management Systems

“The world is one big data problem.” – Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative According to a survey by research firm Gartner, “poor data quality is responsible for an average of $15 million per year in business losses.” They also found that nearly 60% of those surveyed didn’t know how much bad data costs their […]
Ep. 135: 3 Reasons to Diversify Your Data Aggregation Providers with Randy Lambert, Orion Advisor Solutions

“I’ll use a wealth management term, you want to diversify your portfolio, and so one of the things early on at Orion, we didn’t have a lot of options in terms of data aggregators, but over the years, we’ve learned to not put all of our eggs into one basket and to make sure that […]