Ep. 174: Pershing X Goes All In On Financial Planning, with Ainslie Simmonds

Come on in and sit back relax, you’re listening to Episode 174 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. This episode is part of our ongoing series focusing […]
Ep. 143: May News: Twenty Terrific Takeaways from the T3 Conference

Hey, come on in. Welcome. Sit back and relax. You’re listening to our May News for the WealthToday podcast. I’m your host Craig Iskowitz, founder of Ezra Group consulting. And our May News this month is all about the T3 conference, held May 2-4 outside of Dallas, Texas, a city that I love to visit, […]
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 […]
Ep. 125: The Holy Grail of Platform Consolidation with Anton Honikman, MyVest

“If you think about platform consolidation, maybe you think about platform consolidation in terms of the abstraction layer. So you can still keep the trust accounting platform and the agency platform intact and use the managed accounts program, unified technology as a means of spanning those. And that is hard again, but it does provide […]
Ep. 120: Alternatives: the Final Frontier of Investing with Matt Brown, CAIS

“It’s a very competitive world out there right now and alternative investments are stepping in and filling the gap in client portfolios. Advisors are disappointed with traditional long only approach to investing, that broken 60/40 model. It’s never been about lack of desire to have access to these types of funds and products. It’s always […]