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. 107: August News Roundup
Come on in, sit back, relax and enjoy episode 107 of the WealthTech Today podcast. I’m your host, Craig Iskowitz, the founder and CEO of Ezra Group Consulting. Over the past 16 years, we’ve worked with hundreds of FinTech vendors and enterprise wealth management firms to guide them towards making better business and technology decisions. […]
InVest 2015 Conference: Fast Twitter Recap – Day 1
This is my summary of day 1 of the In|Vest 2015 Conference. This is the first year for this conference and they are targeting a wide audience, at least beyond what I see at other wealth management events. Their goal was to bring together traditional wealth management firms, retail and private banks with enterprise technology and service providers, digital advisory and […]
The Battle for the RIA Technology Integration Hub
“Everybody wants to rule the world” — Tears for Fears, Songs from the Big Chair, 1985 The fight for control of the RIA technology integration hub is well underway as the first quarter of 2015 comes to a close. Vendors have been marshaling their forces to grab this critical territory on the advisor’s desktop; the […]
Risk Management for Financial Advisors Made Easy
“Living at risk is like jumping off a cliff and building your wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” ― Warren Buffett It often seems that the world has been just lurching from one crisis to the next, playing havoc with buy and hold strategies and modern portfolio […]
