What Exactly is Riskalyze Building?
“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed”. When science-fiction writer William Gibson came up with this maxim in the early 1990’s, he was referring to how technological advances are unevenly spread across the globe. The same holds true for technological advances across the fintech space. Take Riskalyze for example. When the company was […]
Rogue 4-0 One: Can Robo-Platform Vestwell Help Advisors Defeat The Retirement Deathstar?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… It was thought that when 401(k) plans were introduced to the universe, they would be a rebellious solution to fight the decline of company-sponsored pension plans. However, the numbers are in and they don’t look good for our heroes. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, only […]
Jemstep Advisor Pro Helps Convert Robo Prospects into Clients
While some robo-advisor firms are making news by being acquired or spending their VC dollars on flashy marketing campaigns, some companies prefer to stay low-key and build their businesses the old fashioned way; by providing innovative solutions that add value for clients. Jemstep falls squarely into the latter category. While they began as a direct […]
One Platform To Rule Them All: How Consolidation Transforms Wealth Management Systems
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” — Norman Maclean, Author In the past decade, we have seen consolidation across a wide swatch of the technology landscape. Cars have merged with computers to be able to drive themselves, televisions have merged with the Internet to offer more entertainment choices and […]
The Best of Both Worlds: Portfolio Rebalancing + Best Execution = Blaze Portfolio
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs For the past year and a half, I have been meeting with vendors of portfolio rebalancing software, seeing demos of their products and writing a series of articles about my findings. All of the applications were very good and provided a long list […]
IAS Responds: Which Portfolio Rebalancing Software is Right for You?
As part of my series of articles on portfolio rebalancing software, I met with some folks from Interactive Advisory Software (IAS), who were kind enough to give me a demo of not only their rebalancing tools, but their entire wealth management platform, called Solution 360. IAS is based in Egg Harbor Township, NJ and was founded in 2000. They […]
Envestnet buys UMA Experts Placemark Investments for $66 Million
Last week, I was contacted by my new favorite reporter at FundFire, Danielle Verbrigghe (sorry Tom Stabile) who was writing an article about the purchase of Placemark Investments by Envestnet. She wanted my view on the benefits of the acquisition to Envestnet as well as for the managers currently on Placemark’s platform. Envestnet was already the […]
FolioDynamix Making Waves in Bank Trust Market
Fundfire featured an article yesterday about FolioDynamix adding a new client in the bank trust space. They called me for comments on how the company has positioned themselves to increase bank trust market share and if their platform provides an opportunity for asset managers to sell more product. The article is by Danielle Verbrigghe, who recently […]
