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The odd rhythms of T3 meant expectations got heaped on 'Schwabitade's' Tom Bradley, with modest delivery, but quietly Black Diamond, Altuist, TradePMR and something called Nebo landed punches
The 900-attendee extravaganza shows deference to elephant sponsors, celebrates the next-level brands and newbies and is not above enthralling to ChatGPT mania -- as it did years past with robos, crypto, ESG and other forgotten nex-big-things
March 17, 2023 at 2:02 AM
MarketCounsel Summit convenes in Las Vegas with Goldman Sachs there to say: We are already really a $1-trillion custodian
Goldman Sachs used the low key, high traffic event in Nevada to signal to the RIA vendor crowd it's raring to get going with breakaway brokers,
December 10, 2022 at 4:21 AM
FSI rallies brokers in Dallas with an old battle cry -- access, access, access -- and a stated desire to deal with aging members-- 62% are older than 55
The 90-member lobby group for broker-dealers addressed its antiquated aspects--few digital adapters and small numbers of young people--with just 19% of its 30,000 advisors under the age of 45
February 3, 2022 at 1:06 AM
Brian Hamburger takes back Miami, gets 98% show rate at MC Summit, then plays devil's advocate for the M&A mania gripping the RIA business
Attendees made the trek to the Fontainebleau Hotel Resort amid health precautions to high-five flesh and do a very in-person reality check
December 9, 2021 at 10:47 PM
Skip Schweiss awakens FPA NorCal crowd with must-do DOL laundry list that starts with IRA billing and the need for chief laundering officers
The regional event in San Francisco with national draw -- even global draw -- gets a guy from Scotland to keep its lofty reputation up there
June 3, 2016 at 2:07 PM
How tech vendors pierced the glare generated by Fidelity's uni-bundle to get their message in edgewise to 650 advisors at T3
Apt metaphors for the state of the RIA business included a giant alarm clock and an actual drone delivering financial advice in the time of robo
February 16, 2016 at 7:19 PM
With Veo Village hive buzzing in background, Tom Nally rides herd on RIA 'Wild West' threats at vibrant LINC 2016
The laptop guys in another room won plaudits as the TD RIA custody chief counseled RIAs to embrace more practice audits and communicate more by story, less by Orwell
February 8, 2016 at 7:07 PM
Walt Bettinger unbites his lip and ignites a Schwab IMPACT Twitter squall and the RIA custody show goes on
Tweets connected Schwab CEO remarks to Wealthfront's chippy chief -- red meat to the de facto hometown crowd of advisors
November 16, 2015 at 7:53 PM
Mike Durbin goes deep at eMoney Summit on why Fidelity got into RIA software -- a 'culture' point driven home by mind-bending MoneyGuidePro news
eMoney's interim boss, long the king of Fido RIA custody, speaks of eMoney as a de facto genetic implant of blue ocean culture
October 22, 2015 at 6:10 PM
Greg Friedman channels his inner Marc Benioff and Junxure shows off its sky-high future before a crowd of $1B RIAs and RIA digerati in Vegas
Robos had their hush moment over a lost $5 million account and advisors buzzed over the Total Rebalance Expert-Morningstar deal but Friedman kept CRM at the center
October 12, 2015 at 4:34 PM
Pete Hess will shop for software firms to build in-house Black Diamond bundle
The Advent CEO says his firm, under SS&C ownership, will consider buying CRM, financial planning and rebalancing firms
June 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM
Jemstep swipes the spotlight at T3 Enterprise Conference in Atlanta
This pure-RIA-play robo has an approach, a culture, a deal with TD Ameritrade and a technology that's hitting a sweet note
November 14, 2014 at 6:01 AM
Peter Hess delivers Advent Direct specifics at AdventConnect as Dave Welling wows with Black Diamond's cloud advance
RIAs on a market high absorbed Advent Software's efforts to press skyward under rainy Las Vegas skies
September 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM
Laser App celebrates its RIA business quasi-monopoly by throwing a summit for all of whom it surveys
It's the killer app of the paper blob and it shares the wealth each year with a come-all B-to-B event
August 16, 2014 at 2:58 AM
TD Ameritrade hosts a posh 'billion-dollar club' summit at a seaside Ritz Carlton
With 190 cosseted advisors representing $215 billion of AUM, Fred Tomczyk laid out the bucks for Ben Bernanke and more
