The Fintech Fix: Inside the Orion & Asset-Map collaboration

The Fintech Fix: Inside the Orion & Asset-Map collaboration

In this latest installment of The Fintech Fix, Gregory FCA checks in with Orion’s Head of Partner Integrations Jeff Kliewer and Asset-Map’s Founder H. Adam Holt. The two firms recently integrated, allowing Orion users more fluid access to technology assisting the...
The branding fallacy: How financial firms get it wrong

The branding fallacy: How financial firms get it wrong

Running a fast-growing PR firm that services clients across the technology, financial services, health care and real estate industries has enabled me to see up close how businesses of different size, scope and target audience approach their marketing efforts....
Every RIA is impacted by M&A trends, whether they know it or not

Every RIA is impacted by M&A trends, whether they know it or not

Here’s a little food for thought as you get ready for your Memorial Day weekend. In mid April, ECHELON Partners provided its update on RIA deal-making activity for the first quarter of 2018. Per their report, there were 46 announced deals consummated in the quarter,...
RIA firms: Crypto-proof your business

RIA firms: Crypto-proof your business

​“I don’t need you. I can just do it myself.” That’s the phrase advisors have feared since the first online discount brokerages started marketing to the average investor. The same feeling that empowered a generation of day-traders, inspired the dawn of the...