RIA+
RIA+ is a podcast for leaders of large, enterprise Registered Investment Advisory firms. Specifically, RIA+ provides insights into how some of the most successful RIAs are creating, maintaining and accelerating growth - while also ensuring their firms are appropriately developing talent and creating businesses that are culturally set up for long-term success.
Episodes
18 episodes
The Future of Financial Advice? How Fruitful is Reshaping the Role of Advisors
In this episode of RIA+, Emigrant's Mark Bruno sits with Sam Lewis, the founder and CEO of Fruitful, a financial wellness solution that provides its clients, or its "members", with high-touch advice that is delivered in a largely digital experi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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39:46
From Good to Great - Then from Great to Elite: Inside the Stratos Growth Story with Jeff Concepcion
In this episode of RIA+, Jeff Concepcion – founder and CEO of Stratos Wealth – one of the fastest-growing, sits down with Emigrant's Mark Bruno to discuss the strategies and tactics that have fueled of one of the largest and most successful fir...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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27:24
Gibson Capital: An 'Uncommonly Attentive Advice' Strategy
This episode of RIA+ features two key leaders at Gibson Capital – which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary and now manages roughly $2.5B for 200 families across the country. While a number of strategic decisions have contributed to Gibson...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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37:14
FL Putnam's Tom Manning: An Inside Look at One of the Nation's Fastest-Growing RIAs
FL Putnam is one of the fastest-growing RIAs in the nation, and crossed $10B in assets earlier this year after successfully acquiring and integrating a number of businesses and teams over the last 24 months. The firm has evolved into a true wea...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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28:42
An Inside Look at Pure Financial - An RIA Organic Growth Machine
In this episode of RIA+, Emigrant's Mark Bruno goes "under the hood" of Pure Financial - one of the most sophisticated and strategic RIAs in the industry. Mark talks with Joe Anderson, President and CEO of Pure, and Jason Carver, Managing Partn...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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49:36
The Truth About RIA Organic Growth: Schwab's Lisa Salvi
The top-performing firms in the RIA industry have experienced organic growth rates that are more than double the typical firm - and Charles' Schwab's new RIA benchmarking study provides a close-up of the strategies and tactics driving their gro...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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35:09
The State of RIA M&A: Beyond the Numbers with Fidelity's Laura Delaney
In this episode of RIA+, Mark Bruno talks with Fidelity's Laura Delaney - one of the leading RIA M&A researchers - about dealmaking activity in the first half of 2024. While overall volume and valuations remain strong, this interview goes b...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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39:30
Verdence's Leo Kelly: Building an RIA with the 'client as the architect'
While it's been years since Leo Kelly, CEO and founder of Verdence Capital Advisors, left the wirehouse world for the independent channel, a simple governing principle continues to anchor his vision for leading one of the industry's top RIAs: B...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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42:07
Talent as a Driver of Strategic Growth: Charlie Rocco of Moneco Advisors
There's often a direct correlation between an RIA's growth and its approach to talent recruitment, development and advancement. There's no better example of this than Moneco Advisors, which joined Emigrant as a Partner Firm in mid-2023 and has ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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36:10
Wealth Management 3.0: Max Lane on the Future of Talent, Transition & Technology
Several "megatrends" are rapidly re-shaping the dynamics of the wealth management industry -- seemingly in real-time. A massive intergenerational transfer of wealth, the emergence of new technologies, and the need to provide clients of all ages...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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41:53
Gaining Traction: Mike Paton on Why Scores of RIA Leaders Embrace EOS
As RIAs continue to experience accelerated growth in their businesses, client bases and teams - an Enterprise Operating System has become an important framework for many leaders across the industry. The EOS framework, detailed in Gino Wickman's...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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35:35
An Inside Look at an RIA Rebrand: Maslow Wealth Advisors' Tylor Bordelon Seaman
This episode of RIA+ features a timely interview with Tylor Bordelon Seaman, the CEO of Maslow Wealth Advisors - the $1.5 billion RIA formerly known as Durbin Bennett until the beginning of March 2024. Tylor sat with Emigrant Partners' Mark Bru...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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46:19
The Art & Science of Creating an Exceptional RIA: Dakota Wealth Management
Very few RIAs are strategically approaching the development of their team, talent and culture like Dakota Wealth Management - and a quick walk through their offices, which could also double for an art gallery, will give you an immediate sense f...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:06:48
The Art of the 'Manage': Mark Tibergien on the Real Keys to Successful RIA M&A
Mergers and acquisitions have dramatically reshaped the RIA landscape over the last several years, with hundreds of deals taking place annually. Now, however, the best leaders in the RIA industry are focused less on just "the art of the deal" -...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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38:12
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From Good to Great: Lessons in RIA Leadership with Morton's Jeff Sarti & Stacey McKinnon
The leaders of Morton Wealth Management have a different way of thinking about growth and success in the RIA industry. Building and maintaining a firm that empowers its employees and values growth starts at the top - and it requires a unique ba...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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52:08
The Intersection of Entrepreneurialism & Energy: SDCL's Jonathan Maxwell
This episode of RIA+ features Jonathan Maxwell, the founder & CEO of Sustainable Development Capital, a U.K.-based investment manager and one of Emigrant’s 20 partner firms. The episode focuses on Jonathan’s entrepreneurial journey and what...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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39:05
Building a National Brand: Stratos Private Wealth's Jeff Brown
Just several months after a re-launch and re-brand of his San Diego-based wealth management business, Jeff Brown has his sights set on one very specific goal: Building a one-of-a kind national firm that provides financial planning, investment m...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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39:50
Building an RIA Enterprise: Reza Zamani of SteelPeak Wealth
The first-ever episode of RIA+ features Reza Zamani, founder and CEO of SteelPeak Wealth Management, one of the fastest-growing and most strategic RIAs in the industry, and one of Emigrant's 20 Partner Firms. Reza and his team started SteelPeak...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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41:28
