Insights

Running your firm

Operations, billing, trading, drift and the records everything else is computed from — the work that decides whether the rest holds.

Practice management

A fixed review cycle is a capacity plan →

Cadence should follow complexity, not the calendar.

Tools

Choosing a CRM as an RIA →

Redtail, Wealthbox and Salesforce, written without a horse in the race.

Practice management

If you vanished for three weeks →

Almost every firm runs on knowledge recorded nowhere.

Portfolios

One account. Three managers. →

Three mandates should not mean three registrations. That is a software constraint.

Operations

Running more than one custodian →

Rarely by design. Reconciliation does not add — it multiplies.

Controls

Who can see this client? →

Most systems enforce access on the screen. That is not where access is enforced.

Architecture

Who owns the number? →

Four systems can compute a client's return, each correctly, each differently.

Operations

Why billing goes wrong →

Nobody leaves over a fee error. They leave over what the fee error tells them.

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