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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. 

  1. From Good to Great - Then from Great to Elite: Inside the Stratos Growth Story with Jeff Concepcion

    JAN 8

    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 firms in wealth management. With more than $37 billion in assets across its platform, over 350 advisors and a diverse mix of businesses that are purpose-built for growth-oriented advisors and firms, Stratos has become one of the most influential firms in w...

    27 min
  2. Gibson Capital: An 'Uncommonly Attentive Advice' Strategy

    12/10/2024

    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’s prolonged success, the notion of providing “uncommonly attentive advice” has always stayed at the core for Gibson, one of the most focused and intentional RIAs you will come across in this industry. Christine DeMao, Gibson’s COO, and Chris Sidoni, Gi...

    37 min
  3. FL Putnam's Tom Manning: An Inside Look at One of the Nation's Fastest-Growing RIAs

    11/18/2024

    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 wealth platform with a diverse mix of services – one that has the firm positioned for continued strategic growth in 2025 and beyond. Tom Manning sits down with Emigrant's Mark Bruno in this first episode of season 2 of RIA+ to offer an inside look at the d...

    29 min
  4. An Inside Look at Pure Financial - An RIA Organic Growth Machine

    08/07/2024

    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 Partner and CFO. They dive deep into the growth story of Pure, which now has over $6 billion in assets and is exponentially outpacing the growth rates of its peers. They explore Pure's market focus and business model, its innovative content strategy - and ho...

    50 min
  5. The Truth About RIA Organic Growth: Schwab's Lisa Salvi

    07/18/2024

    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 growth. In this episode of RIA+, Emigrant's Mark Bruno interviews Schwab's Lisa Salvi, Managing Director, Advisor Services, about the key findings from the 2024 Schwab benchmarking study, which highlights the remarkable growth in the RIA channel. They go d...

    35 min
  6. The State of RIA M&A: Beyond the Numbers with Fidelity's Laura Delaney

    07/01/2024

    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 beyond the numbers and focuses on the drivers of successful M&A activity and uncovers what the RIA industry has collectively learned over the last five years - a period of record-breaking and transformational M&A.

    40 min
  7. Verdence's Leo Kelly: Building an RIA with the 'client as the architect'

    06/19/2024

    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: Build you firm like your client is the architect. Verdence, one of the nations' fastest-growing RIAs, continues to invest in both talent and technology to build out and enhance its unique business model - while also making sure they deliver a high...

    42 min
  8. Talent as a Driver of Strategic Growth: Charlie Rocco of Moneco Advisors

    05/31/2024

    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 seen some impressive accelerated growth rates over the last year. Charlie Rocco, Managing Partner at Moneco, joined this episode of RIA+ to share how he and his leadership team have hard-wired Moneco to ensure everyone is focused on growth and cl...

    36 min
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About

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. 

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  • Creator
    Mark Bruno
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2025
  • Episodes
    17
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2025 RIA+
  • Show Website
    RIA+

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