Evaluating which RIA+ custom configuration is best for you depends on your unique needs and strategic goals.
CONTINUITY AND SUCCESSION
Provides turnkey blueprints crafted by an experienced team. Planning that may take advisors years and thousands to build solo. We help coordinate seamless leadership transitions, client service continuity, and account for unexpected events so you can reduce your risk and rest easy.
COMPETITIVE EDGE OPERATIONS
Best suited for firms >$300MM in AUM, Competitive Edge gives you immediate and enhanced capabilities with sophisticated research, investments, operations and compliance tools.
OCIO RESEARCH AND PRIVATE ACCESS
Leverage our asset allocation research and manager due diligence to add value to your offerings. These services can be private-labeled to accentuate your firm’s brand. Additionally, we facilitate access to asset managers and specialized public/private strategies designed for attracting and serving more higher-net-worth investors.
Elevate your practice, accelerate growth, enhance your strengths, secure exclusive access, and protect your legacy.
Who can we help?
Whether you’re a solo advisor with $50MM AUM or a mid-sized advisory with $500MM AUM, we will customize resources based on your priorities—from portfolios to technologies to succession planning and more. If you seek greater investment capabilities, operational excellence, or continuity planning to stay focused on clients, we become your strategic partner to help you get there.
At what stage?
Are you focused on establishing a new firm, growing an existing firm, creating a lifestyle business, or looking for succession and retirement? We have either been there or worked with other advisors to help them find the right solutions. We believe we can do the same for you, no matter where you are on your journey.
SMALLER FIRMS AND BREAKAWAYS
Many entrepreneurial advisors are talented at working with clients yet face difficulties running back-office operations. They can “do anything,” yet their expertise is best spent “in front of clients,” directly generating revenue. By offloading administrative tasks, solo advisors regain focus on their “highest and best use”—while still leveraging solutions that help their firm compete with larger competitors. For those seeking independence, the landscape offers “too many players” and no guidance on executing the RIA model amid complex choices.
MID-SIZED FIRMS
Even established multi-advisor firms with specialized capabilities may struggle to remain competitive. Often lacking robust research and marketing budgets, these firms realize they need additional investment strategies and resources to enhance their client offerings continually. As they strive to attract more assets, they realize the importance of access to premier investment models and managers—particularly those in private equity—that appeal to larger clients. Yet customizing these offerings requires having in-house expertise to do the breadth and depth of work.
Why we built Verdence/RIA+
Peter McGratty, Director of RIA Development
Sophisticated Reporting
Megan Horneman, Chief Investment Officer
We’ve been where you are
Leo Kelly, Partner, CEO
Our RIA+ and OCIO customized solutions help shoulder the workload so you can maintain exceptional client service with built-in capacity for scale.
Which story speaks to you?
Continuity and Succession
Meet Sandra, RIA Owner Who Wants to Simplify Her Business.
Meet Sandra, a 65-year-old fiduciary who runs a boutique RIA. After decades growing her modest, yet meaningful practice, she and her small team take pride in providing personalized care and services for her clients.
However, after 35 years Sandra feels weary handling all operational and compliance details. She dreams of having more flexibility to relax, spend time with family, and pursue charitable interests.
Sandra has a comfortable income and loyal client base who are not focused on aggressive growth. Yet clients increasingly inquire about continuity planning, given her age. She wants to ensure clients are taken care of while also giving her more freedom to enjoy life’s pleasures on her own terms. Sandra seeks a strategic partnership to handle burdensome back-office tasks and provide clients a seamless experience during an eventual transition out of the business.
Competitive Edge Core Access
Meet Alex, the Solo Advisor and “One-Armed Paper Hanger”.
A dedicated 38-year-old fiduciary, Alex founded a small, independent RIA after a decade at a large wirehouse. With an entrepreneurial spirit and passion for service, Alex works tirelessly for clients. However, expanding the practice solo has been an uphill climb.
Wearing every hat in a growing business leaves little time to focus on client service or prospecting. And without backup support, Alex worries about having an actionable business continuity plan to care for his clients.
Though proud of the personalized service he provides clients, Alex dreams of offering a sophisticated suite of solutions deserving of higher net worth individuals. He is seeking a platform for growth without compromising independence, Alex wants to finally focus less on marketing, investing solutions, and tedious operational details.
Competitive Edge Full Access
Meet Brian, the Wirehouse Advisor Considering Independence.
After 15 years at a major wirehouse, Brian has grown increasingly frustrated by the bureaucracy and rigid policies that limit his ability to truly serve client needs. Once a prestigious brand, the firm’s reputation has suffered amidst a recent acquisition and changing corporate policies neither in his nor his clients’ best interests.
Brian dreams of an independent practice with more autonomy over investment decisions and long-term succession planning. But the process of going solo feels daunting after so long in a corporate environment. Seeking freedom but hesitant to build an infrastructure entirely from scratch, Brian needs a turnkey strategic partnership. He wants the independence to work freely under his own brand while leveraging operational support to transition his practice confidently.
OCIO Research + Elite Private Access
Meet Victor, the Founding Partner of $500MM Newman Wealth.
Victor has helped grow the practice alongside his 5-person team. Though proud of their ascent, further scaling remains a struggle without formalized infrastructure. While reluctant to reduce his own pay for additional hiring or platforms, Victor knows investing in operations and technology is overdue if they want to break through to the next level.
With clients asking for more sophisticated solutions, he feels pressure to expand capabilities beyond their passive, TAMP-based investments. Victor desires access to institutional managers and private equity opportunities typically reserved for larger firms. Conducting comprehensive due diligence on private solutions stretches their current 5-person investment team. By outsourcing investment research and gaining access to unique alternative investments, Victor realizes they can punch above their weight and take on clients requiring more complex investing. However, he remains attached to their boutique firm’s flexible culture. Victor seeks to selectively outsource to minimize costs while leveraging the strengths of a larger firm.
Regardless of your firm’s size or lifecycle stage, Verdence/RIA+ offers the flexibility to meet your level of need across investments, operations, technologies and continuity planning. Let’s have a collaborative discussion to explore where we can provide specialized resources, so you can focus on your relationships and priorities.
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