He left Nuveen with an idea for helping independent advisers compete. Over twenty years at Envestnet, Jud Bergman kept returning to a surprisingly personal question: what should a machine leave us free to do?
The former private bankers behind Centricity are giving independent advisers a bigger toolkit and wealthy families a clearer view. Their bet: better software can make a relationship business travel further.
Before a fund reaches an investor, its data has a lot of travelling to do. FE fundinfo has built a business around making sure the same facts survive the trip.
The wealth technology company grew out of portfolio analytics. Its bigger bet is that advisers can do better work when the client, the trade and the back office share the same numbers.