The WealthStack Podcast: Building the Modern Investment Management Stack with Sterling Perkins
Wealth management firms are being asked to support more assets, deliver greater personalization and provide clients with increasingly real-time experiences. But behind the scenes, many investment teams are still operating across disconnected portfolio management, trading, CRM, accounting, compliance and reporting systems. As artificial intelligence moves from copilots and chatbots toward agents that can actually perform work, that fragmented infrastructure may become an even bigger constraint.
In this episode of The WealthStack Podcast, host Shannon Rosic sits down with Sterling Perkins, director of solutions consulting at Ridgeline, to explore what happens when the investment management tech stack is rebuilt around a single system of record.
Key takeaways:
- Why embedded AI with access to client, portfolio and transaction context could have an advantage over bolted-on tools
- Why AI could allow firms to grow AUM without increasing headcount
- How Ridgeline moves portfolio workflows from modeling through compliance, trading, accounting and billing
- How firms should think about governance, permissions and human oversight as AI agents take on more responsibility
- Why the capacity created by AI can be reinvested in client relationships
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About Our Guest:
Sterling Perkins is the Director of Solutions Consulting at Ridgeline, where he works at the intersection of wealth management and financial technology. He began his career as a financial advisor at Baird, helping grow a book of approximately $100 million across roughly 100 client relationships before transitioning into wealth technology. Sterling later spent six and a half years at InvestCloud, where he served as Global Head of Product and Global Head of Sales Engineering, before joining Ridgeline. His experience as both an advisor and technology leader gives him a practical perspective on investment management operations, AI, portfolio technology, and how firms can use connected systems to support growth and client service.
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