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The WealthStack Podcast: Building the Modern Investment Management Stack with Sterling Perkins

The WealthStack Podcast: Building the Modern Investment Management Stack with Sterling Perkins

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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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The WealthStack Podcast: Beyond the Model & Scaling Personalized Portfolios with Joshua Allen

The WealthStack Podcast: Beyond the Model & Scaling Personalized Portfolios with Joshua Allen

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“Personalization” has become one of the most overused words in wealth management and one of the hardest promises to actually deliver. Clients want portfolios that reflect their goals, values, tax realities, and life events. Firms want scale, efficiency, and fewer operational landmines. Too often, those two goals collide.

In this episode of The WealthStack Podcast, host Shannon Rosic sits down with Joshua Allen, CEO of TCP Asset Management, to unpack what real portfolio personalization looks like inside a fast-growing RIA and why most firms underestimate the operational cost of getting it wrong. Josh shares how TCP moved beyond model-only workflows, where automation actually helps (and where it doesn’t), and why saying no to most technology is critical to scaling personalization without creating an ops headache.

Key takeaways:

  • How hiring a director of advisory services strengthened tech integration
  • Why deeper use of existing tech beats adding more tools to the stack
  • How personalized portfolios are driving referrals across generations
  • Why most “personalized portfolios” still feel identical to clients
  • What’s real vs hype when it comes to AI in portfolio management

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As a founding Partner and  Chief Executive Officer of TCP Asset Management, Josh Allen is charged with leading a team of wealth advisors in practice management, business development, and innovative planning solutions. These solutions have provided our clients with the resources and flexibility needed to deliver a personalized financial planning experience that is fluid and dynamic. Josh and his team have developed and refined a process that is comprehensive in nature and ties together: investment management, risk management, retirement income planning, estate planning, business and family legacy planning, and philanthropy. This exclusive process allows them to put together all the pieces of the financial puzzle for their clients as their lives unfold and be engaged when their needs evolve.

Josh received a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University in Family Resource Management. He also received a certificate in Financial Planning from Boston University. Upon completion of the education, examination and experience requirements, Josh obtained the Certified Financial Planner™, CRPC® and CRPS® designations. His securities licenses include the series 7,9,10 and 66 and State of Ohio insurance license.

Josh is married to Branda, who is also one of his business partners. They together have three children, two dogs and two cats. As a family they love the outdoors, whether it is on the beach or in the mountains, they are always up for an adventure.

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