Articles tagged "Bill Crager"
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Envestnet shares climb after it drops 63-page bombshell disclosure about late $70 bid from competitor's board member before settling on $63.15 bid from Bain
The Berwyn, Pa., firm accepted the lower Bain offer ahead of ' Strategic Party A's' sweetened bid because the latter wanted 'several weeks' to procure cash and no part of 'Yodlee' unit
August 15, 2024 at 2:23 AM
Envestnet lands $4.5-billion deal to go private-- including nixing $900 million in debt -- with Fidelity and BlackRock sweetening the pot by joining the future ownership group
Bain brought in Reverence, which owns Osaic, and a bunch of asset managers to fund the deal it controls, and will appoint a new CEO later this year
July 11, 2024 at 10:05 PM
The upper RIA echelon mass-exit is now at 25 execs and counting -- for 25 'reasons' -- but it's hardly a coincidence, analysts say
Burnout and EBITDA weigh on CEO-types as never-ending exits claim Ron Carson, Aaron Klein, Bernie Clark, Rudy Adolf, Bill Crager and Tim Buckley.
June 7, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Envestnet's shares soar on Reuters report about 'receiving interest' for takeover, the latest in a line of reported attempts
The Berwyn, Pa., firm, dogged by activist investors and minority shareholder, BlackRock, is getting more active.
April 16, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Envestnet shares popped -- up 8% today -- after Wall Street filtered out bad news and staked its bet on confidence in a new team
The Berwyn, Pa., firm sugar-coated nothing but ended up with a sweet stock price result as analysts see good outweighing bad.
February 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
On Bill Crager's last CEO call, Envestnet does bad-news dump -- a big Yodlee-related write-off -- but dangles bright future where Tamarac becomes the mouth of its sales funnel
The outsourcer swallowed a $191-million bitter pill, explained the data disaster that led to it, offered minimal forward guidance on results, or a future CEO, but Tamarac RIAs are catching on as SMA clients and imminent RIA custody is deemed 'extremely strategic'
February 23, 2024 at 3:18 AM
Familiar faces -- Bill, Eric, Oleg and Joel -- dominate Day One at T3 but Syntax Data and SoraFinance get their moment -- and Oleg brandishes app marvel
The big companies like Orion, Envestnet and Invent cement the 20th anniversary of the Joel Bruckenstein event with bundle-ism, but green sprouts of new firms are everywhere; the kids get AI
January 24, 2024 at 6:27 AM
Bill Crager is dropping CEO role after multiple shoes dropped; the company insists it was his 'decision' but vision, Yodlee future uncertain
The co-founder of the $5.3-trillion AUA outsourcer of software and investments was pressed to take the job under the most adverse circumstances, then second-guessed by stakeholders as he managed the cards he was dealt.
January 9, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Envestnet finally may dump Yodlee, says a Bloomberg report, but either way it remains a 'wasting' asset as regulators crack down, an analyst says
Former CEO Jud Bergman made daring move in 2015 with expensive Yodlee purchase to lift the outsourcer into the big leagues but has proven mostly to be an albatross, at least to earnings
December 15, 2023 at 2:18 AM
'Something-is-broken' question draws no resounding response at Envestnet Q3 earnings call; shares still bleed, but execs see a 2024 cash flow rebound and flash an ace in the hole -- RIAs
A UBS analyst asked Envestnet's new chief finacial officer -- fresh out of BlackRock - -- if he could share in his behind-the-curtain first look and got a circumstantial answer
November 14, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Bill Crager makes critical hire of 'step back from the numbers,' Joshua Warren, replacing 'brother' Pete D'Arrigo at CFO; Warren had a big role at BlackRock -- Envestnet's biggest stakeholder
The Envestnet CEO gets 'very, very impressive' 43 year-old BlackRock exec; the New York asset manager happens to be Envestnet's largest stakeholder.
September 27, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Bill Crager signals comity with Lauren Taylor Wolfe and Envestnet also has a Sipp secret weapon, analyst says
The Envestnet CEO says he has 'constructive alignment and full support' of Wolfe and his board and has pivoted to a focus on 25% profit margins -- and no extra cash flow burn for reinvestment
August 11, 2023 at 12:36 AM
Envestnet lets the 'Wolfe' in the door after she huffed and puffed in the media -- now she promises to deliver 'ownership mentality' on the outsourcer's board
Lauren Taylor Wolfe simply would not take 'no' for answer, an activist shareholder tactic that is bearing her fruit; Envestnet's shares stayed flat while she made clear she has more cards to play.
March 29, 2023 at 1:33 AM
Bill Crager rebuts what activist hedge fund investor alleged by promising Envestnet is 'turning corner' on profit margins
The embattled CEO says he 'talked to lots of investors' last quarter during the verbal assault and also laid out his case to Wall Street analysts -- Envestnet's profit margins and market share are expanding.
February 24, 2023 at 1:30 AM
Bill Crager shuffles the deck on management team created just seven months ago: Tony Leal is out of 'Big Three' inner circle, replaced by Morgan Stanley vet Rose Palazzo
The RIA software 'trailblazer' and co-founder of MoneyGuidePro has been working on departure for a year; will transition to a 'consultant,' company says
