Texas is calling –
Austin RIA CIO Summit 2025

Texas doesn’t do small, and neither do we. On October 9–10, join the industry’s top RIA CIOs and investment leaders at the Omni Barton Creek in Austin for two days packed with powerful networking, strategic fund manager meetings, and cutting-edge insights.

This exclusive retreat is designed for the RIA community’s top decision-makers, offering a high-energy blend of peer-to-peer collaboration, curated fund manager sessions, and forward-thinking discussions led by industry experts.

We’ll also be shining a spotlight on the standout firms featured in our 2025 50 Fastest Growers Report, the innovators driving change across the investment landscape. You’ll walk away with real strategies and fresh perspectives to accelerate your own growth.

Best part? It’s completely free to attend, with travel and accommodation fully covered by Citywire.

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Tactical, intimate meetings

Gain market insights through direct conversations with leading fund managers.

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Peer-to-peer networking

Connect with fellow CIOs and RIA leaders to exchange strategies and challenges.

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Game-changing insights

Explore practical solutions for compliance, fees, tech adoption and portfolio design.

Speakers

Keynotes from Mark Tibergien and Bart Hanson lead a powerful lineup of speakers offering insights from financial strategy to high-stakes decision-making. The programme also features a special masterclass with David Canter on the evolving U.S. wealth management landscape.

Speakers

Keynotes from Mark Tibergien and Bart Hanson lead a powerful lineup of speakers offering insights from financial strategy to high-stakes decision-making. The programme also features a special masterclass with David Canter on the evolving U.S. wealth management landscape.

David Canter

David Canter

CEO

Finley Point Strategy

Masterclass

Navigating the Evolving Landscape of US Wealth Management with David Canter

Friday, October 10th, 7:45–8:45am

This comprehensive masterclass offers a deep dive into the current state and future direction of the U.S. wealth management industry, with a special focus on the independent advice sector and the rapidly shifting M&A environment.

David Canter is CEO of Finley Point Strategy, a consulting firm to the wealth, asset management and fintech ecosystem. In this session, David will break down how founders can run their firms, gaining actionable insights into market forces, consumer behavior, firm strategies, and growth levers shaping the industry today—and in the years ahead.

He will walk attendees through:

  • Six key assumptions about the US market and state of the US consumer
  • State of the independent advice landscape
  • RIA M&A market
  • The era of the wealth management platform
  • The 7 levers of growth and 4 categories of growth and margin improvement
  • Market observations and future predictions
David Canter
Mark Tibergien

Mark Tibergien

Expert on management, strategy, and transition issues within the financial services industry

Keynote Speaker

Mark’s professional background spans Executive Leadership, Consulting, Training, Writing, and Speaking. He has led organizations from start-up to exit, from dynamic growth to turn-around. Most notable is the merger of a training and consulting firm into Moss Adams LLP; the growth of Moss Adams into the leading authority on practice management for RIAs and broker/dealers; and the positioning of Pershing LLC to become one of the top three custody providers to RIAs and Family Offices in the United States.
He has also consulted with hundreds of independent registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, investment managers, insurance companies, and other financial services organizations in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada.

He currently serves as Advisor-in-Residence for Ernst & Young’s Wealth & Asset Management Group; an independent director of Pathstone, a $160 billion multi-family office business and RIA sponsored by two Private Equity Firms; and
as an Advisory Board Member of Commonwealth Financial Network, an Independent Broker/Dealer and Corporate RIA.

Mark Tibergien
Bart Hanson

Bart Hanson

Owner and Operator of CrushLivePoker.com, professional poker player

Keynote Speaker

Bart Hanson is a renowned poker coach with over two decades of experience training top-tier live poker players. As the founder of CrushLivePoker.com, he leads one of the industry's premier poker training platforms. A formidable player himself, Bart has reached six WSOP final tables and amassed over $1 million in tournament cashes. His YouTube channel, featuring in-depth hand analyses from the general public, has garnered over 68 million views

Bart Hanson
Matt Rubin

Matt Rubin

CIO

Cary Street Partners

Panellists

Matthew L. Rubin is the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at Cary Street Partners, where he oversees the firm’s investment strategy, portfolio management, and client-focused financial solutions. With over 25 years of experience in the financial industry, Matthew brings valuable experience in both public and private markets, delivering innovative and comprehensive investment solutions tailored to client needs.

Before joining Cary Street Partners, Matthew was the Founding and Managing Partner at AnchorCove Partners and a Founding Partner and CIO at Matrix Private Capital Group, where he developed strategies with a strong emphasis on private market investments. Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director and CIO of the Neuberger Berman Trust Company N.A., where he also chaired the Global Asset Allocation Committee, leading the development of multi-asset class allocation strategies for institutional and individual clients. Matthew also held leadership roles at U.S. Trust Company and a single-family office, where he honed his skills in managing complex portfolios and crafting personalized investment strategies. He began his career at Morgan Stanley.

Matthew graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Stony Brook University.

Matt Rubin
Megan Horneman

Megan Horneman

CIO

Verdence Capital Advisors

Panellists

Megan Horneman is chief investment officer at Verdence Capital Advisors. She leads the firm’s research efforts, directs its economic outlook, chairs the investment committee and sets the strategic asset allocations that guide client portfolios. She is a frequent commentator on global markets and the economy, appearing on CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg and Yahoo Finance.

Megan Horneman
Michael J. Vogelzang

Michael J. Vogelzang

CIO

Captrust

Panellists

Mike serves as CAPTRUST’s chief investment officer (CIO), and brings more than 30 years of portfolio management, market strategy, and investment research experience to the firm.

As CAPTRUST’s CIO, Mike oversees the Investment Group, which includes manager and security research, portfolio management, and alternative investment research and strategy. In his position, Mike manages over 50 investment professionals with oversight and responsibility for over $700 billion in AUA and $160 billion in AUM. He personally manages a ~$2 billion US equity income portfolio benchmarked to the S&P 500.

Previously, Mike served as the president and chief investment officer of Boston Advisors, LLC, an independent institutional and wealth management RIA. He was also trustee of the multi-billion-dollar Boston Advisors Trust, a family of money market mutual funds. Mike also held the role of president of the Lebenthal Funds, a taxable and tax-exempt family of long-term bond funds. Additionally, he served as a board member for Advest, Inc., the one-time parent company of Boston Advisors. Prior to Boston Advisors, Mike held senior positions with Freedom Capital Management and Shawmut Investment Management. He began his investment career at The Boston Company.

Mike serves as the Chair of the Investment Committee of the Barnabas Foundation, a large Chicago-based planned giving and estate planning charitable organization, investing on behalf of faith-based organizations and individuals. He also serves on the investment committee of his Alma Mater, Calvin University. He earned a B.A. degree in economics and political science from Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI, and attended Boston University’s Graduate School of Management. Mike also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analyst Society.

Michael J. Vogelzang

Workshops

From investment strategy to client experience, these firm-led workshops offer direct and focused conversations with the providers helping RIAs solve real challenges and grow with clarity and purpose.

Workshops

From investment strategy to client experience, these firm-led workshops offer direct and focused conversations with the providers helping RIAs solve real challenges and grow with clarity and purpose.

American Beacon & Ninety One

The case for active investing in emerging markets equities

With investor interest in EM equities on the rise, the question is how best to capture the opportunity. These markets are inefficient, characterized by low analyst coverage, fragmented governance, and liquidity gaps - all of which create opportunities for skilled stock-pickers.
Drawing on over 30 years of emerging market expertise, Ninety One uses its distinctive 4Factor approach to turn these inefficiencies into opportunities. Bradley George, Investment Director at Ninety One, will discuss how the team’s active, core, style-agnostic approach is designed to navigate this landscape, uncover opportunities, and deliver long-term returns beyond what broad market exposure alone can offer.

Workshop Objective: To make the case for using an active approach when consider allocating towards emerging market equities, focusing on the approach needed to navigate these complex markets.

Company Profile: American Beacon Advisors, Inc. is an experienced provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets. Established in 1986, American Beacon Advisors serves defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, foundations, endowments, corporations and other institutional investors, as well as retail clients. The firm also provides corporate cash management and fixed-income separate account management. American Beacon Advisors manages the American Beacon Funds, a series of competitively priced mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. The Funds employ a “manager of managers” investment style and currently include international and domestic equity, fixed income and money market funds. As of June 30, 2025, American Beacon Advisors had $61.6 billion in assets under management. For more information, visit www.americanbeaconadvisors.com.

Blue Owl

Alternative Credit: Private Credit’s Next Chapter

Alternative Credit: Private Credit’s Next Chapter identifies the opportunity for investors to harness a growing strategy in private asset-based finance. The presentation defines ABF market size, identifies the key segments of the investible universe, introduces ABF as a differentiated source of diversification and non-correlated income, and explores the investment characteristics of ABF as a strong complement to direct lending in investors’ fixed income portfolios.

Workshop Objective: The objective of this workshop is to explore the growth in private asset-based finance and identify the potential opportunity for income-seeking investors.

Company Profile: Blue Owl (NYSE: OWL) is a leading asset manager that is redefining alternatives®. With over $273 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2025, we invest across three multi-strategy platforms: Credit, GP Strategic Capital, and Real Assets. Anchored by a strong permanent capital base, we provide businesses with private capital solutions to drive long-term growth and offer institutional investors, individual investors, and insurance companies differentiated alternative investment opportunities that aim to deliver strong performance, risk-adjusted returns, and capital preservation. Together with over 1,200 experienced professionals globally, Blue Owl brings the vision and discipline to create the exceptional. 

Capital Group

Bridging the Gap between vehicles across fixed income, including public and Private Markets

Capital Group, while known for equity research, has quietly constructed a world class fixed income investment apparatus across investment vehicles, including active ETFs.  Most recently partnering with KKR to deliver solutions that are extensions of building blocks of portfolios to enhance income and returns through semi-liquid vehicles. Learn how we have thoughtfully blended the best of active public and private research intro single solutions designed for scale across your client base to leverage market dynamics.

Workshop Objectives: This program focuses on helping advisors take advantage of the near-term realities of the markets with bond utilization in portfolio construction, including accessing private markets at scale.

Company Profile: Since 1931, Capital Group, home of American Funds®, has been singularly focused on delivering superior results for long-term investors using high-conviction portfolios, rigorous research and individual accountability.  As of December 31, 2024, Capital Group manages $2.8 trillion in equity and fixed income assets for millions of individual and institutional investors around the world.

Capital Group is a private firm that employs more than 9,000 associates and has offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. For more than 90 years, our goal has remained the same: to improve people’s lives through successful investing.

Cohen and Steers

Real Estate repriced: Building better portfolios with private real estate

For investors seeking to position themselves for the next phase of the real estate cycle, the current environment offers a potentially compelling entry point. With valuations reset, transaction volumes stabilizing, and positive momentum returning to the market, private real estate appears poised to deliver improved returns in the years ahead, particularly for those who can deploy fresh capital at today's valuations.

Workshop Objective: To teach participants a differentiated investment approach that targets undervalued sectors, highlighting the unique information advantage Cohen & Steers provides for identifying and capitalizing on emerging opportunities in private real estate.

Company Profile: Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including listed and private real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.

Dodge & Cox

The Case for International Equities

In early 2025, investor enthusiasm shifted from U.S. to international equities. The substantial valuation disparity between these markets, uncertainty about tariff policies, and a weaker U.S. dollar contributed to this reversal. International equities present a compelling long-term opportunity and trade at a historically cheap valuation relative to U.S. equities. This valuation discount spans across sectors, offering international investors cheaper entry points and a broader, less-concentrated opportunity set. Exposure to global secular growth, from South Korean e-commerce to AI-driven semiconductors, provides diversification benefits. Policy and governance reforms in Japan and Europe are further enhancing the competitiveness of international companies. We believe skilled investors can mitigate risks and generate excess returns in international equities through fundamental research and active, value-oriented security selection.

Workshop Objectives: We will discuss:
  • Valuation, diversification, and active-alpha reasons for international exposure
  • Specific examples of where we’re finding compelling opportunities

Company Profile: Dodge & Cox was founded in 1930 as a new kind of asset management firm, built on a simple business model and a commitment to pursuing investment excellence. Today, we are one of the world’s largest independently owned investment firms. We actively manage money for individuals and institutions globally applying a single, value-oriented investment philosophy across a deliberately limited set of offerings. This intentional focus means more resources honing fewer strategies, more passion driving fewer priorities, and more confidence backing every decision. We aim to master the complexity of investing because we know better outcomes mean greater opportunities for the clients and communities we serve.

First Eagle Investments

Residential Lending: Untapped Opportunities in Alternative Credit

Join us to hear how to best access private and public investment opportunities in residential real estate markets, that may offer elevated income, and the potential to benefit from strong fundamental and technical tailwinds compared to commercial real estate.

Workshop Objective: Join First Eagle Investments at Citywire Private Assets for an alternative credit session focusing on:
•  Private and public investment opportunities in residential real estate markets
•  The potential for elevated income in residential real estate lending 
•  Strategy focuses on strong housing fundamentals and the supply/demand imbalance prevalent in US housing.

FPA

Bonds in 2025: A Tale of Two Extremes

With real yields historically attractive and credit spreads historically unattractive, fixed income investors have to be highly selective in this market. Partner and fixed income portfolio manager Abhi Patwardhan will detail where he is finding the best risk-adjusted opportunities today and how this makes our portfolios stand out from our peers.

Workshop Objectives: To provide our outlook on the best risk-adjusted opportunities today, in a market where fixed income investors have to be highly selective, and how this makes our portfolios stand out from our peers. 

Franklin Templeton

Secondaries in a time of Dislocation – Taking Advantage of the Current Market Opportunity

The current market dislocation, fueled by economic uncertainty and tighter liquidity, has created a compelling environment for private equity secondary investments. Motivated sellers, attractive pricing, and availability of high-quality assets are driving a surge in opportunities for well-positioned buyers. This session will explore the key trends shaping the secondaries market, including the current liquidity environment, active portfolio management, and secondaries as the innovation engine for private equity. 

Workshop Objective: We will highlight how investors can identify and capitalize on the advantages of scale, information access, and a global platform. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of where the most attractive opportunities lie and how to navigate this unique period in the market cycle.

Company Profile: For 75+ years, Franklin Templeton has been a firm in motion. Always innovating. Today, we’re a leader in public and private markets, digital assets and custom tax management, empowering financial advisors with solutions to build the portfolios of the future, today.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Delivering Goldman Sachs to RIAs: Accessing Unique, Customized Solutions through Goldman’s Capital Markets Desk

Join the GS team to discuss the institutional services available to you and your firm!

•    Structured Notes & Hedging Portfolios: Direct access to customize structures across income alternatives, buffered equity, and 100% principal protection
•    Hedging & Monetization: Solutions for concentrated stock positions
•    GS Select: High tech/high touch digital banking and lending platform for financial advisors
•    Fixed Income Trading & Primary Markets: Trade individual bonds with our desk (treasuries, corporates, and municipals)
•    Alternatives: Access to unique third party alternatives
•    Hedge Fund Alternatives: Systematic, rules based strategies
•    Investment Banking Services: dedicated resource that provides full suite of IB services
•    Private Stock Liquidity: For clients with a $20mm+ private holding, we can help find a buyer
•    RIA Custody: Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions

Workshop Objective: Learn how Goldman’s services and products can be customized to meet your market outlook and your clients’ objectives.

Hines

Tax-Advantaged Strategies and Potential Equity Upside: Private Real Estate Opportunity Set

This presentation covers Hines Real Estate Exchange, LLC, which seeks to offer beneficial interests in DST offerings with the objective of providing cash flow to investors from Master Lease rents in the form of cash distributions. Hines Real Estate Exchange, LLC seeks to manage properties within the DST in a manner consistent with prudent real estate management to maintain long-term value and, unless the Fair Market Value Option has been exercised, to sell the properties.

Workshop Objective: To provide financial professionals with a data-driven understanding of real estate market trends, Hines Global Income Trust's strategic approach, and how to position real estate investments effectively in response to shifting economic conditions.

Company Profile: Hines Private Wealth Solutions LLC, member FINRA/SIPC, is the broker-dealer affiliate of Hines, a privately owned global real estate investment, development and management firm. Founded in 1957, Hines has built a reputation as one of the world’s leading commercial real estate firms, with a presence in 30 countries as of December 31, 2024.

HPS

Non-Sponsored Lending & Private Capital Solutions with HPS

Hosted by Andrew Olson, Vice President at HPS Investment Partners, the goal of the session is to educate investment professionals on current trends in the private markets and how HPS differentiates our platform – specifically in private credit. Within private credit, we aim to educate investors on capturing different parts of the market including non-sponsored investment opportunities – as well as the HPS process including sourcing, diligence, and structuring of the underlying investments. Investors will learn how the HPS platform and specialization ultimately fits into the broader ecosystem of private credit as well as the private markets allocations of client portfolios.

Workshop Objective: The sessions are designed to educate investors on the HPS platform and our suite of offerings across direct lending and private capital solutions.

Company Profile: HPS Investment Partners is a leading global investment firm that seeks to provide creative capital solutions and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our clients.  We manage various strategies across the capital structure, including privately negotiated senior debt; privately negotiated junior capital solutions in debt, preferred and equity formats; liquid credit including syndicated leveraged loans, collateralized loan obligations and high yield bonds; asset-based finance and real estate. The scale and breadth of our platform offers the flexibility to invest in companies large and small, through standard or customized solutions. At our core, we share a common thread of intellectual rigor and discipline that enables us to create value for our clients, who have entrusted us with approximately $157 billion of assets under management as of March 31, 2025.

Invesco

An Evolution in Tax Planning: Invesco’s Enhanced Equity SMA

 Did you know that you can help manage risk and optimize tax savings by adding long and short extensions onto your clients’ equity portfolios? Curating your client’s personalized wealth journey and maximizing the portion of returns they get to keep after taxes involves choosing the right partner and investment strategy.  In this session, Invesco experts will provide ideas on how to address client’s tax concerns using the Invesco Enhanced Equity SMA.  

Workshop Objective: In this session, attendees will learn about how a broad long/short exposure to large-cap US equities can deliver tax alpha to continuously monitor tax-loss harvesting opportunities. 

Company Profile: Invesco Ltd. is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive, and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco managed $1.66 trillion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide as of March 31, 2024. For more information, visit www.invesco.com.

MassMutual Investments

Can the Music Keep Playing in High Yield Markets?

Following two consecutive years of strong total return generation as well as recovery from recent bouts of volatility, can the high yield bond market continue to outperform? This presentation will outline our expectations for the year ahead through a discussion of the broad macroeconomic backdrop, including ongoing areas of uncertainty such as tariffs, fundamentals of issuers within the public leveraged finance space, as well as technical factors that impact the market. Finally, we will discuss return expectations, relative valuations in comparison to other asset classes, and the role of high yield within a strategic asset allocation.

Workshop Objective: Gain an understanding of the evolution of the high yield market and what opportunities currently exist as well as the historical importance of high yield in asset allocation decisions.

Company Profile: MassMutual Investments delivers a full suite of investment solutions leveraging institutional and boutique asset managers to provide unique income solutions. Our platform is designed with the goal to provide style purity and consistency of performance. Our managers include, Barings, a $442+ billion global asset manager and Clinton Investment Management a boutique municipal bond manager.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Tax Efficient Returns via Mission Critical Real Estate

Hosted by Hank D’Allesandro, the goal of the session is to educate investment professionals on how the North Haven Investment team is uniquely positioned to capitalize on the growing opportunity for net lease investing by leveraging the expertise of Morgan Stanley's premier real estate and private credit groups.

. NetREIT's objective is to provide attractive current income through tax-advantaged distributions and capital appreciation primarily by investing in a diversified portfolio of single-tenant commercial real estate properties net leased on a long-term basis to credit-worthy tenants.  NetREIT believes net lease investing combines the appreciation potential and inflation protection inherent in hard asset ownership with the predictable current income inherent in fixed income investments.

Workshop Objective: The session is designed to educate investors on the potential benefits of net lease investing.

Company Profile: Morgan Stanley Investment Management, together with its investment advisory affiliates, has more than $1.6 trillion in assets under management or supervision.  Morgan Stanley Investment Management strives to provide outstanding long-term investment performance, service, and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide. The combination with Eaton Vance allows the firm to bring even more value to clients through many high quality, complementary investment offerings, delivered with an unwavering commitment to client service.  Professionals across the globe draw upon these capabilities to develop strategies that address a wide range of investors’ needs across the public and private markets. 

Nuveen

Not all Private Credit is Created Equal: Identifying Key Differentiators that Really Matter

Churchill Asset Management, an investment affiliate of Nuveen, is a leading platform in the world of private capital. As investors have broadened their search for yield and are increasingly seeking to invest in private markets, Churchill has several offerings available that take advantage of the team’s expertise within senior secured lending, junior capital, and private equity co-investments. Churchill has access to proprietary deal flow through their parent company, TIAA, and was named the #1 most active private equity lender in U.S. buyouts by PitchBook in all of 2023. Dating back to Churchill’s start in 2006, the team has maintained rigorous underwriting standards, which has led to strong performance through market cycles.

Workshop Objective: Deeper understanding of Private Capital landscape with a focus on middle market, and a clear understanding of Churchill’s competitive advantage in the space as they evaluate managers and opportunities

PIMCO

Beyond the Ordinary: Expanding Private Credit into Asset-Based Lending

This conversation explores the evolving landscape of private credit by highlighting the strategic shift towards asset-based lending (ABL). It emphasizes how ABL offers enhanced security through collateral, reducing risk for lenders while providing flexible financing solutions for borrowers. The discussion will cover key benefits such as improved cash flow management, access to capital for growing businesses, and diversification opportunities for investors. Additionally, PIMCO will address market trends, regulatory considerations, and best practices for successfully integrating ABL into private credit portfolios. Ultimately, it underscores the potential of asset-based lending to unlock new growth avenues and strengthen financial resilience in an increasingly complex credit environment.

Workshop Objective: Improve the understanding of ABL to allocators, how to incorporate the sector into private alternatives allocations, and highlight PIMCO’s expertise in the space.

Company Profile: PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital in income and credit opportunities that span the liquidity spectrum, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and alternative investment solutions and a valued financing partner.

Polar Capital

Small companies, big opportunities

As the global economic landscape shifts and interest rates start to ease, now is a good time to diversify away from what has historically been the most concentrated market in history in Large US tech companies. Polar Capital has launched a new International Small Company Fund to capitalize on an overlooked segment of the market. Against this backdrop, Dan Boston who recently joined Polar Capital to lead a new Global Small Company investment team will discuss how he believes, this, alongside the fact that trading valuations are historically low compared to large caps, could be a compelling opportunity for small-cap investors abroad. 

Workshop Objective: The objective is for delegates to understand why now could be a compelling opportunity for small-cap investors abroad. 

Company Profile: Polar Capital is an experienced, investment-led, active fund manager
The company prides itself on its collegiate and meritocratic culture. Since incorporation in 2001, we have steadily grown our range of autonomous investment teams. The business is structured to allow teams to focus on their portfolios while a best-in-class operational structure works on everything else. Headquartered in London and listed on the UK stock market, Polar Capital has a global presence, including offices in New York, Connecticut and Georgia.

Polaris Capital Management

Unlocking Value with Real Maintenance Cash Flow Yield - How Active, Global All-Cap Value Investing Creates Broader Opportunity Sets

In today’s over concentrated investment landscape, Polaris Capital applies a disciplined, active, all-cap global value approach to uncover mispriced opportunities often overlooked by home-biased strategies. By focusing on real, inflation-adjusted maintenance cash flow (MCF) yield, we identify stable businesses across developed and emerging markets that generate sustainable cash flows, enabling investors to diversify and grow their portfolios without overpaying for it.

With decades of expertise in fundamental analysis and a research-driven, active management process, our team builds high-conviction, globally diversified portfolios designed to deliver consistent, long-term returns. In this workshop, our portfolio managers will share how applying this unique valuation measure broadens the universe of opportunities.

Workshop Objective: To highlight the importance of global value investing in a well-diversified portfolio and to demonstrate how Polaris’ active, all-cap approach, anchored by a focus on real maintenance cash flow yield, provides RIAs with a differentiated path to accessing overlooked global opportunities.

Company Profile: Polaris Capital is a global investment management firm specializing in value-driven strategies across equity markets worldwide. Founded with a mission to deliver disciplined, research-driven investment solutions, Polaris serves a wide range of clients including institutional investors, mutual funds, foundations, endowments, and private clients.

Our investment philosophy is rooted in the belief that markets often misprice quality businesses, and that patient, active management can capture this value. By combining deep fundamental research with global reach, Polaris delivers tailored solutions designed to help investors achieve their long-term objectives.

Principal

Private credit is not just direct lending - How asset-backed real estate debt fits within a portfolio

Private credit extends far beyond direct lending, offering a vast universe of opportunities. To build resilient, well-diversified portfolios, investors should consider both cash flow-backed and asset-backed lending strategies, such as real estate debt. Beyond its defensive characteristics and low correlation to traditional markets, real estate debt presents a compelling opportunity today, with the potential to capture outsized yields in a favorable market environment. By broadening their approach, investors can enhance returns while improving portfolio stability. Join us to explore how real estate debt can help enhance returns and complement private credit allocations today.

Workshop Objective: Explore the full spectrum of private credit beyond direct lending, focusing on diversification through asset-backed strategies, with a special emphasis on real estate debt’s defensive benefits and yield potential. 

Private Shares Group

Investing in Late-Stage Private Companies

Join Liberty Street Advisors and The Private Shares Group in a discussion about investing in the private innovation economy through late-stage ventured backed, growth orientated companies.  We will cover several topics on this subject including our Private Shares Fund.  A 1940 act interval fund that looks to democratize access to private markets by removing the cumbersome barriers to entry typically associated with investing in alternatives. Meaning:  
o    No Subscription Documents  
o    No Accreditation Requirements 
o    No Performance Fees 
o    Daily NAV  
o    $2,500 Minimum  
o    1099 Tax Reporting 
o    Quarterly Repurchase Program of 5% of Fund’s outstanding shares at NAV 

Workshop Objective: Learn how Liberty Street Advisor’s suite of solutions & capabilities can help navigate the current market environment including accessing late-stage private companies. 

Prospect Capital

Opportunities Multifamily Private Credit

 The PCRED team will discuss the merits of real estate private credit vs. real estate private equity and how to generate equity-like returns through private credit investments, collateralized by multifamily properties. The team will present an overview of the firm’s experience, commercial real estate credit strategy, and its key competitive advantages in light of current market dynamics. 

Workshop Objective: Provide an overview of Prospect Credit REIT’s strategy, its seed investments and private offering to accredited investors.   

Company Profile: Prospect focuses on investments in credit, private equity, and real estate. 

Prospect has $10.7 billion of assets under management overseen by a team of 140+ professionals. Prospect’s mission is to generate long-term value for investors, shareholders, and employees. Prospect seeks to deliver attractive current cash yields, achieve consistent low-volatility returns and preserve capital.

Prospect and its affiliates have invested $1.4 billion into 109 commercial real estate investments valued at approximately $4.2 billion. Of these, 85 investments have been in multifamily assets, comprising over 32,000 cumulative units, across the U.S. 

In 2025, Prospect launched its dedicated non-traded REIT to invest in U.S. commercial real estate credit, which has closed two multifamily preferred equity investments to date. 

UBS

Yield Opportunities in Liquid Credit Markets

The corporate credit market is undergoing a fundamental transformation that is reshaping how investors approach their fixed income portfolios. The growing integration between floating and fixed rate, as well as public and private credit markets is creating new opportunities for relative value assessment, enabling asset owners to capture pricing inefficiencies across similar risk exposures while balancing liquidity needs with return objectives. This presentation will seek to explore the differences between the various asset classes considered non-investment grade corporate credit, with a focus on the liquid instruments and how investors can best access yield opportunities. 

Workshop Objective:
Understand the difference between high yield bonds, broadly syndicated loans, and private credit
Discuss the technicals and fundamentals of liquid credit today
How best to find yield opportunities in liquid credit

Company Profile: Rooted in our Zurich home but established across the world, UBS Asset Management has been a dependable partner both at home and abroad for over 150 years. UBS Asset Management is a large scale investment manager with a presence of 23 markets. We offer investment capabilities and investment styles across all major asset classes, from active to passive offering to institutions, wholesale intermediaries, and wealth management clients. With the successful merger with Credit Suisse Asset Management in 2023, UBS Asset Management has now more comprehensive product offerings and strategic partnerships.  With total invested assets of USD 1.8 trn, we are one of the leading Europe-based asset managers and the #12 firm globally

Victory Capital

Free Cash Flow Investing: How Incorporating Free Cash Flow May Improve Portfolio Outcomes

This material focuses on free cash flow (FCF) as a superior investment metric compared to traditional value measures, like price-to-book, and introduces three VictoryShares ETFs—VFLO, SFLO, and GFLW—that leverage FCF metrics for different investment styles. VFLO uses FCF yield for large-cap value, SFLO applies similar methodology to small caps, while GFLW focuses on FCF profitability for growth investing. 
Historical data shows these strategies have outperformed their respective benchmarks, with FCF-based approaches demonstrating resilience across market cycles. Key advantages include capturing intangible assets ignored by traditional metrics, combining quality characteristics with value, and using forward-looking FCF metrics rather than trailing data alone. The methodology includes growth filters to eliminate slower-growing companies, enhancing returns in both value and growth market environments.

Workshop Objective:
•    Explore FCF fundamentals
•    Learn about FCF investing approaches that can help effectively manage valuation and concentration risks
•    Discover why Quality as an investment factor has become tied to high FCF in companies

Company Profile: Victory Capital is a diversified global asset management firm with $171.4 billion in total client assets as of March 31, 2025. The Company employs a next-generation business strategy that combines boutique investment qualities with the benefits of a fully integrated, centralized operating and distribution platform. Victory Capital provides specialized investment strategies to institutions, intermediaries, retirement platforms and individual investors. With 12 autonomous Investment Franchises and a Solutions Business, Victory Capital offers a wide array of investment products, including mutual funds, ETFs, separately managed accounts, alternative investments, third-party ETF model strategies, collective investment trusts, private funds, a 529 Education Savings Plan, and brokerage services. Victory Capital is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with offices and investment professionals in the U.S. and around the world. 

WCM

Using a Cultural Compass to Navigate International Equities

Sit down with WCM Investment Management’s portfolio managers, Andrew Wiechert and Drew French, for a discussion on WCM’s unique approach to international equities. As long-term investors, WCM’s goal is to find quality businesses with growing competitive advantages (“economic moats”) aligned with strong, adaptable corporate cultures. WCM requires each portfolio company to possess a durable and, more importantly, improving economic moat. Economic moats are always changing, and business fundamentals (e.g., ROIC) are intimately tied to the trajectory of a company’s competitive advantage. WCM believes understanding these competitive advantage dynamics, as well as how a company’s corporate culture supports its competitive advantage, is essential to finding durable, compounding businesses that defy the “Street’s” long-term expectations.

Workshop Objective: Learn how the WCM Focused International Equity strategy utilizes WCM’s approach, focusing on investing in businesses with growing competitive advantages aligned with strong and adaptable corporate cultures. 

Company Profile: WCM Investment Management is a ~$100 billion investment boutique headquartered in Laguna Beach, CA, which provides innovative equity investment advisory services to institutional investors across the globe. WCM’s primary goal is to generate long-term, sustainable excess returns for clients through actively managed strategies that generate alpha by exploiting inefficiencies in global equity markets. WCM strives to mitigate risk for its clients by constructing high-quality, holistically balanced portfolios that target downside protection. The firm is majority owned and controlled by employees, prioritizing broad-based employee ownership.

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Fintrx

Embracing the Future of AI-Driven Private Wealth Management
FINTRX is the leading private wealth intelligence platform, offering the industry's most expansive and up-to-date data on family offices, registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, wealth teams, and family offices. Powered by industry-leading AI, FINTRX turns data into action, helping firms distribute funds, raise capital, recruit advisors, identify M&A targets, and drive strategic growth.
Greg Bell

Greg Bell

Sr. Director, Enterprise Accounts

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Greg is responsible for managing FINTRX's largest enterprise client relationships and driving growth within the asset management segment. Greg brings over 20 years of industry experience and previously served as VP, Enterprise Account Manager at Discovery Data. Greg has also held roles at financial services firms such as Nuveen, J.P. Morgan, and Evergreen Investments, where he developed a reputation for delivering exceptional client service and driving revenue growth.
Greg Bell
Rich Donnella

Rich Donnella

VP, Marketing Operations

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Rich Donnellan is the Head of Marketing at FINTRX, where he drives the company’s marketing strategy and positions FINTRX as the leading provider of private wealth data intelligence. With over a decade of experience at eVestment and Nasdaq, Rich brings a wealth of knowledge in executing high-impact marketing campaigns and strategic initiatives that support business growth and customer engagement.
Rich Donnella

Opto Investments

Engineering the future of private markets
Opto partners with RIAs, family offices, and private banks to deliver programs that meet today's rising demand for alternative investments—and fund the innovations shaping the future.
Nick Gerace

Nick Gerace

Advisory Services, Opto

Workshop Representative

Nick joined Opto 3 years ago after spending 5 years at a firm helping large advisor teams launch their own fully independent RIAs; focused primarily on recreating and improving the portfolio management process as an RIA.
Nick Gerace
Corinne Merriman

Corinne Merriman

Advisory Services, Opto

Workshop Representative

Corinne is a CFA Charterholder and has spent more than 8 years supporting RIAs and family offices and over a decade serving institutional and individual investors. At Opto, Corinne partners with advisors to enhance private markets access and deliver a technology-enabled, value-driven solution tailored to each client’s specific needs.
Corinne Merriman

PPB Capital Partners

The Importance of Differentiation in a Shifting Private Markets Landscape
PPB is a full-service alternative investment provider that meets private wealth advisors in their alternative investment journey. That can mean providing access to highly differentiated strategies and white-labeled customized solutions, all bringing operational efficiencies to support your businesses.
 
We do this by solving the logistical challenges often associated with investing in private investments. PPB’s core mission is to lend extensive operational expertise, reporting, custodial support, and lower investment minimums to private wealth advisors at scaled pricing and with independent due diligence as an added feature.
 
Our full range of specialized solutions are offered through three main business verticals.
 
1. Capital Market Solutions – Our team provides differentiated, durable alternative investment funds, spawned by peer collaboration, accessible to the private wealth community.
 
2. Customized Solutions – PPB designs, builds, launches, and operates completely customizable proprietary investment vehicles for private wealth advisors, fit to their scope with a scalable service model, supported by our in-house operations teams.
 
3. Legacy Operations Solution – PPB delivers complete operational, back, and middle-office support to private wealth advisors who manage an in-house alternative fund and are looking to outsource operational management.
Evan Deussing, CIMA®

Evan Deussing, CIMA®

Managing Director, Advisor Relations

Workshop Representative

Evan Deussing joined PPB Capital Partners in 2023 to lead the external and internal sales distribution teams and manage PPB’s business development strategies, bringing more than 20 years of financial investment experience.
Most recently, Evan was the Executive Director of IBD/RIA Business Development, and Divisional Sales Manager for FS Investments.
Evan, his wife, and three children live in Haddonfield, N.J. He enjoys supporting all Philadelphia sports teams, DIY projects, and running a real estate investment business.   Evan earned his CIMA designation from Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania and his bachelor’s degree from Johnson & Wales University.
Evan Deussing, CIMA®
Jeremy Diem

Jeremy Diem

Executive Director, Advisor Relations

Workshop Representative

Jeremy Diem joined PPB Capital Partners in 2021 and has 20 years of experience building business relationships with wealth advisors across both institutional and private channels. In his role, he supports the complex needs of the private wealth community in the eastern and southern United States.
Prior to joining PPB, Jeremy founded Cave Creek Investments and has also held senior sales positions at Edge Capital Group and Dakota.
Jeremy and his family live in West Chester, PA. He earned his bachelor’s degree and his MBA from Penn State University.
Jeremy Diem

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Agenda

  1. 7:30AM – 9:00AM

    Networking Breakfast

  2. 9:00AM – 9:10AM

    Welcome

  3. 9:10AM – 10:15AM

    Conference Session

  4. 10:15AM – 10:20AM

    Tech Ad Break 1 PPB Capital Partners

  5. 10:20AM – 10:55AM

    Fund Group Workshop

  6. 11:05AM – 11:40AM

    Fund Group Workshop

  7. 11:50AM – 12:25PM

    Fund Group Workshop

  8. 12:35PM – 1:10PM

    Fund Group Workshop

  9. 1:10PM – 1:15PM

    Tech Ad Break 2 Opto Investments

  10. 1:15PM – 2:35PM

    Table Planned Lunch

  11. 2:35PM – 3:10PM

    Conference Session

  12. 3:10PM – 3:30PM

    Growers Awards Ceremony sponsored by Invesco

  13. 3:30PM - 3:35pm

    Tech Ad Break 3 SmartX

  14. 3:35PM – 4:10PM

    Fund Group Workshop

  15. 4:20PM – 4:55PM

    Fund Group Workshop

  16. 5:05PM – 5:40PM

    Fund Group Workshop

  17. 6:30PM – 9:00PM

    Drinks & Standing Dinner

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