The Tony Sirianni Podcast

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Taylor Matthews — Co-Founder and CEO of Farther. The two discuss how advisors can struggle with transactional processes, advisors adding efficiencies through AI but continuing to provide expertise, judgement and trust, growing and monetizing your business for the long term, and managing clients who are still in the asset accumulation phase.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with the President of Prospect Capital, Grier Eliasek. The two discuss the growth of private credit, AI’s exposure within software companies, lower risk/greater reward opportunities, public versus private markets, and having the expertise to create success for clients.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Muriel Siebert & Co.’s Co-CEO Richie Gebbia. The two discuss clients who have an appetite for private markets, partnerships with influential firms, using AI to build a financial blueprint, education and mentorship for younger advisors, specializing in bonds, and helping clients manage market volatility.

A Conversation with Thomas Peterffy

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks Concurrent’s CEO and Co-founder, Nate Lenz. The two discuss the spectrum of affiliation options, leveraging scale and infrastructure, the changing landscape of financing, the influx of capital coming into the business, focusing on data infrastructure, and casting a wide net of product availability.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with One Capital Management’s Co-founders Donald H. McDonald and Patrick J. Bowen. The three discuss supporting client/advisor relationships, having a niche component within your practice, having the ultimate authority over customization points, building an internal asset management capability, and how to use AI as a tool to increase efficiency.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Shannon Reid, President and Head of Advisor Growth & Engagement at Osaic. The two discuss having a future focus for your firm, being multi-custodial, equity versus enterprise value, respecting the value of the advisor/client relationship, maintaining a human touch and engagement, and building an agile and nimble firm platform.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Tom Halloran, President & CEO at Cetera Advisors. The two discuss consolidation of the M&A business, building a large firm with a small feel, offering advisors choice and flexibility, managing culture at scale, finding alignment with your advisors, and working with frequent technology changes.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Kevin M. Keefe, President & COO at Independent Financial Group. The two discuss the importance of culture and advisor alignment, giving clients confidence, security and opportunity, how AI is creating capacity, consistency and efficiency for the advisor, being a service first / high-touch firm, and prioritizing a high-quality community.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Tash Elwyn - President, Private Client Group at Raymond James. The two discuss the wealth management space as split into two extremes, advisors increasingly feeling forced to choose between capabilities vs. culture, scale without meaningful improvement in services, how firms without scale and specialized resources tend to struggle, AI reinforci...

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Joe Montgomery, Managing Director - Investments, Optimal Service Group of Wells Fargo Advisors. The two discuss the importance of mentorship, developing a playbook for your team, scaling up using technology such as AI, the opportunities around prospecting, how clients have changed over the years, and continuity of care.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Janel Jackson - Principal, Head of Bank & Institutional at Vanguard Financial Advisor Services. The two discuss generational wealth transfer, building emotional trust with your clients, understanding all products within the marketplace, leveraging AI tools to determine investment opportunities, and a continual focus on practice management.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Bob Milligan, Managing Partner of 1792 Wealth Advisors. The two discuss the do’s and don’ts of starting an RIA, your clients being the most important people in the room, integrating investment banking into your business, enhancing enterprise value through operational scale and efficiencies, and getting compensated well for your life’s work.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with George Nichols III, President & CEO of the American College of Financial Services. The two discuss professionalizing the life insurance agent and financial advisor, focusing on your clients’ needs, specialization around clients’ financial planning, the dynamics of the family office concept, and the efficiency of using A.I.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Rob Bartenstein, Founder and President and Scott Wilson, Founder and Senior Managing Director of Kestra Private Wealth Services. The three discuss proving out the concept of your firm, a juxtaposition of firm culture, specialization of commercial real estate investments, helping advisors identify regulatory risk, and having a consistently stron...

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with LPL Financial’s EVP, Wealth Planning and Trust, Tara Popernik. The two discuss preparing your clients for “what if” scenarios, decisions around inheritance, income tax advantages and disadvantages, navigating liquidity planning, and managing capital gains exposure.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with &Partners’ Founders David Kowach, Kristi Mitchem and John Alexander. They discuss being a forward-looking and future focused organization, adopting technology that can best benefit your clients, raising enough capital to be able to grow and scale well, preparing your clients for potentially challenging markets, and building an enduring firm...

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Northwestern Mutual’s Chief Field Officer, John Roberts. The two discuss moves to independence in retail wealth management, how insurance can be challenging to sell, problems and solutions around succession planning, acquiring younger advisors as the industry ages, and being an advisor to your clients yet the owner of your firm.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Penny Pennington — Managing Partner at Edward Jones. The two discuss consistent investments that allow employees to grow and prosper, relying on interdependence, how client needs are changing rapidly, giving advisors autonomy, flexibility and support, and creating a virtuous circle of advice and guidance.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Wells Fargo CEO of Wealth and Investment Management, Barry Sommers. The two discuss creating a seamless transition to independence, how to attract the best advisors and give them access to a superior platform, growing your own enterprise value, utilizing and perfecting your tech stack, and investing in your business by attracting young talent.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Dynasty Financial Partners’ President & CEO Shirl Penney. The two discuss the recent growth of alternative investments, serving the corporate executive in a more independent way, why leadership by fear is not sustainable over time, how success builds success and inspires more people, and technology allowing advisors to service more clients...

A conversation with John Langston, Founder & CEO of Republic Capital Group. AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with John Langston — Founder & CEO of Republic Capital Group. The two discuss how valuations and multiples continue to be strong, being strategic when buying or selling your firm, advisors with investment banking backgrounds, how competitive markets make for competitive pricing...

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Dynasty Financial Partners’ Co-Heads of Investment Banking, Sam Anderson and Harris Baltch. The three discuss equity and partnership becoming a motivator, creating enterprise value, building capital structure, centralized scale within the industry, and providing specialized wealth management planning.

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Merritt Point Wealth Advisors’ Founder & CEO Jay Andrews and Founder & COO Ross Bauer. The three discuss 2025 being a record year for M&A, the many different definitions of what independence means, equity being a driver in the marketplace, how discipline creates successful results, and the value of next generation advisors in growin...

This week, AdvisorHub’s CEO, Tony Sirianni talks with Stan Gregor — CEO of Summit Financial. The two discuss the increasing pace of M&A, the details around equity deals, how growth must be a part of selling your firm, determining an alignment of outcomes, bringing the right people into the right ecosystem, and improvements in technologies and efficiencies.