Jeff and Bruce pull back the curtain a bit this week on how private money finds its way into RIA businesses in the form of investments. Tim Bello from Merchant Investment Management joins to share his perspective as someone whose firm makes investments and forms partnerships mainly in the wealth management space. And no, this is not private equity.

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Guest Bio:

At Merchant, Tim Bello is engaged across all aspects of the firm, with a day-to-day focus on driving the company’s key growth initiatives and directing the overall corporate strategy. Prior to Merchant, Tim was an early stage partner at Dynasty Financial Partners, where he was in charge of strategic implementation and advisor identification firmwide for the Dynasty Network. Prior to Dynasty, Tim was head of global platforms for New York-based alternative asset manager SkyBridge Capital, where he was in charge of building and managing the firm’s global platform sales activities.

Previous to SkyBridge, he was an original member of the Permal Group’s Hedge Fund of Fund US Private Client Platform distribution team, where he launched and developed the firm’s U.S. distribution arm and brand. Earlier, he worked on Permal’s institutional sales team, which involved interfacing with pensions, endowments, foundations and institutional consultants across the Permal product suite. Tim currently serves as special advisor to the Board for the Family Office Association in Greenwich, Conn., and is on the Membership Committee of the Core Club in New York. He is a graduate of St. Lawrence University.