Kurt McAlpine, CEO of Miami-based Corient, attributes the firm’s more than doubling its clients’ assets since the start of this year to a few factors. [Summit Trail] was really drawn to this very differentiated way of working, which is very novel in wealth management. KM: The reason I launched Corient was that I felt the entire wealth management industry was built on a fundamentally flawed structure. WM: Why do you think now is the time to have an independent wealth management firm that is global—in the U.K., Europe, Canada, the U.S.? With that being said, I believe outside of Corient, there aren’t any other truly global wealth managers that exist.