Last Updated: September 25, 2025
Analyzing Management
Leadership at public companies plays a pivotal role in both the initial due diligence and ongoing risk assessment processes for hedge funds and asset managers. ManagementTrack offers a consistent methodology that eliminates distractions, highlighting distinct strengths and weaknesses, identifying warning signs and positive indicators, and establishing a straightforward connection between CEO actions and performance outcomes.
CEO Cracchiolo’s aggressive capital returns will drive value despite outflows.
Analysis of Ameriprise Financial CEO Jim Cracchiolo: Positive
Although the asset management segment faces persistent outflows, Jim Cracchiolo’s proven mastery of navigating market volatility and executing aggressive capital return programs will continue to drive significant shareholder value.
Management evaluated Jim Cracchiolo’s track record and skillset against the following key factors for AMP:
- Executing the 85% payout to drive EPS growth
- Sustaining advisor recruitment and productivity
- Protecting AUM and fees from market volatility
- Stemming institutional outflows at Columbia
Jim Cracchiolo’s Track Record & Key Open Questions to Research
ManagementTrack provides track record analysis, career playbooks, strengths, and weaknesses for every CEO. It allows investors to dig deeper to uncover hard to find data to answer the most pressing questions.
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Question #1
When forced to choose between sustaining record advisor productivity and addressing the recurring, costly supervisory failures that tarnish the firm’s brand, will Cracchiolo impose the stringent compliance discipline required, even if it slows growth, or does he view these regulatory issues as a manageable cost of business?
Question #2
Given that Cracchiolo’s playbook of M&A and cost-cutting has successfully preserved margins but failed to stop outflows in Asset Management, does he have the capacity and willingness to pivot to a product-led organic turnaround, or will he default to managing the decline while seeking another large acquisition?
Why Do Investors Use ManagementTrack?
Q: How does ManagementTrack assess Jim Cracchiolo’s leadership at AMP?
A: By leveraging its proprietary career analysis and interviews with former colleagues, ManagementTrack determines an executive’s track record, key strengths, and weaknesses. This profile is then evaluated against the most pressing issues at AMP, including: executing the shareholder payout strategy to drive EPS growth, sustaining advisor recruitment and productivity, protecting assets under management and fees from market volatility, and stemming institutional outflows at Columbia.
Q: What other tools does ManagementTrack provide to connect executive actions to future company performance?
A: ManagementTrack utilizes proprietary models to flag atypical executive evasion during earnings call Q&A. Its platform also analyzes all insider transactions, isolating outlier trades that may predict future over or underperformance. These elements are synthesized into the ManagementTrack Rating, a predictive 1-10 score for every executive, offering investors a clear, forward-looking view on how management ability is likely to impact company results.
Q: How extensive is ManagementTrack’s coverage?
A: ManagementTrack provides real-time coverage on the entire c-suite for all publicly traded companies.
How to Learn More
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Author
Colby Howard is the co-founder and President of Paragon Intel. Paragon Intel’s ManagementTrack is the premier executive analysis platform for hedge funds, asset managers, corporations, boards, and recruiters. Our proprietary data, built over a decade of analysis, allows us to analyze each public company executive to understand their fit and ability to execute at their company. We leverage our proprietary data – key quantitative research on an executive’s career plus interviews with their former colleagues – with public documents, including SEC filings (10-K, 10-Q), investor presentations, press releases, and earnings call transcripts. to build a holistic, evidence-based view of an executive’s capabilities and playbook.
Sources
- Verified Career History by ManagementTrack for Jim Cracchiolo
- Analysis of Capital Allocation, Performance, and Fundamentals across career by ManagementTrack
- Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 10Q
- Ameriprise Financial, Inc. 10K
- Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Earnings Calls
- Ameriprise Financial, Inc. Press Releases
Relevant Links
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Data visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-data/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview & Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-reports/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Interview library visit: https://paragonintel.com/management-track-report-library/
- For more information on ManagementTrack’s Evasion Analysis visit: https://paragonintel.com/earnings-call-evasion/
- For more information on how ManagementTrack helps hedge funds and asset managers visit: https://paragonintel.com/
