The Growth Stack.

Distribution partner to asset managers

You built the investment business.We build the distribution around it.

The Growth Stack opens strategic partnerships and runs a dedicated sales desk for asset managers. We extend your reach into ETF issuers, model platforms, RIA enterprises and advisor teams, working alongside the distribution team you already have.

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Two routes from your strategy to the market On the left, a few deep strategic partnerships with ETF issuers, model platforms and index licensees. On the right, targeted coverage of a broad field of RIAs and advisor teams, with the best-fit firms selected. ETF issuers Model platforms Index licensing YOUR Strategy

Strategic PartnershipsA few high-leverage relationships

Sales & DistributionTargeted, consistent RIA coverage

Led byTina Singh25+ years in asset-management distribution, including Merrill Lynch and TS Capital. About Tina

The distribution challenge

Investment capability is rarely what limits growth. Distribution capacity is.

Most established managers have more opportunity than commercial bandwidth. Strategies that deserve wider reach. Channels that are underpenetrated. Research and models that could be licensed. Each one competes for the same sales budget and the same management attention.

Some of those opportunities need a partner: a platform, an issuer or a licensee that can carry your strategy into a channel. Others need coverage: people working your target RIAs every week. We provide both.

Our capabilities

Two ways to expand your market access.

Used separately or together, depending on where the opportunity sits and what your team already covers.

01

Strategic Partnerships

Commercial relationships that carry your capabilities further than your own sales force can.

We identify where a partnership creates value, determine the right counterparties, shape the commercial proposition and open conversations at the senior level. Then we stay in the work as the relationship moves toward a decision.

What it can do for your firm

  • Turn proprietary research or indexes into licensing opportunities
  • Partner with ETF issuers looking for differentiated investment capabilities
  • Expand distribution through model platforms and enterprise RIAs
  • Enter new channels and markets through established partners
  • Develop partnerships without diverting your investment team's attention

One well-structured partnership can create access that would otherwise take years to build.

02

Sales & Distribution

Targeted access. Dedicated coverage. A visible pipeline.

We identify the RIAs most likely to be relevant to your strategy, prioritize the people making investment decisions and build a consistent outreach effort around them. You get dedicated coverage, qualified conversations and visibility into the pipeline, without having to recruit and manage the team yourself.

How the desk works

  • Targets agreed with you, built from Form ADV, 13F and our own research
  • Decision-makers prioritized, not just firm names
  • Outreach run by our dedicated desk, under senior oversight
  • Qualified conversations passed to your team, or led by us
  • Regular pipeline reporting and market feedback

For alternative investments, we provide marketing and introduction support and work with a registered broker-dealer wherever the mandate requires one.

Consistent coverage of the RIA channel, without the fixed cost of building a national sales organization.

The business case

Expand your distribution capability. Not your fixed overhead.

Building distribution internally takes time, capital and management attention. The Growth Stack gives you experienced relationship development, targeted sales resources and the infrastructure to support them.

Whether you're opening a new channel, commercializing investment capabilities or extending an existing sales team, we build around the opportunity rather than asking you to build an organization first.

  • 01

    Senior relationships and judgment

    Tina Singh leads every engagement, deciding which opportunities are worth pursuing and opening the conversations herself.

  • 02

    A dedicated desk, not a shared call center

    Your coverage works your strategy and your target list, and reports into your head of distribution.

  • 03

    Infrastructure already built

    Targeting data, outreach systems and pipeline reporting are in place from the start.

Have a channel to open or a capability to commercialize?

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What an engagement looks like

From first assessment to live conversations.

  1. 1

    Assess

    The strategy, your current distribution and where the commercial opportunity sits.

  2. 2

    Identify

    The partners, channels or advisor targets worth pursuing, agreed with you.

  3. 3

    Position

    The commercial case and outreach approach for each audience.

  4. 4

    Execute

    Introductions, outreach and pipeline development, led at the senior level.

  5. 5

    Report

    Progress, market feedback and next steps, measured in pipeline, not activity.

What you receive

  • Named target lists
  • Partnership pipeline
  • Senior-level introductions
  • Qualified advisor conversations
  • Pipeline reporting
  • Market feedback

Commercial terms are structured around the scope of each engagement. We don't promise allocations or closed transactions. We take responsibility for the work that creates them.

Who we work with

Firms with institutional-quality capabilities and more opportunity than distribution capacity.

  • Established and boutique asset managers

    Expanding into new channels or adding coverage beyond the core team.

  • Emerging and growing ETF issuers

    Building presence with RIAs and model platforms.

  • Index and research providers

    Commercializing indexes, models and research through licensing.

  • Alternative investment sponsors

    Reaching RIAs and accredited-investor channels, with registered intermediaries where required.

  • International managers entering the US

    Establishing partnerships and an initial channel presence.

  • Firms seeking access to the RIA channel

    Moving from a few relationships to structured coverage.

The New York Stock Exchange facade with a banner bearing the TS Capital logo alongside Guggenheim, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and the Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundation.
TS Capital at the New York Stock ExchangeTina founded TS Capital, which raised more than $11 billion for asset managers.

Leadership

Led by someone who has built distribution businesses, not just advised them.

Tina Singh has spent more than 25 years in asset-management distribution, business development and capital raising. As a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch she oversaw the closed-end fund and UIT business and helped build significant market share. She then founded TS Capital, which raised more than $11 billion for asset managers including Apollo, Brookfield and DoubleLine.

Her relationships span investment managers, wirehouses, intermediary distribution, product development and financial-services platforms. She has also built and operated businesses of her own, and knows what it takes to make one grow.

Tina personally leads client relationships and senior-level partnership development. Research, data, technology and sales professionals support the execution.

Speak with Tina

Tina also writes and hosts Tradecraft, on the business of financial services. LinkedIn

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Where could stronger distribution take your business?

A focused 30-minute conversation about your partnership opportunities, your distribution gaps and whether we are the right fit to help close them.

Discuss Your Distribution Strategy tina@thegrowthstack.ai