Recent developments in the large brokerage house space have made it more difficult for advisors to go independent, just as technology and the shift from a brokerage to a fee–based business has motivated advisors to start their own shop. Low payouts, increased red...
FinTech Revolutionizing Managed Accounts – Part 6 Investors generally reference “alternatives” as investments that fall outside the two primary asset classes, equities and bonds. These investments can be as vanilla as options and currencies, or far more...
(Wealth Management Today) This article is the second in our series on the tools and technologies that help connect asset managers to their distribution networks. Whether they are called hubs, exchanges or marketplaces they have a wide variety of functionality and...
FinTech Revolutionizing Managed Accounts – Part 5 Security indexes (or indices, depending where you are from) predate the 20th century and have been used as benchmarks for investment managers for many decades. Beginning in 1975 (or potentially as early as 1967),...
FinTech Revolutionizing Managed Accounts – Part 4 Advisory clients can be an eccentric bunch, with varied demands and unconventional reasons behind them. Whether your client has taken a firm stance against the perils of tobacco, the side effects of petroleum,...
