Tag: Business model

The program aims to help advisers align with clients’ charitable goals.

OppenheimerFunds created the CEO Advisor Institute to help financial professionals “run their businesses like world-class CEOs and engage their clients as trusted global advisers.”

CUNA Mutual Retirement Solutions has introduced an enhanced service model, dubbed ClearDirection Plan Management.

The partnership is aimed at developing a program that “sets a new standard in fiduciary education and best practices.”

The DOL published a pretty substantial list of technical corrections to the Best-Interest Contract Exemption—including mostly minor clarifications but also a few potentially substantial adjustments. 

It’s not just investment gurus and behavioral scientists who have big ideas about helping individuals and institutions prepare for the financial future. 

The independent broker/dealer network is making a team of technology experts available to help advisers utilize new client service and practice management technology platforms.

Some DC plan providers see big opportunity ahead in helping higher education institutions prepare their workforces for retirement via 403(b) and 457 plans.

MyVest offers wealth management technology.

A confluence of generational, technological and consumer preference trends is driving a sea change in the traditional investment advisory business, according to J.D. Power researchers. 

AssetMark is out with a new analysis of advisory practices with AUM growing 20% or more each year.

According to one Fidelity executive, the key to getting customers to embrace a new service is to include them in its development. 

Financial advisers of the future will have to cope with serving a workforce that is much more mobile and does not necessarily spend much time tethered to a...

The asset management consultancy will now be known as Casey Quirk by Deloitte.

Eighty-five percent of investment professionals expect budgets to increase.

 

Interviews with nearly 1,000 independent advisers who custody assets at Schwab show significant optimism about growth opportunities for registered investment advisers. 

Working at the “only Millennial Top 10 bank” has its perks, says Yvette Butler, President of Capital One Investing—perhaps most notably the freedom to do things a little...

The acquisition of Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions from FactSet will broaden AI’s portfolio of proprietary data and business intelligence capabilities for advisers and asset managers.