Fidelity Reveals New FidelityConnect Website for Advisers
According to one Fidelity executive, the key to getting customers to embrace a new service is to include them in its development.
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Can Business Models Evolve to Match the ‘Gig’ Economy?
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...
Schwab Advisor Services Outlook Measures RIA Optimism
Interviews with nearly 1,000 independent advisers who custody assets at Schwab show significant optimism about growth opportunities for registered investment advisers.
Advisor Group Adopts Envestnet Retirement Solutions Platform
The Envestnet platform is now part of Advisor Group’s comprehensive offering for financial professionals serving the retirement plans marketplace.
NFP Acquires ERISA Fiduciary Advisors
Joining forces will expand the services and scope of both firms, executives say.
Asset International Adds Two Market Intelligence Firms
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.
What Does 'Self-Service' Mean to Investors?
New polling from J.D. Power explores the similarities and differences among groups of “self-directed” investors.
Fidelity and United Capital Team to Fight Commoditization
Fidelity Clearing and Custody Solutions is partnering with United Capital to help firms “drive growth by managing their clients’ moments of truth.”
Boomer Clients Still Eyed Eagerly by Many Advisers
It’s a simple formula that keeps more than half of advisers primarily targeting Baby Boomers: They have the most money saved and are the most in need of...
Advisers Already Moving to Overcome DOL Fiduciary Rule Challenges
“This is hardly the first time regulation will change the way advisers get paid and disclose important information to clients,” one industry executive observes, “so in that respect...
Volatility Can Strengthen the Advisory Relationship
Advisers are finding new ways to help clients cope with the powerful sense of panic that can quickly set in when broad equity market indexes start to fall.
Big Jump Measured in Share of Advisory Clients in Retirement
“Given so many Baby Boomers are retiring or preparing for retirement, it is not surprising that advisers are seeing more of their business dominated by the needs of...
Advisers Can’t Respond Unilaterally to Final Fiduciary Rule
A given financial adviser’s response to the final fiduciary rule from the Department of Labor may have more to do with the adviser’s brokerage platform provider than their...
Examining the Fiduciary Rule Proposal’s Education Carve-Out
Among the many provisions and definitions in the forthcoming DOL fiduciary rule will likely be an “education carve-out,” considered to be one of the most high-stakes elements of...
FINRA Signals Coming Update to Membership Rules
FINRA highlights the success of its recent compliance efforts in a new report, while signaling the beginning of a process to modernize and update its membership application process.
Cerulli Associates Sees Data Usage Coming Up Short
More than half of medium and small-sized asset managers (less than $100 billion in assets under management) report they are “still cleaning and trying to understand their big...
Institutional Clients Don’t Always Speak Your Sales Language
A new report from Market Strategies International finds asset managers and investment service providers may be overestimating client understanding of many of the buzz-word concepts taken for granted...
A New Fiduciary Paradigm Before Year End?
The Department of Labor’s new fiduciary rule will be very hard to reverse once in place—even if Republicans take the White House.