Tag: Practice management

The Securities and Exchange Commission is proposing a new rule and rule amendments under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 aimed at bolstering advisory industry succession planning. 

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...

Fidelity is launching three new low-cost index funds. 

Hartford Funds today launched a new educational program that provides advisers with insights on how to strengthen client relationships.

The solution is aimed at simplifying retirement plan delivery for small employers. 

The Envestnet platform is now part of Advisor Group’s comprehensive offering for financial professionals serving the retirement plans marketplace. 

Joining forces will expand the services and scope of both firms, executives say. 

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.

New polling from J.D. Power explores the similarities and differences among groups of “self-directed” investors. 

“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...

“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...

A little more than six in 10 CFA charter holders say they have some familiarity with automated financial advice tools, “implying a fairly high level of awareness overall.”

The mobile-ready portal includes customized reports of investors’ accounts and provides a more holistic view of their financial situations.

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...

The new Wilshire Wealth Management Platform is powered by VestmarkONE. 

The collaboration with FutureAdvisor will accelerate the development of LPL’s robo-advice solution.