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Summary: Following a presentation Wednesday morning by Ric Edelman, the founder and executive chairman of Edelman Financial Services, on exponential technology, nearly every keynote presentation and panel focused on how advisers can future-proof their firm to keep winning clients in the face of rapid change.
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Summary: When you think about major investors in the financial technology space, there are the usual suspects: the venture capital firms, such as FTV Capital, private equity firms like Francisco Partners, and large institutions, such as BlackRock and WisdomTree.
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Summary: Will 2018 bring a collective embrace of the holistic financial planning model? How will heightened scrutiny from regulators weigh on fees and the delivery of retirement advice? What about robos and artificial intelligence?
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Summary: In my early years covering the financial planning industry, there was a common stereotype about accountants who also act as planners. It was thought that these CPAs were merely tax practitioners who had been badgered by their clients into learning a little bit more about investments.
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Summary: One of the biggest changes in the financial advisory business over the past 10 years or so has been the rise of technology. Now, of course, technology has always been a part of the business — as anyone who, like me, struggled with Advent Access performance reports in the 1990s can attest. But the accelerated rate of technology change in the last 10 years has been amazing. Unfortunately, for many financial advisors, the rate of change, and the number of choices available, has also been overwhelming.
