Home > 
Knowledge and Insight

All Articles


Pope Francis wants financial advisers to work like fiduciaries

Added on May 2018 in Thought Leadership
0 visitor like this article | Viewed 2644 times | 0 comment

Summary: Pope Francis weighed in on the debate over the need for a universal fiduciary standard for financial advisers Thursday in a wide critique of global finance that admonished advisers who worked against the best interests of their clients.

Envestnet Embraces Alexa, Insurance Products

Added on May 2018 in Thought Leadership
0 visitor like this article | Viewed 2840 times | 0 comment

Summary: The virtual assistant will be connected to an analytics-powered tool called Envision IQ. The goal is to let advisors review client information on demand even when they’re not in front of a computer. Beta testing shows that less than half of Envestnet users regularly talk to Alexa, but Frank Coates, the company’s executive managing director, said having such a tool available will make voice bots more popular among financial professionals.

Employees at best places to work focus on the person — and the fun

Added on May 2018 in Plan for the Future
0 visitor like this article | Viewed 3251 times | 0 comment

Summary: Winners of the inaugural Best Places to Work for Financial Advisers discussed their challenges and secrets to success in a workshop preceding the InvestmentNews awards lunch on Tuesday in Chicago, where the top 50 best places to work were recognized for their outstanding dedication to employees.
 

Advisors Saw Robust Asset Growth in 2017, but Struggled to Add Clients

Added on May 2018 in Manage Your Practice
0 visitor like this article | Viewed 3540 times | 0 comment

Summary: North American financial advisors had a very good year in 2017, enjoying record levels of assets under management and revenue production, deepening their client relationships and accelerating the shift toward asset-based fees.

Advisers and clients agree: Life's better in the wealth management ecosystem

Added on May 2018 in Manage Your Practice
0 visitor like this article | Viewed 3069 times | 0 comment

Summary: Wikipedia says an ecosystem "is a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components." A digital ecosystem is a "distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability."

Your session has expired!

To continue, please log in again.

Your session is about to expire!

You will be logged off in seconds.

Do you want to continue your session?