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Summary: Partnering up with other advisors can be exciting and lucrative, but when partnerships fall apart, everyone loses, former financial advisor Norb Vonnegut writes in the Wall Street Journal.
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Summary: According to a recent study from Putnam Investments, more than 80% of the advisors it surveyed said that they use social media for their business, reflecting how firms are finally figuring out the regulatory boundaries for communicating online.
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Summary: The future of the financial advice industry will inevitably involve a lot of technology, but robo-advice platforms will not replace the human touch of a good adviser. That was among the top themes on Tuesday in Miami at the kick-off of the MarketCounsel Summit, an event catering to independent financial advisers.
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Summary: Customer relationship management software is not considered cutting-edge by many financial advisers, but it remains a stumbling block that leads to trouble with work flows.
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Summary: Three years doesn’t seem like a long time. But the wealth management industry has experienced a number of technological innovations in that period, from the development of new software tools for advisors to the rise of automated advice platforms.