Home > 
Knowledge and Insight > Thought Leadership

All Articles


The commoditization of the robo adviser

Added on April 2015 in Thought Leadership
1 visitor like this article | Viewed 4224 times | 0 comment

Summary:  In the process, established and emerging robo-advisers have begun to mimic each other, either through similar features or by echoing statements ripping into their bigger competitors.

Advisory fees rise above 1% after bottoming in 2013

Added on March 2015 in Thought Leadership
1 visitor like this article | Viewed 3957 times | 0 comment

Summary: Fee-based pricing is on the upswing after falling for several years and landing under 1% in 2013, a new report shows. Advisers charged an average of 1.02% on client assets in 2014, compared with 0.99% the previous year, according to a PriceMetrix Inc. report released Monday that analyzes transaction and account data of 40,000 advisers.

Adviser technology is about more than dollars

Added on February 2015 in Thought Leadership
1 visitor like this article | Viewed 4141 times | 0 comment

Summary: How do you view technology? Is it one of those things you know you need to run your business, but you fight tooth and nail because it doesn't come naturally? Because it takes a lot of time to learn to use and maximize? In other words, a lot of trial and error.

What's next in adviser technology?

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
1 visitor like this article | Viewed 3942 times | 0 comment

Summary: InvestmentNews hosted a roundtable of technology executives from independent broker-dealers and custodians to learn about the biggest issues they're tackling, what they're hearing from advisers and what they plan to focus on next. Here's what they had to say:

Advisers find new ways to attract increasingly wealthy population — women

Added on January 2015 in Thought Leadership
1 visitor like this article | Viewed 4086 times | 0 comment

Summary; The nation's changing wealth demographics have encouraged many advisory firms over the past few years to strengthen their focus on women, who represent about 45% of U.S. millionaires and are on their way to becoming the majority.

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?