Behind the scenes, robo-advisers are quietly hatching plans to compete more aggressively with flesh-and-blood advisers.
Deal puts the world's largest money manager squarely in the financial advice market as it branches out from managing mutual funds and its iShares brand of ETFs.
A wrap-up of the Labor Department's fiduciary hearings, analyzing how much income retirees really need, and the rest of the week's must-reads for advisers.
In the wake of Apple's latest product announcement, some advisers may even ditch their laptop for a tablet.
The provider currently offers only an overlay for the financial services sector, but soon will have a full spread of software for advisers.
It's not a question of when something wears out; it's a question of when it becomes outdated.
Timing is key as fund, with the ticker symbol HACK, launched just before the Sony Pictures computer network was broken into.
The company aims to ramp up its level of automation from 15% to 85% within the next few years.
Here's what one adviser did after her son had his identity stolen.
Digitization of our industry is not a choice. What is a choice is whether you are empowered by it or you are consumed by it.
Those fresh to the industry can pick up friends as clients, maybe eventually take over business.
Robo-advisers can offer traditional advisory firms a model of evolution, not extinction, but only if advisers are willing to adapt and learn from their competition.
As summer comes to an end, take some time to revisit web strategies and see if they need an upgrade.
Even the most client-friendly advisers need to adapt to what robo-advisers can provide.
Brokerage claims that technical issues that caused a system-wide outage were not caused by volume or external factors, and the problem was fixed in time for market open.
Federal prosecutors say the 31-year-olds used their skills unlawfully, one is accused of running a Bitcoin exchange that laundered money for hackers, the other is accused of a pump-and-dump scam.
These are the steps advisers should take to get the word out after deciding to offer an automated investment service.
Advisers have been aggregating client data for decades, but they've been doing it the hard way: manually. It's time for them to ramp up their own efforts by leveraging technology.
Robos can be an effective on-ramp for deeper client relationships.
Heads up, BlackRock's FutureAdvisor not only manages 529 plans for free, it also gives clients a way to raise money
