On today's menu: The bad omen of Amazon's earnings miss; lots of people are eating burritos; the Microsoft CEO search nears an end ... and the new guy has a big job ahead; Super Bowl ads and what you need to know about the Year of the Horse.
As of May, the 4,500 investment advisers who use the custody services of TD Ameritrade Institutional and the Veo platform for trading will have access to the web-based version of iRebal at no additional charge.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Big news from two tech giants: strong earnings and a gamechanging sale. Plus two questions: Should you worry about the rout in emerging markets and is your technology working for or against you? Also: A super price for a Super Bowl suite.
Deal offers portal for advisers to engage clients and prospects, connects with RCS Capital.
Reading through the slew of year-in-review articles brings thoughts of breakthroughs to come in 2014.
Mukesh Mehta leaves TD Ameritrade to oversee network of four broker-dealers.
Younger advisers being transitioned into larger roles in the business have a distinct advantage that helps them build client relationships &mdash; their comfort with technology.
“We think of it as a bit of a game changer,” said Neesha Hathi, senior vice president of Advisor Technology Solutions at Schwab.
Tech firm's Alcatraz launch lets financial firms track online conversations across social media.
Advisory firms are using secure BYOD software as use of personal smartphones and tablets grows.
Your new competition for wealth management clients can come from anywhere, according to marketing and tech maven April Rudin.
How are traditional data tools adapting to this bold new era of BIg Data?
A little more than a year after Raymond James introduced its Goal Planning and Monitoring software powered by MoneyGuidePro to its advisers, the firm reports that the software has been used to create 50,000 financial plans.
As it pursues a series of broker-dealer acquisitions, RCS Capital Corp. has signed on with smart-data technology startup Vestorly in a digital-marketing deal designed to connect brokers with client prospects.
Less than 10% of advisers actually have a formal referral process that is proactive in nature, have documented steps that can be measured, and a process that is systematized to become a powerful growth engine. Timothy Welsh writes: This needs to change.
The content sharing platform offers advisers insight into potential clients based on their online activity.
Make no mistake &mdash; the focus of a technology company has relevance to advisory firms. Just think innovation.
