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Technology solutions taking aim
While industry experts and broker-dealers are working to simplify variable annuity processing and cut down on paperwork electronically, software vendors are trying to help advisers easily compare products to comply with suitability requirements.
Act For Financial Professionals
Despite some quibbles, Act For Financial Professionals is a customer relationship management system that is making many advisers' short lists.
Signature Resources teams with Fundquest
Signature Resources Capital Management has teamed up with Fundquest Inc. to launch a wealth management platform.
LPL’s CIO says tools are sound
LPL Financial will increase its spending on monitoring tools and in other areas to make sure it does not experience a repeat of last year's technology glitches, according to its new chief information officer.
Trumpet rolls out add-on to simplify use of Worldox doc management
Many advisory firms are already invested in and rely on the comprehensive and complex Worldox application for their document management needs. Now another company — Trumpet Inc. — has come out with an add-on program for Worldox that is meant to help simplify the scanning and accuracy of filing documents.
Ameriprise requires advisers to attend technology boot camp
Ameriprise Financial Inc. is calling 10,000 of its financial advisers to its headquarters for technology training on a grand scale.
CRM Software set to release new version of Junxure
Version 7.0 of Junxure, the office management and work flow automation software created by and for financial advisers, will be released in the next few weeks, and it is getting some positive early reviews.
New tools keep up with compliance
Technology to help automate and improve the compliance function may not ring a financial adviser's cash register, but it certainly can reduce the time-consuming and potentially costly problems that compliance failures create.
Thomson relaunches InvestmentView
InvestmentView, one of the first software tools to use hypothetical comparisons to help advisers recommend mutual funds, is being re-launched today by Thomson Financial.
E*Assist, TradeKing, NorthStar
E*Assist's Compliance Officer Report Card assists compliance officers in tracking the advisers they oversee.
Money Tree rolls out new version of Total Planning Suite
Although not a major overhaul of its product, Version 3.0 of Money Tree Software Ltd.'s Total Planning Suite offers new reporting features and an updated interface that make it an improvement over the previous incarnation.
Knight Capital gets an Edge
Knight Capital has bought EdgeTrade, a privately-held agency-only trade execution and algorithmic software company.
NYSE buys Wombat for $200 million
With the purchase, NYSE Euronext hopes to further improve their connectivity, transaction and data-management solutions.
How to make referrals more meaningful
If there’s such a thing as referral management technology, Referral Key Inc. of Boston is one of its…
Tech Bits
This week: Version 6.0 of CNG-SAFE, Laserfiche Compliance and a partnership between InvestEdge and Evare.
Advisers may benefit from XBRL shift
If advisers haven't heard of extensible business reporting language, or XBRL, they soon will.
Technology efforts this year might lure people to the web
Online delivery of software tools and data to advisers will be the major focus of 2008 technology innovations, industry experts say.
Schwab looks to buy more tech vendors
Schwab Institutional will seek to acquire or partner with more technology vendors, a strategy that follows a doubling in the company's tech budget in 2007.
Schwab unit to acquire Etelligent
Schwab Performance Technologies said last Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Etelligent Consulting Inc., a registered investment advisory technology consulting firm.
Advisers to boost reliance on web tools
Experts cite CRM, document management, web portals, integrated adviser platforms and RSS as areas of expected growth.
