The steady migration of independent brokers to a fee-based model has created a large universe of advisers whose revenue is a mix of fees and commissions.
RolloverSystems has made WealthConnect, an education and financial planning tool, available to clients.
T. Rowe Price has unveiled a web portal with tools that advisers and other firms can use to evaluate the asset manager’s mutual funds.
Gemini Fund Services will offer ReFlow Management’s redemption service to small and midsize mutual funds. The service will be integrated into Gemini’s transfer agency services, providing clients with direct access to the service.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. is expanding the data its DTCC Deriv/SERV unit generates about credit default swaps.
Charles Schwab has enhanced its StreetSmart Pro trading software and CheckFree Advantage Fee offers a local language feature.
For many advisory practices, the technology focus will be making do with smaller budgets — and doing more with existing technology.
New features include rates tables with flat rates and cross rates of most-traded currencies and currency pairs, a global economic calendar that lists major economic events that affect currencies and allows filtering by country.
Several third-party technology providers have banded together and this week launched a new forum to help educate and assist newly independent advisers in their selection of software, hardware and other technology components to complete their back offices.
Cabinet NG Inc. a provider of management systems has introduced a hosted product called CNG-ONLINE.
A new service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. automates the account setup and maintenance of managed accounts — eliminating an onerous and non-standardized manual process.
A new version of the most comprehensive planning software available from Money Tree Software Ltd. was rolled out with new features this week.
EMoney Advisor produces the eMoney 360 and 360Pro wealth- and goal-planning applications used by financial advisers, while Redtail provides a popular web-based client relationship management application intended for advisers.
Once again, it is about the plumbing.
Financial services companies continue to increase their technology spending despite rocky markets and an anemic economy.
UBS Financial and two units of CitiGroup Inc. adopt DTCC's standards-based managed-account system. SEC complees taxonomies for fund prospectuses.
Seven in 10 financial advisers prefer working for a nationally recognized company over an independent advisory firm, according to a yet-to-be-released survey.