The first of a three-part series breaks down important preferences of next-gen clients as wealth managers manage the transfer of wealth.
Say goodbye to PDF documents and hello to narrated and personalized videos for client accounts.
That will likely have a lasting effect on retirement savings for those workers, nearly 70% of whom said they will not pay back any portion of the distributions they took under the CARES Act, according to data from Principal Financial Services.
With $600 billion in assets under advisement, Captrust has appointed a head of wealth management to lead the growing $24 billion under management business.
The Securities and Exchange Commission summoned the banks for hasty meetings on what triggered the forced sale of more than $20 billion of stocks linked to Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management.
He was suspended by the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards in 2013, and was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Pennsylvania Department of Banking in 2015.
The CFP Board has spent $10 million each year on the campaign since its launch in 2011. The campaign is funded by an additional $12 per month that is added to the annual CFP certification fee.
The app is focused on capturing the influx of young investors that are now seeking out financial services. Fidelity Spire is 'goal-based' and enables users to track progress on financial goals by linking their accounts.
The company's new Retirement Select service is competing against state-sponsored auto IRAs, and it comes as other firms are exploring the pooled-employer plan market.
Traditional financial companies are beginning to embrace cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects more than a decade after the creation of Bitcoin in 2009. That comes even as some remain skeptical of mainstream adoption.
All the old roadblocks to advisory firms making meaningful use of social media are gone.
State and federal GOP officials continue to push back against what they call regulatory overreach. The SEC says it is trying to meet investor demand for ESG information.
The new hires, including former TD Ameritrade and Fidelity execs, are a strategic move by Envestnet to build a digital financial wellness ecosystem.
Plaintiffs sued BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. in 2017, alleging that the firm engaged in self-dealing and breached its fiduciary duty by including numerous in-house products on the plan menu.
As part of the settlement, Edward Jones will create a new financial adviser council to address diversity issues and senior management will be kept informed of those initiatives.
The program would be modeled after the government’s Thrift Savings Plan for federal employees.
Clients come in with a problem that is actually a bundle of issues, only partly financial, that they haven’t been able to sort through to make progress toward resolution.
Social Finance said it will give investors with more than $3,000 in their accounts the ability to invest in initial public offerings.
Merrill’s digital advice platform, which launched in 2017, originally had a minimum investment of $5,000.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched a tool allowing financial advisers to analyze 24 models at no cost.
