Adopting AI across asset management will accelerate the ability of investment professionals to better serve investors and create new sources of value, making them even more essential.
To help your clients make sound long-term decisions they can live and thrive with, work with them to think through options that will harmonize their financial and emotional lives.
The Labor Department has stepped up its audits of plans that have lost track of participants, and noted last month that in 2020 alone, investigators had helped reunite missing participants with plan benefits “with a present value in excess of $1.4 billion.”
The massive money moves led to breathless coverage of these names on financial and mass media, and gave me flashbacks to 1999-2000, as market pundits waved their arms over these small names. It was energizing — but it misses the point.
The real fun is just getting started, now that everybody and their mother knows what a short squeeze is.
There is an art to prospecting, and a formula that helps close prospects in the first meeting.
RIAs are gaining market share because the RIA model allows firms to embrace the strategies necessary to serve clients.
Ever since Bitcoin rallied to all-time highs this month, the big question advisers are asking themselves is when will it be suitable to use the cryptocurrency in client portfolios.
If we set goals that have a 50-50 probability of completion, we know we’re stretching ourselves; we also know that we’ll get to the end of the year achieving far more than we could’ve imagined just one short year earlier.
Today, unfortunately, cases of cognitive decline are prevalent, and the informal and below-the-radar approaches that addressed the issue in the past are inadequate to meet the current challenge.
Learning from the lessons of 2020 and taking action to improve their retirement planning should be a key focus for advisers in 2021.
CEO Charlie Scharf is making classic changes to streamline and reduce costs at Wells Fargo's Wealth and Investment Management unit, which houses Wells Fargo Advisors.
The technology adoption and rewriting of work rules and expectations that's now occurring, if properly navigated and implemented, can help firms gain a competitive advantage.
The greatest value we add as financial advisers is keeping clients from making mistakes from which they cannot recover.
Countless wealth management firms, insurance companies and fintech providers are promising to deliver financial wellness, but few can offer a coherent definition, let alone a clear approach to providing it.
With advisers serving a more diverse group of clients than ever before, discussions about emotionally charged topics may become unavoidable.
We resolve to increase the breadth of topics we bring to our adviser audience because we know clients are expecting and needing more right now.
The Labor Department's fiduciary rule and the SEC's Reg BI pose a real threat to the retirement savings of investors, but the Biden administration can put an end to the threat.
Financial wellness programs depend on data about what workers need, but employees may have concerns about the privacy of their personal information.
The firm's acquisition of the record keeper may be a harbinger for other distributors. Does Raymond James see opportunities to monetize participants in retirement plans, especially given the launch of pooled employer plans?
