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Growing your advisory practice: What’s your next move?
After five years, financial advisory firms move from the startup stage to adolescence, where they are faced with decisions that could affect their business for the next 20 years.
Behind the scenes in social media
As regulators take their own sweet time coming up with guidelines for social media, the marketplace is coming up with its own solutions for financial advisers
Referrals worth their weight in gold
The road to success for advisers may be paved with small gifts and “thank you” notes.
Why hiring the right support staff matters
David Blain's practice was five years old when he realized it was time to turn it from a one-man band into a quartet.
How centers of influence can help build your book of business
In many ways, expanding an advisory business is like dating. Similar to the way people turn to friends to set them up, some financial advisers, such as Eliot Weissberg, have relied on local professionals to help recruit clients.
Advisers: How do you know when it’s time for an upgrade?
Financial advisers, whether solo practitioners or members of a multiperson firm, need to think regularly about whether their technology is keeping pace with their business needs.
Outsourcing peripheral tasks lets advisers focus on growth, clients
When David Marotta started his advisory practice in 2000, he was tempted to get involved with the design of its website and the deployment of software and computer resources for the office.
Evolving into a virtual practice can help cast a wider net for clients
Sheila Chesney can tie her practice's evolution directly to technological advancements that brought her from using her phone and e-mail as primary forms of communication to video calling.
Fidelity offering breakaway hybrids new services
Fidelity Investments is improving services for breakaway hybrid advisers who face bumps in setting up dual advisory and commission businesses, the fund giant announced today.
Envestnet to acquire U.S.-based business of FundQuest
Turnkey technology and wealth management provider Envestnet Inc has entered into an agreement to acquire the U.S.-based portion of FundQuest Inc. from BNP Paribas Investment Partners for $24.4 million in cash for all outstanding shares of the firm.
<b>Webcast transcript:</b> Key findings of the InvestmentNews RIA technology study
The following is an edited transcript of the webcast “Key Findings of the InvestmentNews RIA Technology Study,” which was held May 5
Upbeat asset managers step up sales hiring
Mutual fund companies are beefing up their sales departments, a sure sign of optimism in an industry that was hit hard by the financial downturn
Firm helps advisers with social media
Given the welter of compliance issues that they face, financial advisers remain understandably cautious about using social media.
Black Diamond seen unlikely to go the way of TechFi
Advent Software Inc.'s announced $73 million deal for Black Diamond Performance Reporting LLC is the biggest news in portfolio management and performance reporting in years
TD adding 90 new RIA firms each quarter: Tomczyk
Revenues up, net new assets up, custody business up. It's hard to find much that went wrong for the discount brokerage in the first quarter of the year.
Reps, advisers still going independent, still doing it for the dough
A Fidelity survey finds advisers and brokers are still striking out on their own. And they're taking more and more of their assets with them when they leave.
Is there really a flight to independence?
Newer models could offer attractive alternatives to wirehouses, but they're not making a huge dent in headcounts.
Best practices should be focus of trading ETFs
The article “ETFs can present pricing problems” (April 25), which addressed exchange-traded-funds pricing and best execution, is a welcome lever that should inspire greater focus on, if not greater scrutiny of, the overall topic of ETF execution
Pay-for-performance change by SEC could cost advisers
An SEC rule proposal that would raise the net-worth thresholds at which advisers would be allowed to charge performance-based fees would likely cut into the bottom lines of smaller hedge funds, private-equity firms and some registered investment advisers
Advisers take dim view of BrightScope
BrightScope Inc.'s new free website, which allows investors to look up financial advisers, already has sparked controversy
