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On Wall Street November 1, 2012 Mason Braswell |
Back Office Headaches: Inefficiencies Delay Account Opening Inefficiencies in account opening irk advisors and potential clients alike.  |
Financial Planning August 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Who's Planning? A study by Boston-based AiteGroup found that only 18% of independent advisors make financial planning the center of their practice.  |
Registered Rep. July 26, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Online Brokerages Still Grabbing Market Share From Wirehouses Online brokerages continue to take market share from the wirehouses, according to a new report.  |
Registered Rep. April 7, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Report : Wealth Management Firms To Jack Up CRM Spend Wealth management firms are expected to invest heavily in customer relationship management technology over the next three years, according to a new report from Aite Group.  |
Wall Street & Technology October 26, 2005 |
Missed Opportunity Brokerages are missing a cost-effective opportunity to gain new customers and are lagging behind their banking peers by failing to offer online account opening services, according to a study.  |
Wall Street & Technology May 28, 2008 Cory Levine |
Client Relationships Are Key for Wealth Managers Aite Group study finds that subject matter expertise and listening skills are most important to clients in building a strong financial planning relationship.  |
Registered Rep. October 13, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Financial Advisors Embrace Mobile Computing Financial advisors are finally catching up with their clients in mobile computing.  |
Registered Rep. January 28, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Banks Losing Mass Affluent To Online Brokerages U.S. and Canadian banks say developing mass affluent wealth management business is a top priority, but they're not doing enough about it.  |
Registered Rep. November 30, 2010 John Aidan Byrne |
Report: Merrill Edge Threatens Online and Regional Brokers, Not Its Own FAs A new report by research firm Aite Group this week, sees Bank of America Merrill Lynch's recently expanded online brokerage business -- as a serious challenge to the online business of powerhouses such as Charles Schwab and Fidelity Investments.  |
Registered Rep. November 4, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Rep-as-Portfolio Manager Programs Taking Off Despite the compliance hurdles, more than one third of financial advisors see direct handling of clients' assets by FAs acting as their portfolio managers clearly outpacing other fee-based management styles in the next three years.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Keeping Up In An Evolving Space Scalability. Profit pressures. Self-directed investing. Increased use of mobile applications. These are some of the trends to watch in the financial advisor industry in coming months.  |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 Russ Alan Prince |
Rep's Honor Here is how wealth management readily translates into additional assets under management for financial advisers and what they can do reach this target market.  |
Financial Planning November 1, 2012 Elson et al. |
Hot Topics Rosy outlook for advisory firms... Changes coming for ce credit... Retirement sweet spot...  |
Wall Street & Technology April 26, 2007 |
Online Brokerage Customers Can Be Fickle More Than 20 Percent of Online Brokerage Users Are Considering Changing Brokers Online brokerage tools play a significant factor in retaining existing clients, a new report notes.  |
Registered Rep. December 21, 2011 Diana Britton |
Aite: Bloom Coming Off the Rose of Social Media? Financial advisors are just getting started, and already, the bloom seems to be coming off the rose, Aite Group says.  |
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 |
Aite Recommends Improving Advisor Productivity in Wealth Management Market Aite Group recently released its evaluation of wealth management platforms and noted the importance of improving adviser productivity in an industry experiencing consolidation.  |
Financial Advisor August 2006 Hannah Shaw Grove |
Life Insurance And Wealth Management Helping client with life insurance is an important service of effective wealth managers.  |
Registered Rep. April 16, 2010 Jerry Gleeson |
Merrill Advisor Defections Flat In Q1, Profit Falls Profits were down last quarter at Merrill Lynch but the brokerage's performance still helped to lift the fortunes of its new parent, Bank of America Corp.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2006 John J. Bowen |
Behind the Buzz Many advisors are "wealth managers" in name only. Here's how to implement the business model in your practice.  |
Financial Advisor January 2004 Grove & Prince |
Wealth Management And Advanced Planning Advanced planning is an essential part of the wealth management model, because it can result in more revenue and a deeper understanding of the affluent client  |
Bank Technology News March 2011 John Adams |
Self Service With An Edge When it comes to attracting wealth management clients, the new focus is entirely on control - specifically giving control to customers via electronic channels.  |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Focus Financial Obtains New Credit Line for Acquisitions Focus Financial Partners' pockets just got a lot deeper. A consortium of banks approved a credit facility of up to $320 million for the New York City-based registered investment advisor aggregator, almost double the size of its previous facility of $155 million.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Donna Mitchell |
Social Value A joint study of 144 registered investment advisors by Pershing Advisor Solutions and Aite Group offers evidence that social media is more than an afterthought for advisors. Instead, it's a useful tool for reaching potential customers.  |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 |
13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.  |
Wall Street & Technology January 23, 2007 |
It Costs More Than You Think Two of the slowest areas of the retail brokerage industry to adopt process automation have been the direct business of mutual funds and annuities.  |
Registered Rep. February 25, 2011 Diana Britton |
Financial Advisors Must Prepare For Coming Retirement Advice Boom As Baby Boomers retire, and switch gears from asset accumulation to asset distribution, advisors are going to have to become more sophisticated and efficient in their delivery of financial advice  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2005 Grove & Prince |
In Name Only Financial advisors who fancy themselves "wealth managers" are having trouble walking the talk.  |
Financial Planning March 1, 2008 John J Bowen |
Getting an Edge For many financial advisors, the choice to offer wealth management services isn't easy. They wonder if wealth management is really worth it. The answer is yes.  |
Registered Rep. September 27, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Want More Prospecting Time? Integrate Your Tech, Study Says The cost of inefficient technology integration at registered investment advisor practices may be more than you would think.  |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
Wall Street Brokerages Set For More Advisor Defections? Switching for big signing bonuses spiked during the recent financial crisis when Wall Street's biggest brokerages merged or were acquired. But it died down a bit after Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley offered their financial advisors retention packages.  |
Registered Rep. March 9, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley Cutting 200-300 FAs And Trainees The firm's wealth management division, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, should end the quarter with about 17,800 advisors, still the largest brokerage force in the U.S. by headcount.  |
Financial Advisor April 2005 Grove & Prince |
The Wealth Management Mindset Learning to manage solutions for unique clients: This is the third and last article in a series about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2010 Marion Asnes |
Real Wealth Wealth management is a study in anxieties, as advisors relate how even their multimillionaire clients are struggling to unload overpriced homes and pay astronomical college tuition bills. You have to wonder: What is wealth, anyway?  |
Financial Planning January 1, 2007 John J. Bowen |
It's a Coalition Effort Wealth management works -- that is, if everyone at your financial advisory firm works to make it happen.  |
Financial Advisor February 2005 Grove & Prince |
Why This Business Is So Tough The first in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of being a wealth manager, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade.  |
Financial Advisor November 2005 Monroe D. Diefendorf |
Thinking In 3-D New standards and guidelines, along with curriculum and professional designations, will be created to address the needs of our 21st century clients. 3 Dimensional Wealth Planning may help the industry meet challenges.  |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Grove & Prince |
Theory to Practice For many advisors, the evolution to wealth manager remains a matter of theory, not practice. Sure, they're calling themselves wealth managers, but they're still behaving like financial advisors.  |
Registered Rep. December 25, 2012 Lauren Barack |
Playing The Digital Dating Game A client's onboarding experience can affect how wiling they are to make referrals, and the faster a rep can sign one client, the quicker they can find more. New digital onboarding tools can help.  |
Financial Advisor July 2005 Raymond Fazzi |
Defining Wealth Management The term "wealth manager" has provided more sizzle than clarity in recent years, as more and more advisors have adopted the name as they transition to more comprehensive practices geared toward affluent clients.  |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2011 Jerry Gleeson |
Selling Alpha? BAD MOVE. Talon Asset Management announces it is selling about two-thirds of its business to global investment manager BNY Mellon.  |
Financial Advisor March 2004 Grove & Prince |
Thinking And Acting Like A Wealth Manager It's the difference between offering products and providing solutions.  |
Bank Technology News October 2008 Anthony Malakian |
CRM the Top Priority Looking to grab marketshare, many institutions plan to throw money at customer relationship management and sales automation solutions over the next two years.  |
Financial Advisor March 2005 Grove & Prince |
Know Thy Clients This is the second in a series of articles about the risks, rewards and challenges of wealth management, as well as the ever-changing tools of the trade.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
Frontline News Financial Advisor news: Building A Firm In Tough Economic Times... Keeping Up In An Evolving Space... Go South, Young Man... Wirehouses Still King Of The Hill...  |
Registered Rep. April 13, 2012 Kristen French |
Wells Fargo Wealth Management Business Posts Stagnant First Quarter Wells Fargo's wealth management business reported no growth in assets and a slight decline in advisors for the first quarter versus the same time period a year ago.  |
Financial Advisor April 2004 Grove & Prince |
Creating A Wealth Management Team Team members are competitive, but that shouldn't hurt their service.  |
Registered Rep. June 22, 2011 Charles Paikert |
Wealth Managers Must Make Changes to Attract High-Net-Worth, Industry Reports Wealth managers need to make key changes in the way they do business to stay competitive, two major studies of the industry have concluded.  |
Financial Planning October 1, 2011 James L. Poer |
Smooth Operator Many investment advisors are missing the possibility of growing their businesses, increasing client face time and saving on staffing costs. All it takes is a forward shift in how they employ technology.  |
Financial Advisor February 2004 Grove & Prince |
Learning More About Clients With the Whole Client Model How to find out what you need to know about a financial planning client.  |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Michelle Lodge |
Advisors List Their Biggest Challenges Complexity isn't the biggest challenge facing advisors. A whopping 86% said they viewed consumers' lack of trust in the industry as their biggest barrier to a thriving business.  |