More about InVest: As new digital tools transform wealth management, the industry’s largest players are rushing to adapt to ever-increasing customer expectations, while smaller firms strive to keep pace. Behind the scenes, many are investing more on technology and hiring to drive growth, but margins remain under pressure. In|Vest West is exploring all the dynamics at play — from front to back office — and the technologies that are shaping the future of the firm.
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Max Bonici is a partner in the financial services practice at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
April 21
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Chris Corrado is CEO, Americas for Squirro. Corrado has extensive experience in scaling companies as well as building and operating technology platforms on a global scale. Prior to joining Squirro, Corrado was CIO at CardWorks, a leading credit and payments company, where he was responsible for data, technology and digital. Before that, he was CEO at Sitehands, the world's first IT field services marketplace. He also served as chief operating officer at the London Stock Exchange Group and held CXO positions at leading financial institutions such as MSCI, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. His background also includes scaling companies in the telecoms and e-commerce industries including Asurion, eBay and AT&T. In addition, he was an Advisory board member for Crypto.com.
April 21
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The country's only public Major League Baseball team is facing off against the Tax Code in a lonely battle over player pay that threatens to cost it millions.
April 21
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UBS and RBC lowered their payout rates for advisors on the low end of the revenue production scale.
April 21
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Market turmoil is likely to weigh on many advisors' take-home pay this year. Couple that with changes some firms have made to their compensation grids, and some advisors are in for a double whammy.
April 21
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Agreements from LPL Financial and Betterment top a host of merger and acquisition activity that has jumped since the start of this year.
April 18
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The Treasury and IRS plan to withdraw regulations that labeled basis-shifting transactions among partnerships and related parties as "transactions of interest."
April 17
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Optimism is building that a game-changing fund design that will help asset managers shrink clients' tax bills will soon be approved by the SEC.
April 17
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The choice of brokerage or RIA firm involves any number of factors and a range of timelines. Here's what the numbers and experts suggest are the main drivers.
April 17
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In a big week for industry recruiting, Stifel lands practices managing $2.9 billion at Merrill, Merrill recruits a $1.9 billion team from Raymond James and Rockefeller pulls part of a $2.3 billion team from UBS.
April 17
