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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With brokerages, consolidation, lawsuits and more, independence ain’t what it used to be. Advisors who want to break away must contend with ever-changing options and obstacles to define their own version of independence.
July 22
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Instead of shying away from fraught interactions as the presidential race heats up, financial advisors say it's important to face them head-on.
July 22
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While she has promoted the Biden administration's policies, she has campaigned on ideas that are more far-reaching in scope than the president's plans.
July 22
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Gilles Gade is the founder and CEO of Cross River Bank, or CRB, and has served as its chairman, president and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital including co-founder and managing director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an M.S. in international management.
July 22
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Daniel Brockley is the head of content at
Vanilla , where he and his team support advisors and clients with the resources they need to have more powerful estate planning conversations.Prior to joining Vanilla, he led an industry-leading content program for TaxJar, a sales tax compliance platform, which was acquired by Stripe. Previously, he led brand, advertising, visual design and content as the director of brand creative at Axon. Before that, he worked as a writer and creative leader on the agency side for clients such as Microsoft, Amazon, Hulu, Starbucks, Homestreet Bank and more.
July 22
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Senior private bankers will play a large role in Deutsche Bank's bid to become one of Wall Street's main European rivals for ultrawealthy customers.
July 22
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Laird Nossuli is CEO of iEmergent, a provider of mortgage lending forecasts and analytics to the lending, housing and real estate industries.
July 22
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Maxfield Marquardt is senior counsel and director of regulatory affairs at Trusaic.
July 22
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Nikolai J. Sklaroff has spent more than 28 years in the public finance industry, as a generalist with special expertise in credit engineering difficult and unusual financings. During his public finance career, he has served as an investment banker for 17 years as well as a senior rating analyst and a financial advisor. He joined Wells Fargo Securities as the senior general infrastructure investment banker in San Francisco in 2011. He has also worked as a senior investment banker with Citigroup Global Markets (originally Smith Barney) and J. P. Morgan Securities. Prior to becoming an investment banker in 1997, Nikolai was a senior Moody's Investors Service rating agency analyst and member of Moody's rating committee for eight years. Nikolai began his career as a financial advisor with Public Financial Management, Inc. in his hometown Philadelphia. A frequent speaker at industry conferences he has also served on multiple boards and advisory committees.
July 21
