In|Vest West 2018 Direct

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. For more, please see: InVest Conference.

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  • The Wall Street giant has been moving away from providing in-house retail investment advice to finding ways it can support smaller firms.

    April 26
    Goldman Sachs
  • Gary Coffey is the chief technology officer at Spectrum.Life  and has over 15 years' experience in technology and has worked in many sectors ranging from Healthtech, Fintech, gaming, AdTech, media, digital advertising, manufacturing and banking. He returned to Ireland in 2022 after living in Berlin for eight years, working in companies such as Bombardier and most recently in the media & gaming sector for Media Games Invest and Gamigo, where he held a leadership position as group chief technical officer. Gary uses his expertise in all areas of technology and business – from product development, data, M&A, commercial transformation, content & design and has a passion for building motivated & energetic technology teams.  

    April 25
    Headshot of Gary Coffey of Spectrum.Life.
  • Harriet Christie is chief operating officer of Mirrorweb, a communications archiving solution based in Manchester, U.K.

    After graduating from the University of Sheffield in 2010, she entered the tourism sector, starting as an accounts executive at LateRooms.com, earning the title of global accounts manager within three years. She occupied this role for a further five years before joining MirrorWeb.

    April 25
    Harriet Christie
  • Tax

    The IRS and the Treasury released final regs on the tax credits, with specific rules for partnerships and S corporations.

    April 25
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  • Here's how commenters such as the AARP, SIFMA, FSI, the Consumer Federation, NAPFA, the CFP Board and others view the Department of Labor's retirement advice regulation.

    April 25
    U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C.
  • In the first three months of 2024, both profits and client assets reached new heights at RayJay's Private Client Group.

    April 25
  • Dr. Sangeeta Chhabra, co-founder and director of Ace Cloud Hosting, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the IT sector. She has positioned the company as a global provider of IT and managed cloud services, with its QuickBooks hosting tailored for the accounting sector, as well as its Managed Security Services and public cloud offerings for SMBs and enterprises.

    April 25
    Chhabra
  • Karen Monks is a Principal Analyst in Celent's North American insurance practice. She brings a broad range of insurance and consulting experience to her work; she has worked as a management consultant to and within insurance carriers and other financial services companies for over 25 years.

    Karen's focus is life insurance technology and trends. Her research concentrates on life, all aspects of life insurance processing including illustrations, eApplications and eSignature, new business and underwriting systems, policy administration systems, claims systems, and digital enablement technologies. Her consulting experience at Celent includes new business and underwriting system selections, policy administration system selections, distribution management system selections, vendor product strategy reviews, a life claims system benchmarking project, eApplication and automated underwriting cost analyses, plus several small life insurance technology analyses. Karen led Celent's Knowledge Management team for seven years. The KMC supports Celent's vendor assessments across all practices and helps manage vendor data on Celent's online platform, VendorMatch. She helped build out Celent's VendorMatch Digital Services Platform.

    April 25
    Karen Monks
  • An experiment tested different generative AI models against each other on multiple choice questions from CPA Exam test prep material, and found they have their own strengths and weaknesses.

    April 25
    Robot reading
  • Recent economic data have shown inflation stubbornly above the Fed's 2% target, putting rate cuts in jeopardy. Lauren Saidel-Baker, an economist with ITR Economics, parses the FOMC meeting, Chair Powell's press conference and takes a look at future policy.

    Will the Fed cut rates this year?