Portfolio

CEO David Solomon sees opportunity in the industry for further acquisitions and organic growth after the firm’s significant pivot in the last two years.

Young entrepreneurs and soon-to-be heirs are expecting more social impact from their investments. Private banks are evolving in response — often by matching clients with like-minded advisors who are closer in age, and by hiring more women and people of color.

Outsized returns over the long- and- short-term planning horizons come with some caveats.

The bank’s wealth management unit has “underinvested” in its online and independent divisions, CEO Charlie Scharf said.

There’s no telling where the vast fortunes hide on tree-softened Phillips Avenue here in Sioux Falls.

The wealth management business is undergoing considerable transformation. The pandemic has created a new breed of investors, with distinct expectations and tastes formed by new technology and having lived through the financial crisis.

James Gorman says the wealth manager is seeing much better retention and recruiting due to its “multiple channels of growth” after several acquisitions.

Researchers link personality traits to financial outcomes and behaviors, offering insight into how clients think about money.

Financial advisors have a variety of objectives in working with their investment-planning clients. But when all is said and done, clients are usually mainly interested in a successful road map to growing and protecting their wealth to and through retirement.

Modern economic growth in the U.S. is dependent on credit creation — which has perpetuated a cycle of suppressed yields and inflated asset prices. While credit creation has been accelerating away from GDP growth for the last 15 years with no signs of stopping, retirement investors are left in the intractable situation of watching the value of their savings erode. What can be done?