Investment strategies

Before picking a tech vendor for your firm, you might want to have a chat with Carson Group President Teri Shepherd, who speaks with the benefit of hard-earned experience.

The acquisition creates a discount brokerage behemoth that experts say could reshape automated advice.

The discount brokerage sees the move as a way to attract younger, less affluent investors.

Equity funds tracking the sector are the second-most popular asset class after U.S. government bonds this year, BNP Paribas says.

Little can keep the search engine giant from entering wealth management. But advisors still have weapons at their disposal. They just need to use them.

Asset managers who flocked to safety in utilities and dividend stocks at the end of 2018 have seen their pain compounded by the latest risk-on rally.

The technology is poised to upend the industry. Advisors are still waiting.

The Wall Street giant has built an automated advice platform and is considering how to release it to the mass affluent market.

Opportunities to win UHNW clients abound, but so do challenges, experts tell advisors at the Schwab Impact conference.

While technology has expanded the toolkit for advisors, some still struggle to differentiate their offerings.

As the sector grows to over $30 trillion in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, one popular approach consists of excluding offenders.

Personal Capital is the latest digital-first firm to spend on TV and magazine ads, acknowledging it is “challenging the legacy players in wealth management.”

SigFig reportedly lays off a percentage of its workforce, while a former Fidelity marketing chief joins Personal Capital.

Independent investment platforms are projected to lose market share to larger entrants, according to industry data.

The market information giant provides financial data and infrastructure to more than 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries.

Even though it now claims six million accounts, the free trading platform may still need to expand its offerings to stay competitive, experts say.

Fee compression and commoditization of investment products over the past decade are threatening already slim margins in asset management.

Among the honors this year by NICSA are awards for operational excellence, and advances in product development and technology.