Alessandra Malito

Alessandra, also known as Ali, covers financial adviser technology for InvestmentNews. Ali was born and raised in New York, and is a recent graduate of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism where she received a master's degree with a concentration in business journalism. She first started writing for professional publications at 15 years old for a local newspaper. Throughout college and grad school, she worked as a freelance reporter and her byline has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times' Lens blog, NBCNews.com and Newsday.com. When she’s not thinking up story ideas or immersing herself in all things tech, she can be found cooking up family favorites, crafting with her sewing machine or running 5K’s. You’ll almost always find her with a coffee cup in hand.

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NextCapital takes on competing retirement robos with 401(k) account aggregation
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 23, 2015
NextCapital takes on competing retirement robos with 401(k) account aggregation

With such automated functionality, advisers can pull data from various sources to create a comprehensive financial plan.

If you build your own robo, will clients come?
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 23, 2015
If you build your own robo, will clients come?

Advisers can try the do-it-yourself model to compete with automated investment services.

Betterment to become first major robo-adviser to offer 401(k) plans to employers
RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING SEP 22, 2015
Betterment to become first major robo-adviser to offer 401(k) plans to employers

Breaking new ground in retirement planning, the automated investment service will begin offering 401(k) plans to employers, competing against giants such as TIAA-CREF, Vanguard, Prudential, Charles Schwab and Fidelity.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 22, 2015
Hackers have a backdoor way into your system

Advisers should safeguard their practices as they share sensitive information across multiple third-party platforms and service providers.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 21, 2015
Docupace makes move to buy back stake from RCS Capital

Document management technology company is battling to become independent, amidst its majority stakeholder's recent announcement that it is going bankrupt.

Advisers: Quit talking to and about each other on social media
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 21, 2015
Advisers: Quit talking to and about each other on social media

Use it to offer information and build relationships with consumers who might become clients.

Envestnet completes first stage of Finance Logix integration
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 17, 2015
Envestnet completes first stage of Finance Logix integration

The recently acquired financial planning software is being incorporated into the advisory technology firm's platform.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 16, 2015
Winklevoss twins call on advisers to get on bitcoin bandwagon but they're not budging

Lack of understanding, performance history and steep headline risk are all reasons keeping investors on the sidelines.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 15, 2015
Newest robo-adviser targets female investors

The just-launched automated investment platform was created for women skeptical of the financial services industry.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH SEP 11, 2015
Stubborn software vendors buck integration trend, for now

Some technology providers see potential integration partners as competition, while others respond to adviser demands by partnering with rivals.