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.

Alessandra Malito
Displaying 350 results
LPL sets lofty goal for more automated operations processes
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 18, 2015
LPL sets lofty goal for more automated operations processes

The company aims to ramp up its level of automation from 15% to 85% within the next few years.

Former SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro's lessons on leadership
YOUR PRACTICE WOMEN ADVISOR COMMUNITY AUG 17, 2015
Former SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro's lessons on leadership

The former head of the SEC, CFTC and Finra talks about her experience and what she has learned along the way.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 14, 2015
Robo savvy may be the key to newly hired advisers' success

Those fresh to the industry can pick up friends as clients, maybe eventually take over business.

Charles Schwab's client portals suffer system-wide outage
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 13, 2015
Charles Schwab's client portals suffer system-wide outage

Brokerage claims that technical issues that caused a system-wide outage were not caused by volume or external factors, and the problem was fixed in time for market open.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 13, 2015
Advisers share stories about their worst clients ever

First-hand lessons in how to deal with some of the worst types of clients, and even how to avoid them altogether.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 13, 2015
Marketing tips for the robo component of an adviser's practice

These are the steps advisers should take to get the word out after deciding to offer an automated investment service.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 12, 2015
The latest data-aggregation partnership highlights opportunity for advisers

Advisers have been aggregating client data for decades, but they've been doing it the hard way: manually. It's time for them to ramp up their own efforts by leveraging technology.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 11, 2015
Robo takes first steps into crowdfunding for college savings accounts

Heads up, BlackRock's FutureAdvisor not only manages 529 plans for free, it also gives clients a way to raise money

Envestnet acquires data-analytics and account-aggregation company Yodlee
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 11, 2015
Envestnet acquires data-analytics and account-aggregation company Yodlee

This marks the wealth management software and service provider's third acquisition so far this year as it builds out its suite of tech offerings for advisers.

Envestnet deal puts personal financial data aggregation center stage
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH AUG 10, 2015
Envestnet deal puts personal financial data aggregation center stage

With the firm's latest acquisition of Yodlee, advisers are reminded to take advantage of big data in clients' accounts.