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YOUR PRACTICE RETIREMENT PLANNING AUG 05, 2011
Envestnet to provide money management platform for SSG

Envestnet Asset Management Inc. has signed an agreement to provide a money management platform for Shareholders Service Group Inc., a San Diego-based custodial firm that serves 700 advisers.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 27, 2011
Raymond James to launch annuity matchmaking tool

New software tool will help advisers scan for the best variable annuity option for a client.

Finra's Ketchum: Questions still surrounding social media
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 25, 2011
Finra's Ketchum: Questions still surrounding social media

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 24, 2011
Getting a handle on adviser technology

Who uses which technology products and are they satisfied? Where is adviser technology going?

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 24, 2011
People are key to making technology work

Respondents to the recent <i>InvestmentNews</i> RIA Technology Study overwhelmingly (95%) rated technology as either &#8220;critical&#8221; or &#8220;absolutely critical&#8221; to the success of their business

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 22, 2011
MSSB data breach is a lesson for advisers

The recent data breach involving Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC should serve as a warning to financial advisers that important steps need to be taken to improve the security of sensitive client information stored on CD-ROMs

Fidelity adds trading to WealthCentral Mobile
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 22, 2011
Fidelity adds trading to WealthCentral Mobile

Advisers can conduct transactions over iPhones and Android smart phones

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 18, 2011
Custodians putting all the technology pieces together

While both custodians bristle at any suggestion of a race, Schwab Institutional and TD Ameritrade Institutional are charging ahead in their efforts to deliver a unified technology platform to their registered investment adviser clients.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 17, 2011
HNW to advisers: Pick up an iPad already

Wealthy investors love their iPads and want their financial advisers to use them too, according to a recent study by Cisco Systems Inc.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 15, 2011
Advisers, speak directly to the advisory tech industry: Take this easy, multiple-choice, five-minute survey

Hi folks, Davis Janowski, technology reporter with InvestmentNews here. We have created a short, simple survey for advisers in order to determine how many of you use which products and vendors and gauge your level of satisfaction with them. This will not only help me with my stories and columns but give you, the advisers, a sense of the popularity and market share they have.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 13, 2011
Retirement planner reaches for the cloud

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUL 07, 2011
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney data theft — yet another reason for advisers to adopt encryption

My favorite-blog-post-title-of-the-year-so-far award goes to Adam Levin, founder and chairman of Credit.com: <a href="//www.credit.com/blog/2011/07/the-morgan-stanley-smith-barney-breach-losing-client-data-the-old-fashioned-way/&quot;" target="&#8221;_blank&#8221;" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Breach: Losing Client Data the Old Fashioned Way</a>. Actually, I'm not sure if it is a blog or a true news site, regardless, it is not the typical news outlet you would expect for such a large story.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 26, 2011
BondWorks rolled out to advisers

There were 316,812 buy trades placed in the retail-municipal-bond market last month, according to data from BondDesk Trading LLC

BondDesk rolls out bond-trading platform for advisers
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 26, 2011
BondDesk rolls out bond-trading platform for advisers

BondWorks already in beta with 20K customers; new wealth management platform three years in the making

Laserfiche launches iPhone app
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 22, 2011
Laserfiche launches iPhone app

Mobile program allows for document and content management while away from the office

Phone-based banking: Dial 'M' for money
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 22, 2011
Phone-based banking: Dial 'M' for money

Mobile banking is the wave of the future and leading the way are forward-thinking Gen-Y consumers.

Trailing Google, Apple said to be readying jazzed-up iPhone
YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 21, 2011
Trailing Google, Apple said to be readying jazzed-up iPhone

Latest model to be released in September, sources say; better camera, faster chip

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH JUN 21, 2011
Behind the scenes in social media

As regulators take their own sweet time coming up with guidelines for social media, the marketplace is coming up with its own solutions for financial advisers

Most wealth management CEOs see clients unsatisfied: PwC
YOUR PRACTICE RIAS JUN 19, 2011
Most wealth management CEOs see clients unsatisfied: PwC

A majority of surveyed global wealth-management execs said their clients aren't satisfied these days. Indeed, one industry adviser says many clients 'expect a lot more and tolerate a lot less.'

YOUR PRACTICE RIAS JUN 19, 2011
Advisers: How do you know when it's time for an upgrade?

Financial advisers, whether solo practitioners or members of a multiperson firm, need to think regularly about whether their technology is keeping pace with their business needs.