Several third-party technology providers have banded together and this week launched a new forum to help educate and assist newly independent advisers in their selection of software, hardware and other technology components to complete their back offices.
Cabinet NG Inc. a provider of management systems has introduced a hosted product called CNG-ONLINE.
A new service from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. automates the account setup and maintenance of managed accounts — eliminating an onerous and non-standardized manual process.
A new version of the most comprehensive planning software available from Money Tree Software Ltd. was rolled out with new features this week.
EMoney Advisor produces the eMoney 360 and 360Pro wealth- and goal-planning applications used by financial advisers, while Redtail provides a popular web-based client relationship management application intended for advisers.
Once again, it is about the plumbing.
Financial services companies continue to increase their technology spending despite rocky markets and an anemic economy.
UBS Financial and two units of CitiGroup Inc. adopt DTCC's standards-based managed-account system. SEC complees taxonomies for fund prospectuses.
Seven in 10 financial advisers prefer working for a nationally recognized company over an independent advisory firm, according to a yet-to-be-released survey.
Advisers tell me that broker-dealers are not created equal when it comes to technology support.
National and state securities regulators disagree over the use of encryption in storing and communicating client information.
This week TD Ameritrade Institutional announced Roadmap, an online tool that is available on its Veo adviser platform.
Amid the failures and mergers on Wall Street, there is at least one silver lining for independent broker-dealers and smaller asset managers.
Charles Schwab has upgraded its online trading system, and TD Ameritrade Institutional is offering advisers preferred pricing for donor-advised funds
Independent financial planners are poised to “own” the personal finance market, but that is partly contingent on advisers getting up to speed and becoming more comfortable with the Internet and blogging technology.
Amid the failures and mergers on Wall Street, there is at least one silver lining for independent broker dealers and smaller asset managers.
Advisers were denied access to the San Francisco-based Schwab Institutional website, which allows them to input client orders and check accounts and transaction histories, for about one hour, Schwab spokeswoman Alison Wertheim said.
Why download music when you could instead be listening to a market outlook forecast from MFS Investment Management?
About 300 financial advisers packed the meeting room for the Financial Planning Software Show-down during the Financial Planning Association's national conference in Boston last week.
