Such arrangements are often structured in ways that misalign the interests of the buyers and sellers, and they can be highly divisive.
With students facing significant debt when they graduate, financial service providers can use technology to create a sense of empowerment around financial management for young adults.
Professionally managed portfolios that are accessible inside of consumer apps will give consumers their first taste of investing via a long-term-focused offer — perhaps coupled with education and bite-sized planning.
Adapting to the changing climate also includes taking into account advances in technology, such as in medicine, energy, transportation, space travel, artificial intelligence and computing. We need to analyze our current investments and consider updating our portfolios.
Rather than focusing on servicing clients, think instead of creating a great client experience — something that's very different.
ESG ETFs have investments related to solving social issues in the country such as racial disparities and better health care.
Here are the top four lessons I walked away from the Olympics with and that I will strive to instill in my team.
Treating clients as we would our dearest friends is not only the right thing to do, but tends to result in a lot of referrals from happy, well-cared-for clients.
If you are an adviser, you are either currently with an RIA, thinking about going RIA or know someone who has left a broker to go RIA.
Great advisers with good tools were unable to prevent far too many investors from making emotional decisions amid the March 2020 market volatility.
My happiest client thinks I’m a true investment genius. My unhappiest is, of course, no longer my client.
Many RIA sellers who were already contemplating an exit in the near- to mid-term are likely to see the handwriting on the wall and scramble to complete their sales before the tax increase takes effect.
Advisers should be thinking about how best to shield their clients from the threat that climate change poses to investors’ returns — and the stability of the entire financial system — in coming years.
Remember to always keep serving your clients. Just because they signed on the dotted line doesn’t mean they’ll always stick around.
Embedded finance has become popular, and profitable, as companies combine savings, lending, insurance, investing and planning services into nontraditional apps, like Walmart Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.
Firms interested in selling have increased dramatically, but going into the end of this year, it may be hard to find the specialized contractors needed to complete a deal, like bankers, lawyers and accountants.
The SECURE Act 2.0 builds on the success of the original SECURE Act signed into law in 2019 with several commonsense provisions to further help individuals save and invest for their retirement.
In the past year alone, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co., BlackRock Inc. and Charles Schwab & Co. have all expanded their direct-indexing capabilities and are jockeying for the next generation of investors.
The questions that RIAs have about commission-free annuities right now are the very same questions they had just 15 years ago about exchange-traded funds, which are now a core part of client portfolios.
Advisers aren’t talking to their clients about SRI investing, or if they are, they aren’t taking it seriously — which will ultimately be to their own detriment.
