Wilson founded CHIP, which stands for Changing How Individuals Prosper, as a judgment-free, welcoming space that encourages people of color to find financial advisers who look like them.
We’ve gone from $2 billion to over $10 billion in AUM in four years because we’ve consistently adhered to three broad principles: Everything must be repeatable, measurable and scalable.
Oranj founder David Lyon is joining SEI along with 13 engineers, developers, cloud specialists and client service personnel. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Merrill Lynch alum creates a new service model to provide financial advice to the masses.
Say goodbye to PDF documents and hello to narrated and personalized videos for client accounts.
With $600 billion in assets under advisement, Captrust has appointed a head of wealth management to lead the growing $24 billion under management business.
The CFP Board has spent $10 million each year on the campaign since its launch in 2011. The campaign is funded by an additional $12 per month that is added to the annual CFP certification fee.
The app is focused on capturing the influx of young investors that are now seeking out financial services. Fidelity Spire is 'goal-based' and enables users to track progress on financial goals by linking their accounts.
Traditional financial companies are beginning to embrace cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects more than a decade after the creation of Bitcoin in 2009. That comes even as some remain skeptical of mainstream adoption.
How do you attract clients from segments of the population that traditionally have been ignored? Ally has been working to create an information-led program designed to build trust and credibility with women and Black and Brown people.
The veteran Wall Street analyst and executive founded Cornerstone Capital in 2013 to pursue what she calls a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism, and continues that focus as chief impact officer at Pathstone, which acquired Cornerstone Capital this past March.
The new hires, including former TD Ameritrade and Fidelity execs, are a strategic move by Envestnet to build a digital financial wellness ecosystem.
As part of the settlement, Edward Jones will create a new financial adviser council to address diversity issues and senior management will be kept informed of those initiatives.
The Merrill Lynch adviser is actively involved in the LGBTQ+ community in the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, area and was one of just eight advisers nationally to be nominated to Merrill’s Advisory Council to Management, which provides input on ways to help advisers be more successful.
Clients come in with a problem that is actually a bundle of issues, only partly financial, that they haven’t been able to sort through to make progress toward resolution.
Social Finance said it will give investors with more than $3,000 in their accounts the ability to invest in initial public offerings.
Merrill’s digital advice platform, which launched in 2017, originally had a minimum investment of $5,000.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched a tool allowing financial advisers to analyze 24 models at no cost.
After a successful 13-year career in high tech and with an MBA in finance, Evans-Motte became a financial adviser, first at a wirehouse and then at Raymond James in the independent channel.
Firms scrambling to enhance their policies and procedures should focus on the three most common weaknesses — device security, software vulnerabilities and data privacy.
