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Summary: According to new data from Corporate Insight, online financial advisors increased their total assets under management by 11 percent in the first six months of 2015 to a total of $21 billion, even as markets remained relatively flat. Assets are up 34 percent since July 2014.
Added on August 2015 in Other Ideas
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Summary:The fastest growing segment of the financial advisor market is also the segment least dependent on outside support from asset managers, insurance companies and broker-dealers. That’s just one of many findings from Practical Perspectives’ latest survey on “Value Add Support to Financial Advisors.”
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Summary: Fifty-six percent of advisors responding to Hartford Funds’ third annual Advisor Anxiety Survey, released Monday, reported that they focused on attracting millennial clients “less than other age groups” or “not at all” even as they identified prospects in that category.
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Summary: New research from global analytics firm Cerulli Associates suggests that technology innovations will help grow — not hinder —an advisor’s business.
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Summary: The investment-advice business is a good business to be in indeed: According to a recent study of all SEC-registered investment advisors, the number of firms, clients and assets under management have all showed healthy growth over the past year. The number of clients served by RIAs grew by 6.8%, or almost two million, to nearly 30 million.
