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Summary: These acquisitions should make leaders of a wealth management firm pause and reflect on what is occurring in the wealth management technology space. Doing so will ensure that your firm's technology vision is focused in the right direction. What I see are three major trends that the wealth management technology industry is rapidly moving toward.
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Summary: If you're a healthy person in need of a checkup, you make an appointment with your general practitioner. But if your issues are complicated, you probably want to see a specialist who's an expert in the field. There are usually plenty from which to choose. Unfortunately, it isn't always as easy when it's your financial health at stake. The majority of financial advisors are generalists whose clients have a wide array of needs.
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Summary: When Jacob Gold was starting out as a financial advisor 14 years ago, he felt that his relative youth — he was then in his early twenties — kept people from taking him seriously enough. So, in an bid to seem more seasoned, he signed on with a community college to teach a course in financial literacy.
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Summary: Only 20% of America today is part of a "traditional" family like the one portrayed in the show "Leave it to Beaver." A new survey suggests there's a large potential market for advisers who can create a profitable business model to offer financial help to single-parent households, multigenerational households, same-sex households, boomerang families, blended families and everything in between.
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Summary: Over the course of a decade, a new practice goes from zero to $50 million in assets under management while another practice amasses twice that amount. In the next decade, the larger firm plateaus while the smaller one goes on to eclipse it in asset growth. Why the difference? And just how much should advisors expect to grow year on year?
