Added on October 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Custodians, those longtime third-party guardians of customer securities, are launching new products that give traditional registered investment advisers the technology to compete against so-called robo-advisers.
Added on October 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Each year, InvestmentNews' benchmarking series looks at how top-performing firms rise above market conditions and industry competition to set themselves apart. This year's study — the InvestmentNews 2014 Financial Performance Study of Advisory Firms — is no different.
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Summary: People starting their careers often worry about their finances, and many don’t know whom to trust for advice, according to a study published Wednesday by Fidelity Investments. Thirty-three percent of survey participants in the 25-to-34 age group — millennials or Gen Yers — identified their parents as the top choice as advisors on money matters, but 23% said they trusted “no one” when it came to advice about money, making this the second most common response.
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Summary: Multiple studies have found millennials, the generation born after 1980, tend to be pretty conservative when it comes to investing. A March study by the FINRA Foundation found just 25% of millennials consider themselves risk takers, while a survey from MFS in February called those “recession babies” a “lost generation of investors.”
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Summary: INFOGRAPHIC: Survey results draw lines between the generations of advisers