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Top Takeaways From the Morningstar Investment Conference
Added on June 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Nearly 2,000 advisors, exhibitors, and asset management industry leaders headed to Chicago for the annual Morningstar Investment Conference, one of the largest in the investment world. Attendees reveal some of the major takeaways for advisors - from a global outlook on bonds to where to find opportunities in the bond markets, as well as views from Franklin Templeton’s Michael Hasenstab and international investing tips from David Herro of The Oakmark Funds.
RIAs Worry Over Aging Clients & Robo Advice
Added on June 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: While some broker/dealer executives may be brushing aside the potential risk of emerging online advice platforms, almost half of RIAs are not quite as confident. In Schwab’s 2014 Independent Advisor Outlook Study—which surveyed 720 investment advisor firms—44 percent saw the online platforms as a threat, while 56 percent said “robo advisors” could supplement their current offerings and help grow the business.
How Real Advisors Can Steal the Robo-Advisors' Advantage
Added on June 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: Fearful that an army of robo-advisors will raid your clients, eat your lunch, burn your fields and leave you high and dry? Then you may be interested to know about a new tech offering that’s not trying to turn robots into financial advisors but rather to get the robots to work for the financial advisor.
How Brian Hamburger won speaking commitments from Mark Cuban, Sallie Krawcheck and Eliot Spitzer without throwing money at the challenge
Added on June 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: He fought the Securities and Exchange Commission and the agency lost — in other words, Mark Cuban is just Brian Hamburger’s kind of guy. More to the point, Cuban, the 55-year-old owner of the Dallas Mavericks is a dream choice to speak at the securities attorney’s annual conference, the MarketCounsel Summit, an agglomeration of RIAs that answer to the SEC for their every move on behalf of clients.
INSITE 2014 unveils wired body armor for the advisor of the future as it rolls out a slew of NetX360 upgrades
Added on June 2014 in Other Ideas
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Summary: INSITE 2014 unveils wired body armor for the advisor of the future as it rolls out a slew of NetX360 upgrades. Demonstration of future technologies was a running theme at INSITE conference this year, as 2,300 advisors, broker-dealer executives, trust companies and a large swath of international wealth management folks crowded into the Hollywood Westin resort, just north of Miami Beach.
