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Are You Still Using Excel? You Shouldn’t Be.
Financial planning is not the pen and paper activity it used to be. Today, emerging technology makes it easier to trade and rebalance, monitor client...
How APIs Enhance Your Wealth Management Tech Stack
APIs are nothing new. For as long as software operating systems have existed so to the API. In today’s world the API is generally spoken of as an ‘open’ means...
The Time is Right for New Talent and Opportunity
The financial services industry is in the middle of a financial advisor-shortage crisis. The reasons for the crisis are three-fold: retiring advisors, an...
Why Advisors Should Automate Trading Alerts
Today’s wealth management practices have demands they must meet to ensure client success. Automating for efficiency is accomplished through the use of tools...
What Matters to Clients? Their Money and Your Advice
Technology continues to dramatically change the financial advice business, enhancing the client-advisor relationship even further. It is the advice that...
Strategic Partnerships Must Be In the Best Interest of All
The idea of a strategic partnership is to combine and connect the expertise of two partners to expand both company’s reach. The ultimate goal is to drive...
Are You Managing Change with an Agile Mindset?
It can be challenging to convince others you work with to move to an agile model, especially if they have been working with out-of-date processes or without...
FinTech: What to Buy and Why
Regarding tech in the COVID era and what advisors should be thinking about adding to their tech stack- now in order to be ready for 2022 is essential....
NextGen Investors– Are RIAs Ready for This Opportunity?
The opportunity to serve NextGen clients continues as pandemics, global warming, and other situations are changing families, work culture, and digitization....
The Benefits of Attending Conferences
Attending technology and industry conferences has many benefits such as interacting with new technologies, networking opportunities, continuing education, and...
Will Remote Work Continue into 2022?
Many companies that have successfully worked remote for the past 24 months are maintaining the same connectedness with their team and clients while working...
Still Using Excel? Ditch an Outdated Method and Decrease Compliance Risk
Financial planning is not the pen and paper activity it used to be, and the argument for using Excel - or not, surprisingly still exists. Some advisors argue...
Tech Stack Customization: What It Should Do for You
It is critical to select technology based on what the software can do for you and your clients’ needs. As transactional relationships in the wealth management...
Open Data: The Gateway to Choice
The wealth management industry is redesigning faster than ever before—Intense M&A activity, commission compression, price wars, and use of open data. Open...
Does Your Software Separate You from the Competition?
Advisors that are ahead of their time in their technology and their business acumen are often the ones that scale quickly. With compression of the industry...
Having a Hard Time Recruiting Advisors? Start By Upgrading Your Tech
The past two years have catapulted the need for financial advice and more advisors even faster than expected. Firms anticipate increasing business over the...
AdvisorPeak Appoints Mark Hollingsworth as Chief Strategy Officer
LAYTON, Utah, June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvisorPeak today announced the appointment of Mark Hollingsworth as Chief Strategy...
How Advisors Help Clients Through Cash Management
Many Americans continue to be economically impacted as our country continues toward recovery from COVID-19. Liquidity for an unexpected life event through a...
5 Business Initiatives RIAs Must Implement This Year
2021 has been a year of transition for many financial firms coming out of COVID-19. The event has been exposing challenges for some, while others are...
Crypto Isn’t a Trend; It’s Here to Stay.
Crypto is becoming mainstream prompting custodians and financial companies scrambling to develop their crypto platforms. And advisors previously cautious...
Risk Analytics: Why Include It in Your Tech Stack?
Risk in portfolios is nothing new to advisors and investors alike. But the risk isn’t always addressed appropriately, leaving investors open to losses. We...
Direct Indexing: A Powerful Strategy for Investors and Portfolios
Direct indexing is a type of indexing where investors (or their advisors on their behalf) buy individual stocks in an index. The theory behind direct indexing...
AdvisorPeak Brings Trading & Rebalancing to INVENT’s Cloud Native Wealth Management Platform
LAYTON, Utah, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- AdvisorPeak today announced a strategic partnership with Invent.us (INVENT), becoming the first...
Considering Building Your FinTech Software? Think Again.
The wealth management industry of today moves fast and requires technology to keep pace. The pandemic exposed companies that had outdated technologies,...
Alternative Investments in 401(k)s?
The U.S. Labor Department has loosened the rules about 401(k) retirement savings plans, allowing a private equity component, aka, alternative investments....
Compliance- New Regs for 2021
Like every new year, 2021 has brought some new regulations for advisory firms. Here are two significant regs that may impact your firm this year: Advertising...
AdvisorPeak Unveils First Digital Asset Trading Solution for Independent Advisors
SALT LAKE CITY, April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --AdvisorPeak today became the first wealthtech solution for independent advisors to deliver trade...
Reg BI: Are we ready? How will it affect firms?
Reg BI, short for Regulation Best Interest, was implemented by the SEC in 2019. FINRA enforces the rule. However, once again, Reg BI is at the center of...
Tax Analysis
In managing your client's portfolios, there are numerous tax-related scenarios that require monitoring throughout the year. Your firm's ability to monitor and...
Should Advisors be Classified as Employees?
The recent passage of The PRO Act by the U.S. House of Representatives has brought the issue of whether financial advisors are employees or independent...
FinTech News
BlackRock Strengthens Aladdin Platform’s Trading Capabilities: Tech Roundup
on ThinkAdvisor
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Enhanced tax credit entices more companies to offer 401(k) plans
on Pensions & Investments
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AdvisorPeak Unveils Digital Asset Capabilities for FAs on Its Platformk
on Financial Advisor IQ
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AdvisorPeak Partners To Add Crypto Trading, Rebalancing Functions
on Financial Advisor Magazine
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Envestnet, Orion and Schwab will all launch crypto capabilities soon enough, insiders say, but Damon Deru just beat them all to market with more than a hack
on RIABiz
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A Look At Advisor-Facing Fintech From Three Different Vantage Points
on Digital Wealth News
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AdvisorPeak Integrates THOR, Envestnet Beefs Up Recommendations, RobustWealth Remodels
on Wealth Management
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