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Summary: Investors, especially affluent ones, are comfortable using digital tools in their decision making process, according to a white paper from Hearts & Wallets. Nearly two-thirds of investors with between $500,000 and $2 million use digital tools, and over half of those with between $100,000 and $500,000 do so.
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Summary: Last year a majority of advisory firms saw their revenue levels stall, but a group of registered investment advisers increased their revenue by 23%, according to the new 2016 Elite RIA Study, produced by InvestmentNews Research and BlackRock.
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Summary: The keywords there are “show” and “how“….and it is because so many advisers do not focus on these 2 words in the earliest stages of engagement that they struggle to get good prospects to engage in the full financial advice process.
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Summary: Firm expenses rose more quickly than revenue, according to the 2016 FA Insight Study of Advisory Firms: Growth by Design. Median overhead per client jumped 31%, and overhead expenses as a share of revenue for a typical advisory firm leaped to 38% last year, up from 34% in 2014.
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Summary: Investment advisory firms, on average, had a 28.2% operating income margin last year, up a percentage point from the year before and six percentage points higher than 2011, according to a study released Friday by Charles Schwab
