From wealthmanagement.com
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Summary: RIAs may be the fastest growing channel, but despite the recent billion-dollar breakaway teams going independent, wirehouse advisors are still more productive. The wirehouses employ a total of 54,189 advisors, but manage $6 trillion in client assets, according to Aite Group’s 2014 Wealth Management report. Meanwhile there are 58,112 independent RIAs, but they only oversee $2.3 trillion in client assets—less than half of the assets held by the big brokerage firms.
From Independant Financial Advisor
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Summary: A survey of American investors has revealed a strong preference for traditional financial advice remains, despite the rise of online asset allocation tools.
From InvestmentNews
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Summary: The purpose of this article is not to reiterate what has been exhaustively discussed in professional publications regarding “robo-advisers.” Rather, I'd like to give you a road map on how to compete with and beat online investment management services using technology.
From Financial Advisor IQ
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Summary: Again and again, advisors have commented to FA-IQ that, as far as they and their clients are concerned, the major custodians don’t differ much in their core services. At the end of the day, they say, all offer fairly standardized processes for opening accounts, safekeeping securities, clearing transactions and conducting wire transfers. Yet, in a recent FA-IQ poll, 62% of readers indicated the choice of custodian matters a lot.
From Harvard Business Review
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Summary: The night before a conference where I was scheduled to speak, I found myself in a crowded bar just south of Greenwich Village. The organizers had arranged a VIP reception, and — having just moved to New York — I figured I should attend. Indeed, I had good conversations with four interesting people whom I’ll probably keep in touch with. But when I walked out the door an hour later, I was thrilled with my revelation: I’m never doing that again.
