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Summary: Here are seven trends we expect to be at the top of RIA agendas next year. Most firm leaders know that to be successful, you can’t do too many things at once. Fidelity recently hosted a meeting of over 20 RIA firms in Boston, and the consensus was overwhelming: focusing on just a few key action items is the best way to help drive measurable results for your firm.
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Summary: Most small to medium-sized firms don’t have the budget to create, produce, edit and run a large-scale media advertising campaign. Newspaper advertising rates in many markets are very expensive, even as readership declines. Television advertising, likewise, is both expensive and fragmented.
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Summary: As Oliver brought to America’s attention, the widely-anticipated Labor Department changes to how financial advisors can counsel clients on retirement assets (commonly called the DOL rule) will begin to take effect in a year. This new conflict-of-interest—or fiduciary—rule requires all professionals to recommend what is in a client’s best interest when providing advice on 401(k) assets, individual retirement accounts or other qualified monies saved for retirement.
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Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission is taking a closer look at advisers' use of social media by making their activity part of their annual disclosures to the agency.
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Summary: Advice practices were hit with a double whammy of rising overhead and slowing asset growth in 2015, and those who let operating costs run away from them may face more of the same this year, according to a new study released by TD Ameritrade Institutional.
