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Are You Bleeding Money on Tech Because Your Business Model Is Broken?

From IRIS
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Financial advisory firms continue to bleed money on tech with failed adoption rates. So we asked why and here is the answer: You can NOT adopt tech without first deciding your business model. This may seem like common sense but humor us and read below so you don’t make the same mistake as your peers.​

RIAs find it easy to justify spending more on technology in 2017

From InvestmentNews
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Technology is a necessity in the modern financial advice industry, and not staying ahead of it is essentially the same as ignoring it altogether.

How to Sniff out the B.S. In a Marketing Proposal

From IRIS
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: I admit it. I didn’t get it for a long time. There I was, working in-house at advisor firms, putting out RFPs to marketing agencies and consultants as part of my daily job responsibilities. The proposals would come back. I’d review them, cheerfully nodding at all the big promises, all the corporate happy talk.

Custodians Raise The Bar

From FA Magazine
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Technology continues to be a pressing issue for advisors and the RIA custodians who serve them. Advisors face a host of challenges today. They face cybersecurity problems, complying with the DOL’s fiduciary rule and competition from robo-advisors. At the same time, they must improve their clients’ experience, improve their own efficiency, integrate technology into their business and scale for growth. Every single one of these issues is either directly or indirectly linked to technology.

Defend client data from cybercrime

From Financial Plannning
Added on December 2016 in Manage Your Practice
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Summary: Occasionally, I receive questions from clients asking where I store client information, and I’m always happy to answer them. Advisers store large amounts of sensitive personal and financial information, and clients deserve to know it’s kept safe.

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