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Summary: How do you view technology? Is it one of those things you know you need to run your business, but you fight tooth and nail because it doesn't come naturally? Because it takes a lot of time to learn to use and maximize? In other words, a lot of trial and error.
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Summary: InvestmentNews hosted a roundtable of technology executives from independent broker-dealers and custodians to learn about the biggest issues they're tackling, what they're hearing from advisers and what they plan to focus on next. Here's what they had to say:
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Summary; The nation's changing wealth demographics have encouraged many advisory firms over the past few years to strengthen their focus on women, who represent about 45% of U.S. millionaires and are on their way to becoming the majority.
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When Debra Wetherby started her investment advisory firm in 1990, she was 32, just married and had less than $50,000 of capital.She plunged into an emerging industry of advisers who run their own businesses rather than operating inside big brokerages such as Morgan Stanley, which she'd left in 1988. With 10 clients betting on her, working without a salary and living on credit cards, she rented an office on San Francisco's Sansome Street and gave herself a deadline: make money in three years.Today Wetherby Asset Management , leases the entire eighth floor of a financial-district high-rise adorned with toga-wearing female statues dubbed the corporate goddesses.
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Summary: We all know it: Technology is both extremely important and tedious. It's a headache that, when alleviated, lets us get on with the important work of planning for clients' financial lives, and lets us do it more effectively and efficiently than ever.But just deciding what to buy and when to upgrade — which is what advisers spend most of their money and time on — is only the start.
