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Summary: Fearful that an army of robo-advisors will raid your clients, eat your lunch, burn your fields and leave you high and dry? Then you may be interested to know about a new tech offering that’s not trying to turn robots into financial advisors but rather to get the robots to work for the financial advisor.
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Summary: He fought the Securities and Exchange Commission and the agency lost — in other words, Mark Cuban is just Brian Hamburger’s kind of guy. More to the point, Cuban, the 55-year-old owner of the Dallas Mavericks is a dream choice to speak at the securities attorney’s annual conference, the MarketCounsel Summit, an agglomeration of RIAs that answer to the SEC for their every move on behalf of clients.
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Summary: INSITE 2014 unveils wired body armor for the advisor of the future as it rolls out a slew of NetX360 upgrades. Demonstration of future technologies was a running theme at INSITE conference this year, as 2,300 advisors, broker-dealer executives, trust companies and a large swath of international wealth management folks crowded into the Hollywood Westin resort, just north of Miami Beach.
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Summary: In the advice business, it's better to be David than Goliath in the current environment of regulatory and environmental uncertainty. Registered investment advisers and mid-size broker-dealers stand to benefit as new regulations, low interest rates and a slow-growth economy continue to drive layoffs and consolidation in the industry, said Brian Shea, president of investment services at BNY Mellon Corp.
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Summary: There's a way to fix the financial advisory industry's reputation, as well as its connection to Gen Y clients and talent, said Mark Tibergien -- but it's going to take advisors' help to make it happen.
