The survey by the FPA's Journal of Financial Planning found more than half of advisors recommend clients allocate to funds with access to alternative investments. Almost 25% allocate to PE funds, twice the number from...
Laura Ward is joining William Blair as a managing director and wealth advisor out of San Francisco a month after her previous firm collapsed and was acquired by JPMorgan Chase.
Milemarker CEO Kyle Van Pelt assured attendees at the WealthStack conference they shouldn’t be expected to run their firms and have the responsibilities and knowledge of a CTO. 'You should be advisors,' he said.
Honeytree Investment Management CEO Liz Simmie admitted that the ongoing ESG conversation is a 'hot mess,' but she would still encourage clients to dig deeper into the strategy.
XYPN co-founder Michael Kitces and Nitrogen CEO Aaron Klein both said the industry too often puts practitioners into the role of marketing growth engines at the Wealth Management EDGE conference.
In a panel during at the WealthStack conference, the head of Lifeworks Advisors argued the products and services rubbed out personalization for the sake of mass production.
During a panel at the WealthManagement EDGE conference, the head of Mango Digital Strategies worried CEOs of crypto exchanges may opt to move to international locations trying to position themselves as crypto hubs.
Preliminary results from a targeted exam indicated communications related to crypto asset securities products and services had four times the non-compliance rate of other kinds of products.
Firms using AI tech to generate ‘customized’ suggestions for clients may not realize those recommendations still fall under the best interest rule, warned a senior director at FINRA's annual conference.
