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Duke and Wisconsin basketball players weren’t the only ones battling it out during the NCAA Men's Division I National Championship Basketball Game on Monday night. Online advice platforms Betterment and Charles Schwab spent big bucks on advertisi...
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Iceland is looking at the possibility of changing modern banking as we know it. Stung hard by the financial crisis of 2008, Iceland commissioned a report suggesting that the country’s banks stop “creat...
After four weeks and more than 40,000 votes, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates Rob Arnott is the 2015 champion of Wealth Management Madness...
One size fits all.
Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch Wealth Management revamped their public websites in February. The most notable change? They are both using responsive design, according to a blog post on Corporate Insight. The new sites ...
What's in a name?
In new research from Cerulli Associates, the analytics firm offered up “eRIA” as an alternative term to “robo-advisor” for automated investment advice software. Whatever the advisory industry decides to call them, Cerulli...
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Money can buy an education, a home in an environmentally beneficial area, language lessons and mind-expanding cultural excursions. So does it make sense that it can also buy you a...
In a rather brilliant April Fool’s Day joke, Garrett Planning Network announced on its website that it was being acquired by Mutual of the Internet Life Insurance, a bogus company. ...
They have a plan.
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals released the “Hispanic Wealth Project Blueprint” on Tuesday, a 10-year plan to triple the wealth of Hispanic households in the U.S. to $2 trillion. According ...
Merger and acquisition activity among RIAs remained largely consistent throughout 2014, according to Schwab Advisor Services' mid-year review.
Like in 2013, last year’s M&A market wrapped up the year with 54 deals completed, totaling $47.4 bil...
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Connecticut has the highest number of individuals making over $1 million in income, accounting for 0.63 percent of the state’s tax-paying population, according to a recent s...
