The Department of Labor's fiduciary rule set to take effect next year could finally push financial advisors into paperless offices. Linda Ding, head of wealth management vertical at Laserfiche, is positioning the document management firm to be there to facilitate the move. ...

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Different advisors have different ideas about what is in a client's best interest. Not all of them can be right. Enter Texas Tech Professor John Gilliam and the Best Interest Initiative. ...

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Bridging the gap between asset managers and potential investors is getting more complicated. Enter Peter Hans with Harvest Exchange, a social network-style platform intended to match high net worth individuals and family offices with investment managers via a content platform. Think dating app. Yes, really. ...

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When Franklin Templeton passed on Mike Kerins'plans fora robo advisor, that didn't stop him. He kept working, building RobustWealth, a goals-based robo with institutional-quality investment management tools that can handle all of an advisor's technology needs. ...

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David Kowach, a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry who spent the majority of his career with Wells Fargo, is the new president and head of Wells Fargo Advisors, the parent bank's brokerage business and the third-largest in the nation. He has some unique issues to overcome with the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule coming online in April and the continued fallout of the bank's recent scandal. ...

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For years, impact investing was the domain of niche boutiques. Then came BlackRock Impact, a platform dedicated to social and environmental screens for investors. The strategy and mechanics of the effort is run by Debbie McCoy, a former consultant with Bain & Co. who ran operations globally for Citigroup and served as a White House fellow at the Department of State. ...

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With the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule set to take effect in April, financial advisors will need to focus more on financial planning than investment management to prove their worth to clients. Hussain Zaidi has been saying that for over a decade, and built Advizr, a tech startup with the goal of digitizing as much of the financial planning process as possible. He calls it "turbo-taxing" the process. ...

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"Risk tolerance" is a term financial advisors discuss with all of their clients. The problem is that the tools advisors use to measure it do a poor job of looking at the human side of clients, things like health, family, geography and career prospects. Her firm, Totum Wealth, takes these less tangible factors and promises to quantify them, much the way an insurance actuary would. ...

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