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Wealthies Circle Podcast: Adapting to Change With Fidelity Investments’ Amanda Robinson and Bill SperaWealthies Circle Podcast: Adapting to Change With Fidelity Investments’ Amanda Robinson and Bill Spera

Fidelity's Amanda Robinson and Bill Spera discuss the key differences in expectations of Gen X, Y and Z clients compared with baby boomers.

Davis Janowski, Senior Technology Editor, WealthManagement.com

December 3, 2021

 

The needs and demands of younger generations of clients are changing dramatically, and advisors are going to have to change and evolve with them. And adapting to prospect and client expectations will change how financial advisors market their services as well.

In this episode, Davis Janowski, senior technology editor at WealthManagement.com, is joined by Fidelity investments' Amanda Robinson, director of model portfolios business development, and Bill Spera, director of market research. They discuss what Fidelity research has shown are some of the key differences between Gen X, Y and Z expectations as compared with baby boomers. The firm also discusses some significant recent shifts in outsourcing trends among advisors, from technology to asset management.

In this episode, you will learn:

  • Some of the challenges advisors face in today’s market;

  • What different generations are looking for from their advisor;

  • How technology changes the way advisors market to and interact with clients; and

  • How advisors’ views on outsourcing have changed over the past few years.

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About the Author

Davis Janowski

Senior Technology Editor, WealthManagement.com

Davis Janowski is a New York-based technology journalist whose work spans consumer, business and the FinTech sectors.

Prior to his six years with WM, Janowski worked for Forrester Research as an analyst covering Digital Wealth Management. In edition, he has worked for two FinTech startups, Wealthfront and New York-based FeeX, Inc. (now Pontera). His work covering the advisor tech space began in 2007 when he joined InvestmentNews as the advisor industry’s first dedicated technology reporter. His start in tech journalism began as an editor with PC Magazine in 1999 where he later served as an analyst and reviewer.

His work has appeared in The New York TimesWealthManagement.comFinancial PlanningRIABizInvestmentNewsPC Magazine, numerous blogs and several books, including Technology Tools for Today's High Margin Practice. He has also been a speaker and moderator at numerous industry conferences.

Outside his day-to-day he is a senior guide for Manhattan Kayak Company in New York City.

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