Ten to Watch

Carter Malloy wants to create a new asset class via a platform where clients can buy and sell slices of farmland as easily as they can shares of Deere & Company.

Runik Mehrotra and Vise co-founder Samir Vasavada see huge potential in building better investment management technology for advisors.

George Nichols III, the first Black president and CEO of the American College of Financial Services, recently outlined an aggressive yet practical plan to put more Black Americans on a path to upward mobility and wealth creation, and set out a...

Samantha Russell's educational how-to blogs, social media posts, email newsletters and YouTube videos have been empowering advisors to take digital marketing by the horns.

Kimberly Sanders is head of LPL's Strategic Wealth Services, the first premium affiliation model in the IBD space.

Luke Winskowski readily admits that Thrivent's effort to rebrand itself as an advice-driven company is a “significant effort” for a legacy insurance company.

Yang Xu's TradingFront was built, at least for now, to serve the needs of small to midsize RIA firms and breakaways looking to set up shop.

Craig Young, one of the youngest members of Andy Sieg's executive leadership team at Merrill Lynch, is charged with ensuring all 14,000 of the Thundering Herd are working toward the same goals.

The aim of WealthManagement.com's annual Ten to Watch list is to create an eclectic list of industry folks who, even if they are known, are doing something new to get ahead of, or in some cases push forward, industry trends.