Wealth Management

JULY 8, 2025

Coverage areas include SMAs, ETFs, model portfolios and alternative investing. About the Author David Bodamer Editorial Director, WealthManagement.com David Bodamer covers investments for WealthManagement.com , including hosting the Wealth Management Invest podcast.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 23, 2025

Moreover, 48% said they would like customized portfolio allocation strategies, and 46% are looking for secure custody and asset protection recommendations. Among investors who have yet to allocate money to these assets, 54% said they were most attracted by potential portfolio diversification.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

His work has appeared in The New York Times , WealthManagement.com , Financial Planning , RIABiz , InvestmentNews , PC 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.

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Carson Wealth

JUNE 27, 2025

What Is Financial Planning and Why Does It Matter in a Crisis? Financial planning begins with a thorough analysis of your short- and long-term financial situation, including all sources of income, your current spending patterns and debt, and your plans for the future. Diversification.

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Wealth Management

JULY 2, 2025

From Point Solutions to Seamless Intelligence For decades, our industry has relied on integrations—APIs painstakingly connected across custodians, CRMs, planning tools and portfolio management systems. But those connections are brittle, proprietary and sometimes dependent on manual intervention.

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Wealth Management

JULY 17, 2025

Minopoli, who is also a partner in the new RIA, had previously been the chief investment officer of a team managing a $30 billion portfolio for the Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors. The firm was created by co-founders Anthony Minopoli and Innovative CPA Group founders Charlie Smith and Lauren Shugrue.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

The panels centered around a general theme of growth, whether how to diversify portfolios to grow, strategies to boost AUM and clients and AI best practices to improve an advisors' business. on Tuesday with a series of workshops focused on alternative investments, artificial intelligence and high-net-worth clients.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 25, 2025

Reporting & Portfolio Management: Orion JY: When Tucker and I bought the firm, they were already on Orion. But we’re a financial planning-based firm, which creates some simplicity in how we allocate assets. When people enter something into the system, we want it so that they only have to enter it once.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 10, 2025

RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth RIA Edge Podcast: Schwab’s Jalina Kerr on How Resilient RIAs Can Turn Market Volatility Into Growth Jalina Kerr of Charles Schwab shares how the most adaptive firms are expanding beyond portfolio management, into areas like estate and tax planning.

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Wealth Management

JULY 10, 2025

Related: What’s In My Wealthstack: Sanctuarys Robert Coppola Reporting & Portfolio Management: Tamarac / Envestnet and Addepar Wealthspire 2.0, Financial Planning: eMoney and Envestnet MoneyGuide Related: Former Citadel Quants Raise $36M for Fixed-Income Fintech We’re very solidly going to remain eMoney and MoneyGuide.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 30, 2025

We believe that this integration will further strengthen our competitive advantage by building deeply personalized client portfolios, focusing on what is unique to each client. “We Coverage areas include SMAs, ETFs, model portfolios and alternative investing. at Natixis IM, said in a statement.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 20, 2025

Davis Janowski , Senior Technology Editor, WealthManagement.com June 20, 2025 5 Min Read Dr. Naomi Win, a behavioral finance analyst at Orion, gave a presentation entitled, “Aligning Lives and Portfolios: Meeting the Moment for Modern Investors” at Wealth Management EDGE. Given the title, I was at first worried, but her talk was fascinating.

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Wealth Management

JULY 1, 2025

The RIA serves high-net-worth individuals and families in Northern California with portfolios exceeding $10 million in assets. Advisors who come under the legacy division maintain their brand, while leveraging Steward’s scale, resources and operational support.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 3, 2025

What's unique about Nina, though, is how she has developed a "money personality" assessment that allows her to both better understand how her clients' money behaviors might affect the financial planning process and to ensure consistent client service among the advisors at her firm.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 12, 2025

John Davi, CEO and founder, Astoria Portfolio Advisors, encouraged advisors to use passive strategies in areas that can’t be beat. Small-cap equities and emerging markets, however, are areas where active management makes sense, she said. She’s also a big believer of active in real estate and preferred securities.

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Wealth Management

JULY 15, 2025

Diversification is SO Back Diversification is SO Back The normalization of macro forces like inflation, a smaller Fed balance sheet and interest rates will make portfolio diversification cool again. The past decade has proven that simply adding foreign investments to a portfolio does not equal diversification.

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Wealth Management

JULY 11, 2025

Sponsored Content Alternative Investments Summit: Navigating the New Frontier Alternative Investments Summit: Navigating the New Frontier Apr 11, 2025 stock portfolio sectors model portfolios Investing Strategies RIA Model Portfolio Assets Rose 5.5% in Q1 RIA Model Portfolio Assets Rose 5.5%

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Wealth Management

JUNE 24, 2025

By buying and selling options on the underlying portfolio, like a structured product, these ETFs promise to let investors realize market gains while still getting protection when they fall. Even institutional investors are buffing up their portfolios. In a recent report, BlackRock projected the space will reach $650 billion by 2030.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 26, 2025

Events that trigger a search for a new advisor include significant market downturns resulting in portfolio losses, as well as major life changes like divorce, the death of a spouse, relocation, inheritance, or a health scare.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 2, 2025

This month's edition kicks off with the news that FinmateAI has announced a new integration with PreciseFP, which will allow financial planning data that's collected in advisory meetings (like balance sheet, cash flow, and savings information) to be pushed out to PreciseFP, and from there be sent on to financial planning software like eMoney and RightCapital (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A common service model for many financial advisory firms is to schedule annual client meetings throughout the year where the advisor meets with each client in the month they started working with the firm, and conducts a comprehensive review of all planning topics for the client.

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

What's unique about Eric, though, is how he leverages a custom-built financial planning assessment he calls their Financial Prosperity Index, which he gives to both prospective and ongoing current clients so that they can better understand their financial health, target the financial planning domains where clients need the most help, and even more (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Though in practice, while a 1% AUM fee is a common 'starting point' in the industry, the actual fee structure can vary based on the firm's approach; for example, some firms may reduce the fee for high-net-worth clients, or charge an additional fee for separate and additional services (from deeper financial planning to add-ons like tax preparation).

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Nerd's Eye View

AUGUST 2, 2022

What’s unique about Matthew, though, is how he differentiates his firm by offering his high-net-worth clients opportunities to diversify their investment portfolios by syndicating private real estate partnerships that directly purchase individual multi-unit rental properties.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What's unique about Louis, though, is how he and his partner (in anticipation of a shift in the financial advisory industry to more automated client services nearly 10 years ago) developed a robo-advice technology prototype to help clients have their investments managed at a very low cost… which then struggled to gain traction with consumers, (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 10, 2023

As owners of financial planning firms approach retirement, some may decide to sell to an external buyer, while others may plan for an internal succession. Sometimes, this succession plan can include the owner's child, providing an opportunity to keep the business in the family.

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 8, 2024

step when onboarding a new client, as making any sort of recommendation is impossible without first understanding how comfortable clients may be when their portfolios inevitably experience volatility. Measuring a client's tolerance for risk is an essential (and required!) Read More.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 4, 2023

Financial advisors have a wide range of strategies at their disposal to create financial plans for their clients. If the portfolio balance declines due to excess distributions (e.g., In the case of a market downturn, advisors can wait an agreed amount of time (e.g.,

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Nerd's Eye View

MAY 2, 2023

We also discuss why Jake and his team not only create long-term financial plans for their clients, but also focus on a 10-year vision to help his younger, travel-loving clientele start achieving more of their immediate goals so they're more likely to retain as clients by feeling like they're making near-term financial planning progress.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 25, 2024

What's unique about Chris, though, is how he has built a highly efficient solo practice that allows him to work fewer than 25 hours/ week to have more time for his family and managed to cut his hours down by relentlessly focusing on only the financial planning tasks that really truly matter most to his clients… and either outsourcing, or just (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What's unique about Anh, though, is how, as a solo advisor, she differentiates her firm by leveraging the combination of a high-touch concierge approach to client service with a unique investment management approach through the use of very carefully chosen structured notes to differentiate her portfolio design from other advisors.

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What's unique about Brett, though, is how he has leveraged his passion for teaching to build one of the most popular CFP exam prep programs in the country, while also growing his own RIA to $2 billion in AUM… by focusing on just his unique financial planning strengths, and learning to delegate the rest by hiring a President, Chief Operating Officer, (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Welcome to the October 2023 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 9, 2024

In this episode, we talk in-depth about what Kimberly learned through entering and then exited a business relationship with her husband that was, unfortunately for her, not structured in a way to fully protect her claim to the clients and revenue of the practice, what Kimberly did to turn her career around through honing in on her ideal target client (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And be certain to read to the end, where we have provided an update to our popular “Financial AdvisorTech Solutions Map” (and also added the changes to our AdvisorTech Directory) as well!

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Nerd's Eye View

JULY 3, 2023

From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including: All-in-one software platform Blueleaf has launched a new “aggregation-as-a-service” solution, promising better client data aggregation capabilities than existing solutions by automating the process of weaving multiple (..)

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 13, 2023

However, the reality is that it’s very expensive to build and maintain technology, especially when considering the full range of CRM, portfolio management, financial planning, and more than a dozen other sub-categories of technology that financial advisors use in their firms.

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