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 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 20, 2025

The other competitors in this year’s demos included Addepar , Altrata , BILL , Encorestate Plans , GReminders , MileMarker , Mili AI , Wealthfeed , Zeplyn and Zocks. Related: Scenes from Day 2 of Wealth Management EDGE “My parents are 67 and 68, they have the classic Dell desktop covered in dust—everything is on their phone,” he said.

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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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Wealth Management

JUNE 27, 2025

I was amazed by some of the findings, including that 68% of the 414 respondents are currently using or plan to adopt AI-powered tools—only 32% had no plans to do so. Q&A: What Was Behind Schechter’s Decision to Sell to Arax? It has become a challenge to keep up with new rollouts. Let’s take just this week.

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Nerd's Eye View

JANUARY 7, 2025

What's unique about Pete, though, is how he has grown his firm by exploring with clients how they can align their portfolios with their own personal values, effectively allowing their investments to become an expression of the types of businesses they want their capital to support… while still ensuring their overall portfolio is still well-diversified, (..)

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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. Let’s say your planning tool doesn’t integrate with your CRM. It’s a shift in how we think about data, identity and access.

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Wealth Management

JUNE 30, 2025

Will More Wealth Advisors Gravitate to 401(k) Plans? 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 at Natixis IM, said in a statement.

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Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 3, 2025

This month's edition kicks off with the news that Morningstar Office will be shutting down in early 2026 as a part of Morningstar's ongoing effort to refocus on its core investment data and analytics business – forcing advisors currently using the tool to switch (which might be a net positive for many of those advisors who have long complained (..)

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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 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 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. For all of us on the editorial staff, it was a busy event.

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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. Read More.

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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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Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Measuring AI ROI: Andrew Altfest, CEO of FP Alpha, shared insights on shifting AI from back-office support to client-facing tasks, such as portfolio construction and new client onboarding, to enhance measurable outcomes. Lydia) that remember both advisor personalities and client interactions.

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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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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

JANUARY 6, 2025

FINNY AI, an AI-powered prospecting tool, has raised $4.2

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 29, 2025

In this episode, we talk in-depth about how Gideon shaped his firm's staffing to have a higher ratio of advisors to operations staff to serve clients on the Wealth Builder side (given the often extensive planning needs of mid-career professionals) compared to the firm's retired clients (whose plans often stay relatively stable but who need regular (..)

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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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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

JANUARY 6, 2023

How planning specializations can help firms and their advisors stand out from the pack. From there, we have several articles on retirement planning: Why an individual’s portfolio of relationships could be just as important as their investment portfolio when it comes to happiness in retirement.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

robo-managed portfolios) at a lower fee. For example, most Millennial and Gen Z clients can open their own investing account and buy index funds online with only minimal guidance from their advisor, so full-service investing might not offer enough value to a next-generation client to justify an ongoing planning fee.

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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. And when it comes to retirement planning, one popular technique is the use of ‘guardrails’, which set an initial monthly withdrawal rate that can be later adjusted as the size of the client’s portfolio changes.

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Nerd's Eye View

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, private funds can employ leverage, short selling, derivative strategies, and other methods to further manage the portfolio's risk and return characteristics. generally those with over $200,000 of income or $1 million in net worth) are allowed to invest in private funds.

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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 7, 2024

Welcome to the October 2024 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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Larry is the Chairman of Measured Risk Portfolios, an RIA based in San Diego, California, that oversees $350 million in assets under management for a combination of internal retail clients and external financial advisor clients. Welcome everyone! Welcome to the 411th episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast !

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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

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

JANUARY 29, 2024

In more recent years, however, entrepreneurial software providers have picked up on advisors' demand for tools that help them broaden and deepen their planning beyond even what traditional comprehensive planning software can do. Read More.

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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

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

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

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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