"The real issue in this industry is a cost problem, the cost to service clients is just too high. Here you have 8 million people who've already opted into working with a human advisor, even though they're getting screwed. And so for us, this is an enormous readily available market if we can open up […]
"Digital transformation is much more a cultural challenge. And I believe that in the East, and many bigger emerging markets they just have an easier life of new tech. They have it easier just to scale, and also because of the socioeconomic drivers, because of the huge market and because of the high growth rate […]
"We have one humongous arch-nemesis and the initials are DIY. The do it yourself-ers have ultimately decided to just try to go it on their own. A majority of advisors don't choose a platform like ours, end up just doing everything themselves and here they are a year or two later, their hair is still […]
"The ones that will really excel in the next 10 years are those people getting back to that Socratic selling and skillsets that many of us grew up in the industry learning about because the tech was so bad. But now that the tech is getting so good, the hard part is putting it all […]
In our industry, enterprise tools are archaic and hard to use, so the bar is set very low. There's tons of opportunities for new entrants that can deliver better advisor experience. — Mike Sha , CEO, SigFig David Canter, Executive VP, Head of the RIASegment, Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions, and Mike Sha, CEO and […]
Well, the extended family has finally headed home and you're debating whether to take down the holiday decorations or wait until the neighbors start complaining. It must be the end of another year! It also means it's time for our annual top 10 list of the most popular Wealth Management Today blog posts. As a […]
"There is a large and growing stakeholder group of fee-only advisors that are locked in a battle with every custodial platform to game the custodians' commission system for the benefit of their clients because that's how you look good as a fee-only advisor." — Michael Kitces, Publisher, Nerd's Eye View Michael Kitces began his career […]
"No one buys insurance because it's on sale; you buy insurance because you bought something, you broke something, or you created something." — Robert Kirk, InterGen Data, Inc. Robert Kirk is a financial services industry executive with over 28 years of experience in wealth management, clearance and settlement, and brokerage. Throughout his career, he has […]