Hoping to steal the thunder from archrival Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.'s annual gathering of advisers this week, Fidelity Investments last week unveiled plans to spend $50 million to develop a wealth management technology platform aimed at advisers.
There is no shortage of technology solutions to help with retirement planning. Some are comprehensive packages that do — or promise to do — many things; others are more modest in their goals.
National Planning Holdings Inc. has begun a program to hire and manage an in-house licensed and trained assistant.
Two new tax efficiency tools are available to help advisers in portfolio management, specifically with the complex decision making as-sociated with their clients' stock holdings.
With the third-quarter-earnings season in full swing, financial advisers and analysts are finding similarities between this technology boom and the previous one — and they can't help but wonder if another bust is on the horizon.
As we spoke, I could tell by the glint in his eye and his body language that Michael L. Weiss, chief executive of Frontier Financial Advisors LLC, is a helluva salesman. The fact that he was several miles away was just a technicality.
Merrill Lynch has launched an independent broker-neutral platform for its prime brokerage clients in the hedge fund industry.
A subsidiary of NYSE Euronext announced that connectivity to the BATS market center is available via the Secure Financial Transaction Infrastructure.
Financial advisers who are frustrated over perceived shortcomings in mutual-fund- rating systems soon will have a new prism through which to view funds.
The financial advisers with the fastest-growing businesses aren't succeeding by accident.
Independent advisers who are interested in separately managed account platforms but have always thought they were too expensive may want to take a fresh look at what is out there today.
For the most part, the current crop of software programs aimed at helping financial advisers manage their clients' assets through retirement fall short of their goals, according to a leading technology analyst.
Perhsing's nvestment professionals using the software will now be able to access it on their Apple iPhone.
Merrill Lynch will hire 250 people by the end of 2008 to staff a new technology center in Toronto.
Pershing announced that its broker-dealer customers can now access its NetExchange Pro online account management platform on the Apple iPhone.
Adhesion Technologies and Capital Market Consultants have teamed to offer pre-packaged model strategies.
The clearing firm's B-Ds will provide consolidated performance reporting across all accounts.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is developing for mortgage brokers a national database similar to the Central Registration Depository.
Under regulations governing the securities industry, it's not enough for firms merely to archive e-mails; they must be able to furnish them to regulators “promptly.”
Secure, simple and inexpensive personal-computer or cell phone access to all an investor's financial data is the promise that was being offered by companies taking part in Finovate 2007, a financial-technology trade show held in New York last week.
