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They’re going to have to adapt to not only younger clients’ approach to finances, but also their communication styles and social preferences.
Rules-based investments are appealing, but even index-fund investing comes with limitations.
Cerulli expects firms that provide the most client services will be the strongest performers.
AI can now draft marketing materials in advisors’ tone of voice and writing style. Whether advisors want that is an open question.
With assets reaching new heights, advisors need to inform clients about what exchange-traded funds can — and can’t — do.
Seeing first-hand the troubles even the most well-paid athletes can endure, many former pros feel a responsibility to advise today’s rookies.
The hype for expanded access to alternatives is real, but are they in the best interests of clients who may not understand how they work?
Its stock has been on a wild ride this year, and Interactive Brokers is currently up almost 100% over 12 months.
The emotional weight of financial planning stems from day-to-day decisions and long-term responsibilities.
Meanwhile, more experienced investors have a gloomier outlook and are most concerned with limiting losses.
Whether a client disregards advice, withholds information or is just plain rude, sometimes it’s better to cut ties than to keep hoping the relationship will turn around.
Independent RIAs allocate as much as 80% — or as little as 2% — to ETFs, a new AdvizorPro report found.
Intraday trading and other ETF features aren’t designed for 401(k)s, but mutual fund share classes could give ETF issuers an in. At least one shop has hopes for that.
After several funds from the startup Yieldstreet resulted in total losses, experts questioned the role of private investments in client portfolios.
Registered investment advisors reported 132 acquisitions in the first half of 2025.
With current valuations of small cap stocks so low, this could be a classic “buy low, sell high” scenario
With costs of living surging, some states fare better than others when it comes to retirement.
The industry isn’t sweating the new research as clients largely prefer bespoke plans from actual humans.
Advisors are helping quell tuition anxieties by including both parents and children in client meetings.
While predicting the future of the global economy is anybody’s guess, today’s normal is unlikely to continue.
