5 Reasons Why Banks Should Start Their Own RIAs
Twenty years ago, the majority of new accounts opened by banks were trust accounts, while only a small minority were advisory accounts. That has since flipped 180 degrees. Now, the majority of accounts are advisory, with only a small percentage being trust accounts. Yet, many bank wealth management groups still put all of their accounts onto […]
Riskalyze Expands Beyond Profiling to Become a TAMP Supermarket
The waiting is over. And we didn’t have to wait all that long. We finally know what Riskalyze CEO Aaron Klein did with the $20 million in Series A funding the firm raised last October. They built their own Turnkey Asset Management Platform (TAMP). The reveal occurred at last week’s T3 Advisor Conference in Los Angeles, CA. Klein kicked […]
3 Updates to Tamarac Integration Partners that RIA’s Will Love
I’m writing this post from seat 29C on a United flight from Newark to Los Angeles where I’ll be attending this year’s T3 Advisor Conference. The ability to stay productive almost 24/7 is both a boon and bane. Advances in technology provide me with wifi access at 35,000 feet, but also piles on the pressure […]
Acorns vs. Stash: Why Micro-Savings Apps Are The Wave of the Future
One of the amazing aspects of innovation is how different people can approach the exact same problem from completely different angles. The social media has seen hundreds of startups including recent popular apps such as Viber (voice calls), Periscope (video streaming) and Snapchat (disappearing photos that has filed for an IPO at a valuation of $25 billion), whose founders all […]
