A Decade of Digital Transformation in Just 90 Days
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” — Gideon I. Gartner, founder of Giga Information Group and Gartner Group For better or for worse, strategy and culture are inextricably linked in the minds of business leaders. Strategy provides a framework to define a company’s goals and helps orient people around them. Culture expresses these goals through a […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 55: Why Investors Are Getting Screwed by AUM Pricing with Anders Jones
“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 […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 54: Now is the Time for the API Economy with Brian Ross
“In the old world of monolithic systems, there are no open APIs and people do not facilitate any rapid integration of best of breed systems. Where there’s a volatile market, you need to be able to move quickly. So I think advisors need to control the user experience and the client experience much more than […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 53: Can Sustainable UMAs Help Save the World?
“The upcoming transfer of wealth will make it difficult for a client to put their money into a mutual fund when they have embedded capital gains from the huge run-up in stocks like Apple, Google and Amazon. The advancement of UMA technology, combined with the transfer of wealth and increased volatility that we’ve seen over […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 52: Bitcoin Apathy is No Longer Kosher with Sunayna Tuteja
“The next wave of investors into digital assets, whether they’re retail clients or the RIAs, also have somewhat of a different mental model. They may or may not care about the ideology or subscribe to the ideology of the Bitcoin white paper, but they are looking at this as an investment from a very pragmatic […]
13 Reasons Advisors Should Be Emperors of Their Technology Domains
We’ve seen so many webinars since the pandemic began that “Zoom Fatigue” has become a trending term. But I believe that the majority of us are enjoying the remote discussions and savoring the free time that has been gifted to us from not having to commute to an office or fly across country to attend […]
