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Financial Advisor December 2007 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Fidelity's Silver Bullet If WealthCentral meets expectations, it will create significant efficiencies and cost savings for those who take full advantage of it. If Fidelity can pull it off, it will leapfrog the technology offerings of other custodians, as well as those of independent providers, by a significant margin.
Financial Advisor April 2009 Joel P. Bruckenstein	An Integration Contender AdvisorConnect integrated software for advisors looks to be a reasonable alternative to Fidelity's WealthCentral.
Financial Planning October 1, 2010 Joel Bruckenstein	What's Next for Technology This is a time of creativity and evolution in technology, and advisor technology is no exception. As a result, RIA firms can make changes to their infrastructure and in the process create new efficiencies while actually lowering operating costs.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Jeanne Lee	Fidelity Ups Its Game The Boston behemoth is introducing new, integrated technology that promises practice management nirvana. Will it captivate -- and capture -- the RIA market?
Investment Advisor December 2005 Andrew Gluck	The Gluck Report, Part I: The Big Three's Tech Plans for 2006 New tech initiatives from the leading custodians have lots of features aimed at attracting and winning over RIAs without making them feel like they're losing their independence. We talk to the tech heads at Schwab, Fidelity, and TD Waterhouse.
Financial Advisor March 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein	The Commonwealth Way This independent broker-dealer has made great strides in integrating technology systems into its advisory platform.
Registered Rep. September 28, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Custodians Seek Integrated Solutions To FAs' Tech Needs As custodians compete to draw advisors into the fold, they often tout the superior quality of their technology.
Registered Rep. February 22, 2011 Lauren Barack	Fidelity Launches Its First Mobile App For Adv Advisors who hopscotch across their territories visiting clients now have mobile access to client files and financials on their iPhones -- at least those who custody with Fidelity.
Financial Advisor February 2008 Joel Bruckenstein	Custodians Beef It Up Since advisors' work flows are often intertwined with custodian-supplied technologies, let's take a look at what the custodial firms have in store for 2008.
Financial Advisor September 2004 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Portfolio Management Software: What is Next Fidelity and Integrated Decision Systems (IDS) expect to begin offering a comprehensive, highly sophisticated institutional portfolio management, reporting and order generation system platform for advisors before the end of this year.
Financial Advisor August 2006 Joel Bruckenstein	First Look At Advisors Office The developers have laid a solid foundation upon which additional functionality can be layered. If and when this occurs, Advisors Office will be an interesting proposition for an office of perhaps three to ten employees, provided the pricing is well aligned with the functionality being offered.
Investment Advisor November 2007 Lauren Barack	Give Them What They Want Understanding they can't offer every tool to every advisor, custodians are nevertheless making sure to remain flexible enough to meet advisors' ever changing demands.
Financial Planning January 1, 2007 Joel Bruckenstein	CRM Tools Go Virtual Financial advisors are realizing that web-based programs can be less expensive, less tedious and more flexible. Although online CRM is still developing, industrywide the level of sophistication and usability is improving.
Investment Advisor October 2009 James J. Green	Fidelity Cuts Costs on Technology, Trading Fidelity Institutional announced a range of price cuts and time-bounded fee waivers for advisors who custody client assets at Fidelity.
Financial Advisor December 2011 Eric Rasmussen	Free-Range Advisors Custodians to independent advisors are in an arms race to give bigger, better software and practice management packages.
Financial Advisor December 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	X Marks The Spot Tamarac's Advisor X packs promise.
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein	The Lab As custodians battle for the hearts and minds of advisors in the years ahead, Fidelity possesses a weapon that no other firm can currently match: The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology, known as FCAT.
Registered Rep. October 21, 2015 Ryan W. Neal	MoneyGuidePro, eMoney Join Forces The two biggest names in financial planning software are now partners.
Financial Advisor December 2007 Andy Gluck	What The Tech Deals Mean To You Nearly a decade since the first Internet applications for advisors appeared, we are seeing their adoption and acceptance in all corners of the industry. What does it mean now?
Financial Advisor November 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	A Clean Path This uncluttered portfolio management system will work best for smaller RIA firms.
Financial Advisor July 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Best Of Both Worlds? From simple needs-assessment tools to the comprehensive and detail-oriented NaviPlan Extended software package, EISI's financial planning products cover the gamut of advisors' needs.
Financial Advisor September 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Key Role Custodians are upping their technology offerings to RIAs.
Financial Advisor January 2004 Joel Bruckenstein	What's New For 2004? The rash of new software could cause financial advisors' heads to spin: Morningstar Workstation 2.0... Account Aggregation AdvisorSites/CashEdge... NaviPlan Version 9.0... Junxure-I 3.0...
Registered Rep. July 23, 2003 Nigel Goodman	Servicing Your HNWs A recent Fidelity Investments survey shows that affluent clients will still replace their advisors if they are not meeting portfolio goals. Predictably, the survey encourages advisors to become more attentive to the needs of their affluent clients.
Financial Planning July 29, 2010	Schwab's Competition Has Its Say Schwab's competitors manage to be politely dismissive of the new platform, while still emphasizing that they got the CRM concept first. Here's how various executives see it.
Financial Planning June 1, 2012 Joel Bruckenstein	Tech Tools: Managing Customer Contact Wealth Advisor CRM is a web-based product that seems aimed at small and midsize firms and carries attractive pricing.
U.S. Banker February 2008 Anthony Malakian	New Tools Empower Today's Time-Strapped Advisors Over the last five years, many new products have emerged to help advisors construct well-rounded portfolios and monitor their progress, all the while saving the advisor and client time.
Financial Planning December 1, 2007 Joel P. Bruckenstein	2007 Software Survey For financial planners: What you're using, what you're not -- and how the right programs can improve your efficiency.
Financial Advisor July 2008 Joel Bruckenstein	A First Look A glimpse at Upswing CRM, a Web-based CRM application designed specifically for financial service professionals.
Registered Rep. June 1, 2005 Kristen French	Fido Attacks! Long a distant second to Charles Schwab in the lucrative business of serving financial advisors, Fidelity is making an aggressive push to close that gap. And some advisors are taking notice.
Financial Advisor November 2008 Joel Bruckenstein	Work In Progress A review of Sharelogix, the online financial planning suite from FinanceLogix, a division of OLTIS Software.
Registered Rep. September 10, 2009 David A. Geracioti	Fido's RIA Unit Cuts Fees The average financial advisor has taken a big hit in production and therefore net income. But RIA custodians are turning that into something of a marketing tool.
Investment Advisor November 2006	Now and Then When it comes to plowing through the complexities that are associated with retirement planning, advisors need all the help they can get. Fidelity looks ahead to dominate retirement planning now.
Financial Advisor March 2008 Joel Bruckenstein	Kicking It Up A Notch Tech upgrades at some of the larger independent broker-dealers.
Registered Rep. March 2, 2015 Diana Britton	Crowded Out Some level of competition between advisors and custodians has been around for years. Still, some advisors feel recent events make the distinction between business partner and market competitor less clear.
Financial Planning June 1, 2008 Elizabeth O'Brien	Millionaires Ahoy! Independent advisors who are looking to snag more millionaire clients should focus their efforts on prospects who do not already have a registered investment advisor, according to a new study by Fidelity Investments.
Financial Advisor October 2006 Joel Bruckenstein	A New And Improved Release Portfolio Director 8.0 offers better account setup and custodian interfaces -- and more.
Investment Advisor January 2009 Kara P. Stapleton	Upgrades New products and programs: Fidelity Institutional Wealth Services WealthCentral platform... Vanguard will launch the firm's first international small-cap index fund... United Capital Financial Partners acquires three investment advisory firms... etc.
Registered Rep. December 8, 2011 Jerry Gleeson	Fidelity's Upgrade of myStreetscape Includes Mobile Functions Fidelity's new myStreetscape is available on the Web, offers more functions, improved navigation and expanded features.
Investment Advisor April 2010 Robert F. Keane	Catching Up With... A short conversation with Fidelity Client Experience Executive VP Maggie Serravalli.
Financial Advisor June 2009 David Lawrence	The Efficiency Game Integrated software greatly reduces redundant efforts at financial advisories and means staff time will be used more efficiently.
Investment Advisor June 2007 James J. Green	A Flush Fidelity Celebrates With enhanced authority, Fidelity Registered Investment Advisor Group's Ellyn McColgan leads the way.
Financial Advisor February 2004 Sydney LeBlanc	Stature, Service, Size, Simplicity Schwab, Fidelity and Waterhouse are building sophisticated SMA (separately managed account) platforms.
Investment Advisor June 2007 Kara P. Stapleton	Consolidate and Refer Fidelity Investments introduced a report showing that advisors who offer retirement income planning services have found that their clients are more satisfied, consolidate more assets with them, and provide more referrals for new business.
Registered Rep. March 1, 2008 Christina Mucciolo	What Can We Do For You? Clearing firms matter to advisors. In fact, one of the biggest deals in the independent b/d business last year hinged on whether the b/ds being sold could maintain their relationships with their old clearing firm.
Financial Advisor September 2006 Joel Bruckenstein	Technology Roundup Upgraded versions of Junxure-i and Workstation Office offer new capabilities and opportunities... Advisor Workstation Office Portfolio Accounting System... Advent... etc.
Financial Advisor November 2007 Joel Bruckenstein	A Breath Of Fresh Air Financial advisors, the new version of NaviPlan is clean, intuitive and much more responsive.
Financial Advisor July 2010 Bernie Clark	Gunning For Growth RIA firms estimate that they'll see 15% revenue growth this year. An emphasis on efficiency will free principals to go after new business again.
Registered Rep. September 24, 2015	The 2015 Wealth Management Industry Awards Winners Companies like Charles, Schwab, Fidelity, and Betterment are profiled for their achievements in financial services.
Financial Advisor June 2007 Joel Bruckenstein	Custodians Lend A Hand The large custodial firms are ramping up their technology assistance for advisors.