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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 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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
Financial Advisor September 2010 Joel P. Bruckenstein	Key Role Custodians are upping their technology offerings to RIAs.
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.
Registered Rep. February 17, 2012 Timothy D. Welsh	Live From Dallas: Mobile Apps, Cloud Computing and Integration - Key Themes at Tech Conference for Rias I work with many of the technology companies that support independent RIAs and will be blogging about what's hot in advisor tech, industry trends, and what the influencers are saying.
U.S. Banker October 2002 John Adams	Paint the Big Picture for The Elite--on Screen eMoney Advisor's Wealth Management Solution is a new product allowing both financial advisors and clients to have a single place to view the ongoing status of all their financial relationships.
Financial Advisor September 2005 Raymond Fazzi	A Question Of Trust Custodians square off in a newly competitive trust services market.
Registered Rep. January 27, 2010 Jerry Gleeson	Two Key Execs Depart Fidelity Why all the turnover in top brass at Fidelity?
Financial Planning February 1, 2011 John McCormick	Tech Futures For financial advisors, "What's next?" is becoming a strategically important question as the industry demands greater business efficiency and smarter ways to compete.
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 March 2011 Joel P. Bruckenstein	The Commonwealth Way This independent broker-dealer has made great strides in integrating technology systems into its advisory platform.
Financial Advisor February 2009 Joel P. Bruckenstein	The Case For Integration Fidelity thinks Registered Independent Advisors will benefit from integrated platforms like its new WealthCentral.
Financial Advisor May 2006 David L. Lawrence	Integrated Advisor Platforms Software can help financial advisors with the one-stop-shop approach.
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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.
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005	13 Percent Percentage of advisors who say they have switched to a wealth management model.
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.
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.
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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.
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 November 2005 Tracey Longo	All For Advisors Brokerage executives are doing their best to deliver the tools advisors need to move their business to the next level, while still remaining efficient. That includes streamlined technology, investment and rebalancing selections, outsourcing, practice management and business development assistance.
Registered Rep. September 24, 2014 Jerry Gleeson	Custodian Castoffs Scottrade won't comment on the number of advisors it culled last summer, but other custodians say they've seen a sharp increase in the number of former Scottrade advisors who are now looking for a new home.
Financial Advisor October 2012 Joel P. Bruckenstein	A Different Kind Of Leverage Independent broker-dealers are using technology to help their advisors prosper.
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 August 2006 Raymond Fazzi	Custodians Duel Over New Services Competition in the fee-based advisory field and the pressure to grow assets and operations is not only forcing changes upon advisors, but also the custodians who serve them.
Financial Advisor September 2007	Advisor Emporium Fidelity Expands Advisor Referral Program... NorthStar 5.0 Streamlines Wealth Management... Roge Select Opportunities Fund Launched... Retirement Gap Tracking Made Easier... QA3 Partners With IPS AdvisorPro... First American Launches Quantitative Funds...
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 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.
Financial Advisor January 2004 Dorothy Hinchcliff	Custodians Are Knocking More custody players have been clamoring for the business of registered investment advisors, and that trend will continue this year, say two well-known research firms for financial institutions and investment managers.
Registered Rep. May 8, 2013 Diana Britton	Moving on Up: Go Independent and Make More $ Advisors who switched firms saw a jump in their compensation, especially among those who went independent.
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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.
Registered Rep. February 21, 2012 Timothy D. Welsh	Letter From Dallas: Day Two at t3 Conference -- Going Mobile 75 software vendors jockey for position to gain mindshare of the 400 -- 500 advisors looking to purchase the latest tools and innovation to make their businesses more efficient and scale with their growth.
Investment Advisor September 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	Life After Ellyn McColgan Her sudden departure from Fidelity is a loss for advisors. McColgan's departure comes on the heels of Debby McWhinney's abrupt resignation from Charles Schwab earlier this year.
Financial Advisor August 2005 Raymond Fazzi	The Logic Of Multiple Custodians As custodians serving the independent advisor market come and go, and merge and consolidate, many advisors are having a harder time finding a stable home for their clients' assets. In many cases, they're finding that using multiple custodians gets the job done efficiently.
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