Tech for the Ultra-High-Net-Worth Client

Tech for the Ultra-High-Net-Worth Client

The prevailing sentiment for years has been that tech tools in wealth management are primarily designed for the mass affluent. These are clients who don’t need to meet with an adviser regularly and can use automated digital services for much of their needs. But for high-net-worth clients, the human touch was still needed, the thinking went.exaggerated. Still, the old days of banks just plastering new branches everywhere as if they were billboards are surely over.

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From Human to Robo-Advisers (and Back Again)

From Human to Robo-Advisers (and Back Again)

Is Merrill Guided Investing the land where robots and humans exist happily side by side?

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Investment Advisors Embrace Technology

Investment Advisors Embrace Technology

While the wealthtech revolution has largely been centered around robo advisors and bringing more “entry-level” investors into the market, independent advisory firms have tended to focus on building relationships, advisor productivity, and other factors. But that’s all beginning to change.

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Robinhood Gets into the Media Game

Robinhood Gets into the Media Game

In a deal with very interesting synergies, digital investing app Robinhood made its first-ever acquisition this week: for a millennial-targeted media firm called MarketSnacks.

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