Anyone in wealth management for more than a few years can take a step back and see evolution in the investment products on offer, as well as which ones capture the favor of clients. Markets, economic conditions, technology and regulation ensure a changing ecosystem, which favors both advisors and clients by promoting innovation and discovering new efficiencies. This week, three investment experts discuss their predictions for investment product evolution in 2025.
In addition, we bring you our weekly Deals & Recruiting and monthly Wealthtech Roundups; the monthly Regtech Surge column shares how to mitigate compliance risks; Axtella presents a relationship-based view on tech and internal communications; Compound Planning adds new advisors and executives; intelliflo discusses rebalancing technology; Berkshire, Ficomm and Cerulli publish reports; Coldstream and wealth.com appoints new executives.
Deals & Recruiting Roundup: This edition of the Deals & Recruiting Roundup features our Recruiter of the Month, Eddie Rollins, Managing Director at BridgePort Financial Solutions, and covers Bogart Wealth’s deal with Constellation Wealth, Wealth Enhancement’s acquisition of VanceGray, Focus Financial Partners’ network deal, Carson Group’s new advisors, Compound Planning’s recruits and hires, Envestnet’s new CEO, Berkshire’s and ECHELON’s M&A reports, Ashton Thomas’ new Partners, Rockefeller’s private advisor recruits, Coldstream’s new CIO, Merit’s new partnership exec and Kingswood’s CIO appointment.
Wealthtech Roundup: In this month’s Wealthtech Roundup, our newest Wealthtech Leader of the Month is Arun Anur, Chief Operating Officer at Orion. Other entries include iCapital’s acquisition of Parallel Markets, Garuda Ventures’ investment in Archive Intel, Wealthtender’s marketing app, Savvy Advisors’ tripling of assets, wealth.com’s new marketing head, CapIntel’s partnership with Canada Life, AdvicePay’s rebranding and GReminders’ client milestone.
Investment products in 2025: Experts Aaron Filbeck, Managing Director, Global Content Strategy at the CAIA Association; Paisley Nardini Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Asset Allocation Strategist at Simplify; and Kirsten Chang, Senior Industry Analyst at VettaFi discuss predictions for ETFs, the 60/40 portfolio, private assets, interest rate impacts and more.
Tech and communication: Axtella President Brandon Rydell makes the case that technology development and internal communications must reflect that you are in the relationship business.
Growing assets and team: Compound Planning added four advisors and made new appointments to its leadership team. The firm added 30 total advisors last year, including the four announced on Thursday, and doubled its AUM in 2024 over the prior year. Alex Farman-Farmaian, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Compound Planning, commented.
Rebalancing to serve clients: Molly McClure, Head of North America Marketing at intelliflo, describes how rebalancing technology can address client needs in tax, wash sales, householding models, compliance and estate planning.
Record-setting M&A: Berkshire Global Advisors’ 2024 Wealth Management M&A Report says that 2024 set records for wealth management M&A, and predicts that strength will continue in 2025. The report was authored by the firm’s wealth management team, led by Partner Bomy Hagopian.
Preventing regulatory problems: In this month’s Regtech Surge column, Sid Yenamandra, Founder and CEO of Surge Ventures, explains the five top compliance failures of smaller advisory firms and how to mitigate the risk.
Marketing mismatch: There is a “mismatch” between financial advisors’ marketing tactics and consumer preferences as firms continue to underuse digital marketing to find new clients while relying too heavily on referrals, according to a new Ficomm Partners research study. Meg Carpenter, Ficomm CEO and Co-Founder, provided comments.
New CIO: Coldstream named Bryan Shipley its Chief Investment Officer. Prior CIO Howard Coleman will now oversee the firm’s growing fund management business, and continue as Chief Legal Counsel.
Wealth transfer to women: Women are expected to receive much of the $124 trillion in wealth that is projected to changes hands through 2048, according to a new Cerulli report. Chayce Horton, Senior Analyst at Cerulli, provided comments.
Marketing estate planning tools: Wealth.com appointed former Nitrogen executive Dan Bolton as Head of Marketing, and announced an annual conference and nationwide tour. Bolton and CEO and Co-Founder Rafael Lourerio commented.
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