With Labor Day in the rear view mirror, autumn is on the doorstep, bringing the opportunity to attend many fall conferences available for wealth management professionals. In fact, our industry offers so many conference opportunities that we must narrow our choices. To help your decisions on which conferences to attend, this week we present the latest installment of our Guide To Industry Conferences. This edition covers asset management conferences.
We also bring you our latest weekly Deals & Recruiting Roundup, monthly Wealthtech Roundup, Oasis’ new wealthtech research series, RegVerse’s new tool suite, a white paper on cybersecurity and IEQ’s acquisition of EPIQ.
Deals & Recruiting Roundup: Meet our newest Recruiter of the Month, Bridget Venus Grimes, Co-Founder of Equita Financial Network. We also cover IEQ Capital acquiring EPIQ Capital Group, Sequoia Financial Group acquiring Eide Bailly Advisors, the launch of Parkwoods Wealth Partners, Sanctuary Wealth bringing on TOVA Wealth, Surge Ventures expanding its Avery platform, Intention.ly hiring Randy Lambert and Joe Steuter, Jamie Hopkins becoming Chief Wealth Officer at WSFS Bank, Wellspring Financial Advisors appointing Jeff Kadlic as President and COO, Americana Partners hiring Javier Altimari, Nepsis hiring Kelly Nanasy and RBC recruiting from Merrill Lynch.
Wealthtech Roundup: Meet our newest Wealthtech Leader of the Month, Bill Dwyer, CEO and Chairman of AlphaTrAI. We also cover The Oasis Group launching its Vantage Point Peaks research series, Smarsh opening a Costa Rica office and integrating with ChatGPT, Gateway Financial Partners teaming up with Wealth.com, Snappy Kraken releasing an enterprise-level offering, Nitrogen releasing enhancements and new features, FusionIQ partnering with interVal, registration opening for Orion Ascent 2025, Fidelity introducing two tech offerings, Elements launching its Target Scores tool and an ambassador program, PreciseFP starting an incentivized referral program and Wells Fargo using AI in estate care solutions.
Fall conferences: Our latest Guide To Industry Conferences covers the leading asset management conferences for advisors and wealth management professionals: The Investment & Wealth Institute’s Strategy Forum 2024, the Money Management Institute’s Annual Conference and Morningstar’s Investment Conference.
Tech research: The Oasis Group announced a new research series providing analysis of wealthtech providers for RIAs and wealth management firms, starting with an installment covering custodians. It also announced the second edition of its AI WealthTech Map. Oasis CEO and Founder John O’Connell comments.
San Francisco UHNW focus: IEQ Capital is acquiring fellow San Francisco Bay Area-based RIA EPIQ Capital Group, a multi-family office and investment firm with $5.3 billion in AUM. When the transaction completes, the combined firm will have $32 billion in AUM. IEQ Co-CEO and Founder Eric Harrison and EPIQ CEO Chad Boeding provide comments.
Cyber protocols: Seven experts released a white paper detailing cybersecurity protocols for wealth management firms: Mark P. Hurley, CEO of Digital Privacy & Protection (DPP); Brian Hamburger, President and CEO of MarketCounsel Consulting; Carmine Cicalese, President of Cyber CIC and Senior Partner at DPP; Daniel Bernstein, Chief Regulatory Counsel at MarketCounsel; Bryce Washum, Senior Partner at DPP; Douglas Garbutt, Partner-in-Charge of Implementation at DPP; and Katherine Winford, Shareholder and Director of Operations at DPP.
AI-enhanced compliance: RegVerse, a Surge Ventures company, launched its Fusion1 suite of AI-enabled tools, which will be part of its Avery platform. The product suite is designed to enhance reliability and accuracy of compliance and surveillance programs. Sid Yenamandra, Co-Founder, Surge Ventures, and CEO, RegVerse, provides comments.
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