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Addressing Systematic Volatility with Hercules Investments – With Guest James McDonald

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In this episode, David Armstrong, editor in chief at WealthManagement.com, talks to Hercules Investments’ James McDonald. Today, James not only discusses all things volatility but also explains different risk-related techniques professionals can use to keep clients comfortable with their portfolios in the market.  Hercules Investments won a 2020 Wealthies Award for being the top Alternative Asset Manager.

In this conversation, you’ll learn:

  • How Hercules Investments capitalizes on systematic volatility  
  • The company’s risk hedging technique designed to help financial advisors and clients  
  • How James McDonald’s firm helps financial advisors grow their prospects 
  • Hercules Investments’ ideal client as those who got aggressive growth goals  
  • And more!

Tune in to discover different ways that Hercules Investments can provide you with overlay strategies while giving you market volatility protection! 

Resources: WealthManagement.com | Hercules Investments | James McDonald

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Laserfiche’s Award-Winning Vault and Cloud System –– With Linda Ding & Justin Pava

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Laserfiche provides intelligent content management and business process automation to boost productivity, scale your business, and deliver a digital-first customer experience.

In this episode, David Armstrong, editor-in-chief at Wealthmanagement.com, talks to Linda Ding and Justin Pava about Laserfiche’s award-winning vault and cloud platform and how it helps financial professionals with their document management.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How Laserfiche’s vault and cloud system can better archive, automate, and organize your financial practice  
  • Why broker-dealer compliance is a breeze with the firm’s vault integration 
  • About the company’s AI automatic capture platform and its similarities to IPhone’s face-recognition feature 
  • About Laserfiche’s workflow bots and their ability to simplify manual tasks  
  • And more!

Tune in as Linda and Justin reveal how financial advisory firms and aspiring leaders can better integrate their vision towards an improved digital ecosystem!  

Resources:  WealthManagement.com | Laserfiche

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New 401(k) Fee-for-Service Advice Program with Cetera –– With Jon Anderson & Kaci Skidgel

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The new Fee-for-Service Advice Program at Cetera Financial Group provides financial professionals with holistic tools to help and support clients with their retirement-related finances. 

In this episode, David Armstrong, editor in chief at Wealthmanagement.com, talks to Jon Anderson and Kaci Skidgel. Today’s guests discuss their award-winning platform while providing insight into their firm’s financial wellness programs and how they can help improve financial outcomes while reducing its stress implications.  

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How the 401(k) Fee-for-Service Advice Program enhances the client-advisor relationship
  • How financial professionals can set their service charges and receive online payments 
  • About the benefits of Cetera’s financial wellness programs 
  • The role of advisors when financial issues impact employee performance 
  • And more!

Tune in to learn about Cetera’s 401(k) Fee-for-Service Advice Program! 

Resources:  WealthManagement.com | Cetera Financial Group  | Your Summit | Kaci Skidgel

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Advanced Technology for Advisors with Practifi

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With headquarters in Australia and a branch in Chicago, Practifi is a company that’s all about developing convenient technology for all busy financial advisors out there.

Listen in as David Armstrong, Editor and Chief at Wealthmanagement.com, and Practifi’s Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Adrian Johnstone, talk about his company’s technological customer relationship management (CRM) approach and the advanced platform-building experience.  

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How Practifi can help financial advisors achieve an integrated professional experience
  • Ways the firm’s technology better connects remote-located workforce 
  • The company’s automation and customization approach  
  • And more!

Tune in as Adrian discusses the financial services technological ecosystem in both the American and Australian markets! 

Resources:  WealthManagement.com | Practifi

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Simplify Your RIA Life — With Yang Xu of TradingFront

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In this episode, David Armstrong, Editor and Chief at Wealthmanagement.com, speaks with Yang Xu, CEO of TradingFront, a white label robo-advisor solution.  TradingFront was a finalist in two categories at this year’s Wealthies in the categories of Client Onboarding and Client Portal Technology. Yang has also been recognized as one of the “Ten to Watch for 2021” by wealthmangement.com.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How the idea came about for the creation of TradingFront
  • What exactly does TradingFront do for RIA’s
  • Which type of advisors are ideal clients for TradingFront
  • What does TradingFront have in the works for the future
  • And more!

Listen now to get insight into how wealth management will be delivered in the future. 

Resources:  Wealth Management | TradingFront

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Ep 9 – How’s Innovative Technology Helping Financial Advisors – With Kelly Waltrich and Eric Clark

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Most of us have access to online banking, which allows us to freely keep track of all of our financial information. But what about having online access to the different things we plan with our financial advisors? 

Mentioning that in these times, it’s crucial to have an interactive client portal with different portfolio and planning information, Tim Welsh from Wealth Management is joined by Eric Clark and Kelly Waltrich, both from Orion Advisor Tech, and together they explain how are the emerging financial platforms helping their firm.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Astros: A software that allows customers to check their portfolios from anywhere and at any time. 
  • Slack: The tool that allows social connection in these times of social distancing 
  • The role of existing online platforms in easing and facilitating workload
  • Automation and robots for communication and marketing purposes: Why they could never replace real advisors
  • And more!

Join Eric and Kelly now to learn how technology is helping financial advisors.

Resources:  Wealth Management | WealthTech Winners Circle Podcast | Orion Advisor Tech

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Ep 7- Tech Assisting Advisors Now More Than Ever — With Stuart DePina

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Do you struggle with being able to connect with your clients? Did you know that AI enables advisors to stay in touch with their clients in any space the client chooses? Are you ready for that?

In this episode, David Armstrong, Editor in Chief at Wealthmanagement.com, speaks with Stuart DePina, Chief Executive at Envestnet Data & Analytics. Envestnet won a Wealthies award in 2019 for TAMPs: Model Marketplaces – Multi-Asset Strategist Due Diligence Reports, they were also finalists in several other categories.   

In this episode, you will learn:

  • How Envestnet strives to make the Model Marketplace better
  • Why advisors that are leveraging technology face challenges with scale
  • Where Envestnet can further assist advisors in the years to come
  • What percentage of available data are advisors not making the best use of
  • And more!

Listen in and open up to technology, and how it can make your business more productive.

Resources: WealthManagement.com | Envestnet | WealthManagement.com Industry Awards

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Ep 6- Bringing You the Latest in Innovation- Jon Patullo

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In this episode, David Armstrong Editor in Chief of Wealthmangement.com, talks with Jon Patullo, from TD Ameritrade, who won a 2019 Wealthies award for Chief Technology Officer of the Year (Custodians est $25B and over). They go in-depth about the technological innovations that TD Ameritrade has implemented for its over 7000 advisors utilizing 175 different integrations under the umbrella of their VEO One platform.

In this episode, you will learn:

  • How did TD Ameritrade revolutionize tech for advisors
  • What are advisors looking from technology
  • What does the desktop of the future look like for advisors
  • How companies use AI today and where it is going
  • And more!

Tune in now and know that at TD Ameritrade, there are 175 technology teams bringing innovation to their advisors.

Resources:  WealthManagement.com | TD Ameritrade | WealthManagement.com Industry Awards

 

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