The Importance of Data Cleanliness in Your Tech Stack
It’s easy to get starry-eyed with any new technology purchase. Platforms aimed at advisory firms typically promise the world, raising your expectations — sometimes to unrealistic levels. When those solutions fail to deliver enormous results, you might think the technology’s inherently flawed or ineffective. It didn’t live up to that promise, so clearly something must be wrong with the platform, right?
Elevate Your Firm’s Cybersecurity with Practifi Protect
Today’s largest wealth management firms are constantly under threat. Cyber criminals are working around the clock to hack into RIAs, IBDs and MFOs to access the large amounts of financial and personal data they manage.
Why Advisory Firms Need Role-Based Technology
Financial advisors can learn a lot from doctors and lawyers. Not only is providing financial advice evolving into a profession as indispensable and rigorous as medicine and law, but it’s also maturing into one that requires a modern approach to technology. Both medicine and law have embraced a role-based approach to building technology stacks and it’s time for financial services to do the same.
CRM for Financial Advisors: How Specialized Platforms Fuel Successful Firms
on top of client updates, account management tasks and outreach opportunities, and CRM software helps them keep track of it all.
Cybersecurity in Advice Firms: 4 Ways to Improve Your Human Firewall
Cybersecurity is hard and it’s filled with scary stories that can leave firms frozen in their tracks, unsure if they should be doing more. After all, what harm can happen by doing nothing and retaining the status quo, right? Well, for advice firms, this couldn’t be further from the truth. According to a KPMG Small Business Reputation & The Cyber Risk Report, financial services businesses are most likely to lose customers due to a cyber breach, with nearly two in five businesses (39%) surveyed seeing customers leave after a breach.
How to Use Automated Deliverables to Reduce Regulatory Risks
As a forward-thinking advisory firm, you know that to stay competitive against changing market forces, your services need to create value for your clients and your operations need to meet SEC compliance regulations.
Why Advisors Need More Than a CRM
Everyone who works at your firm has different needs, routines and workflows. If your CRM only allows for a single view common to all of your stakeholders, it’s a sign you’re in need of an improvement.
How to Improve Data Quality with Data Best Practices
The highest performing advisory firms in the world leverage data analytics, AI and machine learning to gain insights into business performance and provide a superior client experience. By implementing and following data management best practices, these firms maximize value from their data and achieve their desired results.
5 Ways Advisors Use CRMs Wrong
You would have difficulty finding a financial advisor who doesn’t use some kind of client relationship management (CRM) system. Tools for organising and nurturing clients have been around for decades, but simply possessing a CRM system doesn’t equate to great client service.
Stay Connected from Anywhere with the Practifi Mobile Experience
For many modern advisory teams, staying on top of daily to-do lists, communicating with clients and collaborating with team members can be difficult. This is made even more challenging with hybrid (or fully-remote) work setups, commuting and traveling or attending conferences and events.