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For growing financial firms, the first $1 billion in AUM is the most difficult to achieve because of the amount of change that takes place as a practice becomes a business, and a business transforms into an enterprise.

Today, Brendan McConnell, Orion’s Executive Vice President of Enterprise and TAMP Products, explains how advisors and their clients can achieve success by leveraging technology to more directly serve their needs and goals with more personalized investment solutions...

Once upon a time, advisors measured success with benchmarks, indices, and market returns. They’re still important, and robust performance reporting and portfolio management technology will always have a place in an advisor’s arsenal. But that’s no longer enough.

Technology’s role is supplemental to that of the advisor. It can’t replace the expertise and personal nature of the relationship, but it can add much-needed efficiencies that keep an advisor on-task and better able to focus their time on a client’s needs. Nowhere is that more necessary than the race to attract and retain the attention of high net worth clients.

By Eric Clarke Dear Reader, Last week, I kicked off this new...

Data security breaches grab headlines every day, exposing businesses & their clients to grievous costs & potential liabilities. In the first half of 2021, more than 1,700 data breaches have exposed about 18.8 billion records.

While the recent Russia invasion of Ukraine is unsettling, historically, these major geopolitical events have not significantly moved capital markets unless a recession develops globally or in the U.S.

Trends show that sixty-six percent of children fire their parents’ financial advisor after receiving an inheritance. That’s a massive hit to advisors who currently work with high net worth baby boomers, and a massive opportunity for advisors who are interested in adding emerging HNW investors to their book of business.

Even before the pandemic upended traditional prospecting channels, many advisors saw the potential advantages of embracing social media. Facebook alone had more than 2.7 billion monthly active users in 2020. But it hasn’t always been obvious to our industry what could - and should - be done with social media.

The past year has shown investors the value of working with a seasoned financial professional, but how do you quantify the benefits of planning, guidance, and behavioral finance?