Tag: wealth management
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ESG stocks investing is recession proof: interview with Victor Basta
We live in a tumultuous world. You could even say that we live in a twilight world, for all the Tenet’s fans out there. After years of relative calm in the investment realm, across virtually all asset classes, things are changing. By calm we mean steady growth and small bumps on the road. Even the…
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Why is Wealth Management Technology So Important?
It is time-consuming to switch from one wealth management tool to another. However, today, you have the option to have a wealth management software solution perfect for your specific needs as a wealth manager, an advisor, or a simple investor. In today’s competitive financial world, investors and wealth advisors have to be at a cutting…
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It’s Time for Mid-Tier Financial Institutions to Cash in on Bitcoin
Authors: Stephen Bohanon, Founder and Chief Strategy & Sales Officer, Alkami, and Patrick Sells, Chief Innovation Officer, NYDIG The popularity of bitcoin is accelerating. In the U.S. alone, more than 46 million Americans own bitcoin today, equating to more than 22% of adults. Over the past year, 1 in 10 Americans have invested in some…
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The True Democratisation of Wealth Management
Have we reached the stage of true democratisation of finance? Or, better yet, of wealth management? In case you have missed it, the digital broker Robinhood just did a big IPO. Big as in it gave the company an initial market capitalisation of $32 billion. Everybody was expecting it, but that’s not pocket change. At…
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Investment Advisory’s Future: Interview with Michael Summerton
The wave of fintech disruption that came after the Great Financial Crisis was strong. Incumbent banks and financial service providers were not in a strong position. And so new companies took the opportunity and emerged. Slowly but surely gaining customers and grabbing market share. Most of that growth was due to superior user experience, surfing…
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21st Century Wealth Management: Interview with Elisabeth Dana
There is a lot of activity in all parts of the financial services industry. Everything is changing. And it is changing very fast as more companies are coming to the market. At the same time, the industry is awash with VC investments. First, it was a huge wave of innovation in payments that is still…
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Wealth Management: Why is JP Morgan Acquiring Nutmeg?
Big news in UK wealth management: JP Morgan is acquiring the digital wealth manager Nutmeg. It seems that the U.S. banking giant has big plans for the UK, as it has been slowly but surely working on a digital bank for a few years already. It is due to launch later this year, and the…
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Behavioural finance and Fintech: Interview with Julien Revelle
What is really great about fintech, is that it is here to solve problems. That is the ultimate premise. Take broken things in financial services, and turn them into something much better. But can investor risk assessment be fun? That seems like a tall order. I do not know if you have ever done a…
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Private banking market: can neobanks crack it?
Is the private banking and wealth management market up for disruption? When the fintech industry first emerged, startups attacked the low-hanging fruits with business and retail payments: the Stripe, GoCardless, etc. These companies are now huge behemoths because this particular fintech segment has quite matured. Fintechs then went after the retail customers, and a bit…