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Financial advisors have quickly adopted iPads and other tablets in order to provide the best customer service and experience, which in turn will maximize efficiency and profits. However, this rapid adoption of tablet-based devices has stretched IT organizations and introduced a number of challenges.

 Asset Management       

Why ROI? What’s the big deal about social media ROI and why do financial services marketers have it all wrong?

 Asset Management       

While the major stock indices are under considerable selling pressure world-wide, will this period of panicked selling actually help investment managers with the performance of their portfolios?

 Asset Management       

As most investment manager’s performance and stock price is tried strongly to the trends in the overall equity and fixed income markets, it is my believe that the remaining months of 2011 and into 2012 are likely to be quite rocky and could signal a an important turning point in …

 Asset Management       

The SEC has followed the footsteps of FINRA’s 10-06 guidelines on social media by now asking some investment advisory firms for information regarding social media.

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Organization size and complexity are not issues that have stopped BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, from changing how they communicate both internally as well as externally through the use of social technologies.

 Asset Management       

Sovereign wealth funds have evolved over the last two years and are now applying their lessons learned. Changes to asset allocations, investment decision processes and market volatility are front and center.

 Asset Management       

What will it take to have an exceptional asset management business in 2011? A consensus on 4 “must-have” capabilities has emerged as well as the likely winners.
Introduction:
Within the first few weeks of 2011, there is an emerging consensus on the asset managers that are likely to have the strongest …

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Can introducing a blistering pace of ETFs and allowing clients to trade them at no cost be anything other than a zero-sum game? This could be the case for one integrated asset management firm.

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There is a dichotomy that has developed between the advertising spend on investment products and the rate of returns investors are earning.  Based on the numbers, clients are not the ones benefiting by their fund managers utilizing collected fees on advertising spend.
Investments Advertising Spend up 9.9%:
Spending on advertising is up in 2010 as asset …