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#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 72: Finding the Right Fintech Deal with LPL Financial
“We want to be the leader wherever advice is delivered. And as you think about how our firm has evolved, this is really about being there for advisors and helping them where they are in their practices. And we’re agnostic of platform,
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 71: Dabbling in Disruption with Babu Sivadasan of Jiffy.ai
“We are taking on AI-based innovation with a deep sense of social responsibility, but also combining a for-profit and a nonprofit at the same time. We recognize that what we do disrupts traditional jobs, or it has the potential to.
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 70: Best of 2020 – Part 1
Considering the crazy events that have swept over the world so far this year, we thought it would be prudent to compile our Best of 2020 episode a little early, just in case. We had an incredible lineup of guests and it was difficult for the #ItzOnWea...
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 69: How Engines, Automation & Data Are Changing Wealth Management
It’s another fantastic day in the wonderful world of wealthtech. Welcome to episode 69 of the Wealth Management Today podcast. We’re going to try something a little different with this episode. I’ve been guest writing on Michael Kitces’ monthly FinTech...
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 68: Delivering Meaningful Engagement with Brandon Spottswood
“What we believe we’ve been able to do is make our industry more fun, because there was a huge missing layer. We have all this data on user profiles and company profiles that cuts out the first ten conversations between any two parties because most of ...
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 67: The Start of the ESG Data Wars with Will Trout
“We’re at the beginning of the ESG data wars. There’s more data coming onto the market with more information that’s tremendously useful, if only you can process it. This means analytics firms, data generators, like the exchanges,
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 66: AI-Powered Custodians as The Ultimate Digital Assistant
“If you were to ask, what is AI going to do? It’s actually catering to your needs, specifically. It’s like creating Jarvis, it’s the ultimate digital assistant for an advisor so they can be much more efficient when they do their job.
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 65: Don’t Let Your Fintech Become a One-Trick Pony with David Lyon
“We weren’t the only ones that identified this challenge facing advisors, but it was important when we were designing our marketplace so that it wouldn’t become a one-trick pony. It wasn’t just putting a bunch of strategist models on a shelf to make it...
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 64: Best of Breed Solutions are Going Out of Style with Yaela Shamberg
“The technology trend that we’re seeing is clients want fewer systems and fewer vendors. What we saw in the ’90s and the early 2000s was a shift to “best of breed” and firms were plagued with having to integrate and support many relationships and indiv...
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep. 63: How to Avoid “The Race to Average” with AdviceTech.LIVE
“As someone who operates a wealth management firm in the independent space, when it comes to technology, I feel it’s all sort of racing to average.” –Toussaint Bailey, CEO, Enso Wealth How can financial advisors break out of the race to an average tech...