Gathering client data upfront is a critical, but often unnecessarily difficult, first step of any financial advisor-client relationship. Too often, wealth management firms still rely on spreadsheets, ...

You can probably tell when your clients are drowning in too much information. Daily bombardments of intra-day trading figures, predictions of doom from TV experts who have no personal stake in the ...

Data ownership is emerging as a hot topic in the financial advice industry, as firms and advisers grapple with how to harness the right kind of data to provide more insightful financial planning. With ...

Among the biggest challenges advisors face is simply getting the data needed to execute a client’s financial plan. Without information to enter into the planning software, it’s impossible to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. With all of the conversations surrounding hyper-personalization, I have yet to find a ...

Sheryl Rowling’s new Practice Wise column is available first in Morningstar Office Cloud. In the old days, keeping clients' data secure was pretty easy. It just required a lock and key. Now, with ...

Welcome to our guide on IG Client Sentiment—an excellent tool to gauge trader positioning and sentiment in the FX and CFD-trading market. View updates in real-time ...