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Financial Services Firms Must Embrace Digital Technology To Secure "Brand Love" - Report
3 May 2013
Wealth management firms are missing out on “brand love” and loyalty by not exploiting the benefits of digital technology, according to findings from a new global survey.
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JHS Capital Advisors Appoints Female Business Specialist To Tampa HQ
5 September 2012
JHS Capital Advisors, a dual-registered broker/dealer and RIA, has hired Katie White as a vice president, financial advisor. White manages $40 million in client assets and joins from Wells Fargo . She will be based in the firm’s Tampa, FL, headquarters, from where she will work with an emphasis on female business owners on issues such as divorce and retirement planning.
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JHS Capital Advisors Continues Growth Push
21 August 2012
JHS Capital Advisors, a dual registered broker-dealer and RIA, has appointed Steven Lofquist as a first vice president, financial advisor. Lofquist is based in the firm’s Leawood, KS, office and manages $40 million in client assets . He joined from RBC Wealth Management, where he was a vice president for three years.
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JHS Capital Embraces Social Media For Business Growth
16 August 2012
At a time when social media is playing an increasingly large part of clients’ lives, JHS Capital Advisors has linked up with Socialware to boost client relationships and attract new business by embracing new technology and communication channels. Following an enthusiastic response from advisors during a pilot program, JHS now offers Socialware to its advisors - enabling strategic and measurable social media campaigns via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn . The move comes just after a poll by SEI revealing that an overwhelming 94 per cent of advisors plan to increase their use of social media in the coming year.
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Wedbush Gives Go-Ahead On Social Media
12 January 2012
Wedbush Securities has given a firm-wide “green light” to social media use, allowing its financial advisors, investment bankers and traders to use social media for business purposes. Wedbush wants its employees to be part of the “ongoing dialogue” of social media, and go further than supplying readymade corporate statements, which will instead be used to supplement conversations with necessary information, the firm said . To address compliance issues it is working with Socialware, a company that provides a middleware platform for wealth management firms to review, monitor and archive social networking communication.
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Financial Advisors Not So Starry-Eyed On Social Media - Report
21 December 2011
A love affair with social media among wealth managers appears to have cooled slightly, although its benefits remain a keenly debated issue, a new study says.
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Building A HNW Network: Social Media Strategies For Financial Services Firms
18 September 2011
Think you know who’s using social media? Think again. Kids and young adults continue to be the most enthusiastic social networkers, but social networking among adults aged 50-64 skyrocketed 88 per cent last year.
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Advisors Reveal Their Biggest Marketing Challenges
2 June 2011
Some 55 per cent of advisors think their biggest marketing challenge is differentiating their practice and generating new business, and a vast majority of advisors think they are not doing enough to market their business, according to a survey of around 200 advisors polled by Peak Advisor Alliance. Meanwhile, many advisors are unclear how to make social media work for them . A total of 89 per cent of advisors said they weren’t doing enough, and 66 per cent aren’t engaged in any form of social media for promotion.
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Compliance: A Concern, Not Barrier, To Social Networking
30 March 2011
Fear of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and compliance issues in general, are holding back many wealth managers from social networking. Furthermore, the fear factor shot through the roof recently when the SEC began conducting social-media sweeps, requesting information from investment advisors about social networking activities . However, Chad Bockius, CEO at Socialware, a company that provides a middleware platform for wealth management and financial advisory firms, says these fears are overblown, because many companies, including his own, offer compliance solutions that make reviewing, monitoring and archiving manageable.
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BNY Mellon Lays Out Big Hiring Plans For Wealth Management
BNY Mellon Wealth Management is planning to double the size of its global sales force, as well as adding a raft of private bankers.
Harriet Davies
22 May 2013
Guest Opinion: An Earnings Report Every Hedge Fund Manager Should Review
Here Diane Harrison, principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, argues that the debate over fees in the hedge fund industry often focuses on the wrong topics.
Diane Harrison
20 March 2013
Q&A: Rockefeller & Co's Jimmy Chang On The Investment Environment
Here, Jimmy Chang, a senior portfolio manager and a managing director of Rockefeller & Co, discusses some issues around investing in the current environment.
Harriet Davies
4 April 2013
INTERVIEW: Regular Risk Reviews Gain Traction In The Family Office World
The period between 2008 and 2012 saw an uptick in risk reviewing business at New York’s Rothstein Kass Family Offices Group, says partner Evan Jehle.
Harriet Davies
9 April 2013
FEATURE: Twins And The Business Of Family
Building functionality into a family’s business affairs involves defining each person’s role but it’s never easy to think differently about family members who were children at the dinner table, but are now adults around the board table.
Charles Lowenhaupt
8 April 2013
Guest Opinion: Diversification In The Age Of Globalisation
Marc Odo, director of research at software and business intelligence firm Informa Investment Solutions, discusses why diversification failed during the credit crisis.
Marc Odo
25 March 2013
