Advisor Applications

FinFolio: A Portfolio Management Software Targeted To RIAs With $200 Million AUM And Up

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Matt Abar, a rock star among portfolio management software geeks who made millions selling his first PMS company to Advent Software a decade ago, is back.   FinFolio, which I wrote about three years ago, has now launched in 20 RIAs and it’s a serious contender.  The slidecast tells the story in detail.  

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New Retirement Planning App, Likely To Catch On, Illustrates How Technology For Financial Advisors Is In The Midst Of A Creative Upheaval

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WealthTrace, a retirement planning app, is pretty much a one-man show. However, the one man is Doug Carey, a 39-year-old Chartered Financial Analyst with undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics who taught himself programming. So it’s a good bet Carey won’t be a one-man show for long.

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RIA Performance Reporting Solution, AssetBook, Gets A Nifty New Graphical User Interface

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AssetBook, a web-based performance reporting app, has a spiffy new user interface that uses Microsoft Silverlight as its graphics engine.

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WSJ Blog Post Notes Trend Toward Online Apps That Might Compete With Advisors

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"Even as many financial advisors try to shift upward from the mass-affluent segment to a wealthier clientele, some new Internet-based startups are aiming their services at the not-so-rich," says Wall Street Journal blogger Ruithie Ackerman.

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New Salesforce Add On Makes It Easier For Private Wealth Advisors To Embed Workflows In Salesforce

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An overlay for Salesforce, recently released by the technology arm of a large RIA, makes it easier to integrate a wealth management firm’s processes deeply with Salesforce.

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