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Hedge fund managers are increasingly interested in exploring employment opportunities at family offices, particularly in cio and investment management-style roles, according to a recent Hunter Advisors white paper “The Search for Talent: Family Offices.”
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High-net-worth individuals on the verge of retirement are rethinking how much money they need to have in retirement and are looking to make sacrifices, including delaying retirement and saving more, according to a recent Cogent Research study.
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High-net-worth investors are increasing their exposure to developing markets as their popularity and influence on the global economy continues to grow, according to a recent Cerulli study.
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Roughly 28% of wealthy Americans are planning to cut back on charitable giving or have already done so, according to the latest PNC Wealth Management’s Wealth and Values survey.
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Following the economic downturn, advisors and wealth firms are reevaluating their service models, with 75% saying that following the financial crisis, they are more tightly focused on profitable clients, according to a recent study by The Corporate Executive Board.
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Wealth advisors are looking to tap into technology and information resources to help with prospecting, according to a recent WealthEngine white paper.
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Wealthy investors who are looking to increase their financial exposure to companies or mutual funds that address environmentally friendly or socially responsible investing, are looking to advisors who are knowledgeable about the space.
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High-net-worth women are taking charge when it comes to household finances and are breaking down the taboo of talking about money socially.
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High-net-worth investors, who once referred to themselves as aggressive when it came to investment opportunities, are switching gears and becoming conservative following the recession.
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Slightly more than half of wealthy individuals believe the recession has altered the way their children will manage money.
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High-net-worth individuals are most likely looking to switch advisors now that 2009 is behind them, according to a recent Cerulli study.
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Roughly 53% of families surveyed said they reach out to wealth advisors to help find new investment managers, according to an Institute for Private Investors study.
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Emerging markets are poised to fare better in 2010 than most areas, as they were less heavily impacted by the credit crisis, according to UBS Wealth Management’s 2010 Outlook investment strategy report.
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Money managers and wealth shops have finally stopped cutting costs and are cautiously starting to hire again.
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As talks among legislators heat up regarding what the fiduciary standard should entail for financial advisors, 86% of financial advisors surveyed say they support having one, according to research conducted by the SEI Advisor Network and The Committee for the Fiduciary Standard.
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Millionaire and affluent investors have become increasingly more confident in the investment environment since November, but are concerned about unemployment levels in 2010, according to data from researcher Spectrem Group.
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Registered investment advisors (RIAs) are increasingly looking to online sources of information on mutual funds and insurance firms to work with, according to a recent study conducted by Cogent Research.
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High-net-worth advisors should look into nontraditional investment strategies for retirement planning, given the state of the economy and the fact that many baby boomers have had to delay their retirement.
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Affluent individuals for the first time are shunning full-service brokers as their top choice for their primary advisory relationships and shifting more business to financial planners, according to a recent Spectrem Group study.
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Private investments in public equities (PIPEs) are poised to make a rise in numbers, thanks partly to the high-net-worth increasingly participating in the deals, according to new study published by think tank mergermarket, law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel law firm and Rodman & Renshaw.
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Wealth advisors who are looking to bolster their businesses and establish formalized marketing plans are avoiding using social networking in marketing and prospecting.
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Wirehouses are losing high-net-worth advisors in large numbers, as professionals are fleeing to the boutique model and taking their wealthy clients with them, according to a recent study by Boston research firm Cerulli Associates.
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More and more wealthy investors are either investing again or are preparing to up their investment activities, according to data from researcher Spectrem Group.
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Despite the recession and troubling economic times, advisors are continuing to move towards fee-based compensation models instead of a transaction-based one, according to a new study from Cogent Research.
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As wealthy families transfer power to the next generation of leadership, many are letting go of in-house staff in a move to cut costs, and are instead turning to outside professionals for ancillary services like accounting, taxes, philanthropy, mission statements, and governance, according to a recent study commissioned by Rothstein Kass and conducted by Russ Alan Prince and Hannah Shaw Grove.
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Financial advisors are increasingly relying on techniques to usher in after-tax returns on investments as economic uncertainty persists, according to a recent survey by Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute
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National Financial and TDAmeritrade are boosting their third-party research offerings to brokers.
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Stock market volatility is the primary concern for wealthy investors, according to a study from Spectrem Group.
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About 55% of advisors with more than $100 million in assets under management are co-managing their books of business with other advisors at their own firms, according to a new study from Cogent Research.
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Bethesda, Md.-based WealthEngine has launched a research database, dubbed Prospect Generator, to help wealth managers track and rank high-net-worth prospects. The subscription-based service lets managers search the affluent universe by region and by net worth, then ranks prospects on a 1-to-10 scale of importance, allowing managers to prioritize marketing efforts.
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Aite Group plans to hire a handful of analysts for its newly restructured Retail Securities & Investments practice.
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High-net-worth individuals are continuing to donate to their near and dear causes with the same fervor and commitment they exhibited before the economic downturn, according to a major study from Barclays Wealth and Ledbury Research.
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The high-net-worth individual population of China surpassed the HNW population of the U.K., becoming the fourth largest in the world in 2008 with 346,000 HNW individuals despite the recession.
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Most wealthy families are expecting further declines in their portfolios and are looking for honesty from their advisors on the true state of affairs, according to a soon-to-be-released study conducted by Institute for Private Investors.
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High-net-worth investors are afraid to invest in the current market, even though they are seeing more opportunities, according to Barclays Wealth and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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High-net-worth advisors are missing the opportunity to help clients roll over their 401ks and other retirement plans into IRA accounts and take control of those assets, according to Cogent Research.
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Celent, a Boston-based independent research firm, has dissolved its wealth management practice.
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Private bankers who have jumped ship to smaller RIAs or boutique firms are not as effective in taking their clients and assets with them, compared to their lower-end broker counterparts, according to a recent Aite Group study.
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Although economic conditions are ideal for transferring ownership of family-owned businesses, many wealthy business owners are reluctant to take the plunge, according to Matthew Panarese, managing director and senior private client advisor at Wilmington Trust.
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Advisors are backing creating or joining multi-family offices as a way to deliver the most integrated services, which is preferred by high-net-worth investors, according to a recent study by Rothstein Kass.
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When it comes to what men and women are looking for in an advisor, they seem to be on the same page, according to Kirby Rosplock, director of research and development at GenSpring Family Offices and author of new series of wealth alignment studies.
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The net worth of wealthy Irish households is down by almost 30% since 2006, according to a recent National Irish Bank report, dubbed “The Emerald Isle-Wealth in a Downturn.”
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Ultra-high-net-worth women are taking control of managing their wealth, opening up a new market for advisors, according to a new study by Wilmington Trust and Campden Research.
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High-net-worth individuals are reporting record levels of pessimism about their financial future, according to the annual Phoenix Companies survey on high-net-worth attitudes and behavior.
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Wealth management firms are starting to implement new financial planning technology to more efficiently cater to the high-net-worth as well as attract and retain clients whose wealth has dipped in this economy, according to Alois Pirker, senior analyst at Aite Group.
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Ultra-high-net-worth investors in Brazil have been moving their assets out of large international private banks to multi-family offices or local Brazilian banks.
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Single-family offices and affluent investors will be the largest sources of new capital for the hedge fund industry this year, according to a Rothstein Kass research report.
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UBS Wealth Management is urging a modest overweight in equities and recommends taking on equity exposure in combination with bond investments.
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UBS Wealth Management is urging a modest overweight in equities and recommends taking on equity exposure in combination with bond investments.
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Reducing risk in a portfolio is key for investors now, so advisors should go a step further and hedge against prolonged deflation and stagnant economic growth in client portfolios.