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Financial advisors believe that over the next six months volatility will either stay the same or increase following May’s “flash crash” on May 6, according to a recent study conducted by iShares.
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Following the most recent economic downturn, wealthy families are being faced with additional financial burdens that have changed their immediate needs when it comes to working with advisors, according to the newly-released Merrill Lynch Affluent Insights Quarterly.
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Affluent women are looking for solutions to help them manage their wealth, with 54% of those surveyed comfortable with letting another person take the lead when it comes to their finances, according to a recent Prudential Financial study, Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women.
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Ultra-wealthy investors are embracing technology particularly when it comes to gathering investment related news or to research stocks or money managers, but are doing so with restraint, according to a recent study released by Institute for Private Investors (IPI).
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Financial advisors are unaware of the details surrounding the financial reform and how it can affect the wealth advisory industry, according to a recent SEI Advisor Network study.
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Independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) are looking to expand aggressively over the next five years, with 84% citing they are in growth mode, according to a recent Charles Schwab RIA Benchmarking study.
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Wealthy families are increasingly investing in direct private equity deals and 83% of respondents said they are planning to maintain or increase their allocation over the next 24 months, according to a family office private equity survey conducted by McNally Capital.
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Following the economic downturn, high-net-worth (HNW) individuals are looking to reevaluate their insurance arrangements, according to a recent white paper released by ACE Private Risk Services.
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Although roughly 86% of investors get their news from newspapers and magazines, the number of wealthy investors using online sources to get news has increased, according to a recent survey by the Institute of Private Investors.
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Roughly 62% of independent wealth advisors saw a significant increase in the number of new clients for their businesses over the past 12 months, according to a recent MetLife survey.
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High-net-worth investors have increased their positions in stocks, finding the asset class to have continued value as the market rebounds, according to a recent Phoenix Marketing International survey.
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Russian entrepreneurs lack experience with and seeking education on wealth succession, according to a study conducted by UBS and Campden Research.
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Roughly 54% of advisors have changed the way they view the construction and risk of a client’s portfolio, according to a recent study by the Institute of Private Investors.
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Roughly 64% of advisors that serve wealthy investors with a net worth of $5-10 million have implemented segmentation to better manage accounts, according to a recent study by Cerulli Associates.
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Roughly 59% of high-net-worth baby boomers are concerned with saving their money as opposed to growing it, according to a recent Corporate Executive Board study.
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Wealth advisors are looking to peer-to-peer relationships as their main way to grow their businesses, with 90% of respondents saying they can learn best practices from their peers, according to a recent survey by SEI Advisor Network.
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Roughly 77% of wealthy investors who read blogs are likely to look to them for financial and investment advice, according to a recent Spectrem Group study.
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Roughly 31% of wealthy investors hold the majority of their retirement assets in IRAs, compared with 25% who have their assets in 401ks and other employer-based retirement plans, according to a recent Cogent Research study.
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Ultra-high-net-worth investors had just 8% in cash in 2009, compared with 17% the year before, according to the latest survey by Institute for Private Investors.
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High-net-worth individuals are finding wealth advisors more useful, with 79% of respondents saying they use professional advice on a regular basis, compared with 73% last year, according to the recent Phoenix Wealth Survey.
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Ultra-high-net-worth individuals have been extremely cautious when it comes to investments and have been focusing on simple, transparent investment vehicles over the last year, but a desire for better returns will gradually encourage them to take the plunge into more complex investments like hedge funds and derivatives, according to a report by Société Générale Private Banking.
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Roughly 44% of business owners indicated they plan to sell a majority stake of their business within the next 24 months, with the rest of respondents citing a timeframe of two years or more for a sale, according to a recent report by Rothstein Kass, “Heading for the Exits.”
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Roughly 60% of advisors say the high-net-worth believe that there was too much exposure to equities in their overall portfolios and favor mutual funds to fund retirement, particularly income products like guaranteed life annuities, according to a recent retirement income survey by MainStay Investments.
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High-net-worth investors are increasingly looking for fee transparency when it comes to what they pay for trust services in an effort to justify the costs.
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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.