The other day I published an article which drew attention to a battle I sense brewing in the retail retirement industry between the Brokerage IRA and the Trust Company IRA. Although no one is really paying much attention to it right now, I promise you that this race to launch a next-generation retail retirement product […]
How 2016 Reshaped Financial Services for Generations to Come
2016 will be etched in time as one of the most unpredictable and metamorphic years in our planet’s history. While every fragment of civilization will feel the effects of 2016, the year will leave an indelible imprint on financial services, global political landscapes and mass media for generations to come. The year began with the […]
The Most Transformational Era in Financial Services Since the 1980s
I would like to thank everyone who joined us at the FinTech Revolution event in New York City and over the digital airwaves on November 15th. I am especially grateful for our speakers whose products, technologies and visions are dramatically improving and democratizing financial services. Some of the event highlights – which are all available […]
Modernizing the Self-direct IRA – The Trillion Dollar FinTech Opportunity
A little over five years ago, a self-directed IRA expert named Jim Jones reached out to me through LinkedIn to discuss the value proposition of the self-directed IRA – a retirement vehicle that gives individual investors greater control of their retirement capital and the freedom to invest beyond conventional asset classes and into coveted alternative […]
The Impact of Micro-Investing Technology that No One is Talking About
This decade has been a watershed epoch for financial services – one that will undoubtedly be memorialized as the period of when securities regulations finally began catching up to technological achievement. Hundreds of years from now, when economic historians look back on the contributions of FinTech, I believe that they will pinpoint innovations in micro-investing […]