Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by broadcast media. The fact that cavemen were eventually able to invent a box that would bring faraway images and sounds into our living rooms was nothing short of extraordinary. Almost as miraculous as life itself. But it wasn’t until my college years did I […]
DOL Fiduciary Rule or Not – Why Brokerages will be Distancing Themselves from the Retail Retirement Market
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 […]
The Battle to Launch a Next-Generation Retirement Product & Control $14 Trillion in Investment Direction
In the Fall of 2016, I penned an article entitled, “Modernizing the Self-direct IRA – The Trillion Dollar FinTech Opportunity” – the first in a new series of articles that focuses on next-generation retirement planning. The piece underscored how FinTech will mend America’s flawed retirement system and foster the growth of “digital” investing. This initial […]
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 […]