Throwing Baby Out with the Bath Water

Identifying The Hidden Assets In Your Client Base In a recent Kehrer Bielan flash survey, 71% of the 47 participating firms indicated that they are segmenting their client base and limiting access to traditional across-the-desk advisors for clients with small account...

More Customers Can Invest Where they Bank Than Ever Before

The number of banks offering investment services has declined almost every year for the past several years. But the banking industry has been consolidating even faster. As a result, the share of banks offering investment services has increased substantially. According...

Think Trump Will Scrap the DoL Rule? Bank Execs Disagree

In the ten days since Donald J. Trump became the president-elect, we have heard hopeful speculation in boardrooms and in the media that the new administration will throw out the Department of Labor’s Fiduciary Rule for qualified retirement accounts, set to go...

Setting Revenue Expectations for Next Year

When we convened our semi-annual study group of top bank brokerage executives in Chapel Hill last month, one topic immediately emerged as being a top concern for the group – they expect investment services revenue to decline in 2017, but bank management actually...

Millennials Already Focused on Retirement

Other Concerns Reflect Life Stage Priorities Retirement may be decades away for most Millennials, but according to new Kehrer Bielan research they are already preparing for it. When asked to identify the most important goal for their savings and investments, more...