Brokerage executives and financial advisers see the convergence of wealth management and the retirement business as a major moneymaking opportunity, and are implementing measures to capitalize on it.

The attention on technology and risk in financial institutions has often been laser focused on transactions. That makes sense because of the large volume of trades and other transactions that are at ...

Storage management, application management, and server management tools will increasingly link together as management software vendors explore adjoining markets based on recent industry acquisitions.

Over the past six years we have all heard repeatedly about the “convergence” between two respective aspects of the financial advisory world—retirement plan advisors and wealth management advisors. The ...

The convergence of wealth and retirement at the workplace and the explosion of small 401(k) plans are colliding to create a powerful wave that savvy broker/dealers are riding. Not only are more wealth ...

The sixth annual report on global investment management by KPMG has revealed that further convergence between hedge funds, private equity companies and long-only managers is to be expected. The report ...

Brokers and advisers may need to play a more strategic role in helping their clients navigate an expected convergence of health care reform and absence management that will add another layer of ...

One of our clients last week reminded me that “convergence” is taking on multiple meanings in our industry, beyond the convergence of voice and data traffic. The client was thinking of the need to ...

Recent reports confirm the trend towards ever more serious cyber-security breaches (“90 percent of large companies have suffered a data breach over the last year, compared to 81 percent last year” PwC ...

In the last newsletter, I spoke about “convergence” with regards to the differing standards for identity federation. Immediately after writing that one, a check of my inbox showed an e-mail dealing ...

Over the past 30 years, and certainly, in the past five years, we have seen the alignment of technology driven by the trends of interconnection of IP to even analog cameras for connectivity, moving ...

Though Security Information and Event Management and log management tools have been complementary for years, the technologies are expected to merge. Here’s a look at what you can expect in ...