This report highlights the dramatic changes sweeping across the traditional investment management and registered investment advisor (RIA) industries including:
• The rise of robo-advisors
• The shift from active to passive investment strategies
• The search for greater returns via alternative investments
• The impact from the new Department of Labor fiduciary standard rules
• An aging advisor and customer base against the backdrop of tech-savvy millennials
Although legacy firms across the industry recognize the need to respond, technology-driven innovation is not a core expertise for most RIAs and investment managers. Therefore, FinTech innovators are quickly gaining momentum to fill this gap and to seize the massive WealthTech opportunity. FT Partners is in a unique position to provide insight into the WealthTech sector due to our well established history of advising leading companies within the space. As the sector continues to innovate and evolve, we expect to see increasing partnerships between WealthTech companies and traditional firms, along with heightened capital raising and M&A activity among both the established and up-and-coming FinTech players.
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