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Though the number of large fee-only RIAs has increased over the past five years, their growth rate has lagged behind that of hybrid RIAs with brokerage businesses and RIAs with insurance capabilities, according to a new report from Cerulli Associates. In the $5 billion-plus RIA market, Cerulli also found that the asset market share of…

This article was written by Follow Rida Morwa is a former investment and commercial Banker, with over 35 years of experience. He has been advising individual and institutional clients on high-yield investment strategies since 1991. Rida Morwa leads the Investing Group High Dividend Opportunities where he teams up with some of Seeking Alpha’s top income…

That finding speaks directly to the opportunity advisors have to differentiate their practice. When clients struggle to connect the dots between their health costs, their savings, and their protection needs, a professional who can do that connecting becomes far more valuable than one who manages investments alone. The legacy planning data reinforces the point. Fifty-nine…

Key insight: Here’s why only 24% of finance organizations still maintain strict CPA-only hiring requirements. What’s at stake: Senior managers risk losing up to half their workweeks to disconnected systems. Expert quote: “The constraint on finance has shifted from capital to capability,” — Andrej Suskavcevic, Financial Executives International Only 24% of organizations maintain CPA-only requirements,…

Digital Transactions News staff September 16, 2026 Acquiring, Competitive Strategies, Digital Currency, E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, Transaction Processing American Water, said to be the largest regulated water and wastewater utility in the U.S., has adopted VXconnect from software developer VertexOne. VXconnect offers a mobile app by which customers can manage payments….

Stablecoins are accelerating the shift toward instant, digital financial services. For community and regional banks, the key question is not whether stablecoins will exist, but how banks can participate in the infrastructure that supports faster payments, tokenized deposits, and emerging digital financial networks. Join us on October 13 as Simon Griffin, Business Lead for Crypto…