The digitization of financial services is upon us and with it comes an opportunity to grow—not just in our use of technology, but also in the way we serve clients. In this age of hybrid financial advice, where clients wish to experience the same autonomy they have on Amazon with the customized advice they get from their therapist, we have a lot of growing to do in the industry to meet these demands. Innovation is the key and technology is just a piece of the puzzle.
Ferrero, global confectionary giant, has brought on Cheryll Forsatz in the newly created role of VP, PR and corporate communications. Forsatz joins Ferrero from Ketchum, where she was a senior VP with responsibility for the agency’s external communications. Before that, she served as director of communications for McDonald’s New York Metro Region and was also a senior VP at MWW PR. At Ferrero, she will lead PR and corporate communications plans and strategies for its product portfolio (which includes Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac and Kinder Joy) as well as for the Ferrero corporate brand.
...Trilogy Financial, with over $2 billion in client assets one of the largest financial planning firms affiliated with National Planning Corp., said on Thursday afternoon it was joining LPL Financial.
LPL in mid-August said it acquired the assets of National Planning Holdings Inc., an independent broker-dealer network with 3,200 advisers and $120 billion of client assets. The firms in the NPH network are: National Planning, Invest Financial Corp., Investment Centers of America Inc. and SII Investments Inc. Combined in 2016, they generated $909 million in revenues, according to InvestmentNews data.
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