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Goals-based planning: the operating-model shift that's actually working

A retrospective on five private banks that finished their goals-based rollouts in 2025, what advisors actually used, what they didn't, and the planning conversation that changed.

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Cybersecurity is no longer a back-office problem for wealth firms

A wave of targeted incidents against advisory firms is forcing a reset on who owns risk, and what the next twelve months of board-level questioning will look like.

Case studies

Family office succession: the technology stack now matters

How three single-family offices restructured their data, reporting, and governance layers ahead of a generational handover, and the platform choices they regret.

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Cross-border tax reporting: where the costs really sit

For firms serving cross-border HNW clients, the cost of getting tax reporting right has quietly tripled over the past five years. A workflow map, with the failure points marked.

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Custom indexing graduates from the platform pitch

Three big-platform launches in Q2 took custom indexing from "interesting demo" to a real RIA product line. Adoption data from the early movers, and where the friction still sits.

News & PR

The compliance shift toward continuous monitoring

Three regulators have made very similar statements in the past six weeks. The direction of travel is clear; the operational shift inside firms is just beginning.

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Client portals: why the last eighteen months changed everything

The bar for the HNW portal experience has moved decisively in the past year. What firms are shipping, and the design choices separating the leaders from the laggards.

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Behavioural finance moves from theory to client engagement

For years it was a fringe research interest. Two large platforms have now wired behavioural prompts into the advisor's daily flow. The early evidence is interesting and uncomfortable.

Case studies

Direct indexing at scale: lessons from a $1.2B rollout

A North-American multi-advisor firm rolled out direct indexing across 4,300 households in twelve months. The operations playbook, the tax-loss model, and what they would do differently.

News & PR

Sustainable investing reporting standards converge in Europe

The latest update from the European working group narrows the gap between two parallel reporting regimes, and creates an immediate workflow question for cross-border firms.

Insight

Generative AI in client communication: what's working in 2026

The portfolio commentary and meeting follow-up surfaces are quietly maturing. A look at four firms shipping high-quality client comms with very different model strategies.

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