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By Mitchell H Caplan
The most successful advisors of the future will crack the code to combining digital solutions with human capital to provide a more comprehensive offering to clients — and achieve greater scale in their practice.
In fact, in the 2015 Advisor Authority Study conducted by Jefferson National and Harris Poll, we learned that the most successful advisors are truly tech-obsessed. Advisors who manage more assets and generate more revenue spend substantially more on technology and adopt technology into their practice at twice the rate of the average advisor.
When it comes to technology, there are those in the financial advisory industry who would say that 2015 was the year of the robo. Robo advisors dominated the headlines as major online brokerages such as Schwab and Vanguard launched their own versions, and asset managers such as BlackRock and Invesco started following suit. Aite Group estimated that digitally-driven investments would reach $53 billion by year-end 2015, up from $2 billion in 2013. Cerulli Associates estimates that the market for robo platforms used by advisors will be close to $500 billion by 2020.