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As Americans have moved online over the last decade, many people have experienced some kind of online criminal activity. Online criminals are now highly organized, specialized, professional, and very well financed. Many operate beyond the reach of the law in countries around the world. If your data and systems are connected to the Internet, you are exposed to break-in attempts and online fraud.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Nien-Ling Wacker, the CEO of Laserfiche, recalled at the mid-January Laserfiche Institute annual conference how things were 20 years ago when he was developing the software that would lead his company to dominance in the document management field. “When you look at early technology,” he told the 1,000-plus users at the event, “you always look at the diagram and probably even more—it is complex!” Wacker pointed out that complexity often makes it hard for early users of technology to figure out what to do with it. His job was to make it easy for advisors to use technology.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Our intrepid advisor kicks the tires on four applications that pick and monitor clients’ investments

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

In a move intended to enlarge Chicago-based Morningstar, Inc.’s international footprint, the firm is buying online global capital markets databases, an investor relations business, and a New Delhi, India-based data collection business from Ipreo Holdings LLC.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Months ago, I chose ACT as my CMS software. I have created additional tabs and fields to allow me to gather additional information. Here’s what I did. In preparing financial plans for clients, the speed of the process depends upon you and the client. The client must provide you with the required information in a timely manner and you must use this information to hold up your end of the agreement. I can control my end just fine but sometimes the flow of information from the client can require a prompting from the advisor. Since necessity often is the mother of invention, I made some decisions as to how I would handle this.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Laserfiche, the electronic document management technology company, and CRM Software, the maker of the Junxure CRM software, announced Oct. 25 they have integrated their two applications, providing a means of improved efficiency to advisors by giving users of Junxure one-click access to Laserfiche documents.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

Fidelity Investments announced that it will make a new wealth management platform available to its affiliated RIAs that integrates Siebel On Demand CRM, the Advent portfolio management application, and NaviPlan financial planning software.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Advisor Software Inc., the Lafayette, California-based technology company that has long provided enterprise-level software and more recently has made some of its products available to individual advisors, is on the verge of beta testing a new application called ASI Wealth Manager.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Creating a solid, goals-based investment strategy for your clients, one that is subject to continuous improvement, should ideally be your top objective. However, if you are like most advisors, you might be finding it hard to efficiently manage all of your client accounts to this end. It only makes sense that you’d give greater priority to your most important clients.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Dina Trebbe doesn’t need convincing on how Web conferencing has improved her firm’s relationship with its clients and investment advisors. “It’s a wonderful tool,” says the direct marketing manager for the Lindfield, Massachusetts-based broker/dealer Investors Capital Corp (ICC), which installed Microsoft’s Live Meeting tool four years ago. “Our clients want to hear more from their advisors, and often don’t have time for an office visit.”

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

Although in the financial services sector most “official” communication still depends on the telephone authorization, the signed letter, the wire transfer, or the mailed prospectus, much information in the financial sector now is transferred by e-mail—including recommendations, marketing materials, and client-relations materials.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

Sponsored By:

DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

Broker/dealers and RIA firms that clear through or custody assets with Pershing will have additional trading tools at their disposal with the addition of Neovest, Inc.’s capabilities to Pershing’s trading services.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

A new kind of interactive data is the focus of a pilot program from the SEC that’s intended to make it easier for advisors, funds, and data providers to use mutual fund data in tools that compare critical data elements on risk, performance and other key characteristics.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

While broker/dealers have thrown practically everything technology-wise but chicken soup at advisors over the past several years, they’ve learned that choice can be overpowering.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
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Now let’s discuss marketing. I am in the process of creating an introductory packet to give to prospective clients. It will also help me to codify, in my own mind, my value proposition and will contain several tabs, or sections.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com

Schwab Performance Technologies, the portfolio management software subsidiary of the Charles Schwab Company, announced a new version of its PortfolioCenter designed for RIA firms with 50 or fewer clients, called PortfolioCenter Emerging Practice, with a smaller pricetag than the full-blown software.

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DWS Scudder, the U.S. retail brand name of Deutsche Asset Management, provides financial advisors with a comprehensive selection of innovative investment strategies.
www.dws-scudder.com