Jun 2, 2025 | Industry Trends, Investment Services, Wealth Management
RFI Global Survey Data Point to Both Opportunity and Risk Twenty-five years ago, 85% of US households said they preferred to do business with a single financial services company if it could meet the majority of their investment and insurance needs. Banks and credit...
May 4, 2025 | Banks, Industry Trends, Wealth Management
The nation’s banks and credit unions will continue to face dual pressures to gather deposits and grow non-interest income in the coming months. The days of swelling deposit balances are behind us. Between 2021 and 2023, core deposits in FDIC insured institutions...
Apr 23, 2025 | Credit Unions, Industry Trends, Investment Services
Annual Checkup Finds a Greater Share of Credit Unions Now Offer Investment Services Than Banks The number of US depository institutions continues to decline, as institutions gobble one another up to achieve scale and market relevance. As the number of FDIC-insured...
Feb 18, 2025 | Business Strategy, Industry Trends, Thought Leadership
Following a blockbuster year of growth, financial institutions are asking their wealth management units to do it again in 2025. According to the latest run of our quarterly Influencers Poll, the mean investment services revenue growth target for 2025 is 9% in banks...
Dec 17, 2024 | Advisors, Compensation, Industry Trends
More Evidence of Top Producers Receiving a Larger Slice of the Pie Reports of advisor compensation changes from LPL and UBS highlight a change we’ve observed among financial institutions—firms are reducing payouts to bottom producers and enhancing payouts to top...
Apr 24, 2024 | Advisors, Business Strategy, Industry Trends
Kehrer Group Influencers Are Divided on the Trend We have heard buzz around the rising prevalence of “managed programs” in which the broker dealer assumes management and compensation responsibilities for the financial institution’s advisors....
