San Francisco, February 14, 2019 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. announced today that it is a premier sponsor of a Charles Schwab conference, Regulatory Hot Topics: Preparing for 2019 for Financial Planners and Compliance Officers. The Feb. 28 event, presented by the…
Stocks, Bonds and Other Diversification Pairings at Risk: Steven Sears
In an essay for AdvisorHub, StratiFi’s Chief Investment Officer Steven M. Sears has alerted investors to the risk that rising inflation has on traditional portfolio allocations. Should inflation, which has been unusually low for much of the past decade, rise,…
Someone’s Making a Big Bet on a Border Wall
Steven M. Sears, StratiFi’s chief investment officer, recently focused on some of the key attributes of successful investing in a column that he wrote for Barron’s. At a time when many investors are debating what happens next to the stocks,…
StratiFi Technologies will be participating in “The Asset / WealthTech Advisory”
San Francisco – January 9, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. will be participating in The Asset / WealthTech Advisory Collaboration on January 29 organized by Plug & Play and Morningstar @ the Plug and Play Tech Center. The venue will gather top technologies and companies from the Asset…
Steve M. Sears: “The Behavior in the Market is not Normal”
Steven M. Sears, StratiFi Technologies’ chief investment officer, was recently interviewed by TD Ameritrade for his views on the stock and options market, and economy. He raised concerns about the unusually erratic nature of the stock market, offered some insights…
Protecting Your Clients from Behavioral Investing Mistakes
“The investor’s chief problem – even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.” – Benjamin Graham A key to understanding behavioral finance is understanding that investments do not necessarily cause investors to lose money. Investors often cause themselves…
Wealth Exposed – Why Advisors Need to Take the Lead in Risk Management
The sudden return of market volatility this year should be a reminder of the critical role financial advisors play in helping clients to protect their assets. However, as advisors proactively take measures to protect portfolios against inevitable market declines, their…
Risk Considerations in a Relentless Bull Market
Bull markets do not die from old age, but they often succumb to events or changed perceptions. Right now, a litany of issues exist that could roil the market’s historic nine-year advance, including China trade tensions, rising interest rates, and…
StratiFi and Omni Global Partner To Empower Advisors With Risk Management Technology
San Francisco, October 2, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. announced today a partnership with Omni Global Group Ltd. Omni has integrated StratiFi’s PRISM Rating™ technology into its Omniscient CRM platform. The partnership will enable advisors to access risk-management tools that…
StratiFi Wins Award For Best Risk Tolerance / Client Profiling Technology
San Francisco, September 17, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc., which is democratizing risk management to help financial advisors and their clients make better financial decisions, announced that it has won the WealthManagement.com 2018 Industry Award for the top Risk-tolerance /…
Reverse Churning: A Black Swan May Soon Confront Financial Advisors
If you are a financial advisor, you need to be aware of reverse churning. This little understood issue might even be a Black Swan for the wealth management industry. This issue is so pernicious that it could ensnare many advisors…
Escape the High-Net-Worth Client Trap To Build a Successful Business
The top 1% of Americans now control over one-third of the nation’s total investable assets. These high-net-worth (HNW) investors are the proverbial golden geese sought by many advisory firms. And why not? More assets per client; and the more you…
Managing Crypto-Inclined Clients
Whatever your view on cryptocurrency, many of your present and future clients likely own, or want to own, digital currency. According to a recent survey conducted by Blockchain Capital, 30% of people aged 18 to 34 would rather invest $1,000…
The Unfaithful Client
Your client is worth $25 million, yet you only manage a small portion of that total. Sound familiar? The issue of clients with accounts spread across multiple advisory firms often arises during discussions of a firm’s billable assets. Yet, the…
A New Era for Cash Management
Interest rates are rising. If your clients are asking how you’re moving to protect their capital, you’re not alone. Global money market funds saw the largest inflows of any open-end fund class in the first quarter of 2018, according to…
StratiFi’s Akhil Lodha To Speak At MoneyShow
San Francisco, August 20, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. announced that Akhil Lodha will speak at The MoneyShow, a major investment conference. Mr. Lodha, StratiFi’s co-founder and chief executive officer, will deliver an, educational presentation, “How Investors Can Manage Risk…
Three Immediate Risks to Your Firm and How to Manage Them
If you follow financial industry trades or perhaps just skim the headlines, you know the term “risk” is omnipresent. It’s not surprising given the entire investment world is loosely balanced on a grand scale of risk and return. Not every…
StratiFi Announces Occam To Advance Investor Education, Risk-Adjusted Investing
San Francisco, August 15th – StratiFi Technologies, which is democratizing risk management to help everyone make better financial decisions, announced the launch of Occam, a financial education and media eco-system. Occam was conceived by Steven M. Sears, a former Barron’s…
StratiFi’s Steve Sears Analyzes Tech Sector For TD Ameritrade
San Francisco, August 7 2018 – StratiFi Technologies’ announced that Steven M. Sears, the company’s chief market strategist, recently appeared on the TD Ameritrade Network to discuss technology sector trading patterns ahead of key earnings reports. Mr. Sears discussed trends in the…
Avoid The Overconfidence Trap: Conduct Your Own Stress Test
When Willie Sutton, a famous bank robber, was asked why he robbed banks, he answered because that’s where the money is. And so it is with the stock market. Most people invest because they want to make as much money…
How to Make $1 million on Wall Street
Everyone wants to make money in the stock market so we’re going to let you in on a secret. The way to make $1 million on Wall Street is to start with $2 million. If you’ve been around the markets…
Build Trust and Be Indispensable To Your Clients
Do your clients trust you? Do they think you are indispensable or an easily replaced commodity? We’re asking those questions in a spirit of helpfulness. Trust and commoditization are among the securities industry’s greatest weaknesses and challenges. If clients do…
Finding Serenity In a Noisy Market
We live in an era when investors have more information readily available than the world’s most accomplished investors ever imagined just 50, or even 100 years ago. Still, many people complain that it is hard to find useful information in…
Is Amazon.com Eating Your Client’s Business?
At a recent Barron’s conferences for the nation’s top advisors, we were surprised by a recurring topic: Amazon.com. Everywhere we turned, someone was discussing how Amazon.com was impacting their businesses. The online retailer, at least since we last checked, has…
The Sweetest Risk Factors Leave The Bitterest Aftertastes
Of all the risk factors that confront investors, concentrated-stock risk is perhaps the sweetest. If you have this risk in your portfolio, you likely picked a stock that has blossomed in value, or you participated in an initial public offering…
How to Expect the Unexpected? Educate Yourself.
One of the market’s wise men – someone who is known and respected by everyone but shuns the limelight – believes the financial markets represent pure chaos. He contends that indexes, and exchange-traded funds and other financial products exist…
Is Your Portfolio Truly Diversified? Probably Not.
At this very moment, some advisor, somewhere in the securities industry, is confronting a difficult reality with their clients. They know that bonds are often as risky as stocks, and that stocks and bonds often behave like each other. Yet,…
How To Thrive In The Age of Volatility?
Volatility is one of the most widely used, yet misunderstood, words in the investment world. It means so many things to so many people that volatility is at risk of becoming another Wall Street word that does not mean much…
The Language of Money
Winston Churchill once quipped that America and England are two countries separated by a common language. We have often thought of this as our travels, and lives, keep us alternating between Wall Street and Main Street. On Wall Street, most…
StratiFi’s Steve Sears Deconstructs The Stock and Bond Market For TD Ameritrade
San Francisco, June 22, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies’ announced that Steven M. Sears, the company’s chief market strategist, recently appeared on the TD Ameritrade Network. Mr. Sears discussed liquidity in the stock market, how investors are seeking safety in large-capitalization technology stocks…
A Conversation on Risk & Return
We want to start an ongoing conversation with you about risk and return. We want to move beyond headlines, and the incessant focus on buying this fund, or selling that stock or bond. We want to get away from the…
StratiFi’s Steve Sears To Deliver Keynote Address at WealthTech 2018
San Francisco, June 19, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. today announced that Steven M. Sears, the company’s chief market strategist, will deliver the keynote speech at Wealthtech 2018. Mr. Sears will discuss how technology can help financial advisors and their clients better…
StratiFi Technologies Named Finalist for Industry Awards by WealthManagement.com
San Francisco, June 12, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc. today announced that it was named a finalist for the 2018 WealthManagement.com Industry Awards. StratiFi’s PRISM RatingTM software, which brings sophisticated, yet intuitive, risk management tools to advisors and investors, was selected as one of three finalists in…
StratiFi Technologies Announces Series A Funding Round
San Francisco, May 04, 2018 – StratiFi Technologies Inc., whose technology solutions help advisors improve investment outcomes for clients, while increasing the stability of their own businesses, has announced a Series A funding round that was led by Anthemis Group. StratiFi raised…