Hand models use their fingers, palms, and wrists to promote a wide range of products, from high-end jewelry to everyday items. But becoming a hand model isn’t just a matter of having great digits. To ...

Achieving your advisory firm’s growth goals is directly tied to your ability to attract and retain clients. Ultimately, the long-term success of your firm depends on your ability to align with your ...

Susan Dziubinski: What’s the allure of model portfolios for financial advisors? Jason Kephart: Model portfolios are a useful option for advisors who’d rather spend less time thinking about stocks and ...

Model portfolios continue to gain ground with financial advisors, who can select from a growing number of models to help manage their clients' investments. I use them for pretty much all of the ...

Sorting through the wide-ranging model portfolio universe can be daunting. To help advisors find the right model portfolios for their clients, we expanded the Morningstar Quantitative Rating, or MQR, ...

Model portfolios – ready-made third-party investment plans – surged to a record $7.7 trillion in assets in the first quarter of 2025, underscoring the growing demand for efficient, off-the-rack ...

Assets in model portfolios grew by nearly 50% over the last 2 years. By fully or partially outsourcing the investment management function, it frees up more time for advisors to focus on building their ...

David Schassler is the head of multi-asset solutions at VanEck. He offers a comprehensive perspective on market trends, asset allocation and strategy analysis. As the head of multi-asset solutions ...

The introduction of the Sustainable Fund Disclosure (SDR) rules has made little difference to how Tatton constructs its ...

A shift in how financial advisors structure client portfolios will drive asset allocation model portfolios to a new $2.9 trillion asset milestone by 2026, predicts a new report from Cerulli Associates ...

Fidelity Investments is the latest asset manager to ramp up its model-portfolio business as demand for off-the-shelf and customized investment strategies across asset classes continues to pick up. The ...

Broadridge Financial Solutions, a financial technology infrastructure provider, expects total assets in model portfolios to exceed $11 trillion by the end of 2028. This would represent more than a ...