With Advisor-Focused Robo, Franklin Templeton Enters New Territory The asset manager is launching Tango, a white-label robo combining its IP with parts and components from multiple partners.
Franklin Templeton is the latest asset manager to turn to financial planning and automated investing technology in a bid to grow its digital presence. The financial services company has partnered with Apex Clearing, owned by private equity and venture capital firm PEAK6, to launch a white-label “turnkey robo advisor,” called Tango, built for financial advisors interested in attracting more business from the mass affluent and “high-net-worth clients of the future.”
It joins an already crowded field of more than a dozen white-label automated advice platforms, or so-called robo advisors, available to the independent advisor and independent broker/dealer sectors. Those offerings come from a mix of asset management firms, banks, custodians, robos and partnerships of the former:
Fraud’s Financial Impact on the Online Retail Market
Online merchants are spending an estimated 8% of their income on measures designed to reduce fraud. This information comes from a recent large survey of online retailers conducted by Javelin Strategy and Research LLC. The survey included 497 large online retailers across the United States that have been in business for at least 12 months as of the time of the survey. Each of these retailers had at least $1 million in annual revenue.
How the Type of Retailer Impacts Fraud Expenses
In this survey, 155 of the retailers sold physical items, 142 sold digital items or services and 200 sold both physical and digital items. The median annual sales of these retailers was $136.1 million.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ More than one-third of consumers who recently bought, sold or refinanced their homes expressed a willingness to use self-serve technology in the home inspection process, with most saying they believed it would be faster, according to a national consumer survey commissioned by ServiceLink. The appraisal and closing report, released today, found that consumers, although mostly satisfied with the traditional appraisal process, believe that parts of the experience, such as appraisal scheduling and appointments, could be improved significantly.
ServiceLink and its EXOS Technologies division commissioned the survey to analyze key challenges and opportunities in the mortgage processes and the role that digital mortgage strategies play in enhancing the appraisal and closing process for borrowers and lenders. Javelin Strategy & Research surveyed 1,500 consumers who had interacted with the home buying and m