Heartland Advisors, Inc. (“Heartland”) is an independently owned Milwaukee-based firm established in 1983. As of November 30, 2011, the Firm managed approximately $4.9 billion in assets for institutional and high net worth clients and the Heartland family of value-driven mutual funds. Full story »

Join Laserfiche, Junxure and Investment Advisor’s “Compliance Coach” to discuss the need for and use of CRM and ECM to automate recordkeeping, facilitate audits and ensure compliance. Full story »

Nominations are now open for the 2011 Run Smarter® Awards! Since 2005, Laserfiche has recognized our most innovative and successful users with the Run Smarter Awards. Full story »

Fure Financial is an independent, fee-based financial planning firm based in Minneapolis, MN. The company, founded in 1984, offers holistic investment advice to manage client assets with an eye toward fulfilling life goals, a successful strategy that has grown Fure—almost entirely by referrals—into the trusted advisor and wealth manager for 360 families. Full story »

Keane Capital Management, Inc. is a hedge fund firm based in Charlotte, NC. Since its founding in 1999 with a staff of just two, the firm has grown to seven full-time employees handling fund portfolios for some 250 high net worth investors. With this growth came the need for greater administrative efficiency, which led to Ted Slack joining the firm as its first controller in 2005. Full story »

DENVER, CO (Laserfiche)—October 7, 2010—Next Monday, Laserfiche (booth #215) will host an educational breakfast session titled “Prepare for the Coming Compliance Tsunami” from 7:00-8:00 am at FPA’s annual conference in Denver, CO. The breakfast session, led by Senior Laserfiche Consultant Timothy Welsh, CFP®, will explore how content management technology can help financial advisors adapt to the sweeping changes outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act. Full story »

LOS ANGELES, CA (Laserfiche)—September 30, 2010—Laserfiche is pleased to announce that it has published a new white paper titled “What Financial Advisors Need to Know about the Dodd-Frank Act.” The educational guide explores how enterprise content management (ECM) software can help financial advisors adapt to the sweeping regulatory changes outlined in the Dodd-Frank Act. Full story »

LONG BEACH, CA (Laserfiche) March 11, 2010—Laserfiche announced today that it has partnered with First Allied Securities, Inc., a leading independent broker/dealer, to deliver a customized content management solution to nearly 1,000 of First Allied’s independent financial advisors. Laserfiche will be a key component in First Allied’s efforts to transition its advisors to a truly paperless office. Full story »

SAN DIEGO, CA (Laserfiche) October 14, 2009—Laserfiche today unveiled a new, educational white paper for community banks at the Western Independent Bankers’ (WIB) Annual Bank Technology and Security Summit (booth #22). The white paper, “Cashing in on Content Management,” outlines how community banks can increase operational efficiency, decrease the cost of compliance and improve customer service by leveraging enterprise content management (ECM). Full story »

Credential Securities, Inc., employs more than 2,000 staff and representatives who provide integrated wealth management solutions and services to Canadian credit unions, with over $10.8 billion in assets under management. But helping clients achieve their financial goals came with a price—overstuffed file cabinets, difficulty locating information and the stress of complying with regulatory requirements. Full story »

When we last heard from Joseph Salpietro, President and CEO of Xpyria Investment Advisors, he was looking forward to implementing Workflow to streamline his Firm’s repetitive work processes. As one of the first Avante customers in the financial services industry, one of the reasons Salpietro chose Avante was because of its built-in business process management (BPM) functionality.

“A lot of people think if you have an office in a metropolitan city that the highest cost to a business is rent, it’s not. It’s the people we employ. So I’d rather have them doing mission-critical, profitable work.”
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Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA), an indirect subsidiary of AEGON N.V., provides investments and financial planning to clients nationwide. With a network of more than 700 registered representatives, 42 offices of supervisory jurisdiction (OSJ) branches and 51 home office staff, TFA is a rapidly growing enterprise whose independent representatives faced the growing cost of paper-based processes: misplaced documents, time-consuming manual workflows, express-mail costs and file storage expenses.
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“Our decision to go paperless was driven not by cost or budget issues, but by the desire to grow our business, tame a paper monster that was consuming every available square foot of office space, improve our customer service, and keep up with a rapidly-changing financial planning industry,” says Blake Woodard, Managing Partner of Woodard Insurance, LLP, a Fort Worth-based firm of financial advisors and insurance professionals.

“In our view, we had no choice as to whether to go paperless. You must go paperless if you want to survive and thrive in the financial planning industry,” he adds. Full story »