Notes on wealth, data, and the architecture of advice.

I'm Scott Blandford. I write here, monthly, about how the wealth-management industry actually works — and what's changing underneath it. I've spent twenty-five years inside firms like TIAA, Fidelity, and Merrill, and I now run Truthifi, a wealth-monitoring platform.

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