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The ROI Of Mobile Investing And Mobile Trading

Making The Business Case For Mobile Efforts At Wealth Management Firms

Bill Doyle
 and  three contributors
Nov 16, 2011

Summary

Mobile has become a high priority for eBusiness teams at wealth management and investment firms. In the US, the proportion of online adults who use the mobile channel to manage their investments rose from 7% two years ago to 11% at the end of 2010. To help mobile strategists at wealth management firms calculate the potential return on investment (ROI) of mobile initiatives, Forrester developed a model based on the estimated costs and projected benefits of launching a mobile website, a downloadable app, and SMS alerts in support of mobile investing and trading. Our model yields two separate ROI estimates: a 31.2% return in the first year for a direct brokerage firm with 1 million clients overall, and a 17.7% return in year one for a full-service investment firm of the same size. As more investors adopt mobile, the ROI will improve.

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