Growth Through Strategic Partnerships in Trust Services
The Growth Paradox Facing Financial Institutions Financial institutions and wealth management firms across the country face a fundamental challenge: the more they grow, the more operational drag consumes the time and energy needed to serve clients effectively. Leaders recognize that spending excessive hours executing the day-to-day business leaves little capacity for building relationships, developing strategy, […]
Engineering for the 1 Million Order Milestone
How To Solve Scaling Before Your Next 1 Million Order Rebalance In the world of high-volume wealth management, “scale” is often a double-edged sword. Growing your AUM and client base is the goal, but for many firms, a massive rebalance event feels less like a victory and more like a stress test for a system […]
The Future of Portfolio Trading Is Infrastructure
For more than a decade, wealth management technology has been shaped by a familiar debate: all-in-one platforms versus best-in-class point solutions. On one side, advisors and enterprise firms gravitated toward unified portfolio management systems for simplicity, cost control, and tighter integrations. On the other, power users adopted standalone tools to gain deeper trading and rebalancing […]
Making Time to Think: Optimizing the Advisor Tech Stack for Trust and Wealth Firms
Trust and wealth management firms operate in an industry built on judgment, responsibility, and long-term decision-making. Yet many professionals feel they rarely have time to think. Packed schedules, manual workflows, and fragmented systems often pull attention away from clients and strategy. In a conversation recorded live at the American Trust Organization’s (ATO) annual conference, Rusty […]
RIAs Are Leaving After-Tax Alpha on the Table — Here’s How to Fix It
The Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight Every time markets move, opportunity knocks. Not in the form of a perfect trade, but in the quiet potential of a well-timed loss. Tax loss harvesting (TLH) is one of the most reliable sources of after-tax alpha, additional after-tax return an investor generates through effective tax management strategies, in […]
Maximizing Portfolio Performance: Automating Cash Sweeps in Today’s Financial Landscape
In today’s financial landscape of high interest rates, market instability, and regulatory shifts like T+1 settlement, wealth management advisors are looking for better ways to manage client cash. A key strategy is using sweep vehicles, such as money market funds and treasury securities, to park cash in custodial accounts. These provide higher returns than idle […]
The Ins and Outs of Portfolio Rebalancing Software
Want to streamline the investment strategies you can offer to clients and easily keep asset allocations optimized in portfolios? There’s only one solution an RIA needs to have in its stack to make this work easier: portfolio rebalancing software. While experienced traders and asset allocators may think they know all the rebalancing options available to […]
RIA Aggregators: When Leasing Tech Beats Buying Tech
Whether they own RIA businesses outright or have varying ownership stakes in or relationships with RIA firms, RIA aggregators find themselves in the role of tech provider. As such, they face a challenge. Should aggregators invest increasingly expensive capital to build the more sophisticated technology infrastructure that advisors and their clients are now demanding? Or, […]
3 Problems Facing Boutique Asset Management Firms & How to Solve for Them
Regardless of asset class, sector or investment style, most boutique asset managers I meet with are grappling with three key problems that—for want of a more technical description—are keeping them awake at night. The issues don’t immediately threaten the viability of the business, but they do cast a deep shadow on profitability, growth prospects and […]
Complete Guide to the RIA Software Landscape in 2024
The technology and software ecosystem for RIA firms has seen an explosion of choice over the last decade. As if the average advisor-owner doesn’t have enough to deal with from a purely business management perspective, they now must select from a vast landscape of tools that are often difficult to tell apart. Just look at […]
