Welcome to the December 2024 problem of the Newest Information in Monetary #AdvisorTech – the place we take a look at the massive information, bulletins, and underlying developments and developments which are rising on the planet of know-how options for monetary advisors!
This month’s version kicks off with the information that the retail brokerage platform Robinhood is buying RIA custodian TradePMR, which seems to be much less about Robinhood desirous to compete with the likes of Schwab and Constancy within the custodial area and extra about protecting the belongings of its wealthier prospects “on-platform” by giving them referrals to advisors who will hold them at Robinhood reasonably than pulling them to a distinct custodian (whereas concurrently benefiting from the profitable referral charges that advisors could also be prepared to pay for referrals from Robinhood’s next-generation consumer base)
From there, the most recent highlights additionally characteristic a variety of different attention-grabbing advisor know-how bulletins, together with:
- All-in-one platform Advyzon has introduced the upcoming launch of Auria, a household workplace platform focused at advisors of ultra-high-net-worth purchasers, which serves to focus on how the hole between know-how wants for UHNW and non-UHNW purchasers is shrinking as various belongings like hedge funds and personal fairness grow to be extra obtainable to ‘mere’ mass prosperous and HNW purchasers, which could create extra competitors for platforms like Addepar and Black Diamond which have made their names working with an solely UHNW base
- Paid lead technology service SmartAsset has introduced the launch of two new prospecting instruments, additional increasing on its current rollout of options that assist advisors with nurturing and advertising to the leads it gives (which serves to focus on the starvation for options that may assist advisors throughout your complete advertising funnel, not simply on the highest finish with lead technology or the underside with advertising and gross sales)
- Zeplyn, an AI-powered assembly word device, has raised $3 million in seed capital because it seeks to distinguish itself because the “most correct” AI word taking resolution reasonably than on the breadth of various features it could possibly carry out, which is sensible in an period when advisors are more and more wanting “best-of-breed” options over “all-in-one”, although it can nonetheless be troublesome to face out as a comparatively new supplier in what has grow to be a really crowded marketplace for AI assembly notes
Learn the evaluation about these bulletins on this month’s column, and a dialogue of extra developments in advisor know-how, together with:
- Advisor CRM has launched as the most recent of what has grow to be an growing variety of CRM instruments that search to enhance on the performance of conventional CRM instruments by together with extra workflow capabilities, automated portfolio administration, billing, and different features, which speaks to the relative dissatisfaction advisors have with the prevailing choices for CRM options (though it is nonetheless not sure what the ‘proper’ quantity of capabilities is that advisors will nonetheless be prepared to pay for)
- Ezra Group, which has been utilizing its proprietary Integration Rating to objectively price the combination capabilities of over 500 AdvisorTech options, has introduced a brand new portal the place know-how suppliers can enter their very own data to replace their scores, permitting for quicker updating as applied sciences’ capabilities change, and ideally creating extra transparency into options’ precise integration capabilities (and extra incentive for suppliers to enhance the depth and usefulness of their integrations with different know-how)
And be sure to learn to the top, the place now we have offered an replace to our in style “Monetary AdvisorTech Options Map” (and in addition added the adjustments to our AdvisorTech Listing) as nicely!
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