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Or, they tried it and gave up after problems with pricing, how to roll it out or getting it to work with the rest of their business. Welsh said most advisers still haven’t adopted it. ( More: Robo startups turn to low-risk offerings in anticipation of downturn)īut after a few years of advisers having tools they can use as robo advice providers, Mr. “Here they can be completely consistent across the entire firm.” “The result is that instead of what you see today where institutions have one set of assumptions that they generally use for their higher-end clients and a robo offering with a different set of assumptions, and then have to explain why,” Mr. Advisers could then continue offering high-touch service to wealthy clients, while making multiple investment models from multiple managers available to smaller accounts through a self-service model. Or, a turnkey asset management program, or TAMP, could automate its services and make separately managed accounts available to less affluent investors. Wallman said.įor example, an RIA looking to bring direct indexing (where indexes are recreated by purchasing the underlying stocks and adding or removing companies based on a client’s preferences) to small investors who can do so with DWP’s custom portfolio creation and support for fractional sharing. “This allows an institution to completely control all of the parameters, all of the inputs that go into it, all of the macroeconomic assumptions and what securities to use,” Mr. If a firm doesn’t have the capability to put the blocks together themselves, Folio can do it for them. He compares DWP to a set of blocks for building whatever tech platform a firm envisions. (More: FolioFN’s Wallman: How to make an impact with your investing)
Folio Institutional was formerly known as FolioFN. Firms can pick and choose any of the pieces they want, said Steven Wallman, Folio founder and CEO. It includes hundreds of APIs covering goals-based planning, tax optimization, custom portfolio creation and many more. The parent of Folio Institutional describes its new Digital Wealth Platform as a suite of application programming interfaces that financial institutions, independent advisory firms and technology startups can use to develop client- and adviser-facing digital products, such as a standalone robo-adviser, an adviser workstation or a hybrid robo provider.
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