APRIL 14, 2022

Highlighting the 2021 Awards Winners and
Wealthies Circle Members

In the Technology Category

AI-Driven Innovation Solutions

First Rate’s latest innovations, driven by AI, include several new on-demand reporting technology solutions, powerful data aggregation, and intelligent data insights.

Relationship Intelligence Platform

Aidentified built a relationship intelligence and prospecting platform that operationalizes relationships and delivers highly qualified prospects and client upsell opportunities right to an advisor’s inbox.

AI Business Support System

Benjamin implements Natural Language Processing and simplistic Robotic Process Automation to give time back to its operations and administrative teams with a software solution that leverages AI capabilities to eliminate many of the steps in the meeting process.

Semantic Search Investment Platform

Magnifi’s semantic investment platform for finance helps financial advisors, portfolio managers, and everyday investors find, compare, and act on investment options – while providing insights and information that save time and help investors make smarter decisions.

Robo-Analyst

The Robo-Analyst is Artificial Intelligence technology that not only executes the tasks of a traditional fundamental analyst but also performs them with superior skill, and performs several tasks – like analyzing financial filings and building earnings models – better than humans.

ScopeX Green House Gas Emissions Analysis

Three different advisories in short succession requested documentation around Panoramix related to the company’s greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts, and whether there existed plans for reducing or offsetting those emissions in any manner. This project emerged.

Tactical Robo Advisory TAMP Platform

InvestCloud's Digital Advice Builder

InvestCloud’s Digital Advice app allows advisors to construct portfolios based on optimization criteria at a position, sleeve or account level. Restrictions, guidelines and pre-compliance checks can be custom for each portfolio.

Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Initiative

AdviceTech.LIVE was conceived as the first wealth management virtual showcase of advisor technology companies with the unique mission to give back the event profitability to a benefactor partner that is doing good work in the community.

The Dynasty Women's Network (DWN)

The Dynasty Women’s Network was established to further the Dynasty Network’s commitment to the empowerment and advancement of women throughout financial services and harness the momentum, trust, and engagement of women at all professional levels within the industry.

Incentive

Incentive is eMoney’s new financial planning and wellness mobile app aimed at introducing basic financial planning concepts and encouraging long-term behavioral changes to help users achieve their goals in engaging and actionable ways.

Client View

The Client View application within Black Diamond works as an advisor’s command center enabling 360-degree client relationship management. Enhancements since release have included adding a client to-do list with an integrated DocuSign workflow and a configurable Home dashboard.

Holistic Retirement Income Disbursal Capability

Income Discovery’s new Executive Concierge provides disbursal instructions to help advisors source their client’s retirement Income. Executing against a selected income plan, an advisor will get clear instructions on planned annual disbursals, unplanned disbursals and Roth conversions.

Morningstar for Advisors Mobile App

This mobile app enabled advisors to serve clients whenever and wherever they need to access client and portfolio intelligence. During the pandemic, this was nearly a requirement for non-traditional ways to digitally connect and engage with prospective clients.

Role-Based Apps

Taking into consideration the needs of both advisors and supplementary teams, Practifi launched new role-based applications to create a curated and comprehensive experience for advisory, client service, compliance, marketing, and management teams – all within one platform.

Text Message Marketing Application

“Convos” is an easy-to-use text message marketing application for financial advisors that is available as both a standalone tool and as a platform upgrade from inside Snappy Kraken. The tool enables the use of two-way text messaging to reach, engage, and retain clients.

AssetMark’s PortfolioReview Tool for Advisors in Virtual Age

AssetMark unveiled its new PortfolioReview tool to assist financial advisors in deepening virtual advisor-investor interactions while building trust, enabling advisors to present in an elegant, interactive fashion during virtual meetings and display a thorough understanding of their clients’ needs.

Client Reporting Solution

First Rate’s enhanced solution, CORE 2.0, allows the investment story to come alive with flexible and customizable features. The comprehensive reporting solution is configurable and includes compelling visual display capabilities and intelligent data analytics supported by AI-driven workflow automation.

Morningstar Office with Goal Bridge

Morningstar added Goal Bridge to enhance their goals-based investment proposal tool within Morningstar Office. Goal Bridge connects goal planning and investment planning into a single workflow that makes it easy for advisors to show clients the impact of a goals-based approach.

Next Investor Outlook

Apex expanded its Apex Next Investor Outlook (ANIO) series to compare digital investor sentiment across four prominent generations, including the rising class of gen Z investors, in addition to millennials, gen X and baby boomers.

Education Learning System

In response to the uncertainty of the pandemic, CAIS IQ sought to pivot our thought leadership strategy to thematic, product agnostic content to help financial advisors understand the rapidly developing macro environment. This was achieved through three new initiatives.

The Big Reveal Podcast Series

The Big Reveal podcast, hosted by Suzanne Siracuse, focuses on topics such as leadership and lessons learned, and on industry trends such as financial wellness, technology driving innovation, and how advisors should be positioning the value they provide their clients.

Digital Transformation eBook

In collaboration with WealthManagement.com, Laserfiche kicked off this year by publishing an e-book led by Linda Ding, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, titled “Lessons Learned: Ensuring Continuity, Resiliency and Growth Through Digital Transformation.”

Spotlight Video Series

The goal of this series is to engage an increasingly video-aware and video-willing advisory audience with an ongoing series of provocative conversation videos on topics of interest and address a need with a viewpoint with both seriousness and good humor.

Platform Enhancements

The VestmarkONE platform is an innovative wealth management SaaS solution that enables broker dealers, RIAs and asset managers to deliver better investor outcomes by simplifying the construction and management of highly tailored portfolios.

Integrated Advisor Portal

Orion’s Integrated Advisor Portal recognizes that today’s advisors rely on various solutions to run their businesses – portfolio management, proposal generation, new account opening, trading, financial planning, and more.

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