What a week for wealth management!
Welcome to a big edition of Advisor Tech Talk, because after a huge week in wealth management news, particularly in the M&A space, we’re happy to report that wealthtech news has followed suit. Financial advisor technology is moving fast.
And so it should. A recent contributed piece in Forbes—we can’t find it now, but we recall that it was authored by a consultant—pointed out many of the ways in which wealthtech and fintech—data and intelligent technology, in particular—are changing the advisor and client experience in the industry.
Somewhere in a lot of fluff the author buried the idea that data and integrated technology are becoming as valuable and important to a wealth management business’s success as an advisor’s experience and training—and that’s what we’re going to consider today before we get to the news of the week: is technology now more important than advisor experience and skill?
After all, in today’s environment, advisors can’t really know their clients without data. They can’t effectively communicate with those clients without data and technology. Firms certainly can’t appropriately optimize services and investments to a client’s specific needs without data and integrated technology.
Technology drives client contact and communication—technology is coming to drive prospecting and marketing, too. Technology drives client onboarding, not just the clients drawn via organic growth, but all of those huge M&A deals, too.
Technology surfaces insights from client data and market data, and technology is used to move assets and money around in an efficient and rational manner. Technology is being used to both uncover and account for held away assets.
What really drives peace of mind for clients and advisors—what makes sure plans are optimized and updated, that meetings occur, that accurate notes are taken—what keeps advisors compliant and ensures that clients are protected?
Technology. Especially intelligent technology.
Intelligent technology capable of surfacing insights without directly being queried, when paired with accurate data that moves through an integrated tech stack, is quietly exceeding the benefits of years of experience and long-held client relationships when it comes to providing advice on wealth and finances.
We may accept that financial advice is more valuable than ever. However, the value of experience as a financial advisor is already on the decline. The value of education as a financial advisor is on a decline. The value of certifications and other wealth management professional marks is on the decline.
The value of branding in wealth management may also decline moving forward.
From our perspective, having the right technology in place is already far more important than hiring the right advisors, for wealth management firms as well as the prospective clients seeking financial advice.
Wealth management has become a technology business, and moving forward, while large wealth management incumbents will continue to grow and succeed, successful entrants, rising growth engines and challengers to those incumbents will be technology-driven, if not out-and-out technology companies themselves.
Let’s get to your headlines.
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Abbove
Abbove, the European platform for collaborative and family-centered wealth planning, announces today the launch of Mia, its new artificial intelligence agent. Used by more than 1,100 advisors and deployed to over 37,000 families across Europe, Abbove takes a major step forward in its mission to reimagine the wealth advisory experience in the digital age.
Designed to enhance the capabilities of wealth advisors, family officers, and financial experts, Mia acts as an intelligent co-pilot. It simplifies the reading and analysis of complex estate documents, automatically extracts key information, and assists users in the understanding, enrichment, and structuring of wealth data.
Natively integrated into the Abbove workspace, Mia reflects a long-standing vision: combining technology, collaboration, and wealth intelligence to deliver high-quality, long-term advisory experiences. With Mia, users save valuable time, increase the quality of their analysis, and can focus more on strategic decision-making and client relationships.
Advisor.com
Advisor.com, the fast-growing platform transforming how individuals discover and receive financial advice, announced a $9 million seed round led by Walkabout Ventures, with participation from Long Ridge Private Equity Partners Founder and Managing Partner Jim Brown.
The capital infusion allows Advisor.com to further address the growing number of investors who aren’t being served by current market offerings. This includes the growing group of professionals with investible assets under $500,000.
Specifically, Advisor.com will leverage the investment to grow its marketplace by accelerating customer acquisition, enhancing its AI-powered advisor-matching technology, and expanding its network of top-tier advisors. The network includes market leaders Creative Planning, Edelman Financial Engines, Empower, Fisher Investments, Pure and Vanguard.
Advisor Logistics
Advisor Logistics, a rapidly growing outsourced trading solution built exclusively for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), today announced a strategic change in ownership along with the appointment of a new executive leadership team to guide the firm through its next stage of growth.
Brett Wheeler, the founder of the firm, remains the CEO and is joined at the board level by Eric Martz and Damon Deru, and at the executive level by Jupiter Bridge (Head of Growth) and Jessica Pohto (VP of Technical Product). Together, this team brings decades of experience in financial services innovation, trading operations, and advisor-focused solutions.
Martz, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, formed a strong partnership with Deru through a key investment in AdvisorPeak. Martz brings deep strategic expertise to the team. He will focus on scaling operations, advancing the firm’s product roadmap, and driving continued innovation in advisor-facing services.
Aidentified
Aidentified, Inc., the leading Wealth Networking Intelligence™ platform, today announced the release of The Wealth Network Intelligence Playbook, a free step-by-step guide designed for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and advisory teams looking to modernize their prospecting approach.
Data show just how inefficient cold calling has become, with professionals in financial services making an average of 65 calls for a single sale. This conversion rate of just 1.54% is below the average cold call conversion rate of 2.35% across numerous industries.
Since 2017, Aidentified has unified millions of consumer and professional profiles to give financial services professionals unparalleled access to prospective clients through a network of warm leads. In the midst of today’s historic wealth transfer, and as more inheritors seek new financial advisors, Aidentified’s data platform and educational resources offer a cost-effective, time-efficient way for advisors to identify, engage, and build meaningful relationships with the next generation of clients.
Apex Fintech Solutions
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) and Apex Fintech Solutions announced today a strategic partnership that includes a minority investment by State Street into Apex Fintech Solutions. State Street will leverage Apex’s digital custody and clearing platform to expand State Street’s wealth services offerings to the global wealth management industry.
Apex Fintech Solutions is a global financial technology platform powering investing infrastructure, digital custody, clearing, and access to US markets with more than 200 clients and 22 million brokerage accounts that hold over $200 billion in assets worldwide. Apex delivers a flexible, modular platform that allows wealth managers and fintech innovators to launch new products, scale efficiently, and integrate seamlessly across the ecosystem. Apex combines cutting-edge technology with a client-first approach to create smarter, more connected financial experiences.
The State Street/Apex partnership will deliver a differentiated, fully digital, globally scalable, custody and clearing solution and experience for wealth advisors and self-directed wealth platforms as well as their clients around the world. State Street will bring its global client base, institutional infrastructure, core custody and platform services, and its ecosystem of specialist partners. Through Charles River Development Wealth, State Street delivers front-office software and data solutions to large enterprise wealth managers, reporting more than $3 trillion in assets. In addition, State Street Investment Management oversees more than $1 trillion in wealth-related assets.
Broadridge
Global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) is making strategic investments to enhance its advisor marketing solutions to more effectively empower wealth firms and their advisors to build their book of business. Launching improved website creation tools with Wix, and new video marketing capabilities will provide advisors with the critical digital front door experience needed to attract, engage, and retain today’s investors.
Investor behavior is evolving, with rising demand for personalized advice, mobile-friendly platforms, AI-driven insights, and video content. At the same time, trillions of dollars are shifting to younger, more digitally native investors during the great wealth transfer, making a strong digital presence critical to standing out and reaching the next generation of investors. By combining Broadridge’s proven wealth tech solutions with website technology from Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a leading global platform for creating, managing, and growing a complete digital presence, advisors will be equipped with the modern tools they need to serve the evolving needs of investors.
A recent Broadridge study found that 62% of advisors find their website ineffective at generating leads, and only 4 in 10 advisors are embracing personalization to share content targeted to client interests and life events. To help wealth firms adapt to the changing needs and expectations of investors, Broadridge is building the future of advisor marketing.
CoinShares
CoinShares International Limited (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; USOTCQX: CNSRF), Europe’s largest digital asset investment manager, today announced the launch of “The Advisor Series,” an exclusive educational video content platform that advances the company’s aggressive U.S. market expansion strategy through its strengthened partnership with TMX VettaFi.
The initiative represents a significant milestone in CoinShares’ systematic approach to capturing market leadership in the world’s largest wealth management market. Following the strategic acquisition of Valkyrie in 2021, now CoinShares Valkyrie, CoinShares has methodically built its U.S. presence with the singular focus of becoming the dominant digital asset investment partner for American financial advisors.
Unlike traditional thought leadership content, “The Advisor Series” places practicing advisors at the center of the conversation. The platform features established advisory professionals who speak directly to their peers’ most pressing concerns – from client skepticism and regulatory uncertainty to practical portfolio implementation strategies.
Dispatch
Dispatch, the first wealthtech solution enabling effortless client data management, today announced the successful completion of an $18 million Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $30 million. The round was led by Brewer Lane Ventures, with participation from New York Life Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Perceptive Ventures and existing investors F-Prime, Flyover Capital, and Fika Ventures.
The new capital will be used to accelerate investment in agentic workflows and AI-driven data orchestration. Dispatch is built with intelligent automation at its foundation, enabling wealth management firms to eliminate repetitive data tasks, streamline client onboarding and dynamically reconcile client information across multiple systems. Clean, connected, real-time data orchestrated through Dispatch allows advisors to rely on their AI tools for accurate insights and the automation of complex processes. Dispatch is the backbone of modern advisor AI tech stacks, powering the next generation of wealth management.
Over the past year, Dispatch has achieved rapid adoption and growth, adding some of the industry’s largest firms, including Mariner, Sanctuary Wealth and Choreo, representing more than $1 trillion in assets under advisement (AUA). By automating data orchestration across complex systems, Dispatch has helped firms save thousands of hours in manual workflows and reduced costly errors by over 90%.
Dynasty Financial Partners
Dynasty Financial Partners, a champion of the independent wealth management movement, today announced the launch of Dynasty Labs, a dedicated innovation arm that applies artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced technology to improve the independent wealth management experience.
Dynasty Labs will serve as the firm’s engine for experimentation, rapid prototyping, and deployment of intelligent tools that enhance advisor productivity, streamline operations, and elevate client engagement – including a virtual assistant designed to orchestrate work across the broader wealth management ecosystem.
Dynasty Labs builds on years of investment in a proprietary data foundation that curates, organizes, and transforms complex information into actionable intelligence.
Envestnet
Envestnet today, during the Future Proof Festival, unveiled its five-year strategic vision, designed to transform the advisor experience and solidify its role as the leading adaptive wealthtech platform for broker-dealers, RIAs and institutional partners. Over the next five years, the company plans to invest $1 billion in research and development to bring this vision to life; equipping advisors with advanced, integrated and configurable tools for all their workflows from trading, reporting, financial planning, portfolio management, client engagement and more.
Backed by the recent acquisition by Bain Capital, Envestnet’s roadmap signals a strong continued focus: toward critical areas of platform unification, enhanced Unified Managed Account (UMA) infrastructure, flexible household modeling, the integration of multiple investment types, and expanded tools to help advisors deepen and expand client relationships.
Research shows that as an investor’s wealth increases, the top reason they choose to work with a financial advisor shifts from Retirement Planning to Investment Management, with nearly half of HNW and UHNW investors citing investment management as the number one reason they work with an advisor, prioritizing asset growth and optimization as they feel more comfortable in their wealth level.
Envestnet
Envestnet, Inc. today announced that it has completed the sale of Yodlee, Inc., its open finance and data analytics subsidiary, to STG, a private equity firm focused on fueling innovative software, data, and analytics market leaders. The transaction was first announced on June 25 and closed following the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
FLX Networks
FLX Networks, the innovative network revolutionizing how asset and wealth management firms connect, today announced the appointment of Tom Sholes, former Chief Strategy Officer at BNY Mellon | Pershing, to its Board of Directors.
Sholes brings more than 30 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry, holding executive roles in strategy, product management and business leadership across advisory, wealth, investment, and servicing businesses. In addition to being a member of the FLX Board of Directors, Sholes currently serves as a mutual fund trustee for Lincoln Financial’s Private Market Funds, a senior advisor for Deloitte and a member of the advisory board for inCadense, an international TAMP.
At BNY Mellon | Pershing, in addition to serving as Chief Strategy Officer, Sholes was a member of the executive committee and held several leadership positions, including Head of Global Strategy and Product Management and President and Chairman of Lockwood Advisors. He was also active in the industry and was a member of the Board of Governors of the Money Management Institute.
FNZ
FNZ, the leading global wealth management platform, has announced two executive committee appointments as part of its continued investment in sustainable growth and long-term client success.
Ryan Beach has joined FNZ as Group Head of North America, based in Nebraska, reporting to Group President, Roman Regelman. Ryan brings nearly 20 years of executive leadership experience across wealth management, investment platforms and fintech. He was previously CEO of F2 Strategy, and before that, President and COO at Orion, where he played a central role in scaling the business into a nationally recognized wealth technology platform.
Ryan’s appointment underscores FNZ’s strong commitment to North America, a critical growth region where the firm is seeing major demand for its AI-enabled, end-to-end wealth management platform, demonstrated through partnerships with clients such as BMO and Raymond James. His leadership will be pivotal in strengthening partnerships, scaling delivery and capturing the significant opportunities ahead across the U.S. and Canada.
Foundation Source
Foundation Source, the premier provider of philanthropic solutions for donors, nonprofits, institutions, and the wealth advisors who serve them, today announced a strategic partnership with WealthTech leader Envestnet. The collaboration will equip advisors with innovative tools to streamline and scale charitable giving services across their practices.
Through this partnership, Envestnet will integrate Foundation Source’s modern, enterprise-grade technology – designed to support private foundations, donor-advised funds, and planned giving programs – alongside a full suite of administrative, compliance, and tax services. These capabilities will allow advisors to better meet clients’ holistic needs, strengthen relationships, boost retention, and drive firmwide growth. Key features include configurable dashboards providing aggregate views by firm, team, and advisor, along with comprehensive reporting, integrated collaboration tools, and intuitive workflows for grants management and impact measurement. Foundation Source will also enhance compliance oversight for participating firms.
Envestnet joins a growing roster of recognized leaders in wealth management innovation that have selected Foundation Source to develop a more well-rounded offering that seamlessly embeds philanthropy. The collaboration deepens Foundation Source’s commitment to bridging the gap between philanthropy and wealth management with modern, scalable software that makes charitable giving a more accessible and cost-efficient offering for advisors and their clients.
FP Alpha
FP Alpha, the leading AI-powered advanced planning platform for financial advisors, today announced significant enhancements to its Tax Offering, designed to help advisors navigate the sweeping tax law changes introduced by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). These updates, which include the launch of the Tax Wrap feature and a new Scenario Comparison Visual inside the platform’s Tax Projector, come at an ideal time due to the passage of the OBBBA and reinforce the SaaS company’s speed-to-market and as a leader in tangible solutions for advisors across the tax planning space.
The new Tax Wrap feature gives advisors and clients a professional, year-end summary of all key taxable events, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks when tax season arrives. This helpful automation allows advisors to document key planning strategies and share with the client’s tax preparer in accordance with the OBBBA.
FP Alpha’s Tax Projector now includes a Scenario Comparison Visual, transforming tax planning into an intuitive, client-friendly experience. Advisors can compare multiple tax strategies side-by-side and show clients the tangible outcomes of decisions with clean, easy-to-digest visuals. This also makes it easy for advisors to explain this year’s OBBBA changes to clients and show next year’s modeled in as well.
Future Proof
Future Proof, the creators of the wealth management industry’s most forward-thinking gatherings, today at Future Proof Festival, announced the next chapter of its flagship event series: Future Proof Citywide, now fully focused on building the largest AI-native community in finance.
Set to take place in Miami Beach, Future Proof Citywide is far from a traditional conference. It is a citywide takeover designed for the next generation of investors, advisors, financial professionals, and firms who treat AI as the new operating model for strategy, investing, and operations. The citywide event will take place March 8-11, 2026.
Future Proof Citywide will stretch across four blocks of beach in South Beach, with meetings, content, and unique group experiences hosted on the sand, in rooftops, non-traditional venues like the Versace Mansion, and other iconic locations throughout the city.
Hadrius
Hadrius, a leading AI-powered compliance platform for investment management firms, today announced a strategic partnership with BridgeFT, the cloud-native, API-first wealth infrastructure software company. This collaboration unites BridgeFT’s industry-leading, multi-custodial data platform with Hadrius’ intelligent compliance automation, providing compliance teams with direct, real-time access to the clean, normalized data required to manage risk, accelerate oversight, and stay ahead of regulatory velocity.
The partnership integrates BridgeFT’s WealthTech API—a custodian-agnostic, cloud-native data infrastructure—with Hadrius’ compliance engine, eliminating manual file transfers, CSV exports, and fragmented integrations. Firms gain regulator-ready audit trails, automated trade and portfolio surveillance, and continuous oversight—all powered by secure, API-level connectivity and Hadrius’ privacy-first AI framework with zero data retention.
iCapital
iCapital, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, today announced a strategic investment in, and partnership with, Tangible Markets, a leading liquidity solutions provider for private market positions held via wealth management channels. Together, the firms will develop scalable liquidity solutions for alternative investment funds – helping wealth managers, asset managers, and institutional investors unlock value from illiquid holdings. The partnership also supports the longer-term evolution of private markets, as enhanced liquidity becomes increasingly essential to expanding participation for advisors and their clients. Tangible’s liquidity solutions are expected to be available through iCapital’s platform by the end of 2025.
This partnership introduces a range of liquidity solutions for alternative investment funds, and access to Tangible Markets solutions will be facilitated through iCapital’s platform. The result is a seamless, transparent experience that connects a robust buyer-seller network, enhances price discovery, and streamlines transaction execution – making alternative investments more accessible and dynamic. The liquidity solution creates digital experiences for managing liquidity across a broad range of strategies, including private equity, private credit, real assets, and hedge funds. Through regular auctions, advisors and qualified investors can efficiently rebalance portfolios, access liquidity when needed, and adjust exposure to alternative investment funds.
This partnership will reduce friction in secondary transactions and accelerate time-to-liquidity for advisors and clients. Sellers benefit from curated auctions, real-time pricing insights, and portfolio analytics that help unlock value from traditionally illiquid assets across both closed-ended and semi-liquid funds. For buyers, the platform offers access to high-quality alternative investments and a frictionless closing process, supporting faster deployment and more diversified portfolios.
iCapital
ExchangeRight has announced that its Income REIT strategy is now live and available on the iCapital Marketplace, a leading global fintech platform for alternative investments. This launch expands access to ExchangeRight’s diversified real estate investments for wealth advisors across the country.
This collaboration marks a significant step in providing simplified access to ExchangeRight’s REIT’s historically recession-resilient, institutionally managed portfolio of necessity-based net-leased real estate. By joining the iCapital Marketplace, ExchangeRight is enabling more wealth advisors to deliver diversified private real estate solutions designed for stable, tax-efficient income, and long-term growth.
Insigneo
Insigneo, a leading global wealth management firm, has officially launched Alia 2.0, a next-generation technology platform designed to streamline and modernize the way investment professionals manage their practices. This proprietary solution brings together important elements of the advisor workflow into one cohesive digital environment, empowering users with greater clarity, control, and efficiency.
Originally introduced in November of 2022 as a web-based financial services CRM for portfolio visibility and onboarding, Alia has since evolved into a strategic technology ecosystem that now powers core operations across Insigneo’s global network. The launch of Alia 2.0 marks a significant milestone in that evolution, delivering new capabilities and laying the foundation for future innovation.
Unlike legacy systems that force advisors to toggle between fragmented platforms, Alia 2.0 was built to eliminate the “swivel chair” by providing a unified advisor experience. Through single sign-on access, advisors can now manage client onboarding and servicing across custodians, compliance, and execution, from a centralized workspace. The platform integrates best-in-class technologies, including tools for real-time data validation, automated workflows, and configurable dashboards, curated and embedded to align with the evolving needs of today’s investment professionals.
Jack Henry
Jack Henry™ (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced a strategic alliance with Bits of Stock, enabling financial institutions to provide fractional shares of stock as rewards on everyday spending. The capability is embedded within the Banno Digital Platform™, transforming routine card transactions into wealth-building opportunities.
With Bits of Stock’s embedded loyalty and rewards platform, consumers can open free investment accounts directly through their financial institution without the need for additional apps or accounts, helping accountholders build personalized stock portfolios. This capability supports Jack Henry’s vision to help banks and credit unions become the access point for all financial needs and attract and protect deposits.
The integration works to bridge the gap between traditional banking and modern investment tools, helping new generations of accountholders develop deeper relationships with their financial institution. Bits of Stock reports that accountholders who use the investment platform tend to increase their balances, with some achieving 40% increases within 12 months. Embedding investment capabilities directly into checking accounts is helping to transform purely transactional relationships into opportunities for long-term wealth building. As an added accountholder benefit, research from a Bits of Stock-commissioned study conducted by NYU Stern found that fractional stock rewards are 34 times more effective than cash rewards at increasing customer spending per dollar of reward.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen, the leading developer of integrated risk tolerance, proposal generation, investment research, and planning software for advisors, today announced a new direct integration with Broadridge Financial Solutions’ Wealth Aggregation and Insights (WAI). This integration delivers fully automated, daily account data feeds from WAI into the Nitrogen platform, eliminating manual file handling and creating a more scalable, efficient workflow for advisory firms.
Together, Nitrogen and Broadridge are removing friction from the data delivery process, with advisory teams benefiting from data accuracy, operational efficiency, and a dramatically improved technology experience.
Orion
Zocks, the privacy-first AI assistant for financial services, and Orion, a premier provider of transformative wealthtech solutions powering the growth of financial advisors and the enterprise firms that serve them, today announced their new AI-powered integration that automatically surfaces and updates client portfolio data and insights during key client conversations.
The Zocks and Orion integration eliminates time-wasting friction points by automatically pulling Orion-powered portfolio data, metrics, and other client intelligence into advisor-client communications in Zocks, such as forms, emails, and meeting preparation. The two-way data sync ensures any changes from these interactions are instantly captured in Orion, keeping client records complete, accurate, and compliant.
By using the integration to automate administrative and research work, advisors can move faster from client conversation to actionable planning. Early-career advisors can more quickly convert prospects, while established practices can serve more households.
Pontera
Pontera, the fintech company helping retirement savers receive professional 401(k) account management from their financial advisor, announced today a new strategic collaboration with Manulife John Hancock Retirement, a company of Manulife Wealth & Asset Management. The collaboration is built on the shared mission of giving U.S. retirement savers more choice in how they manage their held-away accounts, including working with an advisor of their choosing. The firms will work together on the secure and compliant management of held-away accounts, such as 401(k)s, at Manulife John Hancock Retirement to offer more holistic strategies and improved portfolio alignment for advisors and participants.
Pontera’s secure, client-permissioned technology enables retirement savers to receive personalized defined contribution account management as part of a holistic wealth management service that incorporates all, not just some, of their financial holdings. The platform, certified under SOC 2 Type II- and ISO 27001 standards, acts as a secure layer that lets advisors analyze, rebalance, and monitor accounts while also safeguarding clients’ data.
RISR
RISR, the engagement platform built to power financial planning with business owners, today announced the launch of its newly enhanced platform—a major upgrade that introduces the industry’s first financial planning-focused Succession & Exit Planning tool, along with enhanced wealth planning, valuation and risk insights designed to make business owner planning more simple, personal and actionable.
At the heart of the enhanced platform is the Succession & Exit Planning tool, a first-of-its-kind resource that helps advisors initiate and lead critical conversations about business transitions. It enables advisors to assess an owner’s exit goals, ideal timeline, readiness and preferred paths, then generate a dynamic, client-ready deliverable that positions advisors to build trust well in advance and throughout a liquidity event.
This new capability comes at a time when succession planning is an urgent need among business owners, with most lacking the guidance to move forward. Of these 34 million small businesses in the U.S., an estimated 75% lack a formal succession plan—even though a vast majority plan to transition their business within the next decade. For financial advisors, this represents a sizable opportunity to build trust ahead of meaningful liquidity events.
Shaping Wealth
Shaping Wealth, the leading provider of behavioral science-based learning and engagement solutions for the wealth management industry, today announced the expansion of its advisory board. Prominent industry leaders Jason Pereira, MBA, CFA, CFP®, and Samantha Russell will join behavioral economist Dr. Hal Hershfield to help guide Shaping Wealth’s strategic evolution as the company advances its proprietary AI platform, Lydia™, and deepens its technology integrations.
Jason Pereira, host of the Fintech Impact Podcast and recognized thought leader in advisor technology, brings deep expertise in digital transformation to the advisory role.
Recently named to InvestmentNews’ 40 Under 40, FMG’s Chief Evangelist Samantha Russell will help inform Shaping Wealth’s go-to-market strategies and client engagement initiatives.
SMArtX Advisory Solutions
SMArtX Advisory Solutions (“SMArtX”), a leading provider of enterprise managed accounts technology, announced today that its Manager Marketplace now includes stand-alone mutual funds, ETFs, and closed-end funds. This expansion provides asset managers with greater visibility for their products and gives advisors enhanced flexibility, along with access to both quantitative and qualitative research.
This expansion reinforces SMArtX’s mission to unify portfolio management tools across all asset types. Integrated research for third-party models, manager-traded strategies, and now stand-alone funds provide asset managers with an expanded enterprise-grade distribution channel to reach advisors at scale. At the same time, advisors gain broader resources to research and construct diversified portfolios efficiently within a streamlined, modern workflow.
SMArtX continues to empower advisors to research, transition, allocate, and execute across investment products through a single, custodian-neutral platform.
SS&C Technologies
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) today announced The Private Office (TPO), U.K.’s leading independent Chartered Financial Planning firm, has extended its service agreement with SS&C Hubwise. SS&C supports TPO’s digital-first wealth management platform, along with customer service, dealing, custody, settlement services and Client Assets Source Book (CASS) regulatory support.
TPO leverages SS&C Hubwise to support more than 50 advisors serving 2,900 clients with USD 2.8 billion in assets under advisement. Named a VouchedFor “Top Rated Firm” for six years in a row, TPO worked in collaboration with SS&C to create TPO Invest, a digital-first, comprehensive adviser platform providing access to a variety of investment products via an easy-to-use interface. Advisers can deliver a range of client and reconciliation services, including pensions management, investing, tax planning and cash management.
ThoughtLab
As AI innovation enters the agentic AI era, ThoughtLab, a leading global research firm, has launched a landmark study with top firms providing services to the wealth and asset management industry, including FNZ, the Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (Grant Thorton) multi-national platform, ServiceNow, Amazon Web Services (AWS), London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), and Publics Sapient. The research will explore how the latest advances in AI and other transformative technologies will reshape the investment sector.
The new research initiative —The AI-Powered Investment Firm: How Wealth and Asset Management Providers Will Transform Their Businesses Through AI — will deliver a first-of-its-kind actionable roadmap for succeeding in the next age of AI. It will be backed by rigorous analysis, expert insights, best practice use cases, and hard performance data. The study will provide financial services executives with an evidence-based guide for driving business transformation and performance through AI and related technologies, such as end-to-end platforms.
It will show how firms can use AI-enabled digital solutions across their value chains to create personalized customer experiences, build employee and advisor productivity, minimize risks and fraud, generate cost efficiencies, close the advice gap, and ultimately drive new levels of profitability and growth. As part of the initiative, the research team will develop the first industry-specific AI-maturity model for wealth and asset management firms, which can be used to benchmark and optimize AI performance
Wealth.com
Wealth.com, the leading end-to-end estate planning platform for financial advisors, today announced key updates to its Advisory Board. New appointments include Barnaby Grist, former Cetera Financial Group president and veteran wealth management executive; Kate Ristau Shackleton, former LPL Financial executive vice president, head of trust and insurance; John Vaccaro, MassMutual executive and FINRA governor; and Christine Leong Connors, Co-Founder and CEO of Verita Strategic Wealth Partners and former EPIQ President and J.P. Morgan executive.
Grist is a veteran of the financial advisor industry, with executive experience at Charles Schwab and Cetera Financial Group. He has served on the boards of Sageview Advisory Group and several fintech firms, including Pontera, where he is currently a board advisor, and RIA in a Box, where he served as executive chairman. His career has centered on strategy, leadership and sales, with a strong focus on technology, platforms and investment products for financial advisors.
Ristau Shackleton, with more than 20 years in wealth and investment management, has held senior roles at LPL Financial, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. She has built deep expertise in corporate strategy, trust and insurance, and multi-generational wealth planning, with a particular focus on policy, risk management and advisor support.
Wealthfeed
WealthFeed, an emerging wealthtech company that’s redefining advisor prospecting with AI-powered lead generation, today announced that Anasova, owner of FreeFinancialPlan.com and AIFinancialPlanning.com, has integrated its advanced enrichment capabilities into Anasova’s sales- and marketing-qualified lead marketplace to ensure every new business lead not only comes with more than 40 self-reported data points collected via the planning process but also with Wealthfeed-enriched actionable data.
Anasova, founded by Tom Anderson, a former executive director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, is dedicated to providing instant, universal access to personalized advice, products, and solutions. Anasova’s platforms capture data about individuals, distinguishing between sales-qualified leads ready to hire an advisor and evergreen marketing-qualified leads for ongoing cultivation. Advisors set their criteria, budget, and price-per-lead to build their pipeline for growth and maximize their marketing return on investment.
With this integration, the two firms supercharge leads by delivering deeper, actionable data and advanced insights, enabling advisors to dramatically boost prospect-conversion rates.
Wedbush Securities
Today, Wedbush Securities, a leading provider of securities brokerage, clearing, custody and fintech services, and global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), announced that Broadridge has been selected as Wedbush’s strategic technology platform provider as the firm transforms its operations platforms. This move marks a significant step for Wedbush as it seeks to grow its business, support new asset classes, and deliver superior client and advisor experiences in the rapidly evolving clearing, wealth and fintech market.
Wedbush’s decision follows a comprehensive strategic evaluation. It will integrate with Broadridge’s trading and post-trade capabilities, workflow, corporate actions, tax and cost basis reporting, and regulatory reporting services. The collaboration will help Wedbush fuel digital innovation and business expansion, attract top talent, and deepen client engagement.
Wedbush will benefit from Broadridge’s platform features including a unified wealth data layer, standardized APIs, workflow and process automation, enhanced digital tools for advisors and end investors, real-time notifications, AI-driven insights, and support for emerging asset classes including fractional shares, alternative investments and digital asset trading. With Broadridge’s wealth management platform, Wedbush will also be well positioned to seamlessly integrate third-party solutions and additional Broadridge services to address evolving business needs and continue driving innovation across the enterprise.
