Nostalgia is big business, but it won’t work for every part of the economy—particularly the financial services industry.
Welcome to a Thanksgiving-week Advisor Tech Talk, and we have a lot to talk about today so we’ll try to keep our introduction short—but wow, we have to say, it’s awfully easy to live in the past these days. Especially when it comes to culture.
Thanks to the internet and streaming, we can spend all of our futures experiencing the past, if we wish. Think of it—at our fingertips are vast libraries of the media of the past, largely free-of-charge or for a low monthly subscription fee we can access the literature,music, television, movies and art of not just our childhoods, but in many cases our parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods.
And there’s more of the recorded past than we can possibly ingest in our lifetimes.
We can literally fill all of our days with content wiithout ever encountering anything contemporary or new.
We can do that with information, too—why watch the news when we can read history, right?
For most of us in the first world, the past is certainty. It’s fixed—even if it’s bad, we already know the worst of it. The future is a more intimidating blank slate—it can really be anything, good or bad.
People take comfort in narratives—fictional and otherwise—that they already know and understand. Our love of the familiar is being stoked by algorithms.
And businesses, of course, take notice. Hollywood cinema is mostly a constant regurgitation of ideas and concepts that have already been throughly flogged. Popular music keeps returning to the forms and sounds of the past.
Some businesses resist or put off modernizing and refreshing their technologies and practices out of fear that change and newness will put off some consumers.
Most of us, despite some language to the contrary, embrace sameness and fear change—our psychology is conservative in nature, not progressive.
And that would seem to put the financial services industry—old-fashioned, notoriously slow to adapt—in good standing with consumers who increasingly seem oriented to the past.
But it doesn’t.
You see, what we seek in media and culture is not necesariily what we’re going to seek in essential professional services. Simple logic bears this out: Most of us aren’t seeking out doctors wedded to the past, no matter how much better the service and culture of medicine was in the past, because we want the most up-to-date and effective treatments and products for our health that we can access.
Similarly, it’s a little ridiculous to expect that culture and familiarity will keep the best, brightest and wealthiest Americans with an incumbent wealth manager providing advice and services using the methods of the past.
We don’t see too many honest, informed people who are nostalgic for the older ways of doing business in the financial services industry. Keeping up with technology is more likely to attract clients and assets than scare them away.
Let’s get to your headlines.
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Altruist
Altruist, the tech-forward wealth platform for independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), today announced that Hazel, its powerful AI platform, can now uniquely draw on real-time Altruist account, beneficiary, household, holdings, and balance data to answer questions, respond to clients with speed, and provide a highly personalized financial planning experience.
For example, Hazel can perform a household-level concentration analysis, surface asset-class or sector exposure, run beneficiary summaries, and much more in seconds, grounded in current custodial records.
This launch establishes category leadership on two fronts: Hazel is the first AI platform for wealth managers to unify real-time data from a major custodian with CRM, emails, and meeting notes — and Altruist becomes the first custodian to deliver an AI experience with this depth of live account context, enabling precise, reliable answers at speed.
AskTuring
AskTuring, a private and secure enterprise AI platform that gives small- to medium-sized businesses the power to confidentially work with their own data without Large Language Models (LLMs) training on it, today announced its Series A financing round, targeting $10–$15 million to accelerate product development and customer growth.
The AskTuring platform enables organizations to leverage Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) while maintaining unparalleled control over proprietary content and data. The model-agnostic platform delivers the power of large LLMs while offering security (SOC2), privacy, and compliance.
As part of its growth strategy and Series A launch, AskTuring has appointed Guy Reams as Co-CEO alongside AskTuring Co-Founder and Co-CEO Neil Senturia, a serial entrepreneur with a decades-long track record of funding and leading successful technology companies.
Asseta AI
Asseta AI, a purpose-built accounting platform powering the next generation of family offices, today announced a $4.2 million seed funding round co-led by Nyca Partners and Motive Partners.
Asseta AI’s growth reflects the accelerating demand from family offices looking for technology designed for their unique needs. The platform now supports more than $10 billion in assets, and the company has experienced significant year-over-year ARR growth. Adoption has been especially strong among larger family offices, with nearly one-third managing over $1 billion.
The seed capital will be used to accelerate Asseta AI’s product roadmap and team expansion as the company scales to meet rising demand among family offices managing complex, multi-entity portfolios.
BetaNXT
BetaNXT, a leading provider of wealth management technology solutions with real-time data capabilities and an enhanced advisor experience, announced today that it is expanding its investment in AI to drive ongoing product innovation. This latest milestone builds on the success of BetaNXT’s existing AI-powered solutions and the momentum of its recently launched DataXChange platform.
Over the past year, BetaNXT has deployed advanced AI models to transform how complex regulatory and investor-facing materials—including proxy statements, prospectuses, fund reports and corporate action communications—are processed. These models extract, classify, normalize and validate information at scale, drastically reducing manual review, accelerating downstream workflows, and delivering more accurate and timely information to advisors and investors.
The expanded commitment to AI-driven product development will address use cases from across the wealth management lifecycle, benefiting operations teams, advisors and investors alike.
BetaNXT
BetaNXT, a leading provider of wealth management technology solutions with real-time data capabilities and an enhanced advisor experience, today announced a partnership with Chicago Clearing Corporation (CCC), the leader in securities and antitrust class action claim filing. The collaboration makes it easier for brokers and wealth managers to identify eligible holdings and return class action settlement funds to investors – transforming a complex, data heavy process into a simpler, more streamlined experience.
The timing of the offering is significant, as billions of settlement dollars are available every year, yet very few class members file to claim their recovery. Class action settlements are becoming more complex, particularly with the emergence of Delaware’s “direct pay” structure, which changes how proceeds reach beneficial owners. These trends highlight the need for data accuracy – as well as the coordination between broker platforms and CCC – to ensure funds reach the right investors efficiently and transparently.
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BlueMark
BlueMark, the market’s leading provider of independent impact assessments and market intelligence for the investment industry, today announced the launch of the BlueMark IQ platform, which is custom-designed to make it easier for asset allocators to identify, monitor, and report on fund- and portfolio-level impact. Asset managers may list their funds for free on the BlueMark IQ platform, which is now available at www.bluemark.co/bluemarkIQ.
In support of the launch, BlueMark today also announced new capital commitments from four investors – Ford Foundation, S&P Global, Temasek Trust Capital, and Tsao Family Office – each of whom participated in a prior BlueMark funding round.
The BlueMark IQ platform brings together BlueMark’s extensive verification insights, a platform for data exchange, and AI-powered analysis and reporting tools purpose-built for the investors seeking better data on the impact performance of their fund investments. BlueMark IQ is built on industry standards and frameworks, including the GIIN’s IRIS+ dataset, the Operating Principles for Impact Management, the Impact Frontiers’ Impact Performance Reporting Norms, and BlueMark’s own Fund ID assessment.
bQuest
First Rate Ventures, the corporate venture arm of First Rate, Inc., today announced it has led the seed round in bQuest, a Denver-based Care Intelligence Platform purpose-built for financial advisors and their clients navigating aging, end-of-life, and after-loss transitions.
The partnership will embed bQuest’s AI Care Agents directly into advisor workflows, combining intelligent automation with human concierge support to guide families through aging, end-of-life, and after-loss transitions.
bQuest equips advisory firms with an integrated platform, a vetted national provider network, and white-glove assistance. This enables advisors to guide clients through life’s most complex transitions, helping protect relationships and assets when they’re most at risk.
Daffy
Evergreen Wealth, a next-generation, digital Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) that provides tax-aware investment management and AI-powered financial advice to affluent and high-net-worth individuals and families via Dynamic PortfoliosTM, today announced a new partnership with Daffy, the Donor-Advised Fund for You™.
Through this partnership, Evergreen Wealth clients can now donate appreciated stock and other assets from their portfolios to a donor-advised fund (DAF) at Daffy. These contributions help clients offset their taxable income and avoid capital gains taxes, and easily support more than 1.7 million legal charities across the U.S., all from Daffy’s responsive web experience or iOS app. Evergreen Wealth Advisors can recommend that clients leverage a “tax-gain harvesting” methodology to help identify securities with substantial realized gains that can be contributed to their donor-advised fund (DAF) at Daffy to offset their taxable income and reduce their tax bill.
As an added incentive, Evergreen Wealth will match client contributions to their donor-advised fund accounts at Daffy through December 31, 2025—up to $5,000 for Evergreen Wealth clients with $1 million or more in assets under management, and up to $1,000 for clients with under $1 million.
D1g1t
d1g1t, a leading enterprise wealth management technology provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Synpulse, a global professional services company serving the financial services industry. Under this collaboration, Synpulse will serve as a strategic implementation partner for d1g1t’s award-winning enterprise wealth management platform, leveraging its deep domain expertise and extensive industry network to help wealth management firms modernize their operations.
The strategic partnership seeks to accelerate deployments of d1g1t’s institutional-grade wealth management technology with Synpulse’s consulting and implementation expertise and proven methodologies enabling d1g1t to enhance its customer experience and speed to market. Together, d1g1t and Synpulse will enable wealth management firms to streamline and digitalize their business operations to provide a superior advisor and client experience.
Envestnet
Tax efficiency and access to advanced tax management capabilities continues to be one of the benefits investors value most in working with a financial advisor – especially as their wealth grows. To ensure broader and more seamless access to these important solutions, Envestnet announces that asset managers participating in its Fund Strategist Tax Management (FSTM) Advantage program will join in covering the cost of service for tax management capabilities on the Envestnet platform – removing a cost hurdle for this value-added service.
Designed to reduce tax exposure while improving after-tax returns, Envestnet launched this program to give advisors the tools they need to help mitigate capital gains taxes for clients. These taxes can be a portfolio’s largest expense. Advisors whose clients invest in Fund Strategist Portfolios can choose to utilize an optional tax service to help manage their portfolios in accordance with tax sensitivity factors – so that capital gains in portfolios are also managed to stay in line with an investor’s tax preferences.
By adding Envestnet’s Fund Strategist Tax Management Advantage service to either an existing or new portfolio, advisors can better manage tax consequences for their clients. Advisors have the option to select a desired level of Tax Sensitivity for the portfolio from three options: Very High, High, or Moderate. This selection, personalized for the individual investor, can have a significant impact on the tax savings investors may experience if they are willing to accept more deviation from the Fund Strategist portfolio manager’s model. As the manager makes changes, Envestnet will evaluate the tax cost of executing those changes, subsequently making different trades than the model if needed for tax optimization. The optimization process balances the tax cost of adhering to the model, versus the risk incurred by deviating from the model year-round, with the goal of delivering better after-tax performance.
Eton Solutions
Eton Solutions, the technology company whose wealth management platforms manage over $1.3 trillion in assets, has launched EtonAxisTM to serve private equity users worldwide. The solution has been notably adopted by global PE firms so they can manage key multi-step workflows, including tracking entire deal lifecycles, digitally onboarding investors, securely sharing documents with external stakeholders and collaborating with portfolio companies.
For private equity firms that manage tens to hundreds of funds simultaneously, everyday processes are still largely manual and spread across multiple software solutions, documents, data sources, and stakeholders. Scaling these processes has traditionally meant scaling teams without necessarily increasing efficiency. The key to changing this isn’t just introducing more technology; it’s centralizing all those factors into a single platform, so that time-consuming tasks can be automated, and complex processes can be streamlined.
Eton Solutions has built an ecosystem to meet every PE firm and wealth management needs and has the security, privacy, workflow and data foundation necessary to do so. Firms can additionally leverage EtonAITM to streamline complex workflows, scale output, and enhance decision-making processes.
Firstrade
Firstrade today announced the launch of Options Builder, a powerful new tool designed to make options trading more accessible, intuitive, and educational for investors of all experience levels.
Options trading has long been a core part of Firstrade’s platform, providing investors with access to diverse strategies with $0 commissions and $0 contract fees. As investors’ interest in options continues to grow, Firstrade remains committed to making the experience simpler, smarter, and more accessible for all traders.
Options Builder allows Firstrade users to easily explore strategy ideas based on their market outlook whether bullish or bearish and visualize potential outcomes with clear, interactive charts. Designed to simplify the complexities of options trading, it features an intuitive Strategy Lab that helps users compare potential outcomes and identify risk-reward trade-offs, along with a Dashboard that highlights key volatility trends and pricing insights. With just a click, investors can turn ideas into action, transforming analysis into an engaging and streamlined trading experience.
FP Alpha
FP Alpha, the AI-driven tax, estate and insurance planning tool for financial advisors, today announced the successful integration of its platform with eMoney Advisor, a leading financial planning solution. This new integration enables advisors to effortlessly sync client data from eMoney directly into FP Alpha, dramatically simplifying the process of launching advanced estate and tax planning analyses.
With just a few clicks, advisors can initiate a secure, automated data transfer that populates critical client details such as personal information, family members, assets, and liabilities, directly into FP Alpha. This seamless synchronization eliminates the need for manual data entry, saving time, reducing errors, and allowing advisors to immediately act on client opportunities.
Specifically, this integration with eMoney saves time and delivers accuracy as it moves all the client’s balance sheet assets directly into FP Alpha’s Estate Lab offering, enhancing its usability for advisors. It also allows advisors to provide clients with more robust tax insights and actionable tax savings ideas because of all the additional data points that are carried over from eMoney into FP Alpha’s NextGen Tax Insights offering.
GReminders
GReminders, a leading end-to-end meeting and automation management platform for financial advisors, announces the launch of AI Document Access, a significant enhancement to its flagship Do Anything Assistant. This industry-first innovation makes GReminders the only provider to enable compliant, intelligent AI-driven access to documents directly within their workflows, turning static files into actionable client insights.
Using AI Document Access, advisors can connect their GReminders AI Assistant to key systems including Box, SharePoint, OneDrive, Redtail Documents and Google Drive. The new capability provides AI assistants with access to client performance reports, insurance policies and statements and more, enabling more complete and reliable pre-meeting briefs and an improved client experience.
This advancement builds on the rapid evolution of GReminders’ AI capabilities. Earlier this year, the company introduced its Ask Anything Assistant, giving advisors the ability to interact with their calendars, CRMs and wealth planning tools using simple, everyday language. That momentum continued with the launch of Do Anything, the industry’s first fully autonomous AI assistant capable of anticipating upcoming meetings, curating relevant information and automating action—without requiring advisor prompts. With AI Document Access, that intelligence becomes even more powerful and contextually aware.
GTCR
GTCR, a leading private equity firm, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fiduciary Company Incorporated and its operating subsidiaries, together known as Fiduciary Trust Company (“Fiduciary” or “the Company”). Fiduciary is a Boston-based private wealth manager and trust company serving ultra-high net worth individuals, families, and institutions. GTCR is partnering with CEO Austin Shapard and Fiduciary’s talented management team to invest in the Company’s growth and further enhance its strong client value proposition.
Founded in 1885 as a family office, Fiduciary has evolved into a leading provider of wealth management, trustee and custody services to clients with approximately $34 billion in total assets as of September 30, 2025. Fiduciary’s comprehensive wealth management services are focused on New England high-net-worth and ultra-high-net worth individuals and families, and include white glove service and robust in-house wealth planning, investment management and trust capabilities. The Company also provides custody and trustee services nationwide to third-party financial advisors and family offices, including access to New Hampshire’s advantageous trust laws. Fiduciary has a highly regarded brand and longstanding client relationships as a result of its high levels of service and differentiated capabilities, driving a 98% average annual client retention rate.
GTCR’s investment represents the Company’s first institutional capital, and under GTCR’s ownership, Fiduciary will further enhance its client value proposition and build upon its long history of exceptional service. Fiduciary will pursue strategic initiatives including enhancing its investment platform offerings, expanding its breadth of services, further tech-enabling its platform and growing its employee base. GTCR will support the Company in these efforts with significant capital and expertise, drawing on its long history investing in wealth and asset management including current investments in Allspring, AssetMark, CAPTRUST, FMG Suite, Foundation Source, R&T, Ultimus Fund Solutions and Winged Keel.
iCapital
iCapital1, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, today announced the deployment of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to support Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s industry-leading alternatives business. This initiative is part of iCapital’s broader strategy to drive digital transformation and deliver seamless connectivity, enhancing efficiencies across the alternatives industry—streamlining investor onboarding, subscription document processing, pre-trade workflows, and reporting across the lifecycle of alternative investments.
The trade integration enables seamless automation of subscription document review and remediation between Morgan Stanley, General Partners (GPs), and Fund Administrators. Leveraging iCapital’s DLT, the trade experience becomes more efficient, transparent, and scalable. DLT establishes a standardized data model to connect stakeholders across the ecosystem, significantly reducing manual reconciliations and improving data fidelity.
Intellebox.ai
Intellectus Partners has appointed AJ De Rosa as Chief Executive Officer of Intellebox.ai, effective October 1, 2025. The move marks Intellebox’s transition from an internal innovation to an independent company serving the advisory and wealth management industry.
Intellectus Partners is an independent registered investment adviser founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.
Developed within the Intellectus incubation group, Intellebox.ai is a full stack artificial intelligence platform designed to serve as the Advisor’s Intelligence Operating System – a unified platform that connects every part of the modern advisory firm through intelligent engagement, AI agents, and automation.
INVENT
INVENT, the leading platform solving for the integration and data management challenges in wealth management, announced today the appointment of Jim Zimmerman as its Chief AI Officer. Zimmerman joins Invent following a distinguished career at Microsoft and Red Hat, where he helped shape cloud, open-source, and AI strategies that transformed how enterprise developers deploy and manage technology at scale.
With over twenty years of experience in software engineering, enterprise development, and product leadership, Zimmerman has built a reputation as an innovator and strategic leader in the technology sector. His career began during the formative years of the internet, where he played pivotal roles in several pioneering startups specializing in online media, e-commerce, and social media technologies. These early ventures laid the foundation for his deep expertise in emerging digital platforms.
Zimmerman later joined Microsoft, where he managed critical partnerships with leading open-source organizations, including Red Hat. During his tenure, he led the development of the Azure Red Hat OpenShift service, a major initiative that enabled enterprise developers to deploy and manage containerized applications at scale. As a Black Belt Engineer at Microsoft, Zimmerman was instrumental in assisting large organizations with migrating applications to Kubernetes, facilitating their transition to modern cloud-native architectures.
Luma Financial Technologies
Luma Financial Technologies (“Luma”), a global platform for structured products, annuities, and life insurance solutions, today announced a strategic integration with BlackRock’s Aladdin Wealth platform. The integration enables the delivery of enhanced structured product data and analytics to Luma and Aladdin Wealth clients via the Aladdin Wealth platform.
Global wealth managers and private banks will now benefit from a unified, whole portfolio view to more effectively forecast, analyze, and evaluate structured exposures within client portfolios. Luma’s issuer-agnostic structured product data engine delivers real-time data feeds directly into the Aladdin Wealth platform and its analytics framework through secure APIs—reducing friction and ensuring access to structured product information within existing workflows.
Leveraging Luma’s dataset—which tracks and administers more than $300 billion in structured products globally and supports the full product lifecycle, including post-trade performance monitoring and analytics—Aladdin Wealth and Luma mutual clients can now more effectively forecast, analyze, and evaluate structured exposures within client portfolios. The integration expands data coverage and increases accessibility to strengthen risk oversight, help improve decision-making, and align investments with client objectives.
OneVest
OneVest, which delivers a Wealth Operating System that unifies and modernizes wealth management, today announced a new custodial integration with Aviso. OneVest supercharges platform connectivity for wealth firms with new custodial integration with Aviso. This enhanced interoperability enables firms to unify core operational workflows within the OneVest platform, streamlining operations and accelerating digital transformation.
This new integration with Aviso highlights OneVest’s ability to deliver end-to-end connectivity on accelerated timelines, enabling firms to streamline operations, modernize client experiences, and move confidently toward full-suite platform adoption.
The Aviso integration enables firms that custody with Aviso to achieve end-to-end platform connectivity across onboarding, client and advisor portals, portfolio management, fees and billing, reporting, and more. It joins OneVest’s expanding network of custodian integrations, designed to support multi-custodian environments and minimize switching friction for firms. These integrations are a key pillar of OneVest’s mission to provide secure, unified data infrastructure across the wealth management ecosystem.
OneVest
OneVest, a fintech wealth operating system delivering a unified, modular, no-code solution powered by intelligent workflows for wealth managers, RIAs, and banks, today announced the expansion of its multicurrency capabilities designed to help institutions more effectively manage clients with international assets and globally diversified portfolios. This enhancement builds on OneVest’s recent multilingual update and further strengthens the global infrastructure firms rely on to deliver consistent client service across geographies.
As wealth management professionals increasingly operate across regions, currencies, and regulatory environments, OneVest’s updated multicurrency functionality will provide advisors the tools and flexibility needed to manage complex relationships through a single, integrated platform.
Alongside existing USD and CAD capabilities, firms will soon have access to OneVest’s unified multicurrency framework.
Osaic
Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management strategies, announced that it has selected Carefull as its official financial safety partner, making Carefull’s fraud, scam and family financial protection tools available to Osaic’s entire advisor network.
The partnership supports Osaic’s mission to deliver holistic, client-centered financial guidance and underscores its commitment to protecting families during life’s most important financial moments. By making Carefull’s AI-powered financial safety platform available, Osaic equips advisors with new tools to help protect clients from scams, fraud and financial mistakes while strengthening the multigenerational relationships that drive long-term client success.
Carefull also reinforces Osaic’s “Moments That Matter” campaign by enabling advisors to be present for clients during the life-defining events when trust is essential—from the first sign of suspicious activity to supporting families navigating caregiving responsibilities. With alerts, behavioral monitoring and collaborative family tools, advisors can turn potential crises into opportunities to deepen client relationships.
Osaic
Osaic, Inc. (“Osaic”), one of the nation’s largest providers of wealth management strategies, announced today the launch of PlanningHub, a new platform that expands Osaic’s comprehensive suite of financial planning resources and helps advisors navigate the planning process with greater confidence. Backed by Osaic’s scale and modern technology, the platform empowers financial professionals to grow their businesses by providing access to resources with flexible support to best serve clients.
Harnessing Osaic’s deep institutional planning capabilities, PlanningHub complements financial planning with an intuitive, centralized library of resources, including client templates, educational videos and guides designed to help financial professionals confidently craft comprehensive plans that align with each client’s unique goals.
The launch of PlanningHub underscores Osaic’s ongoing commitment to expanding its financial planning ecosystem and to delivering innovative, competitive solutions for advisors and their clients. Osaic also recently approved two AI-powered estate planning platforms, Wealth.com and Vanilla, which provide advisors the ability to deliver tailored estate plans, document summaries, dynamic visualizations and streamlined workflows to boost productivity and growth.
Paychex
Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq: PAYX), an industry-leading human capital management (HCM) company, today introduced Participant Event Notifications, an AI-powered wealth management solution for financial advisors. This pioneering new advisor plan management tool leverages both payroll and plan level data to alert advisors through real-time notifications within the Paychex Flex® Advisor Console when retirement plan participants reach key data milestones and have work or life events—enabling proactive engagement to assist participants with their financial planning needs, ultimately driving better retirement outcomes and uncovering new investment opportunities.
As financial advisors increasingly integrate retirement and wealth management strategies, Participant Event Notifications proactively make advisors aware any time there’s an opportunity to engage and support the participant. Advisors receive notifications when participants reach certain age or status thresholds, change retirement or employment status, or when a newly eligible employee has yet to enroll. These customizable insights enable advisors to proactively engage participants at pivotal moments, enhancing client relationships, improving retirement outcomes, and expanding advisors’ books of business.
A leading provider of 401(k) plans in the U.S., Paychex continues to innovate across its Retirement Services offerings. The company has made several recent advancements and has further enhanced features that have been longtime standards for Paychex 401(k) plans.
SEI
SEI® (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced that Syverson Strege, a leading fee-only financial planning and investment management firm managing $1 billion in assets under management and headquartered in West Des Moines, IA, has selected SEI to help advance its vision and strategic growth initiatives. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in Syverson Strege’s mission to enrich and empower clients’ lives through clarity, confidence, and financial freedom.
Founded on the principle that financial advice should be objective and personalized, Syverson Strege has built a reputation for delivering comprehensive, coordinated planning tailored to each client’s life goals. The combination of SEI’s strategic support and integrated ecosystem, including open-architecture technology, custody services, and investment management, will help Syverson Strege enhance its operational efficiency and client experience.
With this transition, Syverson Strege will migrate its assets to SEI’s platform and leverage SEI’s Business Transition team to ensure a smooth onboarding process. The firm’s clients can expect enhanced digital experiences, deeper planning insights, and continued access to the trusted advisors who have guided them for decades.
SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE, the leading operating system for alternative investments today announced the launch of its Research Select List, a curated list of alternative investment strategies with investment and operational due diligence reviews conducted by independent investment consultants. The strategies are made available on Altscape, the fintech company’s fund marketplace for global wealth managers.
SUBSCRIBE’s Research Select List provides those financial advisors that have access, a differentiated suite of investment solutions from leading alternative investment managers including 50 South Capital, AB CarVal, ExchangeRight Real Estate, Fidelity Investments, GCM Grosvenor, KKR, Legalist, New Mountain Capital, and Stone Point Credit. The curated menu includes diverse strategies across asset-based finance, credit secondaries, infrastructure, litigation finance, real estate DSTs, and venture capital upon which investment and operational due diligence has been conducted by institutional investment consultants.
SUBSCRIBE currently serves both institutional and wealth management firms. In wealth management specifically the firm serves over 55,000 financial advisors across 800 wealth management firms who can enable SUBSCRIBE Altscape and the Research Select List within their account. Additionally, alternative asset managers that are supported by SUBSCRIBE’s operating system for investor onboarding and electronic subscriptions can seamlessly request to list their funds for discovery by select wealth firms on the Altscape Marketplace.
TIFIN
SS&C ALPS Advisors, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC), has partnered with TIFIN Give, part of TIFIN’s ecosystem of wealth technology platforms, to launch an innovative white label donor-advised fund (DAF) program. The solution enables wealth managers, family offices and advisors to redefine the role of philanthropy and gifting within their clients’ investment strategies. The program helps firms evolve in step with their clients and families as the next generation of wealth takes shape.
Donor-advised funds (DAFs) empower individuals and families to contribute assets with ease, build charitable wealth and shape lasting legacies across generations. For wealth managers, family offices and advisors, DAFs are more than a platform—they are a strategic tool that strengthen client relationships, improve retention and support tax-efficient asset growth.
This collaboration reflects TIFIN’s ongoing work to bring connected, intelligent capabilities into wealth management in ways that make planning purposeful, personalized and scalable.
TipRanks
On Wednesday, November 12, TipRanks and KB Securities signed a strategic partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The signing ceremony, held at KB Securities headquarters, was attended by KB Securities CEO Lee Hong-gu, TipRanks CEO Uri Gruenbaum, and key executives from both companies.
With this agreement, KB Securities and TipRanks have agreed to collaborate, strengthening KB Securities’ capabilities by providing global investment information using TipRanks’ proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and big data stock research tools. Their goal is to deliver customized content tailored to the latest global investment trends for domestic Korean retail investors.
Furthermore, TipRanks’ unique datasets — including company analysis-focused news, analyst reports, and stock Smart Scores — will be sequentially introduced to KB Securities’ two primary trading platforms: the MTS (‘Mobile Trading System’), named ‘KB M-able’ and the WTS (‘Web Trading System’), called ‘M-able Wide.’
Truist
Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced that Pascal Belaud will be the company’s chief AI & data officer, starting Nov. 24. Belaud, who joins the company from a long tenure at Microsoft, will be responsible for shaping the strategic vision and execution of Truist’s AI, data, and advanced automation strategy across the enterprise. He will report to Truist Chief Information Officer Steve Hagerman.
Belaud has three decades of experience in the technology industry, including more than 25 years at Microsoft. He held a number of leadership positions In Microsoft’s US financial sector, across AI, data and data insights, customer success, analytics, cloud, machine learning and predictive analysis.
Vanilla
Vanilla, a leading estate planning technology platform, today announced its partnership with Elevation Point, a growth accelerator and minority stake partner for independent advisors and breakaway firms. Through the partnership, Vanilla becomes a preferred estate planning software provider for Elevation Point’s network of growth-oriented advisors.
Elevation Point partners with successful independent RIAs and breakaway advisors who recognize that continuous growth and innovation are essential to serving the complex needs of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients – and to consistently delivering an exceptional client experience. Its collaboration with Vanilla reflects a shared commitment to equipping advisors with best-in-class tools and strategic guidance. By seamlessly integrating estate planning into a broader advisor growth ecosystem, the partnership reinforces the value of delivering holistic client service and elevating the client experience at every stage.
Vanilla, the most trusted estate planning platform for advisors, transforms how teams engage their clients and prospects in planning through interactive visual summaries, reputable document creation, and a suite of AI-powered tools. By partnering with Elevation Point, Vanilla is able to put turnkey estate planning solutions into the hands of more advisors, empowering them to better serve clients and grow their firms.
WealthLine
WealthLine, a demand generation technology provider that designs comprehensive artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions for financial advisors, today announced the launch of WealthReach, a prospecting and intent data platform purpose-built for registered investment advisors (“RIAs”) and wealth management firms.
Co-founded by CEO Michael Barrasso, alongside client acquisition and marketing expert David DeCelle, CEO of Model FA, WealthLine was built to serve growth-oriented advisors struggling to generate new business organically. WealthReach helps firms uncover and engage warm, high-intent prospects who are already showing interest in working with a financial advisor. Combining website visitor identification, off-site intent data, and AI-generated outreach sequences, WealthReach eliminates the need for traditional cold outreach—empowering advisors to focus on client relationships without sacrificing lead generation opportunities.
WealthReach identifies up to 50 percent of previously anonymous website visitors, enriching each record with detailed professional, financial and behavioral insights. The platform also tracks off-site activity, revealing individuals actively researching wealth management topics across the web. Each lead is scored with its proprietary WealthReach Score, which blends on-site behavior, off-site research and the advisor’s ideal client profile—allowing firms to prioritize the most promising opportunities. WealthReach’s AI engine conducts deep research on each contact and builds personalized multi-channel outreach campaigns designed to boost engagement and booked meetings, all without requiring manual effort from advisors.
