Welcome to the March 2023 problem of the Newest Information in Monetary #AdvisorTech – the place we take a look at the massive information, bulletins, and underlying traits and developments which might be rising on the planet of know-how options for monetary advisors!
This month’s version kicks off with the information that Conquest, a Canadian monetary planning software program supplier (based by the prior founding father of NaviPlan) has raised $24M (CAD) of personal fairness capital in preparation for increasing its attain into the US – for which it hopes its technology-aided capacity to research a shopper’s plan and counsel “next-best determination” methods for advisors to advocate to their purchasers will permit them to interrupt into the crowded US market. Which at greatest will nonetheless be a considerable uphill battle, given the trouble of switching from one monetary planning platform to a different (and the truth that most advisors are usually happy with their present monetary planning software program within the first place!).
From there, the most recent highlights additionally function numerous different attention-grabbing advisor know-how bulletins, together with:
- Asset-Map has raised $6M in Sequence B funding because it scales up its monetary visualization software for enterprise use amid rising demand for recommendation engagement instruments
- Wells Fargo Advisors debuts LifeSync, an app-based software combining options of goal-based planning and monitoring of economic “vitals” because the megafirm strikes additional into its personal recommendation engagement at scale
- Orion launches BeFi20, a behavioral finance evaluation to assist shopper conversations round cash psychology (and determine how financially “aligned” {couples} are of their cash attitudes)
Learn the evaluation about these bulletins on this month’s column, and a dialogue of extra traits in advisor know-how, together with:
- Merrill Lynch has rolled out a brand new turnkey video creation platform permitting its advisors to report quick movies with a fast compliance sign-off (and extra impressively, has apparently solved for the problem of centralized compliance approval of individualized advisor content material at scale)
- The recognition of ChatGPT has opened up a dialogue concerning the potential position of synthetic intelligence within the advisory world – and whereas some predict it could substitute advisors fully, the proof of previous technological advances suggests it’ll show to be yet one more software to automate repeatable back- and middle-office duties and permit advisors to give attention to extra planning at the next degree!
And make sure to learn to the tip, the place now we have supplied an replace to our well-liked “Monetary AdvisorTech Options Map” (and in addition added the adjustments to our AdvisorTech Listing) as effectively!
*And for #AdvisorTech firms who need to submit their tech bulletins for consideration in future points, please undergo TechNews@kitces.com!