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Partners
2024 Platinum Partners
Commonwealth Financial Network, Member FINRA/SIPC, a Registered Investment Adviser, provides financial advisors with holistic, integrated solutions that support business evolution, growth acceleration, and operational efficiency. Privately held since 1979, the firm has headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. Learn more about how Commonwealth partners with more than 2,000 independent financial advisors nationwide by visiting www.commonwealth.com
As part of Midland National Life Insurance Company, Midland Advisory specializes in solutions that help meet the needs of registered investment advisors (RIAs) and their clients—solutions that help mitigate risk, offer opportunity, and instill retirement confidence. We understand your commitment to your clients and to your advisory practice.
2024 Palladium Wi-Fi Partners
Since 1996, AssetMark has focused on delivering extensive wealth management and digital solutions, coupled with in-depth business consulting services, to help independent advisors grow their businesses. In 2022, we acquired Adhesion Wealth Advisor Solutions to better serve RIAs and their advisors.
Modern estate planning for financial advisors. Vanilla is a complete estate planning solution for wealth advisors, financial planners, and estate strategists. Transform the estate planning experience for every client. Our vision is to help everyone create a meaningful legacy. At Vanilla, we build tools that help financial advisors collaborate on the most intimate planning with their clients—and empower everyone to make the most of their life’s work.
2024 Gold Partners
A commitment to RIAs from an industry leader in risk management -Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America (Allianz) commits dedicated resources and invests in helping independent advisors integrate risk management solutions, including annuities, as part of a comprehensive wealth management practice.
Allworth Financial, an independent RIA, with approximately $19 billion AUM and 40 offices nationwide. For RIA owners looking for partnerships, our Partner Program takes a straightforward approach that’s focused on helping you achieve your goals.
American Century is a Kansas City based Investment manager managing over $200 Billion for individual and Institutional clients. Our investment vehicles include mutual funds, ETF's, and separately managed accounts.Avantis, a division of American Century, manages over $25 Billion in ETF's and mutual funds.(If you still have the descriptions from last year that would work also)
The American Heart Association’s Professional Advisor Network provides you with personal assistance from a nationwide team of estate and gift planning professionals, free planning tools and networking opportunities for American Heart Association donors to access professionals like you.
Ariel Investments is a global asset management firm founded in 1983. We are headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York City, San Francisco and Sydney.
Many RIAs struggle to find an insurance broker who understands their business. We serve advisors exclusively. With our expertise, RIAs get the business coverage they need, so they have the peace of mind they want. We have decades of claims experience, have been advisors and our RIAview process is built on the principals of fiduciary planning. We provide E&O, D&O, Cyber, Crime, ERISA solutions and more.
At Schwab Advisor Services™, we are dedicated to working with and learning from advisors like you. With over 30 years of experience serving independent advisors, we understand what it takes to help you meet your business goals.
Dimensional Fund Advisors is a leading global investment firm that has been translating academic research into practical investment solutions since 1981. Guided by a strong belief in markets, the firm builds and implements strategies to help clients pursue higher expected returns. An enduring philosophy, strong client commitment, and deep working relationships with the academic community underpin Dimensional’s approach to investing and form the foundation for new strategies. As of March 31, 2023, Dimensional and its affiliates manage $614 billion in USD for investors worldwide.
DPL Financial Partners helps RIAs strategically leverage Commission-Free insurance and annuity solutions to deliver better client outcomes and grow their practices. Working with the nation's leading carriers, DPL has assembled a powerful line-up of products that deliver greater client value and portfolio performance.
First Trust was established in 1991 with a mission to offer trusted investment products and advisory services. We're inspired every day by how financial professionals and their customers use our products and services to define goals, solve problems and develop long-term strategies.
Golsan Scruggs is a boutique insurance brokerage focusing on insuring investment managers across the U.S. Our specific areas of focus include, E&O, D&O, Cyber and Crime insurance.
The Institute for Divorce Financial Analysts (IDFA®) is the premier national organization dedicated to the certification, education and promotion of the use of financial professionals in the divorce arena.
Jackson is committed to making retirement planning less complicated with our products, financial expertise, and award-winning service*. Our fully licensed concierge team gives independent, wealth managers access to our annuity products without the need of having FINRA registrations or state insurance licenses. By offering this suite of annuities that are designed with RIAs in mind and tailored for fee-based advisory relationships, you can help your clients pursue wealth accumulation and preservation, tax management, wealth transfer, income generation and risk management within the framework of a comprehensive financial plan. * SQM (Service Quality Measurement Group) Call Center Awards Program for 2004 and 2006-2022. Criteria used for Call Center World
Meketa Capital is an asset management firm focused on expanding access to private market investments without the complexity of subscription documents, high investment minimums, and the complex tax treatment associated with traditional institutional private market investment structures. Our firm leverages the breadth, depth and expertise of Meketa Investment Group, a global public and private markets investments, consulting, and fiduciary management (OCIO) firm to source, diligence, and manage the private market investments for our funds.As a subsidiary of Meketa Investment Group, Meketa Capital provides investment solutions for RIAs and other advisors to support their clients. In the future, additional products and services will include providing asset allocation for model portfolios, managing customized private market fund vehicles, delivering OCIO services, and providing specialized general consulting services to advisors.
Nuveen is a global investment leader managing an array of public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of our parent company TIAA, one of the world’s largest institutional investors and a highly rated insurance and retirement provider. With diverse expertise across income and alternatives, we invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure, farmland, and forests to help make an enduring impact on our world.
Osterweis Capital Management was founded in 1983 to serve the portfolio management needs of high net worth individuals. We believe the best way to protect and grow assets is through carefully selected, high conviction portfolios that can capture upside while helping to protect on the downside. We manage over $6 billion in assets between our equity and fixed income investment strategies, which are available through mutual funds and separate accounts.
PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. Our extensive resources, global presence and time-tested investment process are designed to help provide our clients with an edge as they pursue their long-term goals.
Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) is a leading diversified financial services company providing private client group, capital markets, asset management, banking and other services to individuals, corporations and municipalities. The company has approximately 8,700 financial advisors. Total client assets are $1.28 trillion.* Public since 1983, the firm is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RJF.*As of 6/30/2023
Saturna Capital is a provider of active investment solutions with specializations in the Islamic Investing and Sustainable Investing arenas.
SEI is a custodian for growth-minded RIAs with integrated open-architecture technology, wealth management solutions, and investment offering. A strategic business unit of SEI and serving the independent financial advisor market for nearly 30 years, Independent Advisor Solutions works with over 7,400 advisors and supports approximately $88.3 billion in advisors’ total platform assets (as of September 30, 2023). For more information, visit seic.com/advisors.
The Stonecrest family of businesses has been involved in real estate investing and financing since 1986 and has underwritten over 1 billion in loans. Our Private Debt investment, Secured Income Fund, offers steady monthly returns and overall portfolio yield during fluctuating markets. A great fixed income additional portfolio component.
Thomas James Homes [TJH] is the country's largest single-lot replacement homebuilder, unlocking invaluable access to new homes in the coolest neighborhoods. With more than 350 homes in annual production and divisions in Southern California, Northern California, the Pacific Northwest, and Arizona, TJH builds design-driven homes in communities within major metro areas where new construction is rare and in demand. Its customer-centric new home solutions include options to tear down and rebuild a new home on an existing homesite, customize a pre-construction home before it's completed, or buy a market home curated by in-house design experts.
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's most respected investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice and retirement services, and insights to individuals, institutions, and financial professionals. Based in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard has offices worldwide and manages more than $8 trillion on behalf of more than 30 million clients*. Vanguard operates under a unique, investor-owned** structure and adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success. *Note: All figures as of January 31, 2022. **Investor-owned means that fund shareholders own the funds, which in turn own Vanguard.
Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), is a leading health, wealth and investment company that provides products, solutions and technologies that help clients become well planned, well invested and well protected. Serving the needs of 14.7 million individual, workplace and institutional clients, Voya has approximately 9,000 employees and had $770 billion in total assets under management and administration as of September 30, 2023.
2024 Tech Lounge Partners
Efficiency, ease of use, streamlined onboarding, and a superior client experience are among the benefits of consolidating technologies. Advyzon offers a comprehensive solution that helps wealth management firms of all sizes run and scale their business through combining customizable client reporting, flexible billing, robust CRM, trading and rebalancing, a customizable client portal and mobile app, secure and compliant document storage, seamless prospecting tools, investment management & model marketplace, and powerful business intelligence in a single, integrated platform.
Caribou is a non-commissioned healthcare planning company that works exclusively with financial advisors and their clients to plan for current and future healthcare costs, creating holistic and accurate financial plans. Caribou's healthcare planning software, HealthPlanner, creates custom deliverables that match the client with health plan options tailored to their relevant life event (Medicare, retirement, etc.) and their health needs, coverage priorities, and budget.
Holistiplan is the #1 tax planning software solution for advisors 3 years in a row, helping them scale their planning offerings in a highly efficient way. Consistently ranked in the top 3% for customer satisfaction across all financial planning softwares, Holistiplan has helped over 26,000 advisors provide their clients with valuable strategies and education in the realm of tax, providing both the software and advisor education to support it.
Jump is the AI Meeting Assistant for financial advisors. Advisors used to spend 18 hours per week on meeting related admin (notes, tasks, client emails, CRM logging). Jump uses AI to help you get that time back so you can serve more clients or go home early. Generate pre-meeting prep, meeting notes in your style, and task lists, then sync to CRM with one click. Do your post meeting work in 5 min, not 45. Jump is only for advisors, 100% customizable to your style, and is compliant and secure.
Libretto is your control panel for delivering personalized advice at scale. Originally designed to streamline advice delivery to ultra-high-net-worth clients, Libretto combines personalized planning and portfolio advice with a virtual family office wealth delivery. Our technology scales this process and enables advisors to deliver differentiated advice to clients ranging from the least to most complex. Our mission is to help you deliver robust solutions that make all your clients feel like they’re worth $100 million.
Moneytree Software has a rich history in financial planning and an eye for making the complex—simple. We’re serious about delivering the strongest calculation engine in the financial planning and wealth management industry so that advisors can trust their plans.
VRGL helps financial advisors accelerate the Client Acquisition and Proposal Management process (“CAPM”) by providing automated statement extraction, powerful 5 Pillar Analytics, and fully customizable proposal generation capabilities. VRGL's proprietary technology enables advisors to offload the cumbersome process of manually extracting data while streamlining and accelerating the client acquisition and decision-making process - all so advisors can expedite time to revenue by up to 50% with a 25% or more increase in initial check size.
Waterlily prepares families for their future long-term care needs, addressing the long-term care cost emergency faced by families, state governments, and insurance carriers.We do this using predictive AI to create a personalized projection of someone’s long-term care needs, and then guiding the family through building out logistics and financial plans for their care.We distribute our software through state governments, insurance and financial advising industries, who use our software to sell insurance and financial products and to motivate cost-saving behaviors among policyholders.
Trusted by top financial advisors across the United States as the most comprehensive estate planning platform, Wealth.com helps facilitate ongoing estate planning collaboration between advisor and client as part of holistic financial and life planning.
