It’s a Multi-Custodial World: Here’s How To Trade Fixed Income In It
Most firms don’t struggle to execute a single bond trade. They struggle to execute bond trades consistently at scale, across multiple custodians, while maintaining efficient workflows, staying compliant, and growing without adding overhead. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Many advisory businesses approach fixed income as a trading problem rather than a systemic […]
Your Platform Looks Unified. Your Broker Dealer Reps Know Better.
IBDs have spent the last decade doing everything right by the growth playbook: building out Rep-as-PM programs, opening the platform to more rep-built models, adding SMA sleeves from managers like PIMCO, layering in overlay oversight to keep it all suitable.
Why Enterprise Wealth Management Technology Still Isn’t Unified
Enterprise and mega RIAs have spent the last decade doing everything right by the growth playbook: acquiring teams, adding custodians, layering in direct indexing, alts, and SMAs, building out compliance to match.
Your Clients Have Unified Portfolios. Your Systems Don’t
Modern portfolio construction is already here. Most firms just aren’t built for it. Walk into any enterprise RIA today and you’ll find the same paradox. Sophisticated advisors. Thoughtful household strategies. Clients whose wealth spans direct indexing sleeves, ETFs, concentrated positions, alternatives, and accounts across Schwab, Fidelity, and Pershing — sometimes all at once. And underneath […]
Your Platform Looks Unified. Underneath, It’s Fragmented by Design
Modern portfolio construction is already here. Most IBDs aren’t built to see it. The independent broker-dealer model has never been more capable on paper. Reps have more investment flexibility than ever — Rep-as-PM programs, UMA wrappers, access to third-party managers and home office models in the same account. The product shelf is deep. The customization […]
The Future of Portfolio Trading Is Infrastructure
For more than a decade, wealth management technology has been shaped by a familiar debate: all-in-one platforms versus best-in-class point solutions. On one side, advisors and enterprise firms gravitated toward unified portfolio management systems for simplicity, cost control, and tighter integrations. On the other, power users adopted standalone tools to gain deeper trading and rebalancing […]
Making Time to Think: Optimizing the Advisor Tech Stack for Trust and Wealth Firms
Trust and wealth management firms operate in an industry built on judgment, responsibility, and long-term decision-making. Yet many professionals feel they rarely have time to think. Packed schedules, manual workflows, and fragmented systems often pull attention away from clients and strategy. In a conversation recorded live at the American Trust Organization’s (ATO) annual conference, Rusty […]
RIAs Are Leaving After-Tax Alpha on the Table — Here’s How to Fix It
The Opportunity Hidden in Plain Sight Every time markets move, opportunity knocks. Not in the form of a perfect trade, but in the quiet potential of a well-timed loss. Tax loss harvesting (TLH) is one of the most reliable sources of after-tax alpha, additional after-tax return an investor generates through effective tax management strategies, in […]
Faster, Stronger, Safer: How FIX Flyer Engine 10.0.0 Gives You a Competitive Edge
In the world of electronic trading, success is measured in microseconds and protected by layers of security. Every firm, from global institutions to independent IBDs and RIAs, faces the same dual challenge: be faster than the competition and more secure than the threats. A delay of a few milliseconds can mean a missed opportunity, while […]
How Operational Leadership Drives Growth in Wealth Management: Insights from Matt Sonnen
In wealth management, big visions often crash into operational bottlenecks. Behind every ambitious growth plan is a need for structure, process, and leadership. In this episode of In The Money, Rusty Sommer sits down with Matt Sonnen, COO of Coldstream and host of the COO Roundtable podcast, to explore the vital role of operations in […]
