Advisor Tech Talk
Advisor Tech Talk (Week of 11/2/26)
By Christopher Robbins · Nov 2, 2026 Views: 4,949
Somebody build us an ark, because a deluge has occurred.
What a week for financial advisor technology! We always seem to mention how busy or slow the news week was somewhere in Advisor Tech Talk (welcome, everyone), but rarely lead with it these days. We're making an exception because this week was exceptional.
And we don't want to toot our own horns, but for you below we have what is quite possibly the most thorough curated list of weekly financial advisor technology headlines you'll find anywhere.
Of course, a flurry of the week's activity surrounded Schwab's still-humongous IMPACT conference, and we'll have more from that in a moment, but the conference news was far eclipsed by the downpour of partnership announcements for Anthropic's Claude for Financial Advisors. And yes, most of the Claude announcements were made at Schwab IMPACT, but the winner of this news cycle was Anthropic, and the dominant name in financial advisor technology this week was Claude, not Charles Schwab.
AI is in everything now. Like microplastics.
These are strange days, indeed.
Anyway, we wanted to lead with a little news coming out of the IMPACT conference regarding Schwab's 2026 Independent Advisor Outlook Study, which illustrates an industry embracing new technologies, investment products and business models while seeking to preserve the fiduciary relationships that distinguish independent advice.
The study suggests that technology investment is becoming inseparable from business development. Although 75% of respondents continue to measure growth primarily through assets under management, 53% also track new clients, 44% monitor referrals and 40% measure changes in assets per client or household. Looking three years ahead, 70% expect client referrals to drive growth, while 60% identify exceptional client service as an important growth engine.
Nearly half of respondents, 49%, identify AI integration to improve workflows as a leading investment priority for growth over the next three years. Another 40% plan to expand sales and marketing efforts, while 32% intend to upgrade their technology stacks. AI is consequently becoming part of a broader business transformation involving client acquisition, operational efficiency and the integration of information across previously disconnected applications.
The research also provides a detailed picture of how advisors expect to use AI. Over the next three years, 81% anticipate using AI for research and analysis, 79% for document drafting, 72% for operational workflows, and 70% each for client communications and administrative support. These expectations suggest that AI could become a general-purpose productivity layer spanning much of the advisory business rather than remaining confined to specialized applications.
However, anticipated adoption should not be confused with current implementation. Only 7% of advisors report using agentic AI, the emerging category of systems capable of coordinating multiple steps and executing tasks with varying degrees of autonomy. This difference between anticipated use and actual deployment reveals how much work remains before advisory firms can reliably automate complex processes.
Consolidation remains another defining force in wealth management, according to ECHELON Partners' third-quarter 2026 RIA M&A report. The investment bank reports that merger and acquisition activity remained steady during the third quarter, with year-to-date dealmaking running 12.2% ahead of the comparable 2025 period.
The continued pace of transactions underscores the appeal of independent wealth management businesses to strategic acquirers and financial sponsors, even as acquiring firms confront the challenges of integrating technology, personnel, investment operations and client relationships.
For wealthtech providers, consolidation creates both opportunities and competitive pressures. Larger advisory organizations require scalable portfolio management, consolidated reporting, cybersecurity, compliance systems and centralized client information. Acquirers must also determine which inherited technologies to retain, replace or integrate across multiple offices and legacy platforms.
AI adds another dimension to these decisions. Firms assembling large advisory networks may find greater opportunities to automate shared services, standardize workflows and improve operational consistency. However, realizing those benefits requires substantial investments in data infrastructure and governance.
Beyond Schwab's research and the industry's consolidation trends, the past week brought a wave of developments demonstrating how quickly AI is becoming embedded in the infrastructure of wealth management. The most significant announcements involved major financing rounds, new integrations between AI assistants and existing advisory applications, expanded access to alternative investments, and efforts to modernize the underlying data systems that support financial advice.
Perhaps the clearest example of investor enthusiasm was Nevis' $70 million Series B financing, led by EQT Ventures with participation from Charles Schwab, Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ, Ribbit Capital and QuantumLight. The transaction brings the company's total funding to $110 million in just two years.
Nevis develops an AI operating system designed to coordinate financial planning, customer relationship management, meeting intelligence and custodial workflows. The company reports that assets represented on its platform have grown from $50 billion to more than $700 billion during 2026, with revenue increasing more than 25-fold. Its customers include Focus Financial Partners, IEQ Capital and United Capital.
There's more we could discuss, including interesting news from Savvy, Envestnet, Vestmark, SEI, Mercer Advisors and Dispatch, but we've gone on long enough!
Let’s get to our headlines...
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55ip
55ip, a wholly-owned subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, will be bringing its proprietary ActiveTax Technology® into Claude for Financial Advisors through a new connector. Claude For Financial Advisors is Anthropic's suite of connectors and workflow skills designed to support financial advisors with research, meeting preparation, compliance checks, and documentation.
Through this latest enhancement, advisors using Claude for Financial Advisors will now be able to incorporate tax-aware portfolio transition analysis powered by 55ip's integrated tax-smart technology. 55ip's platform features tax-aware personalization through a variety of strategy types including models, SMAs, Direct Indexing and Unified Managed Accounts.
Claude for Financial Advisors empowers advisors to manage and grow their business more efficiently and seamlessly. By bringing tax-smart capabilities into that environment, J.P. Morgan Asset Management's 55ip expects to help advisors prepare for client conversations where tax considerations may be relevant using Claude's workflow orientation, and generate personalized tax-transition scenarios that illustrate the impact of different realized capital gain levels based on each client's preferences.
Advyzon
Advyzon, a global AI-powered, unified wealth management technology and data platform for advisory firms, today announced the launch of Advyzon Financial Planning, a comprehensive cash-flow planning and projection solution built natively into the Advyzon platform.
Led by Kevin Hughes, President of Financial Planning at Advyzon, whose nearly two decades of experience have helped shape financial planning technology, the solution combines deep planning expertise with Advyzon’s unified architecture and agentic AI capabilities.
Designed for deep planning without unnecessary operational complexity, Advyzon Financial Planning combines robust calculation engines with the client, household, account, portfolio, net worth, and budget data already in Advyzon. Advisors can model financial decisions – including Social Security timing, Roth conversions, portfolio optimization, and changing planning strategies – without rebuilding the client in a separate system or maintaining another version of the data.
Apex Fintech Solutions
EDX Markets, a digital asset technology firm that combines an institutional-only trading venue with a central clearinghouse, and Apex Fintech Solutions ("Apex"), the infrastructure powering modern investing, today announced a strategic relationship that will integrate EDX's trading technology with Apex's financial infrastructure.
Through the partnership, Apex will leverage EDX's trading and clearing solutions to support its digital markets offering. The collaboration pairs EDX's purpose-built technology with Apex's established capabilities and experience across traditional finance, establishing an efficient digital asset trading environment built on institutional standards.
EDX's institutional-only marketplace is designed to provide transparent price discovery, deep liquidity and reliable execution while maintaining separation between trading and custody. Its trading and clearing model is designed to deliver the performance and operational standards required by sophisticated firms entering and operating in digital assets.
BetaNXT
BetaNXT, a leading provider of wealth management technology solutions with real-time data capabilities and advanced AI innovation, today announced a strategic partnership with Pave Finance, the leading AI-powered portfolio management platform for financial advisors and wealth managers, to bring advanced technology and automation capabilities to BetaNXT clients.
Pave's software platform uses AI to enable RIAs and wealth management firms to construct highly tailored automated portfolios around client goals, risk parameters, tax considerations, existing holdings, investment restrictions and preferences.
The partnership will give BetaNXT clients access to Pave Finance's portfolio management and workflow automation software. This will expand BetaNXT's offering to financial advisors and registered investment advisors (RIAs), while enhancing its wealth management suite with advanced portfolio construction, personalization, and optimization capabilities.
CAIS
CAIS, the leading alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, today announced it is joining Anthropic’s Claude for Financial Advisors, expanding how CAISey, its AI-powered intelligence agent, can be brought into specialized advisor workflows with Claude. CAIS’ new connector is designed to help advisors more efficiently access and review private markets information across portfolio monitoring, investment research and related workflows.
Through the new connector, advisors can bring client-specific alternative investment information into Claude for Financial Advisors, alongside the CRM, custody and portfolio reporting tools their firms already use. Advisors can review fund eligibility and capital call details when preparing for a client meeting, private investment positions and unfunded commitments during a portfolio review and repurchase windows when checking investor eligibility. The goal is to make relevant private markets information easier to access and review as part of an advisor’s broader portfolio analysis and decision-making process.
The announcement builds on CAIS’ continued investment in technology, including its initial integration with Claude in May 2026, which gave advisors direct access to fund data, performance analytics and portfolio insights. The expansion also aligns with CAIS’ broader strategy, focused on connecting alternative investment capabilities across platforms to create a more integrated experience for advisors. On the CAIS platform, CAISey is now deployed to nearly 25,000 advisors within the CAIS network.
Conquest
Conquest, a global fintech company delivering a verifiable AI financial advice engine for continuous advice at scale, today announced it is bringing a new connector to Claude for Financial Advisors, Anthropic’s offering for wealth management professionals. Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, Conquest enables financial advisors to access its financial intelligence directly within Claude, helping to streamline workflows and deliver more personalized, actionable advice.
New research from Financial Planning and Conquest reveals that 72% of firms are pursuing intelligent automation and AI initiatives to improve advisor productivity[1]. Now, with this connector, instead of going to multiple apps, advisors can access live financial intelligence right within Claude.
Results are powered by Conquest’s Strategic Advice Manager® (SAM), a deterministic calculation engine and proprietary AI expert system, which users can interact with through conversations with Claude. Advisors get explainable, repeatable calculations in real-time. SAM ranks, prioritizes and verifies each strategy against best practices and jurisdictional compliance across multiple regulatory frameworks, including CRM2/CRM3 (Canada), Best Interest and DOL Fiduciary standards (U.S.), and FCA Targeted Support (UK).
d1g1t
d1g1t, a leading enterprise wealthtech provider, today announced that Harbourfront Wealth Group (Harbourfront Wealth) has selected and deployed d1g1t's institutional-grade enterprise wealth management platform to support continued growth and deliver a more connected digital experience for advisors and clients.
Harbourfront Wealth is evolving its technology infrastructure in step with its rapid expansion, building the scale and operational capacity needed to support a growing national organization. By simplifying core processes and connecting key functions, the firm is creating a stronger foundation for advisors to serve clients and expand their businesses.
By deploying d1g1t, Harbourfront Wealth is bringing its advisor desktop, client portal, portfolio data, performance calculations, trading and rebalancing, and related workflows together on a single integrated platform. The platform will support the firm's Unified Managed Account framework, reduce reliance on manual trading and cash management processes, and create greater operational capacity as the organization continues to grow.
Dispatch
Dispatch, the data infrastructure platform that enables the wealth industry to run revenue-critical workflows, today announced the appointment of Patrick Dunne as head of wealth and asset management. Dunne brings more than 25 years of experience leading operations, building technology-enabled businesses, and driving innovation across wealth management and financial services.
In his new role, Dunne will advise Dispatch customers on strategic and operational decisions, including how to modernize their technology infrastructure, streamline workflows, and incorporate AI into their businesses. He will also collaborate with Dispatch's product and sales teams to help inform the company's product roadmap and ensure its capabilities address the evolving needs of wealth management firms. Additionally, he will help educate the broader industry on the importance of a modern wealth technology stack and the role of unified data infrastructure in enabling firms to operate more efficiently and grow.
Dunne most recently served as chief operating officer of Hightower Advisors, where he led operations through a period of significant growth, integrated numerous acquisitions, and helped launch Hightower Signature Wealth, the firm's first national direct-to-consumer advisory practice. Previously, he held leadership roles at Jordan Park and LendingClub and spent much of his career at BlackRock, where he led teams across iShares, global markets, and securities lending and served on the firm's global operating committee.
Envestnet
Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, today announced a new document integration between Tamarac, the portfolio reporting, trading, rebalancing, and CRM platform for registered investment advisors, and Canoe Intelligence ("Canoe"), a Bloomberg company and the intelligence infrastructure for alternative investments. The integration automates delivery of alternative investment tax documents, including K-1s and K-2s, directly into Tamarac's Advisor Portal, where advisors can push them to their clients' portals with a single step.
Alternative investments now sit alongside public holdings in nearly every wealth portfolio, but the paperwork behind them hasn't kept pace. K-1s and other fund documents typically arrive scattered across GP portals, emails, and mail, forcing advisors to track them down, download them, and upload them manually before clients ever see them. Canoe already serves as the collection point for those documents. This integration extends that value one step further, delivering them straight into the same portal advisors and clients already use for their public market holdings.
Canoe and Envestnet | Tamarac share more than two dozen mutual clients today, all of whom can enable the integration at their discretion. Once turned on, documents flow automatically via API, with no manual upload or re-entry required on either side. The launch builds on the automated data feed the two companies built together last year, further deepening a partnership focused on removing friction from how advisors manage alternative investments.
Envestnet
Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, announced its Custom Model Solutions (CMS) for RIAs and Institutional Partner Models (IPM) for broker-dealers. Asset managers participating across Envestnet's Custom Model Solutions and Institutional Partner Models programs, include BlackRock, Envestnet PMC, Fidelity Investments, First Trust, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Invesco, Northern Trust Asset Management, Russell Investments, and T. Rowe Price. Trading, billing, and reporting for the programs will be handled by Envestnet. Managers may cover all or part of the platform fee and, depending on the program, there may also be no tax-overlay fee to the RIA.
Custom Model Solutions is designed for advisory firms that want to differentiate their practice with tailored model portfolios that combine their firms' brand and investment preferences with third-party investment management capabilities without adding operational overhead. Under the program guidelines, an asset manager constructs and maintains a model strategy to the advisor's investment parameters; the advisor reviews and approves the model for use with client accounts, with the ability to collaborate with the asset manager to refine as needed; and Envestnet executes trades according to the advisor's direction. Firms can also incorporate Envestnet's Fund Strategist Tax Management (FSTM) tax overlay services, where appropriate, so the RIA receives the differentiated model and a tax-managed way to run it without having to build that capability themselves.
Envestnet is extending a similar offering to broker-dealers, called Institutional Partner Models. It can be entitled to select financial professionals within a broker-dealer firm through a streamlined implementation and requires its own Envestnet committee review and legal contracting for each engagement.
FINNY AI
FINNY AI Inc. (“FINNY”), the AI growth engine for financial advisors, today launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for Claude for Financial Advisors, Anthropic's suite of tools to help with research, preparation and documentation tasks. The launch brings FINNY's AI-powered growth intelligence and prospecting tools directly into Claude, enabling advisors to access campaign insights, manage prospect data and leverage FINNY's resources within existing AI workflows.
As financial advisors increasingly adopt AI to improve operational efficiency and enhance client service, Claude provides an easy access point. FINNY's MCP launch builds on this shift, adding its growth intelligence where advisors are already working, and removing the need to toggle between platforms.
FINNY's platform combines a proprietary database comprising millions of records with its predictive F-Score matching engine and automated outreach tools to help advisors identify, prioritize and engage high-intent wealth management prospects. Through the MCP connector, advisors can access FINNY's data and tools directly within Claude to support key activities.
Gateway Financial Partners
Gateway Financial Partners ("Gateway"), an independent wealth management firm supporting more than 200 affiliated advisors across 27 states with over $10 billion in assets under advisement, today announced the launch of GatewayGO, its new branded advisor experience platform, powered by Milemarker. Gateway introduced GatewayGO to its advisors during the firm's Align Advisor Conference in Orlando, Florida.
GatewayGO brings the custodians, CRM, marketing, portfolio, planning, billing and compliance systems Gateway advisors already use together in one place. Advisors start each day with a single view of their households, assets, revenue and open items, alongside the firm resources, workflows and growth tools Gateway provides.
Built around Gateway's model, which combines an LPL Financial OSJ structure with a hybrid RIA, GatewayGO gives independent advisors the experience of a large enterprise without giving up the freedom that brought them to independence.
Greenboard
Greenboard, the AI-native system of action for SEC and FINRA compliance, today launched GreenboardGo2.0, the first AI harness built for compliance teams. It builds on GreenboardGo, the conversational AI layer Greenboard introduced in May, and runs across the whole Greenboard platform, so compliance teams can ask, configure and automate any part of their program from one place, with every step written to a WORM-based, 17a-4 compliant record.
GreenboardGo2.0 also works where teams do: in Slack, Teams, Claude and ChatGPT, with more than 240 Greenboard tools available over MCP. Everything runs inside the permissions the compliance team sets, and a person signs off before anything is final.
A foundation model alone can't do compliance work, which depends on reaching the right policy, record, tool, and person at the right time. A harness supplies that connection, along with the firm's context, its guardrails and an evidence trail an examiner can follow. Traditional platforms ship a fixed list of features. GreenboardGo2.0 gives teams the parts to build their own agents: any trigger, any context, any sequence of actions, and the exact point where a person signs off.
IDZ
IDZ today announced the launch of IDZ Enterprise, a governed private AI workspace that brings MetaCortex, ZCloud and ZChat into one encrypted system for organisations handling sensitive client and business information.
By keeping files, conversations, identity, permissions, processing routes and evidence in the same controlled environment, IDZ Enterprise reduces the fragmentation that often surrounds enterprise AI. MetaCortex is native to ZCloud and ZChat, allowing members to work across documents and conversations without first configuring a separate connector, while enterprise leaders control who can access information, which AI routes are permitted and how results are reviewed, without giving IDZ standing access to encrypted customer content.
The release is built for law firms, banks, wealth managers, accountancies and other professional-services organisations that want to move AI from isolated pilots into daily work without weakening confidentiality, policy control or accountability.
Invesco
Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a leading global asset management firm, announced today it is working with Anthropic to bring its data to support portfolio intelligence and practice management available through Claude for Financial Advisors. Invesco's new connector will provide a toolkit that helps advisors strengthen their business and client relationships.
Invesco brings decades of expertise to deliver industry-leading portfolio intelligence for existing advisors and clients utilizing Invesco's Model Portfolios, who will be able to access portfolio information directly via Claude, adding time for robust problem-solving through Invesco's proprietary practice management research. Invesco's portfolio optimization resources combine analytical tools, market and economic insights, and investment expertise to help advisors construct portfolios aligned with each client's broader wealth plan and objectives.
Invesco empowers advisors to strengthen client relationships, manage, and grow their practices through research, tools, and coaching across the client experience, providing a single source of support. For example, advisors who use Invesco's connector in Claude will have access to Invesco's research-based referrals program which helps advisors grow their business with personalized scripts and better integrated business development.
Jacobi Strategies
Jacobi Strategies today announced the launch of the Jacobi Investment Management Harness (the "Harness"), giving institutional investment teams a governed route from proprietary AI prototype to production workflow.
AI has cut the time it takes to prototype a new investment idea from months to days. What has not kept pace is the path to production. Models still run in spreadsheets, and AI prototypes still sit on personal laptops. When a board, auditor or regulator asks which version is live, what data it used and who approved it, most investment technology stacks cannot answer. The idea is no longer the constraint. The infrastructure that carries it is.
The Jacobi Investment Management Harness is the connective tissue that scales a firm's investment logic across the Jacobi platform, so its intellectual property does not stay in prototype but powers portfolio outcomes. It packages what Jacobi has delivered for over a decade, accelerated now by AI, into four layers on one client-specific entity data model.
Jump
Jump, the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for advisors and financial professionals, today announced an expansion of its work with Anthropic through Claude for Financial Advisors, Anthropic’s offering for wealth management professionals. Building on Jump’s existing one-click Claude connector, which already brings client meeting context into Claude, Jump is adding purpose-built Claude skills that use Jump to turn conversations, decisions and commitments into concrete next steps.
Many financial advisors already use Claude as part of their daily workflows, from preparing for client meetings to researching households and drafting follow-up communications. Jump extends the value of that experience by bringing meeting notes, follow-up tasks, documents and contacts into the Claude interface advisors are already using, along with Jump-built skills for tasks like drafting follow-up emails, tracking client commitments and finding details in client documents. This helps advisors work from richer client context without manually copying and pasting notes or starting each task from scratch.
Jump’s inclusion in Claude for Financial Advisors brings new purpose-built skills, reusable workflows designed to help Claude act on client context for specific advisor tasks. Developed with insight into the needs of advisors using Jump every day, the skills can help organize recent conversations, surface commitments and decisions, locate client documents and prepare follow-up communications.
Maslow Wealth Advisors
Maslow Wealth Advisors, an independent, fiduciary wealth management firm, today announced the launch of its redesigned website at maslow-wealth.com.
The new site reflects Maslow's belief that traditional wealth management leaves the most important financial questions unanswered. The Hierarchy of Wealth™, a proprietary private wealth operating system, addresses that gap by organizing financial priorities into five distinct tiers: Security, Stability, Community, Opportunity, and Legacy.
Founded in 1988 as Durbin Bennett and rebranded as Maslow Wealth Advisors in 2024, the firm has operated as an independent, employee-owned fiduciary since its founding — one of the first independent financial advisory firms in Texas.
Mercer Advisors
Mercer Advisors, Inc. (“Mercer Advisors”), a national wealth management and financial planning firm, today announced the appointment of Kyle Pounder, PhD, as Vice President of Data, a role focused on putting data and AI to work for its more than 460 advisors and over 43,000 clients. Pounder will lead the firm’s core data team, which underpins Aspen, the firm’s fully integrated technology platform, and its broader AI strategy.
The appointment of Pounder continues to deepen the technical leadership that Mercer Advisors has been assembling. Most recently, Cynthia Loh joined as Chief Platform Officer, a new role responsible for the processes, people and platform that anchor the firm’s client and advisor experience. Loh has spent more than two decades building and scaling advice platforms at leading organizations, including Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab, and Betterment.
Ehsan Lavassani, Founding Engineer and Chief Engineering Officer of Personal Capital, joined in September 2023 and was recently promoted to Head of Artificial Intelligence. Lavassani spearheaded the development of Aspen, the firm’s AI-enabled operating system, whose second-generation launch brought AI capabilities directly into advisor and client workflows. In his new role, he will focus on partnering with client-facing professionals across the firm to accelerate the development and deployment of AI capabilities in their practices. Lavassani and Pounder report to Loh.
MyVest
MyVest, a leading provider of enterprise wealth management technology, today announced MyVest AI Connect, which brings the full depth of its Strategic Portfolio System (SPS), including portfolio management, personalization, performance and account data, directly into the AI applications firms already use, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. With MyVest AI Connect, firms can continue to focus on the primary AI application they have selected and their advisors get more efficient access to the wealth management capabilities and data MyVest has spent years compiling.
MyVest AI Connect is built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard for connecting AI applications to enterprise data. With MyVest AI Connect, advisors and operations teams can use their firm's approved AI applications to put MyVest’s SPS portfolio data and functionality to work in portfolio management and client conversations, from client meeting prep to portfolio review, without switching systems or pulling reports.
MyVest AI Connect follows recent SPS additions, including Separately Managed Models (SMM) and expanded unified managed household (UMH) capabilities, reflecting MyVest's continued investment in supporting complex investor needs at scale.
Nevis
Nevis, the AI operating system for wealth management, today announced its $70 million Series B led by EQT Ventures, bringing total funding to $110 million in two years since founding. New strategic investors in the round include The Charles Schwab Corporation, which serves more than 48 million client accounts, $13 trillion in total client assets and supports more than 17,000 independent RIAs; and QuantumLight, the fund of Revolut founder and CEO Nik Storonsky. All existing investors, including Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ and Ribbit Capital, have also expanded their commitments in this new round.
The funding coincides with a period of rapid growth for the company, driven by the measurable results Nevis has delivered for its customers. In 2026, Nevis has grown revenue more than 25x. In the same period, assets on the platform grew from $50 billion to $700 billion, at a current run rate of $75 billion new assets added each month. Customers include some of the largest and fastest-growing firms in the U.S., among them Focus Financial Partners, IEQ Capital and United Capital.
As part of the investment, Carolina Brochado, Partner and Head of EQT Ventures, will join Nevis' Board of Directors, with Kaushik Subramanian, Partner at EQT Ventures, joining as Board Observer. Having followed the founders' journey since the company's early days, EQT Ventures brings deep experience and a global network across wealth management and financial services to support Nevis' next phase of growth.
Ondo Intelligent Portfolios
Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, professionally curated investment portfolios delivered as single onchain tokens, are now live on Solana. All seven portfolios are now available to eligible investors (outside the U.S.) through leading Solana wallets and apps.
Ondo Intelligent Portfolios democratize access to professionally curated investment strategies, delivering them onchain to nearly any eligible investor with an internet connection and a wallet. Since launch, the portfolios have surpassed $40M in total value locked (TVL) on Ethereum and BNB Chain combined, making them among the largest tokenized portfolio products onchain. With this expansion to Solana, Ondo Intelligent Portfolios now arrive on a network where Ondo already has more than $500M in TVL across tokenized assets.
Seven portfolios are live today, spanning income, growth, and thematic exposure, with more planned. Three of the seven are based on portfolio strategies developed by BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, for use by Ondo. The remaining four are Ondo-designed onchain portfolios built around some of the market's most closely watched themes, from big tech and artificial intelligence to targeted income.
Opto Investments
Opto Investments (“Opto”), a private markets outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) for wealth management firms, family offices and institutional investors, today announced the appointments of Justin Mills, CFA, as Principal Product Manager and Rachel Hallock as Head of Design. Their work will help make Opto’s platform simpler, faster and more personalized as advisors and CIOs scale their private markets offerings.
Opto’s experienced investment management team helps firms build, execute, and service private markets programs. As alternative investments have become a core component of client portfolios, allocators are taking on the complexity that comes with them, from due diligence to ongoing reporting. With these hires, the firm is advancing a platform that helps users spend less time on manual work and more time on the investment decisions that matter to their clients.
Mills will lead efforts to streamline and advance Opto’s technology products. His first priority is extending the core platform to make onboarding new clients easier and more tailored to their specific requirements. He brings decades of experience in technology and alternative investments, beginning with 15 years at Quellos Capital Management, later acquired by BlackRock. There, he owned the risk, research and quantitative analytics products that supported more than $80 billion in hedge fund, private equity and real assets. He went on to build product and program teams at Smartsheet during its high-growth years.
Orion
As IMPACT® 2026 comes to a close in Boston, Orion today announced an enhancement to its Schwab Advisor Center® integration. The new data-sharing method is designed to deliver custodial data to Orion faster and accelerate reconciliation, helping advisors begin client work earlier with up-to-date, reconciled information.
Schwab provides Orion with daily close-of-business information, including positions, transactions, pricing, cost basis, and account details. Moving from SFTP files to cloud-based delivery modernizes how Orion receives and processes that information. Advisors won’t see a new button or screen. They’ll see their data ready sooner.
The new data-sharing method is in initial phases with the full implementation expected by year end. The update builds on Orion’s ongoing collaboration with Schwab Advisor Services™, including fractional share trading and automated beneficiary updates. It also lays the groundwork for future enhancements that could support data exchange at greater scale and closer to real time, helping advisors access current information as their firms grow.
Practifi
Practifi, the provider of intelligent CRM solutions for RIAs, today announced a continued partnership with Dynasty Financial Partners to support the CRM needs of independent registered investment advisors within Dynasty’s network.
The agreement builds on the companies’ existing relationship, supporting over 1,200 users across Dynasty-affiliated RIAs by providing a preconfigured Practifi offering designed around the operating needs of Dynasty network firms. It gives firms another option as they evaluate the technology that best supports their businesses, consistent with Dynasty’s approach to an open architecture platform built on providing best-in-class options.
Practifi brings client relationships, activities, and workflows together in one system, helping wealth management teams coordinate service and manage the work behind each client relationship. Its configurable platform supports firms as their teams, processes, and business needs evolve.
Premialab
Premialab, the leading independent platform for quantitative investment strategies (QIS), today announced a partnership with Aladdin, BlackRock's platform that unifies the investment management process, to accelerate the adoption of quantitative investment strategies (QIS) by bringing Premialab's specialist QIS data capabilities directly to common clients.
QIS now play a central role in modern portfolio construction, and deploying them effectively requires sophisticated risk analytics and precise modelling. The partnership pairs Aladdin's capabilities with Premialab's deep QIS data and analytics expertise, giving common clients a more streamlined way to manage QIS exposures alongside the rest of their portfolios.
Together, Aladdin and Premialab are advancing a shared industry priority: making QIS more accessible to institutions worldwide.
RedBlack
RedBlack, a leading provider of rebalancing and trading technology for wealth management firms, today announced that Regent Peak Wealth Advisors is leveraging RedBlack’s rebalancing and trading platform to scale investment management, strengthen tax-aware portfolio construction and support the firm’s next phase of growth.
Founded in 2019 following its transition from Merrill Lynch to independence, Regent Peak Wealth Advisors currently manages over $800 million in assets. After initially relying on a bundled technology platform during its transition to independence, the firm later adopted a best-of-breed technology strategy designed to better support its investment philosophy and long-term growth objectives.
As part of that evolution, Regent Peak selected RedBlack for its intuitive design, scalability, and advisor-centric approach to portfolio management. Today, the majority of the firm's assets and 782 accounts are managed through the platform, enabling advisors to efficiently implement investment decisions across portfolios while maintaining the flexibility and customization clients expect.
Savvy Wealth
Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) for independent financial advisors, today announced the launch of a proprietary private markets program for advisors on its platform. The multi-vintage program will open access to a variety of asset classes with an initial focus on a select group of venture and growth managers typically beyond the reach of everyday investors. Advisors on Savvy’s platform will be able to bring qualified-purchaser clients into these pre-IPO investments through a single commitment.
Companies are staying private longer than ever. Private companies now far outnumber public ones among U.S. businesses with more than $100 million in revenue1, so much of their growth now happens before an IPO, if one happens at all. A portfolio built only on public markets misses that opportunity. And the funds that invest in private companies are often hard to access, with high minimums and more investor demand than they can take on.
Savvy chose to partner with Allocate, a $5.8 billion private markets technology platform that works with more than 400 advisor firms, to build the private markets program. Together the two firms will partner on manager selection and portfolio construction to bring the best ideas to Savvy advisors.
Schwab Advisor Services
Schwab Advisor Services, Charles Schwab's business supporting the growth and success of more than 17,000 independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), today announced new AI solutions for RIAs, available inside Schwab Advisor Center and through the third-party solutions that connect to it. The news was announced from Schwab IMPACT®, the largest and longest running annual event for RIAs and the ecosystem that serves them.
The announcements build on Schwab's broader momentum in AI and its long-standing approach of bringing technology and human expertise together to make a difference in clients' financial lives. Across Schwab, AI is creating new opportunities to deepen client relationships, enhance experiences and help people work more effectively.
Claude for Financial Advisors, built by Anthropic, is a suite of connectors and workflow skills designed to help with research, prep, and documentation tasks that occupy an advisor’s time and keep them from client-facing work. Through an authenticated connection, RIAs can access Schwab Advisor Center data from Claude, alongside their other tools.
SEI
SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced the launch of the SEI Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund (DAF) solution powered by TIFIN Give, a TIFIN company, and sponsored by GiveClear Foundation. The solution expands the planning capabilities available through SEI's comprehensive wealth management platform to deliver a more connected client experience by incorporating charitable giving into broader wealth, tax, estate, and legacy planning conversations.
As charitable giving becomes an increasingly important component of wealth management, advisors are seeking ways to integrate philanthropy into client relationships rather than directing clients to standalone solutions. By keeping advisors at the center of charitable planning, the SEI Charitable Fund helps strengthen client relationships, foster multigenerational engagement, and streamline fund administration.
The launch builds on SEI's strategic investment in TIFIN, first announced in 2024, and demonstrates the firm's approach to combining its financial technology, custody, investment, and operational capabilities with specialized industry partners. Earlier this year, the companies announced a strategic partnership through which TIFIN Give provides a white-labeled donor-advised fund solution to SEI's bank and affiliated wealth clients.
SMArtX Advisory Solutions
SMArtX Advisory Solutions ("SMArtX"), a leading innovator in managed accounts technology, has announced the addition of new investment strategies from 21 asset management firms to its Manager Marketplace. The firm's Manager Marketplace now partners with 383 distinguished asset management firms offering 2,723 investment strategies.
Softlab360
Softlab360, an end-to-end software development and engineering partner for wealth management and fintech firms, today announced three milestones that broaden its role in the wealth management ecosystem. The firm has joined The Wealth Mosaic (TWM), the global wealth management solutions network, and brought on wealthtech executive Patrick Spencer, Founder and CEO, Spencer Business Strategies, LLC, to lead strategic partnership development on a fractional basis. In addition, ThinkAdvisor has named the firm a finalist for the 2026 Luminaries Awards for its engineering work on Blue Vault's Alternative Investment Research Portal.
As a new member of TWM, a global network that connects wealth managers with the technology and solution providers that serve them, Softlab360 gives wealth management firms a direct line to a partner that can do more than recommend technology. The firm can help them make new and existing solutions work together.
Most wealth managers rely on many systems, including custodians, portfolio management systems, financial planning tools, CRMs, trading platforms and document systems. Each new solution a firm adopts has to connect with the others so data flows intelligently and is applied based on its meaning. Through TWM, Softlab360 can share its experience with integration, data engineering and AI-driven workflows across the interconnected elements of this network. The company opens the door to collaboration with other participating members to help firms modernize gradually, without a full rip-and-replace.
Tandems
Tandems, an AI-native wealth operating system for financial advisors, today announced the launch of Hamilton, a new AI assistant that can handle up to 80% of a financial advisor’s daily tasks. Hamilton plugs natively into the majority of core systems that its customers use across banking and wealth, unlocks dozens of tools Tandems has custom-built for advisors, and runs on proprietary verticalized AI built on a multi-model architecture. Its Model Harness Optimizer draws on the best capabilities of Claude by Anthropic, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini. The result is an assistant with an intuitive understanding of the work financial advisors are expected to do every day.
Tandems was founded in 2006, and Hamilton is built from the knowledge it has gained over decades studying the workflow of the more than 5,000 advisors at major financial institutions like Wells Fargo, Scotiabank, Citizens and New York Life who use its platform. Hamilton leverages this deep domain knowledge, understanding the time in an advisor’s day taken up by a multitude of repetitive tasks across legacy systems. It is specifically trained on this work, with a user experience designed for how advisors operate, and going deeper into an advisor’s workflow than competing tools that have largely focused on simple tasks like note taking. It is capable of handling everything from complex, higher-risk workflows around financial planning and portfolio rebalancing through to time consuming client reviews, meeting preparation, proactive client communication, account opening, asset transfer, and paperwork.
Tandems’ large institutional clients are looking to empower their advisors with modern tools while relying on critical legacy systems in their day-to-day business. Tandems’ platform has been pre-integrated with the major core systems its enterprise clients rely on every day: brokerage (including Schwab, Fidelity, National Financial and Pershing), banking (including FIS and Fiserv), CRM (including Salesforce), and productivity and workflow (Microsoft, Google, Docusign and others). This allows Tandems to integrate and launch with clients in weeks, with minimal client lift, so they see the benefit of tools like Hamilton much faster.
TradeStation Securities
TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation”), the brokerage firm built for active equity and derivatives traders, today announced the launch of extended hours options trading for select single stock and ETF equity options traded on Cboe Options Exchange,* providing TradeStation clients with the ability to trade eligible equity and ETF options during a pre-market session from 7:30 a.m. to 9:25 a.m. ET and an extended curb session from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET.†
The launch follows Cboe Global Markets, Inc.’s introduction of extended trading hours for select single stock and ETF options. Effective October 19, 2026, the expanded sessions provide access to options on 24 individual stocks and five ETFs outside regular U.S. trading hours, including some of the most actively traded and liquid securities.
The enhancement expands access beyond traditional market hours, giving active traders more freedom to respond to pre- and after-market earnings announcements, economic data releases, overnight geopolitical developments, and other events that may influence market sentiment before and after the regular trading session. The additional trading windows also provide clients with more opportunities to manage risk, hedge positions, and adjust their strategies as market conditions evolve.
Vestmark
Vestmark, Inc., (“Vestmark”), a leading provider of wealth management technology and services, and Allspring Global Investments™ (“Allspring”), a global asset management firm with $603 billion in assets under advisement*, today announced a strategic partnership to help registered investment advisors (RIAs) build and implement personalized, tax-aware model portfolios at scale while maintaining control over asset allocation and portfolio construction.
The partnership brings together Allspring’s broad range of differentiated public markets investment solutions and portfolio construction consultation with Vestmark’s technology, trading and tax-aware implementation capabilities. Advisors can incorporate Allspring’s institutional-quality, actively managed solutions alongside other investments within open-architecture portfolios. Built on Vestmark’s unified managed account (UMA) infrastructure, the offering provides access to outsourced investment management, trading, rebalancing, tax-aware transitions and ongoing tax management through Vestmark Advisory Solutions and its VAST tax-overlay solution, helping advisors simplify portfolio implementation and ongoing management.
Vestmark partners with 6 of the 10 largest managed account program providers, supporting more than $2 trillion in assets, more than five million investor accounts, and more than 72,000 financial advisors**. Its enterprise platform supports UMAs, model portfolios, direct indexing, tax optimization and other personalized investment programs, providing asset managers and wealth management firms with the infrastructure to deliver investment strategies at scale.
WealthBox
Wealthbox, the #1-rated CRM for financial advisors, today launched Wealthbox Vault, an add-on product that gives advisory firms unlimited file storage, full-content search, retained file versions, and a Compliance Monitor role with a complete audit log of file activity.
In addition to Vault, Wealthbox AI can now read documents stored in Wealthbox, on every Wealthbox plan. An advisor can upload a client's trust agreement and ask who the contingent beneficiaries are, or upload a signed form and have Wealthbox AI propose updates to client fields for the advisor to review.
Every Wealthbox user can store files alongside the client records, tasks, and workflows they relate to, and can now organize them in folders. Firms moving from another storage provider can upload a .zip of client folders and map each folder to a Wealthbox contact using self-service import.
WealthFeed
WealthFeed, a leading AI-powered end-to-end growth engine for financial advisors, today announced the addition of Form 5500 data to its platform, giving advisors another source of organic growth in the retirement plan market. Advisors can now search more than 780,000 retirement plans and receive alerts when new filings show changes that may signal a business opportunity. Because the plan data sits inside WealthFeed's existing platform, advisors can find warm introductions to plan decision makers and reach out through the same automated outreach they use for individual prospects. The addition extends WealthFeed's money-in-motion intelligence beyond individuals and households to businesses and plan sponsors.
More wealth advisors are pursuing retirement plan business, often by working with the 401(k) plans sponsored by business owners they already serve. These plans can also provide a path to new individual wealth management clients. According to February 2026 research from FUSE Research Network, 65% of advisors surveyed said converting retirement plan participants into wealth management clients was easier than acquiring clients through traditional marketing or referrals.
Employers that sponsor retirement plans file Form 5500 annually with the U.S. Department of Labor to report plan assets, participant counts, contributions and benefit payments. Larger plans also disclose certain service providers and their compensation. Although these filings are public, advisors have often analyzed them separately from the tools they use to prospect for individual clients. This separation makes it harder to compare plans and determine which ones to pursue.
Zocks
Zocks, the privacy-first AI platform for financial services, today announced a partnership with Founders Financial Securities, LLC, one of the nation's leading privately held independent broker-dealers and RIA firms. Zocks is now part of the TRU Enterprise OS technology stack, available to all Founders’ Member Partners across its nationwide community. Alongside the Zocks team, Founders has partnered with each Member Partner on its adoption, use, best practices, and workflows to empower its advisors to scale and grow their enterprises.
With Zocks automating time-consuming administrative work across the business, from meeting notes and manual data entry to onboarding new clients, advisors at Founders can focus on serving clients and growing the relationships at the center of their practices.
Zocks stood out for the depth of its integrations and its ability to work seamlessly with Founders’ existing technology stack. Zocks automatically captures details and context from client conversations, turns them into structured data, and syncs that data across supported CRM, portfolio management, and planning tools, including Redtail, Wealthbox, Salesforce, Orion, and PreciseFP, as well as more than 370 fields in eMoney. Because Zocks also pulls data from those connected systems, Member Partner advisors at Founders now walk into each meeting with an up-to-date, comprehensive client summary. Afterward, their meeting notes, follow-up emails, and any forms are already populated with relevant details from both the conversation and connected systems, ready to review and send.