The word Harvest, symbolic during the Fall season, has its origins from the 5th century and the Anglo-Saxons haerfest “autumn”. An old term used in modern society today, to harvest means to gather or refers to the season itself for gathering crops. In investing, we...
Do Your Clients Deposit Money into their Brokerage Accounts and Not Tell You? Clients do not always provide the same information flow that they may expect of their investment advisors. Events may change the impetus for a financial plan and investment decisions are...
UMAs are the Modern Day Evolution of Brokerage Account Structures Unified Managed Accounts (‘UMAs’) are the result of an industry that originated with brokers opening commission-based accounts with no access to third party managers which then migrated to SMAs with...
Limited by Your Strategy Selection? Many firms these days call themselves turnkey asset management platforms (‘TAMPs’) but beneath the name there are ‘product’ TAMPs and ‘platform’ TAMPS. The difference? With a ‘product’ version, almost all the strategies are theirs...
The acronym ‘TAMP’ (Turnkey Asset Management Platform) is used freely across the financial industry, denoting an investment platform used to facilitate and streamline investment operations. The proliferation of the term, TAMP, has been spurred by the several different...
SMArtX INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES Access to a diversified range of non-correlated investment strategies can be key for larger firms to cater to their extensive, and often sophisticated, client base. Smaller RIAs limited by a reduced sample size of investment strategies...
