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SMArtX Virtual Awards Spotlight – Kingsview Investment Management Blue Chips Elite
Best Risk-Adjusted Returns – Equities Kingsview Investment Management Blue Chips Elite featuring Scott Martin, CIO, and Co-Portfolio Manager Neil Peplinski Link to this WEBINAR In the second episode of the SMArtX 2021 Virtual Awards Webinar Series, SMArtX CEO Evan Rapoport sat down with Scott Martin, CIMAⓇ — the CIO of Kingsview — and Neil Peplinski, CFA — the Co-Portfolio Manager of Kingsview — to discuss Kingsview Investment Management Blue Chips Elite Portfolio winning the Best...
SMArtX Virtual Awards Strategy Spotlight – IDX Crypto Opportunity Index
Best Performing Direct Index Strategy IDX Crypto Opportunity Index featuring Ben McMillan, Founder & CIO of IDX Insights Link to this WEBINARIn the first episode of the SMArtX 2021 Virtual Awards Podcast, SMArtX CEO Evan Rapoport sat down with the Founder and CIO of IDX Insights, Ben McMillan, to discuss IDX Crypto Opportunity Index winning the Best Performing Direct Index Strategy in this year's awards. Evan and Ben talk about the importance of mitigating risk in the marketplace, how...
Tax Harvesting with SMArtX Advisory Solutions
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 have adapted the word ‘harvest’ to refer to end-of-year tax-planning, performed on behalf of clients, which seeks to reduce their tax liabilities by offsetting capital gains with losses. The net effect of harvesting is to reduce a...
Forget To Mention They Added Cash to the Account?
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 made without the input of the investment advisor on occasion. One aspect that affects the performance of a portfolio, and possibly the perception of the investment advisor’s acuity, is when a client moves cash into the account being...
Unified Managed Accounts (UMAs)
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 relatively high minimums and only one strategy. UMAs were inspired by an industry seeking greater transparency, better information flow, and increased ease of use, all with lower administrative burdens, and are being adopted at an...
Product TAMPs vs. Platform TAMPs
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 and the ‘managers’ are them. These are product platforms being run by asset managers, not full service ‘platform’ TAMPs being run by an independent platform provider like SMArtX Advisory Solutions. These ‘product’ versions can...
Four Characteristics of a Strong TAMP
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 types of firms who have launched platforms and want to be easily associated with a burgeoning industry. However, not all TAMPs are built the same, and some using the moniker are merely product platforms or marketplaces where you...
Diversification
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 put them at an immediate disadvantage to larger firms, particularly during times of market volatility when clients are looking for answers on how to best address sharp market movements. Firms can be limited in many ways due to a...
Achieving Scale
SMArtX INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES A key element to any growing firm is the ability to effectively scale current operations and output. Failure to do so can result in decreasing product quality, deteriorating customer service, and overall loss of business. Fortunately for financial professionals there has been a wave of financial technology developments that have only just begun to disrupt the industry. Turnkey Asset Management Platforms (TAMPs) like SMArtX Advisory Solutions play an instrumental...
Real Time Trading
SMArtX INSTITUTIONAL SERVICES The retail investor’s trading speed is often said to come a distant second to the fast-paced order routing of institutional investors. Investment firms have even been set up physically closer to exchange to cut down on the time it takes for a trade to reach the datacenter. This type of speed is even more relevant in today’s volatile market as sharp intra-day moves means trading T+1, later in the afternoon, or even in the next hour can mean missed opportunity and...