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A dramatic growth in RIA firms using 280 CapMarkets's cloud-based BondNav fixed income trading and software-based price discovery platform highlights the success of the company's new features and other enhancements, according to Gurinder Ahluwalia, the company's CEO and co-founder.
There are now 175-200 RIA firms using BondNav, he told ThinkAdvisor, up significantly from the 80 or so firms he said were using the platform late last year. The platform has $1.5 billion worth of trading volume each month, up from $500 million a year ago. This growth has come despite declining rates, he added.
What drives growth are the updates recently made to BondNav that the company said further streamlines bond investing and portfolio management for financial advisors and their clients. Those new features include: daily email alerts highlighting bonds that match user inquiries; an easier way to sell bonds; the ability for advisors to seamlessly monitor their portfolios, view search matches and obtain trade ideas, all within BondNav's dashboard; and access to details on thousands of direct corporate and municipal offerings, the firm stated in a release.
The enhancements were made in response to feedback from independent advisors, Ahluwalia said, adding: "With the yield curve flattening and even inverting, advisors need every possible advantage to improve fixed-income returns for clients."
