Invesco has combined five advice solution businesses that it acquired in recent years under the Intelliflo brand name.
The five software businesses that form the new Intelliflo are: Intelliflo UK, i4C, Jemstep, Portfolio Pathway and RedBlack.
Noting that Invesco has "brought together all of its #AdviceTech capabilities," Gavin Spitzner, president of Wealth Consulting Partners, pointed out in a tweet on Monday that the "unified organization serves 30k+ advisors, 3 million end investors and $900bb assets under advisement."
Timothy Welsh, president, CEO and founder of consulting firm Nexus Strategy, told ThinkAdvisor the move is a sign that Invesco is "positioned to go head to head with Envestnet."
However, it remains to be seen just how successful the initiative will be. For one thing, "you cannot just throw all of the applications they owned together," according to Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today (T3).
"They all need to be deeply integrated and they need a uniform front end," he told ThinkAdvisor. "I have not seen what they have done to date, nor what the product roadmap is, so I am withholding judgement for now."
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The new Intelliflo "will be able to offer its customers around the world a broader range of end-to-end solutions that span the advisory lifecycle, from financial planning and practice management to portfolio management solutions, digital advisory and managed services," according to Invesco.
The five solutions are being combined to offer four distinct offerings:
