Envestnet is partnering with Goldman Sachs fintech spinoff Simon Markets to enable advisors to offer structured investments as fee-based solutions, the companies said in a joint announcement Tuesday.
Envestnet's integration plan will make it possible for advisors using Envestnet's financial wellness ecosystem and unified managed account platform to offer structured investments as fee-based solutions and also "seamlessly manage these products across their lifecycle using analytics, education, and portfolio allocation tools" from Simon, they said.
UMAs are a key component of many broker-dealers' fee-based businesses, the firms noted.
Simon's tools and analytics will also be integrated in workflows within Envestnet | MoneyGuide and Envestnet | Tamarac.
Separately, Envestnet | Yodlee and Capital One Financial Corp. announced a data access agreement for mutual customers on Wednesday. The deal allows Capital One customers to more reliably and effectively connect to and send their financial information to the more than 1,500 third-party applications powered by the Envestnet | Yodlee financial data aggregation platform, the companies said in a joint announcement.
Goldman Selects BondNav
InspereX licensed its BondNav fixed income market technology to the Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions platform providing custody solutions to independent RIAs, the companies said.
InspereX granted the exclusive license to Goldman Sachs to be the only custodian with a white-labeled version of BondNav providing the front-end user experience for fixed income, they said in a joint announcement.
BondNav digitizes fixed income capital markets by aggregating retail, middle-market and institutional bond markets, giving advisors a "competitive advantage," the firms said.
BondNav makes it simple for RIAs to customize their fixed income market experience to align with their workflows so they see the bonds they want, when they want, reducing market complexity and rapidly accelerating RIA productivity, they said.
Goldman Sachs also increased its equity position in InspereX. As a shareholder of predecessor firm Incapital since 2012, Goldman had a long history with Incapital before Incapital's merger with 280 CapMarkets to form InspereX earlier this year. Specifics on Goldman's equity stake weren't provided.
Eaglebrook Intros Crypto Education Platform
Eaglebrook Advisors launched Eaglebrook IQ, a crypto educational platform for advisors, providing training and education on the emerging digital asset market.
Eaglebrook IQ is available for free to more than 2,000 advisors across the U.S. as part of Eaglebrook's network, it said Thursday. Eaglebrook now works with more than 500 advisors who it said are actively allocating to Eaglebrook's Crypto separately managed accounts.
The new education platform "enables financial advisors with the educational resources needed to educate themselves as well as their clients on investment in digital assets," according to the company.
EAS Adds Crypto Trading for Advisors
The clients of custodian Equity Advisor Solutions will be able to trade industry-leading cryptocurrencies as EAS becomes one of the earliest companies to offer trading of standard, alternative and cryptocurrency assets on a single platform.
