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Envestnet Launches Custom Strategies With 4 Big Asset Managers

News June 05, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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  • The alliances will focus on three key growth areas, including solutions for UHNW clients.
  • Advisors and clients want customization at scale, a top Envestnet exec says.
  • The offerings will also include direct indexing solutions.

Envestnet is launching personalized investment strategies for advisors and their clients through expanded partnerships with BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Franklin Templeton and State Street Global Advisors, the fintech firm announced Wednesday.

Envestnet plans to work with these asset managers to build tailored portfolio strategies that advisors can use to help individual investors address specific financial goals, risk tolerances and personal circumstances, it said in a statement.

The fintech plans to offer the strategies to the more than 109,000 advisors using its platform.

"By bringing these solutions from asset managers into our ecosystem, we believe advisors will be able to capture share and serve more of their clients' unique needs," Tom Sipp, executive vice president, Envestnet business lines, said in a statement.

The asset managers will offer unified managed account-eligible direct indexing, custom high-net-worth solutions and more on Envestnet's platform and invest in enhancements to Envestnet's UMA ecosystem.

Specifically, the alliances will focus on:

  • UMA-eligible personalized direct index solutions from each of the managers
  • One-to-many models that allow advisors to offer high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients solutions
  • One-to-many or one-to-one models for accounts over $1 million, created to client specifications and featuring asset manager solutions, created by the asset manager or Envestnet PMC, and supported by investment and client-facing portfolio managers.

"Our advisors and their clients are asking for personalization at scale and affordable platform options that leverage our UMA capabilities," said Dana D'Auria, group president of solutions and co-chief investment officer at Envestnet.

"We believe working with a focused opportunity set of like-minded asset managers invested in our mutual success will enable us to provide the choice and functionality our clients want now and the roadmap to an even more enhanced ecosystem down the line," she said.

As part of what Envestnet describes as deepening relationships with the company, the partners will commit to senior management planning and focused sales efforts.

Expanding BlackRock's relationship with Envestnet will build on its efforts to position itself  as a key partner to advisors, "helping them access solutions to meet the unique needs of high-net-worth investors … , and offering them customizable options to reflect client preferences across taxes and values," said Jaime Magyera, co-head of BlackRock's U.S. wealth advisor business.

According to Jeff Masom, Franklin Templeton's head of U.S. distribution, the strategic relationship with Envetnet will help the firm provide additional customization and options for a wider financial advisor audience.

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