Broker-Dealer Benefits

folioPilot provides several advantages for a broker-dealer. Here are some compelling arguments to offer it to your users:

  • Scalability
  • Cost-Effective
  • Diversification
  • 24/7 Accessibility
  • Objective Advice
  • Compliance and Regulation
  • Customization
  • Client Engagement
  • Cost Savings
  • Competitive Advantage
  • Data-Driven Insights
  • Summary
  • Scalability

    folioPilot efficiently handles a large number of clients simultaneously. This scalability allows you to serve a broader client base without significantly increasing your operational costs.

  • Cost Effective

    Traditional human advisors often charge high fees, which can be a barrier to entry for many investors. folioPilot facilitates a lower fee structure, making professional asset management more accessible to a wider range of clients.

  • Diversification

    folioPilot uses algorithms and data analysis to create well-diversified portfolios based on the client's risk tolerance and investment goals. This can help your clients minimize risk and optimize returns, which is a valuable service that you can offer.

  • 24/7 Accessibility

    folioPilot is available 24/7, allowing clients to make investment decisions or check their portfolios at any time. This flexibility can enhance the customer experience and build trust with clients who prefer real-time access to their investments.

  • Objective Advice

    folioPilot provides advice based on algorithms and data, reducing the potential for biased or emotionally driven investment decisions. This can help clients stay disciplined during market volatility and avoid common behavioral biases.

  • Compliance and Regulation

    By offering folioPilot's services, you can ensure that your clients receive investment advice in compliance with industry regulations. folioPilot follows predefined algorithms and are less prone to compliance errors compared to human advisors.

  • Customization

    folioPilot allows clients to customize their portfolios. This level of personalization can cater to clients with specific investment preferences while still benefiting from automated portfolio management.

  • Client Engagement

    folioPilot provides clients with user-friendly interfaces and educational resources. This can enhance client engagement and empower investors to make informed decisions about their investment thesis.

  • Cost Savings

    Offering folioPilot's services can help you reduce the cost of hiring and training human advisors. This allows you to allocate resources more efficiently and focus on higher-value services.

  • Competitive Advantage

    As folioPilot becomes more popular, those of you that offer this service can gain a competitive edge. You can attract a tech-savvy and cost-conscious clientele who may prefer the convenience of a total digital experience.

  • Data-Driven Insights

    folioPilot collects and analyzes vast amounts of data, which can provide valuable insights into client preferences and market trends. You can use this data to improve your services and tailor offerings to better meet client needs.

  • Summary

    In summary, incorporating folioPilot into your service catalog can lead to more time to service clients needs, offering the best of breed in investment management, operational cost savings and gained efficiency, scalable expenses in the event of a pandemic or a market collapse, a competitive advantage over other firms, boosting your firm's enterprise value, and gaining more relevancy in the marketplace.

Wealth Advisory Benefits

folioPilot offers several advantages for wealth advisors. Here are some compelling arguments to incorporate folioPilot into your practice:

  • Efficient Portfolio Management
  • Cost-Effective Solution
  • Diversification
  • Scalability
  • Data-Driven Insights
  • Accessibility and Convenience
  • Risk Assessment and Monitoring
  • Compliance and Reporting
  • Customization and Personalization
  • Hybrid Approach
  • Summary
  • Efficient Portfolio Management

    folioPilot efficiently manages portfolios by automating tasks such as investment thesis development, portfolio construction, daily monitoring, and rebalancing. This frees up the your time to focus on more strategic aspects of financial planning and client relationships.

  • Cost-Effective Solution

    Advisors who use folioPilot can typically charge lower fees compared to traditional human advisors, making them an attractive option for cost-conscious clients.

  • Diversification

    folioPilot utilizes sophisticated algorithms to create well-diversified portfolios tailored to each client's risk tolerance and financial goals. This helps you provide your clients with higher levels of downside protection and index beating returns than your competitors.

  • Scalability

    folioPilot efficiently handles a large number of clients and portfolios simultaneously. This scalability allows you to expand your client base without needing to significantly increase your staffing and administrative overhead.

  • Data-Driven Insights

    folioPilot uses advanced simulation techniques to make and validate an investment thesis and construct and manage the portfolio to implement it. This approach can enhance your ability to make informed decisions and adapt to changing market conditions.

  • Accessibility and Convenience

    folioPilot is accessible 24/7, providing your clients with the convenience of managing their investments at any time. With it you can position yourselve as a tech-savvy professional who caters to the modern, digitally inclined investor.

  • Risk Assessment and Monitoring

    folioPilot continuously monitors portfolios and can automatically make adjustments to align with changing market conditions or a client's changing risk profile. This proactive risk management can help prevent significant drawdowns and client dissatisfaction.

  • Compliance and Reporting

    folioPilot comes with robust compliance and reporting tools, helping you maintain accurate records and ensure they adhere to regulatory requirements.

  • Customization and Personalization

    folioPilot allows for customization within its algorithms, enabling you to tailor investment strategies to meet individual client preferences and unique financial situations.

  • Hybrid Approach

    With folioPilot you can use a hybrid approach by combining your expertise and personalized client relationships with the efficiency of a TAMP. This allows for a more hands-on approach when needed, while still benefiting from the automation and cost savings of a sophisticated TAMP.

  • Summary

    In summary, incorporating folioPilot into your practice can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and provide clients with well-managed, data-driven investement solutions. It allows you to focus on strategic financial planning and client relationships while leveraging technology to deliver a super investment experience.

Client Specific Benefits

As you're likely aware, the asset management advisory industry is in the midst of significant change. Clients now demand investment products and strategies that were previously only available to a privileged few forcing providers to provide new solutions to their customers. This disruption to the traditional model has created an opportunity for innovative advisories to deliver to their clients a highly differentiated, highly credible digital solution, folioPilot, with the following compelling benefits:

  • Superior Returns
  • Downside Protection
  • Clear Communications
  • Strategy Stress Testing
  • Accessability
  • Digital Experience 24x7
  • Ease of Use
  • Superior Returns

    folioPilot's portfolios are built through the consistent application of a set of rules. The portfolio and the positions it holds are the by-product of the strategy being followed, not the basis upon which the strategy was built. While it might be nice, it's not a requirement nor is it expected that every position in a portfolio will be a winner. That said, the overall winning rate for folioPilot's model strategies is, on average, just under 71%, enough to consistently beat the indices the strategies are being measured against.

  • Downside Protection

    While the generation of Alpha is what most clients expect from advisors, they also expect it to be achieved at levels of risk equal to or less than the indices being tracked. In fact, downside protection is the number one benefit clients expect from their advisors. To deliver that downside protection, folioPilot employs tri-directional diversification; diversification across investment strategies within an investment vehicle class, diversification across investment vehicle classes, and finally, diversification across investment vehicles within a class. folioPilot's approach has been proven over the last three major down cycles to deliver the downside protection your clients seek.

  • Clear Communications

    folioPilot facilitates the clear communication of an investment thesis and how, as a result of a strict adherence to the thesis, sustainable Alpha has historically been achieved and how it will be achieved going forward. folioPilot provides total transparency into a strategy's buy, ranking, and sell rules which brings several benefits: they ensure consistent behavior; they remove emotion and other subjective judgements from consideration; and, they enable the validation of investment strategies over as many as 30+ years, the results of which are clearly displayed for the client to not only see, but to gain the confidence needed to accept the recommended thesis and the trades necessary to implement and maintain the portfolio built to implement it.

  • Strategy Stress Testing

    folioPilot's validation engine runs each of a strategy's rules each day of the testing period using the initial results to build a conforming portfolio. The system then manages that portfolio daily by monitoring the results of the simulation for recommended trades, executes them, and records the gain or loss, while periodically recording the portfolio's summary performance. It does that throughout the testing period. As a result, the user knows how often the strategy traded, what it bought, what it sold, and when it did it. What sectors it was in and for how long, what market caps it bought and when and for how long it held them, and importantly, the strategy's risk and drawdown history among many other performance measurements. By the end of the validation, the user gains a good sense of how the strategy is likely to perform over up-, down-, for flat-markets giving the client confidence in their overall investment approach. A confident investor who trades in accordance with a proven strategy will over time beat the market.

  • Accessability

    With folioPilot portfolio owners have access to the same asset classes and investment strategies that were previously only available to UHNW and large institutional investors; something next next generation investors are demanding.

  • Digital Experience 24x7

    Due to the cloud based nature of our service offering, our partners are able to offer their clients a total digital experience 24x7, again something the next generation of investor now demands.

  • Ease of Use

    folioPilot incorporates the latest of technologoies to faciliate it's ease of use either on a desktop or a mobile device. In an effort to quickly identify trends or anomalies in the results data, graphics have replaced data tables wherever possible. folioPilot also incorporates a comprehensive help system where every feature and function is fully explained.

Differing Technologies

We've been building FINTech technologies for over 36 years. Our clients have led us to the development of leading edge technologies for both trading and long-term investment with some investors and even some professionals claiming that backtesting and simulation are the same thing. They aren't!

Backtesting

Backtesting is the process of evaluating the performance of a known portfolio when a trading strategy is applied to the portfolio over a historical time period. This technique allows traders to quantify how a trading strategy might have performed in the past, offering insights into its potential future performance when applied to another portfolio.

Backtesting can be an important tool for both institutional and individual traders. By reviewing a trading strategy's historical performance, traders can identify strengths and weaknesses in their trading approach, allowing them to refine their methods before applying them to real-world scenarios.



Simulation

Simulation, while somewhat similar to, and often confused with backtesting, is the process of evaluating the performance of an investment strategy. This technique allows long-term investors to validate their investment approach over various market conditions prior to funding, thereby gaining confidence in it. Whereas backtesting starts with a known portfolio, simulation builds a portfolio and then manages that portfolio over time to determine how the strategy performed across multiple markets: up, down, or sideways.

Using advanced simulation to validate an investment thesis can be a powerful and beneficial approach. Here are several compelling arguments in favor of it:



  • Realistic Scenario Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Complex Investment Strategies
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Long-Term Planning
  • Incorporating Fundamental Factors
  • Learning and Iteration
  • Stress Testing
  • Enhanced Communication
  • Competing Advantage
  • Summary
  • Realistic Scenario Analysis

    Advanced simulations allow investors to create highly realistic scenarios that take into account a wide range of variables and market conditions. This enables them to model potential outcomes with greater accuracy than traditional methods. By considering various scenarios, investors can assess the robustness of their investment thesis under different circumstances.

  • Risk Assessment

    Simulations helps investors identify and quantify risks associated with their investment thesis. By running simulations with different risk factors and assumptions, investors can gain a better understanding of the potential downside and develop strategies to mitigate those risks.

  • Complex Invcestment Strategies

    Some investment theses involve complex strategies or financial instruments that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. Advanced simulations can handle the intricacies of these strategies and provide a more comprehensive view of their potential outcomes.

  • Sensitivity Analysis

    Simulations allow for sensitivity analysis, which involves varying input parameters to understand how changes in these variables affect the investment thesis. This helps investors identify the key drivers of their thesis and assess the impact of uncertainties.

  • Long-Term Planning

    Many investments have long-term horizons, and traditional financial models may not adequately capture the dynamics of multi-year or multi-decade investments. Simulations can extend the analysis over a longer time frame, helping investors make more informed decisions about long-term investments.

  • Incorporating Fundamental Factors

    Investment theses are not based on purely market data. Factors drawn from point-in-time fundamental data like revenue, cost of sales, and earnings per share can, and do, significantly impact the securities chosen for inclusion in a portfolio. Advanced simulations incorporate these factors into the construction of an investment thesis and its analysis, providing a more holistic view of a strategy's performance.

  • Learning and Iteration

    Simulations offer a platform for continuous learning and iteration. Investors can refine their models and assumptions as they incorporate more data or as market conditions evolve. This adaptability can be invaluable in making informed investment decisions over time.

  • Stress Testing

    Simulations can stress test investment theses by subjecting them to extreme scenarios or "black swan" events. This helps investors assess the resilience of their thesis and make adjustments to ensure it can withstand unexpected challenges.

  • Enhanced Communication

    Advanced simulations help investors communicate their thesis more effectively to stakeholders. Visualizing complex data and scenarios can make it easier to convey the investment scenario.

  • Competitive Advantage

    Utilizing advanced simulation tools give investors a competitive advantage by enabling them to make more informed and data-driven decisions. This can lead to better investment choices and improved portfolio performance.

  • Summary

    Advanced simulations offer a sophisticated and versatile approach to validating investment theses. They provide a more comprehensive understanding of potential outcomes, help identify and manage risks, and allow for continuous refinement of strategies. Incorporating simulation into the investment analysis process can lead to more informed, resilient, and successful investment decisions.

folioPilot is simple to use, yet disruptive in terms of its sophistication

folioPilot is a cloud-based asset management platform designed to easily integrate into other technologies already in use to support and grow your businesses. It is the only platform based on intelligent, pre-validated, multi-investment vehicle class strategies where the rules of the strategies guide the selection and disposition of actively managed investment vehicles. It's highly differentiated and state-of-the-art.

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Supported TAMP Models

folioPilot supports five basic TAMP models: Mutual Fund Wrap Accounts, Exchange-traded Fund Wrap Accounts, Separately Managed Accounts, Unified Managed Accounts, and Unified Managed Household Accounts.

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Trading & Custodial
Integrations

Through our Trading Console, users can seamlessly access third-party trading and custodial platforms. This can further drive efficiency and deliver an ecosystem of best-of-breed providers.