RIA in a Box Launches Mobile App: Tech Roundup

RIA in a Box launched a new mobile application it said was “designed to empower” RIAs to “manage compliance planning and training in the palm of their hand.”

Advisors who use the app, available for Android and Apple iOS devices, will have access to RIA in a Box’s compliance calendar, to-do list, training videos and quizzes, it said Tuesday.

Users will be able to use the app to view the compliance calendar that is available through MyRIACompliance, in addition to discrete tasks visible on their to-do lists, RIA in a Box said. The calendar shows users compliance items that have approaching deadlines, as well as any overdue items they may have missed, it noted.

Advisors using RIA in a Box’s cybersecurity module will also be able to view monthly training videos and take accompanying quizzes, it added. The clips can be watched by all employees to ensure the full team is up to date on compliance responsibilities, it said.

Advyzon Teams With Aptus to Help Advisors

Advyzon on Thursday announced a partnership with Aptus Capital Advisors that Advyzon said was designed to “help investment advisors guide their clients through challenging economic times.”

As part of the new pact, advisors engaging with risk-mitigated investing specialist ACA can leverage the Fairhope, Alabama firm’s credentialed portfolio managers for investment ideas, in addition to ACA’s operations team “to maximize the benefit” of Advyzon’s technology, Advyzon said.

Aptus works directly with each practice to deliver custom portfolios and branded commentary. Through the new Advyzon partnership, “those services can extend into a fully supported turnkey platform, including performance reporting,” customer relationship management, billing and client outreach, Advyzon said.

Advyzon and Aptus will host a joint webinar, “Building an Environment for Growth,” Aug. 6 at 1 pm Eastern time.

FP Alpha Integrates With Redtail

Redtail Technology has become the first customer relationship management integration partner of FP Alpha’s artificial-intelligence driven wealth management solution, the companies announced.

The new capability “not only eliminates the manual steps advisors previously used when uploading their client’s contact information into the FP Alpha tool, but more importantly, turns their Redtail client data into actionable financial planning recommendations,” the fintech firms said.

Integrating with Redtail “provides a way for advisors to turn their Redtail client data into personalized recommendations for their clients,” according to Andrew Altfest, FP Alpha founder and CEO. “In addition, it creates multiple efficiencies allowing them to focus on more client engagement activities,” he said in the announcement.

The new integration syncs client data, “enabling advisors to prepopulate client information from Redtail into FP Alpha and vice versa,” the firms said.

Fiduciary Trust Launches ‘Digital Vault’

Franklin Templeton subsidiary Fiduciary Trust International introduced a new “digital vault” for encrypted document-sharing.