Investment Advisory
Extend the capabilities of your firm with investment advisory services, including turnkey tax management and access to third-party strategies.
Expertise That Delivers
Wealth firms and asset managers can unlock growth potential by tapping into Vestmark Investment Advisory solutions and our investment management platform.
Gain Time
Spend less energy on tax complexities and more time strengthening client relationships and driving strategies
Expand Offerings
Access Vestmark’s Model Marketplace, offering thousands of third-party strategies and seamless fixed income integration
Mitigate Risk
Outsource key functions to us to benefit from our expertise and help reduce your own risk exposure
Offload Tax Complexity
Tax management, tax transitions, and direct indexing can eat up resources—we handle it all with rules set by you
Asset Managers, Elevated
Partnering with Vestmark helps asset managers launch products and expand distribution through our Model Marketplace
Essential Solutions at Your Fingertips
Turnkey Tax Management
Enhance after-tax performance across a large client base through sophisticated, automated, and personalized tax management.
Simplified Tax Transitions
Whether addressing one-time events for a specific client or conducting a mass account onboarding, do so in a tax-efficient manner.
Model Marketplace
Helping match top advisors to 2,300+ strategies from 260+ of the best asset managers.
Direct Indexing
Replicate indices while making adjustments to suit client needs, and do so efficiently even with a large number of accounts.
Fixed Income
Efficiently and seamlessly include fixed income assets in a tax-aware manner alongside equities within a UMA structure.
Outsourced Services
Our expertise goes beyond these specific products and solutions – work with us for help solving additional needs.
Advanced Features and Experience
Assemble the right solution set from our core platform and overlaid capabilities.
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Integrates with Our Advisor Dashboard
Outsourced and third-party solutions integrate seamlessly into our Advisor Suite, putting more solutions at advisors’ fingertips
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Powered by the Vestmark Platform
Outsourced tax management and fixed income transactions are conducted via Vestmark, ensuring scale and reliability
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Industry Expertise from Our Own RIA
Vestmark's seasoned internal advisory professionals review and oversee transactions, putting our experience in your hands
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Fee Flexibility & Seamless Integration
Our fee transparency and white label services let you structure and deliver offerings your way
You know where you want to go. We help you get there.
Vestmark is your partner in growth. We bring insights and problem-solving expertise gained from serving some of the largest wealth firms and adapt them to meet your needs.
Guides
Learn how a model marketplace helps a home office distribute approved models, govern advisor access, and keep adoption and implementation consistent across the advisor network.
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- Tax Managed Investing Solutions for RIAs
- Tax Managed Investing Solutions for Broker-Dealers
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What does Vestmark's investment advisory offering provide?
Vestmark's investment advisory offering extends the capabilities of a firm with investment advisory services, including turnkey tax management and access to third-party strategies. Its solutions include Turnkey Tax Management, Simplified Tax Transitions, Model Marketplace, Direct Indexing, Fixed Income and Outsourced Services. Wealth firms and asset managers can tap into these solutions and Vestmark's investment management platform.
How does Vestmark support advisory firms with model portfolio management?
Vestmark's Model Marketplace gives firms access to third-party strategies, with seamless fixed income integration. Vestmark connects model marketplace functionality with portfolio management, trading and rebalancing workflows, and scalable implementation infrastructure. Its platform capabilities include systematic drift monitoring that identifies portfolios diverging from model targets, and automated propagation processes that apply provider changes consistently across all affected accounts.
What support does Vestmark provide to advisory firms after implementation?
Vestmark approaches support as an extension of the platform itself, with the goal of ensuring firms can operate their workflows effectively as they grow. This includes guidance aligned with real portfolio management, trading, rebalancing, reporting and data workflows, support teams with domain expertise in wealth management operations, and continuous enablement as firms add accounts, strategies, users and complexity.
What does an investment advisory platform do for an advisory firm?
Vestmark's Investment Advisory solutions let firms outsource key functions to Vestmark to benefit from its expertise and help reduce their own risk exposure. Tax management, tax transitions and direct indexing are handled by Vestmark with rules set by the firm, and outsourced tax management and fixed income transactions are conducted via the Vestmark platform.
How do RIAs manage model portfolios across many client accounts?
Vestmark describes model management as defining model portfolios, applying models across accounts, monitoring portfolio drift, coordinating model updates and supporting account-level customization. On Vestmark's platform, model-driven execution enforces consistent trade generation from firm-defined rules across every advisor and account. As RIAs grow, the challenge shifts from finding investment strategies to implementing them consistently across client portfolios.
What should firms ask about compliance and oversight in investment advisory technology?
Vestmark's evaluation criteria call for automated enforcement of security restrictions, ESG screens and tax budgets at the account level, not manual review queues. Firms can also ask whether firm-level governance reporting surfaces model usage patterns, adoption gaps and drift indicators across the advisor population without manual account-level aggregation. For outsourced services, Vestmark's seasoned internal advisory professionals review and oversee transactions.
Investment strategies that seek to enhance after-tax performance may be unable to fully realize strategic gains or harvest losses due to various factors. Market conditions may limit the ability to generate tax losses. Tax-loss harvesting involves the risks that the new investment could perform worse than the original investment and that transaction costs could offset the tax benefit. Also, a tax-managed strategy may cause a client portfolio to hold a security in order to achieve more favorable tax treatment or to sell a security in order to create tax losses. Prospective investors should consult with a tax or legal advisor before making any investment decision.
There are limitations inherent in the use of an optimization methodology to manage accounts relative to a designated index; for instance, the optimization tools are not designed to account for current market conditions and any short-term market fluctuations. The optimization tools may seek to estimate individual tax circumstances but cannot incorporate all individual tax information, potentially leading to inaccuracies. Its functions consist of identifying opportunities for tax-loss harvesting and rebalancing relative to an investor’s designated index and initiating buy/sell orders accordingly. There is also a risk that the optimization tools and related software used for accounts may not perform within intended parameters, which may result in a portfolio that does not mimic the characteristics of the designated index, and trigger at inappropriate or suboptimal times or fail to initiate at appropriate or optimal times, rebalancing and/or tax-loss harvesting trading.
There is no assurance that investment products based upon indices will accurately track index performance or provide positive investment returns. Inclusion of a security within an index is not a recommendation by VAS to buy, sell, or hold such security, nor is it considered to be investment advice.