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Elevating 22c-2 efficiency: Self-service vs. full-service with Clarity Compliance

In the world of asset management, maintaining regulatory compliance while efficiently managing resources is a top priority. The challenges of 22c-2 compliance, such as consolidating data from diverse sources and accurately monitoring market timing violations, demand a holistic approach. Data needed for 22c-2 comes from your Transfer Agent, Sub-Accounting systems, Trust Dealers, Intermediaries, and proprietary sources. For non-NSCC sources, a manual process is required to submit requests, obtain the information, integrate, and analyze it. How can this be done more efficiently?

Timely intelligence drives more productive meetings

After implementing a unified CRM system for both their institutional and intermediary businesses, Hotchkis & Wiley Capital Management sought to better leverage intelligence for more productive client meetings and targeted marketing campaigns. Their objectives were twofold:

From Manual to Automated: Weitz Supports Direct Account and Intermediary Relationships with SalesPage

Weitz Investment Management was facing a challenge: How to improve how they identified, managed, and supported relationships with their Direct Account business. These accounts have no designated advisor or intermediary relationship but come directly to Weitz. Direct Accounts sometimes require more frequent communication and response to both simple and complex requests. To provide this support and grow their business, Weitz sought to create a 360-degree view of both their Direct and Intermediary Clients in one place, their CRM.

Use Teams Data + Advisor IP Matching to target high-value prospects

In the competitive world of asset management, identifying and targeting high-value prospects is crucial for success. Fortunately, two powerful tools—Teams Data and Advisor IP Matching—can work in tandem to help asset managers achieve this goal. By leveraging these datasets, you can gain insights into potential clients actively seeking new investment products, understand their roles within their teams, and build more effective marketing strategies. Layering this data with additional metrics such as AUM, sales, redemptions, distribution expenses, and expense ratios will enable you to calculate profitability scores for advisors more accurately than ever before, resulting in a higher ROI approach to prospecting.

Strategic alignment ensures a successful step into the ETF market for Touchstone Investments

When Touchstone Investments launched their first two ETFs, they knew they needed to get the data right to ensure accurate reporting and commissioning. This meant refining their data strategy to enable the linking of ETF financials to existing client records and presenting the data in the right ways to return business value. They knew they got it right after the first two months of ETF financials were processed according to plan with few issues encountered. What were the main drivers of this successful outcome?

Weathering market swings with sales, top performer, and team data

The market swings from good to bad and sometimes, even sideways. How can asset managers prepare a distribution strategy that will weather market swings? This article shares how a combination of sales, top performer, and advisor team data can help you find opportunities in any market, focus distribution and marketing efforts, and retain and gain A-list clients.

Retail + Institutional = 360˚ view of your Distribution

Ignites article, Retail, Institutional Data Divide Hurts Sales, highlighted how sharing data and coordinating analytics can help both channels be more effective in their distribution efforts. For teams that have historically been siloed, how do you best go about this? This article guides you through the process starting with how retail and institutional teams function with unique data requirements to how they can work better, together, with actionable analytics in a shared CRM.

Find the right data path: A guide for boutique asset managers

As boutique asset managers compete with their peers and larger counterparts, data can offer a competitive advantage. There are a growing number of data sources and technologies available to help you gain and retain the right clients, but where do you start? Here are four steps that will put you on the right path to make your data actionable and valuable for your firm’s sales and marketing efforts.

New partnerships and enhancements take your team data to the next level

Intermediary vs. Institutional Distribution Data

Data management requirements for institutional and intermediary distribution channels differ dramatically. Chances are that you built out separate systems and the data division is hurting sales. That doesn’t have to be the case! Read Tom Larson’s article on how you can support both, together in the same CRM.