Personal Advisor Group launched Greenhouse this week, a brand new, all-in-one expertise platform for its affiliated unbiased advisors and their groups.
“Greenhouse was created to additional combine our tech stack with extra experiences and assets,” mentioned Patrick Sullivan, who heads up expertise and serves as chief of workers at Personal Advisor Group, the Morristown, N.J.-based RIA and LPL-affiliated workplace of supervisory jurisdiction that manages greater than $35 billion in belongings.
He mentioned the brand new platform may very well be likened to an enhanced useful resource middle with a set of expertise suppliers, assets and guides to help advisors in managing the operations of their follow and their regulatory workflows.
Sullivan mentioned the agency continues to assist and curate the expertise suppliers which were a part of its core providing, together with platforms like Orion, eMoney, Riskalyze and Redtail, and people of its core custodian corporations like LPL, Schwab and Constancy. Greenhouse provides single sign-on to those companies, which he added are integral to advisors’ workflows and shopper service.
There isn’t any payment for PAG-affiliated advisors to make use of Greenhouse. For third-party expertise suppliers, advisors would nonetheless have their very own subscriptions with the respective corporations.
As well as, Greenhouse has streamlined document reporting and a web-based group for sharing real-time concepts, crowd-sourcing solutions to shopper and advisor questions, and networking.
“The shift with Greenhouse isn’t about changing these instruments, however about enhancing effectivity and appearing as a house base for advisors to securely entry all their important purposes in a single place, with out the trouble of managing a number of passwords,” he mentioned.
Whereas the agency declined to supply particular particulars about the fee or finances for the brand new expertise, Sullivan mentioned Greenhouse represents a major funding and “will stay a key line merchandise in our total expertise finances, as we now have made substantial investments for its launch and are dedicated to future additions and enhancements.”
Greenhouse was partially constructed in-house with engineering assist from outsourced developer Euvic, which is headquartered in Poland. Sullivan mentioned that Personal Advisor Group has had a long-standing relationship with the agency.
PAG was co-founded in 1997 by John Hyland and Pat Sullivan as Morristown Monetary Group.