Welcome to the November 2025 difficulty of the Newest Information in Monetary #AdvisorTech – the place we take a look at the large information, bulletins, and underlying developments and developments which are rising on the planet of know-how options for monetary advisors!
This month’s version kicks off with the information that RightCapital has introduced a brand new characteristic to streamline the method of switching monetary planning software program platforms by scanning uploaded PDF planning paperwork from eMoney and routinely importing the info into RightCapital (whereas for its half, eMoney has revealed that it has quietly been utilizing the identical know-how to import consumer plans into its platform for the final 12 months) – which on the one hand is notable in that it addresses a significant ache level insofar as switching prices is usually a main hurdle for advisors in switching to a unique (and higher) software program resolution, but in addition raises the query of why AdvisorTech suppliers are selecting to put money into instruments designed to decrease the (largely self-imposed) value of switching, moderately than merely making it simpler for advisors to export and migrate their shoppers’ knowledge and investing extra into enhancing their instruments’ core capabilities as an alternative?
From there, the newest highlights additionally characteristic quite a few different fascinating advisor know-how bulletins, together with:
- Advyzon has introduced the upcoming launch of a brand new monetary planning providing to enrich its portfolio administration and CRM instruments, elevating questions on whether or not it could proceed its run of extremely rated software program choices, or if it should repeat the struggles encountered by different “all-in-one” suppliers in getting all of their parts so as to add as much as greater than the sum of their components
- Monetary planning software program supplier Parts has reportedly been foreclosed on by its collectors and can probably be both bought to a brand new proprietor or shut down fully – which on the one hand replicate Parts’ failure to articulate a transparent worth proposition for itself to advisors after quite a few adjustments in its advertising and marketing pitch, however at a extra elementary degree is indicative of how “planning gentle” instruments wrestle to unravel the issues that shoppers truly rent their advisors to unravel
- A number of high-profile former AdvisorTech founders have teamed as much as launch Hamachi, a brand new device for shortly producing AI-created e-mail responses to shoppers’ funding questions – which raises the query of whether or not the time spent writing an e-mail in response to a consumer query is best thought of as an funding within the consumer relationship (and subsequently well worth the time spent), or if it could possibly be spent extra productively on different duties (through which case it is higher to automate away)?
Learn the evaluation about these bulletins on this month’s column, and a dialogue of extra developments in advisor know-how, together with:
- AI notetaker Soar has introduced its acquisition of the human-driven assembly transcription service Cell Assistant, representing a shift to a brand new enterprise capital-fueled growth-by-acquisition technique by Soar to consolidate its market share in an more and more aggressive AI notetaker market (and signaling to different notetakers that point could also be working out to realize traction, or else pivot to a unique technique or maybe be acquired themselves)
- Dispatch, a “knowledge orchestration” resolution for advisory corporations, has raised $18M in Sequence A funding, suggesting that their resolution for syncing consumer knowledge throughout a number of know-how instruments (without having to depend on point-to-point integrations or costly knowledge warehousing instruments) could possibly be gaining traction
And make sure to learn to the top, the place we have now offered an replace to our well-liked “Monetary AdvisorTech Options Map” (and in addition added the adjustments to our AdvisorTech Listing) as effectively!
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