Help maximize results.
Optimize your time. 
Let us help you do both.
At AE Wealth Management, we’re all about letting advisors focus on what they do best in their day-to-day work.
And for most of the advisors we work with, that’s helping clients — not diving into the nitty-gritty details of the latest investment strategies or analyzing and tweaking portfolio allocations to generate higher returns.
Instead, we’re here to do that for you.
Think of us as your go-to investing partners, ready to help you maximize returns and minimize risk for your clients. You can access this assistance in two ways:
We create and manage turnkey models you can use in your clients’ portfolios. Investment Adviser Representatives (IARs) and Third-Party Registered Investment Advisers (TPRIAs) can take advantage of these pre-built models, ranging from conservative to aggressive.
And we don’t just manage the models. We also provide regular reports and commentaries on model performance, ready for you to use in your conversations with clients.
Do you prefer to utilize customized models built specifically for your firm? No problem!
Instead of going at it alone, partner with AEWM Investment Consulting Group. We’ll help you design a program aligned with your investing philosophies.
We can:
- Assist in building your investment philosophy guide
- Select appropriate model benchmarks
- Analyze asset allocation within your models
- Pinpoint ways to help avoid unintended overlap within client portfolios
- Suggest alternative options to optimize returns
- Identify tax-efficient strategies
- Find strategies for reducing expenses
- Help reduce the need for an in-house CIO (and the associated expenses that come with it)
Introductory Conversation
We’ll conduct an initial review and explore whether our consulting service is right for you.
Philosophy Alignment
We’ll delve into the AEWM investment philosophy, encompassing our approach to investments, benchmark selection and model manager supervision.
Service Engagement
You’ll engage our services by signing an advisor agreement. Then, we’ll work with you to establish an investment philosophy guide and create model benchmarks for your firm if you don’t have them.
Initial Analysis
We’ll conduct an initial model portfolio analysis and provide feedback and suggested strategies to implement.
Introductory Conversation
You’ll receive ongoing quarterly reviews, including an updated analysis and suggestions, plus information about any new funds recommended.
- We allow firms to outsource the key elements of portfolio construction and ongoing diligence without them sacrificing their branding and control in the portfolios that their families have come to know and trust.
- We provide knowledgeable professionals and resources that are essential for portfolio construction and ongoing portfolio management, including due diligence and analytics while allowing the advisor to retain their branding and control.
Mid-size to large firms who are looking to leverage a deeper team of people and resources to assist in construction, reporting and risk management of their portfolio allocations to ultimately give them back hours in their weeks and reduce current and future costs, allowing them to spend more time serving more families.
The advisor establishes the fundamental principles for our philosophy and portfolio, enabling us to customize our guidance to align with these core values. From there, AEWM Investment Consulting Group works to provide professional reporting and recommendations to optimize the portfolios.
- The market is a complex network of asset classes and product types/styles that demand constant ongoing decision making. This can cause a choice between serving more families or spending time deciphering the landscape. By leveraging our services, we give the advisor back that time and subsequently access to a team of people dedicated to understanding and distilling the current market themes and, in turn, providing advice around important decisions in a strategic asset allocation. AEWM ICG also can provide analytics to help expose unintended risk exposures in the portfolios, allowing for more tailored allocations and thoughtful risk management.
- As a result, the firm gets a more informed decision process and awareness of investments that potentially might reduce cost, enhance performance and more precisely reflect the firm’s core philosophy of management, allowing for a more optimized outcome for your clients.
When it comes to growing your AUM and therefore your business, we understand it’s all about time. We help you spend more time on the business than in the business to promote advancement of the firm and ultimately the value you provide.
The Investment Consulting Group provides access to a disciplined risk management framework backed by a team of people evaluating the product landscape on an ongoing basis. When you partner with us, you remove the time needed to go into not only model due diligence but also a careful evaluation of the underlying investments and documentation of that process, which can take hours and hours. By deepening your bench of experienced professionals, you provide a higher level of assurance that the solutions you are supplying your families in real time meet the standards.
Ben Sullivan,
CFA®, CFP®
Chief Investment Officer
Brooke Garcia,
CFA®, CAIA, CFP®
Director, Product Research and Strategy
Sam Shore, CMT®
Director of Investment Strategy
Saryn Powell
Research Analyst
Nathan Andersen
Investment Reporting Analyst
Justin Kuhl
Investment Portfolio Consultant
Vlad Florea
Investment Portfolio Consultant
Partner with us to access a wide range of advanced investment strategies and business services. Discover the potential of your AUM business and experience the opportunities for growth.
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