Many asset managers struggle to understand what role the Internet should play in their business model. Some firms think that offering a web portal will offend clients who have come to rely on personalized service for all matters big and small. Other firms believe that if they don’t offer all the “bells and whistles” through a client web site, they will be viewed as archaic.
 
Offering too many “bells and whistles” may alienate clients and prospects who have come to rely on a high level of personalized investment advice and on-going service. In contrast, not offering a web portal will likely estrange a large segment of clients and prospects that have come to rely on the web as an effective tool for managing so many aspects of their daily financial lives. Furthermore, not offering a web portal puts a strain on your marketing and client service resources. Instead of exclusively focusing on providing proactive client service and developing new business, your staff can be rendered reactive, slow, and unfocused because they are continually responding to inbound client/prospect inquiries for basic firm or account level information.
 
Regardless of what camp you fall into, one fact remains clear – the Internet is here to stay and cannot be ignored! To have a truly effective sales/client service strategy and to remain efficient, asset managers need to offer a secure web portal so clients/prospects can have the option of “self-service.” Clients demand and deserve effective, consistent, and timely communication regarding their investment portfolios. Asset managers who fail to deliver information via the web face a competitive disadvantage in the marketplace – particularly if their performance returns are lagging
 
Assette Portfolio Access solves the problem by enabling asset managers to provide a secure, easy-to-use web portal so their clients can access customized portfolio information and other important financial data.
 
Assette Portfolio Access allows you to:
 
  • Automatically extract and aggregate client portfolio data from standalone investment systems.
  • Offer your clients an easy-to-use and secure self-service tool where they can access account information such as holdings, transactions, cash balances, and performance data. Moreover, you can provide in-depth market commentaries and third party content such as stock quotes, news, research, and regulatory updates.
  • Provide consolidated client information to client service staff so they can efficiently respond to client inquiries that require human intervention.
  • Provide different levels of user access to clients, employees, consultants, etc.
  • Enhance your corporate brand by providing a private labeled secure client website.
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