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Technology
The Custom Clearing Services Advantage
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Technology
The Custom Clearing Services advantage provides broker/ dealers with direct access to leading-edge tools and support systems, including BranchNet, Resource Center, Portfolio Review Tool, and Portfolio Manager.
BranchNet
BranchNet is our proprietary advisor workstation. From opening new accounts to managing trades or obtaining the latest news on a specific security, BranchNet is the solution. It provides financial advisors with the resources necessary to efficiently complete business processes, thus, freeing up more time for serving existing clients or developing new business.
As our core operations and trading platform, BranchNet provides financial advisors with:
24/7 access from any computer, via the Internet
Comprehensive account lookup for accounts and direct
business data
Straight-through processing of trade orders and account
maintenance requests
Secure and reliable data maintenance
Full transparency, accountability and clear transaction status Online mutual fund, equity, fixed income, option, annuity
trading and direct business trading
Electronic LPL Financial statements, tax documents and
trade confirmations
Simplified account maintenance functions with complete
audit trails
Compliant document management for online storage of client
files
BranchNet is the solution.
It provides financial advisors
with the resources necessary
to efficiently complete
business processes.
leading-edge
BranchNet Resource Center
Located within BranchNet, the BranchNet Resource Center contains important department-specific information, as well as LPL Financial exclusive research that makes it easier to run a business and guide clients in making sound financial decisions. The BranchNet Resource Center offers 24/7 accessibility to financial advisors and their staff so they can grow their businesses and minimize their workloads simultaneously.
BranchNet Resource Center provides financial advisors with direct access to:
Valuable market research Up-to-date broker/dealer news Investment product information
Extensive LPL Financial Research commentaries Extensive third-party research and market data
Tools and Support
Valuable marketing tools
Client-approved sales and prospecting presentations Comprehensive training materials
Technology support forms for brokerage, advisory, and direct
business accounts
Numerous client presentations and communication resources Forms for brokerage, advisory, and direct business accounts
The BranchNet Resource
Center offers 24/7
accessibility to financial
advisors and their staff.
Portfolio Review Tool
The Portfolio Review Tool (PRT) is a powerful web-based tool that allows financial advisors to provide an immediate asset allocation overview of existing or prospective client portfolios. The overview relates directly to clients’ specific positions and investment objectives.
PRT can help financial advisors compare the current holdings of a portfolio to an asset allocation model. Overweights and underweights, as well as sector breakdowns, will help financial advisors and their clients make important decisions in rebalancing and facilitating trade recommendations. Lastly, there is the ability to present hypothetical portfolios demonstrating the benefit added as a valued financial advisor.
This tool offers a quick and easy method for organizing client account information. PRT is designed for financial advisors to quickly and easily organize their clients’ account information, where accounts may be qualified or non-qualified and include stocks, bonds, mutual funds, CDs, and variable annuities.
Key features and benefits of PRT include:
24/7 monitoring of client portfolios
Complete portfolio review of household assets held at and
outside of LPL Financial
Problems with a portfolio’s current structure are easily and
clearly illustrated for use with existing or prospective clients
Load accounts quickly—then view, print or email to clients
and prospects
Store client portfolios for updated future reviews Create custom models
Generate a list of trades based on the proposed asset
allocation
The Portfolio Review Tool
offers a quick and easy
method for organizing client
information.
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Portfolio Manager
Portfolio Manager provides an extensive resource to financial advisors to manage client and household portfolios. The financial advisor simply groups the accounts and Portfolio Manager automatically illustrates all portfolio assets. Even non-LPL Financial held assets may be manually loaded.
Whether financial advisors are assessing the asset allocation of the portfolio compared to its stated investment objective, or illustrating the performance of a portfolio, Portfolio Manager makes it possible with just a click of a mouse.
With these advanced features, financial advisors enjoy access to:
Performance reporting on brokerage and advisory accounts
z Any date to any date
z At the household, group, account, asset class, security
type and position levels
z Benchmark performance comparisons
Aggregate account management and reporting
z Householding of accounts
z Automatic grouping of accounts by client
Manual addition of non-LPL Financial assets and their
transaction histories
z Automatic market value updates for tracked securities
Customizable asset classes Numerous client-approved reports Aggregate position views and reporting Batch reporting capabilities
z Customize report parameters and/or client groups to
quickly generate meaningful reports for client reviews
z Share customized report batches across multiple
BranchNet users to streamline office operations
z Quickly generate updated reports (as of the previous day
market close) for any report group created within the last 13 months
Streamlined account
management and enhanced
presentation capabilities are
more important than ever
these days. The LPL Financial
Portfolio Manager tool will
empower financial advisors to
quickly answer their clients’
questions of “How am I doing”
versus “What am I worth?”
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