“Highland Investment Advisors provides a turn-key asset growth program to help independent financial advisors build fee-based practices. We empower reps to be their client’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and eliminate back and middle office headaches.”
Adam S. Drake, CFA
Director, Advisor Services
OVERVIEW
Your time as an advisor is best spent strengthening current relationships and harvesting new business. Highland empowers you to be your clients’ “Chief Investment Officer” by offering a complete advisory solution.
Only a robust platform built BY advisors FOR advisors can deliver the goods. We’ve sat on the same side of the table as you serving individual clients. Like you, we are entrepreneurs that thrive on independence.
“I became an advisor to do paperwork.”
-No one ever
PROCESS
Our advisors enjoy a client on-boarding process that has been refined over 15+ years. We continue to improve the process and invest in technology, all with you and your client in mind.
- Provide us with client information such as statements, account card, or spreadsheets over a secure portal.
- Highland will return to you a proposal and prefilled paperwork, including broker dealer paperwork.
- You present and sign to your client, using paper or DocuSign. We handle the rest – account opening, transfers, implementation, reporting, billing, and ongoing service.
ASSET MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Our asset management capabilities provide unique flexibility. We can manage your entire book of business holistically. Under each household, we can provide worldclass asset managers, each in their own sleeve, to create the desired model portfolio.
PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
• Reserved cash
• Tax aware trading
• Block trading
• Custom models
• Rebalancing
• Non-managed assets
BACK OFFICE AND TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE
Most turn-key asset management programs (TAMPs) and broker-dealers have a separate technology fee that is either required, even if you don’t need it, or is à la carte. Not Highland! We provide the following technology stack to our advisors at no cost.
| Advisor Portal |
| Advisor Dashboard: Clients, Accounts, Assets by Financial Institution Non Managed Assets, Models, Holdings |
| Account Services: New Accounts, Withdraw Requests, Allocation Change and Address Change |
| Sales Material and Advisor Sales Tools |
| Client Portal: Reporting with e-Delivery, Document Vault, Account Level Summary, Holdings Report |
| Client Reports: Quarterly Billing / Quarterly Performance Reporting |
| CRM: Calendar, Tasks, Contact Lists, |
| Daily Reconciliation / Validation |
| The above back office and technology solutions and all services described herein, are included in our platform fee. |