Albridge Introduces Managed Account Reporting Capabilities

Albridge Solutions Inc. unveiled a detailed managed account performance reporting capability on its wealth reporting application.

The service could bring registered investment advisers (RIAs) more reporting capabilities than previously available, the company said in a news release.

The new report enables advisers to handle consolidated reporting of managed accounts and retail accounts under one platform. The new capability is available to financial institutions and advisers accessing Albridge Wealth Reporting, according to Albridge, a PFPC Worldwide Inc. company. The first client to implement the service is Chicago-based advisory firm Financial Strategy Network, LLC, an affiliate of Raymond James Financial Services.

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The company said this solves an industry inconvenience. Traditionally, separately managed account (SMA) program managers classify assets according to their own proprietary methodologies, while an adviser commonly relies on security master-based asset classifications provided by a third-party service. Through the Albridge reports, advisers working with clients who maintain SMA accounts can automatically produce a uniform asset allocation that combines both methodologies.

The new capability also allows advisers to generate client reports with detailed money manager performance and access Rogerscasey money manager classification and benchmarks. Benchmarks can also be displayed on client portfolio reports to help advisers and their clients easily view product performance in the portfolio.

“The availability of detailed managed account reporting through Albridge Wealth Reporting represents the next step toward providing financial advisers and their clients with access to performance reporting capabilities traditionally available only to advisers with access to an army of back-office personnel,’ said Jake Rohn, executive vice president, Albridge, in the release.


More information is available at www.albridge.com.


AIM Global Value Fund Gets New Leadership, Name

Invesco Aim announced today a new team approach for the AIM Global Value Fund.

According to the firm, a team of 13 investment professionals from Invesco Global Asset Management (N.A.), Inc., will provide new management leadership for the fund. The fund’s new investment team, which takes over management responsibility immediately, includes portfolio managers Ingrid Baker, W. Lindsay Davidson, Michele Garren, Erik Granade, and Kent Starke. The five portfolio managers named to the fund have an average of 24 years of investment experience.

The new team replaces portfolio manager Glen Hilton, who has left the firm.

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“We welcome the opportunity to provide fund shareholders with access to a much larger and more experienced group of portfolio managers and investment professionals at Invesco who take a team approach to managing global equity portfolios,” said Phil Taylor, senior managing director and head of Invesco’s North American retail asset management business, including Invesco Aim.

Decisions regarding U.S. and foreign stock selections in the fund’s portfolio are part of an integrated and disciplined process that uses a committee structure, according to the firm.

In addition, effective July 24, the fund’s name will change to AIM Global Core Equity Fund to better reflect the fund’s positioning in the global core space.

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