RIA Financial Planning Tools: Adviser-Level Data
Every SEC-registered wealth manager in scope, with the financial planning tool it uses, from its website's client sign-in or its Form ADV filing, sourced and dated. A 12-month data license.
About This Product
Which RIAs Use Each Financial Planning Tool, Adviser by Adviser
Every SEC-registered wealth manager in scope, one row each, with the financial planning tool it uses and how we know: the client sign-in its own website links to, with the link and the day it was read, or the product its Form ADV filing names, with the filing date.
The public page Which Financial Planning Software Do RIAs Use? shows the market at the product level. This license is the data behind it, adviser by adviser, so a vendor can see which advisers use it, which use a competitor, and where each fact comes from.
What is in the workbook
- Advisers: every adviser in scope, identified by its SEC CRD number, with city and state, current regulatory assets, the share managed for individuals, employees and clients; the financial planning tools it uses, a yes/no column for each of the five most used, which source shows each, the sign-in link found, its website and the date it was read, and its filing date.
- Products: each product, the advisers using it by source, its share, and the median assets of those advisers.
- About: the sources, the dates, how often the two sources agree, and what they can and cannot say.
Scope: SEC-registered advisers that manage at least $25 million, half or more of it for individuals, and list a website.
Every adviser is a firm. No individual is named and no contact details are included: join the CRD number or the firm name to the contact tool you already use.
How it is updated
- Each quarter: advisers' websites are read again, so the file shows which advisers added or changed a product.
- Monthly: assets, registration status, clients and employees, from the SEC's monthly registered-adviser file.
- Once a year: the Form ADV filings, when the SEC publishes its next full filing-data release.
The file at your download link is replaced with each update, for twelve months from purchase.
What the sources can and cannot say
- A link to a product's client sign-in on an adviser's own website is strong evidence its clients use the product. Where a website and a filing both name a product for one adviser, they mostly agree; the workbook gives the figure.
- No link is evidence of nothing. Many advisers link no client sign-in, and a product used only inside the adviser's office does not show on its website, so shares favor products clients log in to.
- A product is counted only when its sign-in address is one we recognize.
License
Licensed to the purchasing company for internal use, for twelve months. Not for resale or redistribution, in whole or in part. See the Digital Product Terms, including section 3.4 on data licenses.
Source data: advisers' public websites; U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, public domain. The compilation, matching and categories are Finantrix's.
What's Included
Company License (12 months)
Internal use by the purchasing company for twelve months, with every update in that time.
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