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Investment Management
Give your clients a defined Investment Discipline — and give yourself your time back.
Offload day-to-day portfolio research, trading, and risk management to a dedicated investment team — while you stay in the driver's seat of every client relationship.
Investment management is delivered through A Smarter Way to Invest (ASWTI) — our sister company and dedicated investment affiliate. An SEC-registered investment advisor under common ownership with SimplyRIA, ASWTI was built specifically to integrate with our platform, so your investment management and firm support work as one.
Why Advisors Outsource
The case for handing off the portfolio.
You know the pattern. Investment management never stays in its lane — research, trading, rebalancing, and risk monitoring expand to fill whatever time you give them, and then some.
For most independent advisors, it quietly becomes the thing that crowds out everything else: the prospecting that drives growth, the planning that deepens relationships, the time that should be yours.
And the cost isn't just hours on a clock. It's the opportunities those hours could have been, the risk of making complex decisions without a team behind you, and a client experience that depends on whatever energy you have left at the end of the day.
Here's what doing it all really costs — and why a dedicated investment team changes the equation.
The time drain
Research, trading, rebalancing, and risk monitoring are constant. They fill the hours that should belong to clients and growth.
The opportunity cost
Every hour in a spreadsheet is an hour not spent prospecting, planning, or building the relationships that grow your firm.
The expertise gap
Doing investment management well takes a team, institutional tools, and full-time focus — resources most solo and small firms can't replicate alone.
The client experience
Your clients deserve a disciplined, repeatable process backed by a dedicated team — not whatever time is left at the end of your week.
The Case for Outsourcing
Hand off the portfolio. Keep the relationship.
Partnering with a dedicated third-party manager hands back the one resource you can't scale — your time — and puts it where it grows your practice.
Grow AUM & Revenue
Reinvest reclaimed hours into prospecting, referrals, and centers of influence — the activities that actually grow the firm.
Deepen Client Relationships
Spend more time on planning, reviews, and high-touch service — the work that retains clients and wins wallet share.
Build a More Valuable Firm
A repeatable, institutional-grade investment process lowers operating costs and makes your practice more attractive at succession.
Reduce Risk & Reclaim Balance
Lean on a disciplined, SEC-registered manager for ongoing risk management and oversight — and get time back for yourself.
What Advisors Report
Advisors who outsource don't just save time — they Grow.
From AssetMark's research on advisors who outsource investment management.
8-9 hrs
Reclaimed per week, on average
91 %
Reported growth in total assets under management
84 %
Reported a higher business valuation
Take the Next Step
Bring a defined discipline to your clients — and your time back to your practice.
Connect with one of our experts to explore how A Smarter Way to Invest can elevate your firm. No commitment — just a conversation.
A Defined Discipline
Three disciplines, matched to every client.
Every client has a unique relationship with risk. A Smarter Way to Invest offers three disciplines across the active-management spectrum, so each client is aligned to the right approach.
Low active management
Strategic
Stays invested through market cycles to maximize long-term total return potential. Best for long-term investors with higher risk tolerance.
Moderate active management
Dynamic
Captures market trends and reduces volatility to enhance risk-adjusted returns. Best for at- or near-retirement investors seeking stability.
High active management
Tactical
Protects principal against major drawdowns while seeking the greatest opportunity for outperformance. Best for principal-protection-focused investors.
A systematic, data-driven process removes emotion from decisions — backed by ongoing algorithmic risk management — so portfolios stay aligned to each client's goals through every market environment.