August 2020

Each month, new content on engaging, up-to-the-minute topics will be added to the Market*r platform. This month, we’ve added two new topics: Client Engagement and Retirement Seminar.

• Client Engagement: Boost engagement and easily show your clients they’re a top priority with automated campaigns on some of the most popular—and important—client communication topics.
• Retirement Seminar: Featuring customizable PowerPoint presentations, pre and post-event communications, and other useful assets, these campaigns will make hosting your next virtual or in-person workshop a sinch.

To help your team connect quickly to our team of Market*r platform experts, we have enabled Glia chat support in the platform. Simply click the,”Let’s Talk!” button to be connected to a Market*r Subject Matter Expert.

Where previously you needed to indicate your client’s Filing State and Filing Status in the Taxes tab, you can now do this in the Personal Information tab. This will help with not only your user experience but also with your ability to make future updates and utilize this information for other inputs that happen before the Taxes tab.

In the past we had a dedicated Trusts tab but we’ve moved this input to the Personal Information Page. This change will make the process of adding accounts owned by trusts more efficient as this allows you to add your client’s Trusts and their beneficiaries before the Accounts and Other Assets page.

We have improved our business sale functionality so that now you can not only show proceeds from the sale beyond one year and into multiple years beyond the sale, but also show how their net worth will be impacted over time.

When you or your client upload a document to our Document Vault, it is tracked within our User Activity Page. Now, we’ll also be tracking when a client opens a document within this User Activity Page. This is in addition to you receiving an email and notification in our notifications bell when a client uploads a document to the Document Vault. Our goal is to help advisors and firms track these communications and client engagement.

As of today, Orion offers two separately powerful client portals advisors can offer via Orion that both provide unique solutions. Our One Portal Project is bringing our two portals together into one, helping advisors provide a comprehensive client experience that is consistent across platforms, without the need for multiple logins. This newly consolidated portal will provide your investors with a true personal financial management experience by giving them access to all the tools they need to oversee their financial lives including performance reports, account aggregation, account opening, financial planning information, and more—all from a single portal.

In case you missed it, we aired a webinar detailing the latest updates. You can watch that webinar here: Orion Client Portal Webinar. If you would like to be among the first to transition from the legacy client portal to the new client portal, sign up at: orionadvisortech.com/clientportal/

To help your firm transition clients from the legacy client portal to the new client portal, we’ve built a toggle that will redirect your clients to the new portal. Your clients will still use the same login page and credentials they are using for the legacy client portal so the transition will be seamless for them and this means you will not need to invite each of your clients one by one to the new portal.

If you would like to switch to the new client portal, please contact our Platform Support Team or sign up to learn more about the new portal at orionadvisortech.com/clientportal/.

You now have the ability to choose the first page your client sees when they log in to the client portal. The default landing page is the Consumer Overview page, but you can choose to send them directly to Personal Finances, Goal Results, Document Vault, Profile, Reports, or even Credit Monitoring if you are utilizing that service with your client. This setting can be not just a client setting, but also something you can set at the firm or advisor level.

For those of you who use MoneyGuide for your financial planning tool, we now have the same integration for our new client portal that you have been using for the legacy client portal. This includes your clients being able to see the Summary, Insurance, Goals and Net Worth Pages as well as giving them the ability to access their plan within MoneyGuide from our client portal.

For those of you who use Riskalyze, we’ve improved our integration to not only be able to pull in your Riskalyze Models to use as part of your recommendations for your clients goals, but we can now also pull in the client’s Risk Score, the score of how their accounts are currently allocated and finally your Portfolio Recommendation Score as well.

Quickly pop out of windows and edit details more easily with the new option to expand the tactical tools grid. Expanded grids will still update real time when items are added/removed and can be collapsed as needed.

To help your team import models more easily, we made two updates that improve this process:

• Import Team Assignments on Security Sets: You can now update assignments across your team with the new ability to import team assignments. Exporting the security set will only show the team ID’s that the user has access to and will only affect the teams the user has access to. If a user only has access to “view” the security set, then importing will not be possible.
• Team ID Column Added to Model Import: We have added the Team ID column to the model import. Importing models with the Team ID will assign the teams on the file, and unassign all that are not on the file.

Currently any time a rebalance or other trade tool is ran, buys in restricted plan accounts are set to zero value.  Now, you can ignore  zero quantity “restricted plan” trades on the orders grid and avoid needing to delete them manually.

Now, you have the ability to determine how much cash to protect in the tactical rebalance, allowing the account to go negative or keep all existing cash, depending on the best scenario for your trade. If you do not use the “rebalance cash” option, then the system will attempt to raise cash back up to target at the end of the rebalance.

You can now group portfolios by the Primary Team Name in the folder export for the trade analysis report, enabling you to easily sort and navigate the reports exported. When multiple trade analysis reports are exported, you can add sub folders using the Primary Team name assigned to the portfolios.

With this release, we have implemented a way for you to trade based on accrued interest in Eclipse. To do so, the Eclipse Extract will now find the value of accrued interest and add shares into the position to increase its value in Eclipse to include accrued interest.

To enable this feature, contact: trading@orion.com.

Now, strategists can retrieve billing recon reports from the application enabling them to efficiently access reports and ensure their payout matches those reports.

Fidelity Institutional has made its core lineup of strategies available through Communities. Eight new investment strategies and a themed, separately managed account (SMA) join Orion’s Global lineup, comprising:

• Fidelity Sector Equity Business Cycle (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Multi-Asset Business Cycle (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Bond Income (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Target Allocation 20/80 (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Target Allocation 40/60 (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Target Allocation 60/40 (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Target Allocation 70/30 (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Target Allocation 85/15 (I) Model Portfolio
• Fidelity Advisor Women’s Leadership SMA
• Single Ticker – Fidelity Select Gold Portfolio (FSAGX)

As you probably know, we have reimagined the Orion Connect Home Page so that it surfaces the details that matter most to you—decided by you—so you can prioritize your day-to-day appropriately. We are excited to announce that the new Homepage will be available to all Orion firms on August 31st. To learn more about the redesign, check our landing page.

To get started, simply enable the new homepage or, for more guided help, reach out to our Platform Support team using “Contact Us’ on your current home page or call 888-279-8447.

To help identify the Related Households that are being aggregated together for Billing purposes, you can now tag those households with the “@” function.

Currently, when you add a recurring adjustment with a start date during the billing period, it will not apply until the next billing cycle. To improve this, we now allow for a recurring adjustment to be prorated if the start date is during the billing cycle.

Access Feex, the innovative technology that enables advisors to manage and trade held away accounts just like they do with custodied accounts. This enables your firm to turn held-away assets such as 401(k) holdings into billable assets while also working to help improve client returns.

We have added an option to allow new, unfunded accounts to be included in the export to the eMoney system that helps aid in the linking of new accounts into eMoney financial plans.

This month, we’ve added the ability to use allocation as a data source iIn report builder by simply clicking the bar chart and typing in “allocation” in the data source field of the editor. This update enables your firm to create more accurate visuals for allocation-focused bar charts while also providing more aesthetic diversity to the reports you build.

To help create more accurate profiles of your team, you now have the ability to add custom licenses to a profile in the Inform Tool, in addition to the existing FINRA licenses already available.