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Facet Wealth Announces Partnership With VestmarkFacet Wealth Announces Partnership With Vestmark

Facet Wealth expects portfolio management provider Vestmark to bolster advisors’ investment options.

Samuel Steinberger, Senior Technology Editor

December 5, 2018

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Tech-advisor hybrid Facet Wealth, which pays advisors to turn over small, unprofitable clients, has partnered with portfolio management and trading solutions provider Vestmark, according to a company announcement.

Facet Wealth expects the partnership to create better investment options for its clients, said Anders Jones, co-founder and CEO of the firm, as well as enabling the firm’s advisors to be more efficient in its financial planning. “We have less of a focus on asset management. We don’t really see that at as our real value-add,” he said. “We just found that the Vestmark platform is very compelling. It allows us to put in customized investment plans for each client.”

Scale is critical to serving mass affluent clients and Facet’s strategy has captured the attention of PE firms like Warburg Pincus. Facet focuses on acquiring clients with assets of $100,000 to $1 million, serving them with a combination of human-provided CFP expertise, mixed with technology powered by machine learning. Vestmark shares Facet Wealth’s focus on the mass affluent, said Jones.

Vestmark recently closed on its acquisition of UMA platform Adhesion, after the two companies worked together for the past decade.

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About the Author

Samuel Steinberger

Senior Technology Editor, WealthManagement.com

Samuel Steinberger is Senior Technology Editor for Informa Connect’s WealthManagement.com. In his role, Mr. Steinberger provides the publication’s wealth and financial technology coverage. 

Mr. Steinberger’s editorial insight and familiarity with technology accelerates Informa’s growth within the financial advisor and wealth management communities, providing in-depth news for advisors and financial professionals. 

Before joining Informa Connect, Mr. Steinberger produced documentaries with former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien at Soledad O’Brien Productions (formerly Starfish Media Group). He specialized in research, shooting and editing, as well as finding distinct voices to explain topics like mental health, poverty and racial divide. 

Prior to joining Soledad O’Brien Productions, Mr. Steinberger managed multi-departmental technology projects for global legal technology leader Transperfect Legal Solutions. After obtaining his graduate degree in journalism from Columbia University, he completed his transition from technology management to media. 

Mr. Steinberger is an award-winning journalist, author and researcher who has written, edited and reported for a number of publications, including The New York Times, Financial PlanningAmerican Banker and PBS. He is founder of beverages publication Give Me Weird Drinks

Mr. Steinberger’s technology analysis and insight has been featured in several books on virtual and augmented reality. Mr. Steinberger has received awards and recognition for his reporting and research, including the American Business Media's prestigious Jesse H. Neal Award for editorial excellence.

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