Trading & Operations

A team built to help
independent advisors scale

Custom trading, billing, and technology support to pair with your investment department. A deep bench of expertise to allow you to focus on your clients.

Aptus Business Solutions

How do we help?

Our operations and technology team chooses, implements, runs, and customizes the technology platform for 30-plus independent firms, working under one roof with the investment team — so a practice can scale without adding payroll, with an operation that is synced to your custom investment support.

Trading & portfolio operations
  • Tax-loss harvesting
  • Household rebalancing
  • Cash movements — raise cash, protected cash, dollar-cost averaging
  • Trade holds
  • Systematic withdrawals
  • Model management
Billing administration
  • Monthly and quarterly billing cycles
  • Fee exclusions and adjustments
  • Householding
  • Billing-file review before it reaches your custodian
  • Uncollectable / insufficient-funds tracking
Onboarding & implementation
  • Discovery and configuration
  • Data aggregation and historical performance conversion
  • Portal, proposal, and report setup
  • Advisor and staff training
Ongoing middle- and back-office support
  • Dedicated support line for advisors and home office
  • Error resolution
  • Ongoing training as the platform evolves
  • Practice-management support
Compliance & reporting oversight
  • Regular performance and attribution reviews
  • Investment-policy (IP) rule configuration
  • Audit-ready exports
  • Monthly testing and validation

What is the process?

Custodian agnostic, and built around the planning, compliance, and data tools the firm already has.

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Evaluation and turnkey access

  • The wealthtech space is noisy. We evaluate the practice and its legacy systems before recommending anything
  • Where the platform fits, we provide access and competitive leasing options
  • Design and configuration around the firm's operating goals, not the vendor's defaults

How we are different.

High touch

Improve advisor and client experiences with high-touch middle- and back-office support, and technology that reduces administration.

Hands on

Drive growth as a hands-on resource and partner to build and implement accessible, functional, and cost-effective solutions.

Client-focused

Meet advisors' business goals with proven technology, operations, and an investment team with deep industry experience.

Consistent and reliable

Contribute to success by streamlining processes and providing personalized ongoing support to meet practice- and client-level goals.

Who it's built for

Two kinds of firm, one operating platform.

Breakaway firms

We work alongside your transition-planning partners to design and configure the technology platform around your operating goals, then advise through every step — design, mapping, account conversion, initial operations, and training. Ongoing middle- and back-office support and problem resolution carry on after day one.

Established and hybrid RIAs

Modernizing is hard, mostly because of the inertia of legacy technology. We design, configure, and support a customized investment-advisory and planning platform that raises productivity and service, and integrate disparate systems into one seamless operation — even with assets at multiple custodians.

Aptus Business Solutions is the operations and technology group of Aptus Capital Advisors (Birmingham, AL).