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Company: Hornor, Townsend and Kent
Choosing an End-to-End Technology Solution for Alternative Investing
Learn how CAIS bridged gaps in technology, access, and education enabling HTK’s advisors to facilitate end-to-end transactions in alternative investments.
The Challenge
Limited Access to Alts, Clunky Processes
By 2024, multiple financial advisors at insurance-owned broker-dealer HTK had made a clear request to their home office: they wanted greater access to alternatives, along with an easier way to learn and transact in these products.
“We faced all the challenges that every other firm faces in terms of having a platform that would do everything that we needed to do: paperwork, access to the product, education, processing,” says Micah Wei, HTK’s Managing Director, Investments and Advisory.
“We got a lot of advisors who are asking, ‘How do I diversify my product mix and complement the things that I currently do?’”
That is why HTK selected the CAIS platform.
The Solution
An End-to-End Alts Platform
The platform provides an end-to-end solution and a diverse alternative investments menu for advisors to navigate easily, Micah notes.
“I get access to all these tools, features, resources, and access,” Micah says. “It would have been, as we like to say, a very clunky experience without it.”
Memories of how advisors used to work before are still fresh.
“Without that, we would be knee-deep in paperwork; we’d be knee deep in trying to track down where it all went,” Micah adds.
What’s Next
Alts Education, Freeing Up Resources With CAIS
“CAIS offers a tremendous amount of support for our advisors,” Micah says. “And that's exactly what we needed for our advisors, to have a deeper understanding of ... the what and the how behind using alternate investments in their business.”
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CAIS offers a tremendous amount of support for our advisors, and that's exactly what we needed for our advisors, to have a deeper understanding of... the what and the how behind using alternate investments in their business.
Micah Wei, Managing Director, Investments and Advisory, Hornor, Townsend and Kent
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