A top U.S. brokerage firm wanted to provide its financial advisors with a strategy to prioritize their book of business based on untapped investment potential. Their advisors did not have a logical and consistent way to prioritize their client outreach efforts. Instead, the advisors relied on visual observations and casual conversations to guess which of their existing clients might have additional assets to invest.
In conjunction with a new CRM initiative, the firm was seeking a segmentation system that could both:
- Help them prioritize their financial advisors’ customer up-sell/cross-sell strategy
- Be implemented rapidly without disruption to the current flow of business
After conducting several tests with various data sources and segmentation systems, the firm chose IXI’s WealthComplete solution.
WealthComplete enabled the firm to:
- Gain a complete picture of total assets and asset allocation across major investment vehicles for each of their clients and prospects
- Prioritize each financial advisor’s book of business based on each client’s capacity to increase assets under management
The firm chose WealthComplete because it offers total household wallet estimates based on IXI’s direct-measured database of nearly $10 trillion in consumer assets collected from more than 95 leading financial services firms.
By implementing WealthComplete, the firm’s financial advisors can more effectively:
- Prioritize and initiate development efforts among clients with room to significantly grow their assets under management at the firm — a key performance metric for the advisor
- Provide top-notch service to clients with high total wallet estimates and high balances at the firm
- Reallocate efforts for those clients with limited upside to more cost-effective client treatment plans
Of equal importance, headquarters is able to more easily assess the performance and productivity of its financial advisors through improved goal setting and evaluation based upon an unbiased and accurate estimate of financial assets in play.