Leveraging Research and Guidance

The hours in a day never change, however, as an advisor, you are faced with an increasing number of responsibilities, including performing investment analysis, conducting portfolio management, and delivering client service. Your business has never been more challenging. The good news is that, as an advisor affiliated with LPL Financial, you have a dedicated research team on your side. Whether you are seeking a fully integrated investment solution, a recommended asset allocation plan or unbiased analysis and recommendations of traditional or alternatives investments, our team works continuously to help you interpret and adjust to the latest developments in the world's capital markets.

Using LPL Financial Research can be as easy and straightforward as implementing our asset allocation suggestions and investment product recommendations in our open architecture platforms. If you want to go a step further, our centrally managed platforms put our best research ideas to work in an all-encompassing solution geared to make your practice more efficient. LPL Financial makes leveraging research and guidance easy.

Open Architecture Platforms
In our open architecture platforms, you have the ability to thoroughly customize a portfolio to address your clients' unique financial goals. We provide the building blocks to help you be an effective asset manager. However, if you prefer to be an asset gatherer, our centrally managed platforms take our best research ideas and synthesize them into easy-to-use, turnkey solutions. Given the explosion of new products and asset allocation models in this industry, keeping up with the latest innovations in portfolio solutions can be a daunting task. Using our experience and expertise in asset allocation, we provide portfolio solutions for every investment objective, addressing the most conservative to the most aggressive clients. The research team also provides valuable insights on a wide array of investment products by putting their extensive due diligence and analytical skills to the task of creating easy-to-access recommended and approved lists.

Centrally Managed Platforms
As the name suggests, centrally managed platforms allow you to harness the power of LPL Financial Research at your fingertips. If efficiency is your goal, without sacrificing results, LPL Financial Research will place your clients into an asset allocation model based on their specific investment objective that you select. Some platforms offer added precision by refining models into investment themes which are designed to meet the aspects of a clients financial needs. Some of these themes include Alpha-Focused, Downside Risk Aware, Social Conscious, Tax Aware and Income-Focused. LPL Financial Research recommends and monitors the underlying manager combinations and, when necessary, automatically makes changes. From your perspective, we are an extension of your office, working behind the scenes for you and your clients. Lastly, in these platforms, our powerful Overlay Portfolio Management group offers a vast array of services to further streamline your practice. For example, this team can seamlessly insert and remove investment vehicles, harvest tax losses and automatically rebalance client accounts without delay. Research, in conjunction with our overlay portfolio management group, is a leader in supporting these platforms and making your practice more efficient.

Multiple Solutions for Individual Needs