Your clients, your brand, your data, and your economics stay with you. Axxcess runs the platform behind you: compliance, billing, reporting, trading, model management, and a transition team that has moved wirehouse teams, hybrid broker-dealer practices, and standalone RIAs. No equity taken. No brand dilution. Every conversation starts under NDA.
Join our RIA under your own brand, let us incubate your team while your own firm registers, or bring your whole RIA onto the platform as an enterprise relationship. Three ways in; every one of them is a partnership with your firm, not a product sold to one account.
We transition you and your team from your current firm onto our books and records while you establish your own RIA in parallel. Once your registration is approved, we port the fully transitioned business to your firm — no break in service, no disruption to your clients.
How incubation works →Register with Axxcess and run your brand and your practice from inside our RIA. Compliance, reporting, billing, trade execution, and model management are handled. You own your clients, your data, and your business. Axxcess takes no equity.
The IAR model →We work with your firm, not one account at a time. Axxcess operationalizes the entire RIA — billing, reporting, trading, sleeve management, alternatives, compliance support, client experience — under your brand, with enterprise economics that scale as you do. That is the difference between a platform partner and a model marketplace with an asset-management fee on top.
The enterprise TAMP model →You're a W-2 employee. You can't use the planning techniques you recommend to your own clients. You live in a high-tax state, and if you could run your production through your own P&L the pick-up would be six figures. Your firm is fighting headwinds you didn't create. The office shrinks every quarter, and every frustration traces back to bureaucracy.
Then you think about independence. Then you read your contract, and you look at the time and money left on your note. Your top clients need to move with you. Maybe all of them do. How do you resign and start the process?
Talk it through under NDAAt a wirehouse, and at most platforms, the services your clients actually experience — the portal, the app, the statements, the billing, the planning — carry someone else's name and sit between you and the relationship. Axxcess delivers the same services up and through your brand instead. Your clients see you. We do the work.
Your name on the door, your agreements, your client experience — under your own brand, inside our RIA or on your own.
Segregated in your own child database. You control it, you can see all of it, and it ports with you if you ever register your own RIA.
Portal, mobile app, reports, proposals, website — all white-labeled. Our in-house creative team builds it; your logo is the only one on it.
No equity taken, no closed-end contracts, no equity partnerships. The enterprise value you build is yours, in writing, in the MOU.
Orion advisory-board member since 2015. 400+ SMA strategies, the Allocator, digital subscription documents, household aggregation, sleeve-level everything.
Other firms hand you software and a product shelf and send you on your way. Our team operates, supports, and executes for you every day — billing, trading, reporting, compliance.
Delivered up and through your brand, not between you and your clientLeaving shouldn't mean leaving your clients' holdings, lending, or research behind. Axxcess was built to bring the sophisticated book across intact.
Worried about proprietary investments that can't transfer to an independent custodian? We bill and report on them inside the same client statement as everything else.
The most common reason teams don't leaveAxxcess has partnered with several premier wirehouses to manage money as an independent firm, with access to proprietary deal flow, prime broker, research, and trade desks.
Direct lending relationships plus securities-based lending and cash solutions through UBS Independent Advisor Solutions and Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions — the liability side your clients expect from a wirehouse.
Private equity, private credit, hedge funds, and real assets alongside SMA strategies in one account. Digital subscription documents, capital-call and K-1 tracking, MOIC and IRR on directs.
Schwab, Pershing, Wells Fargo First Clearing, Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions, Morgan Stanley, and leading self-directed trust custodians. We also support LPL firms on SWM accounts, and firms with a direct Fidelity clearing relationship, through an Orion instance we or the firm set up. Custodian of your choice, one reporting engine.
Branded client portal and iOS/Android app, custom website from our in-house creative team, proposals and planning inside the portal — your name on all of it.
Fourteen situational questions about your book, your contract, your team, your economics, and what you actually want. You get a readiness score across seven areas, the Axxcess path that fits you — join, incubate, or your own RIA — and a realistic timeline. On screen, instantly, with nothing stored unless you choose to share it.
Take the assessmentYour business and client data are strictly confidential — as are our commitments to you. We discuss your transition under NDA, or with your legal counsel, so your plans are known only to you.
We put the economic and business commitment we will make to you in writing. The memorandum of understanding is drafted to your model and your client-support requirements, before you resign.
A dedicated team runs a documented plan with milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines. Marketing, business development, and growth accelerators are built into the plan, not bolted on after.
Transition call kick-off. Custom transition project launched.
Transition paperwork preparation. Branding and client communications.
Investment and trade review. Registration prep.
Finalize transition paperwork. Billing and reporting overview.
Technology and datafeed set-up complete. Website and communications final.
Resignation and registration complete. Client documents sent.
Technology and process training. Database clean-up and client set-up.
Intro to service and continued training. Client portal and financial planning.
Service and support hand-off. Historical data project kick-off.
First billing review. Transition ends.
Timelines are a function of your current firm's relationship with you, your custodians, and your client account structure. With an independent custodian and no restrictive covenants in your employment agreement, we have completed transitions in as short as 15 days. Most transition documents are signed by clients virtually.
Recruiting packages are built to keep you in place. Our model is built so you own the business you're building.
The comparison describes common structures in the industry generally and is not a description of any specific firm's offer. Your economics are documented in your memorandum of understanding.
A disciplined, scalable process for protocol and non-protocol transitions.
Compliance resources overseen by Axxcess for affiliated IARs; regulatory guidance through the transition.
Operations, HR, admin, and client-services support.
Sleeve, account, and household level. Monthly or quarterly, arrears or forward, performance-based, hourly, or per project.
Direct strategies through a UMA/UMH platform with direct and alternative investments.
Trade order management, prime broker, options, and structured product services.
Bank, brokerage, mortgage, business, and liability reports in one secure portal.
Risk assessment, client proposals, and manager allocation in one workflow.
Model management with asset analysis and stress testing across asset classes.
Customized, white-labeled services and branding — you control the brand.
Curated content filtered by client allocation and manager preferences, across web, social, and email.
Marketing solutions and a prospect portal that lets prospects self-onboard before they're clients.
Need more behind the relationship? Outsourced CIO and fractional portfolio management, the alternatives platform, and tax-aware portfolio management are all available to transitioned teams.
Yes. Our process is built for both protocol and non-protocol transitions, and reviewing your employment agreement is one of the first tasks in the plan. For advisors who can't use firm data, our portal lets your clients self-onboard and link their own accounts, so the transition data comes from them. Every conversation happens under NDA, or with your legal counsel present.
We bill and report on proprietary investments that can't transfer to an independent custodian, so your clients see their whole picture on one statement. Axxcess has also partnered with several premier wirehouses to give independent firms access to proprietary deal flow, prime broker, research, and trade desks.
Yes. Axxcess supports LPL firms using SWM accounts, and firms that hold a direct clearing relationship with Fidelity, through an Orion instance that either we or your firm sets up. Your custody stays where it is; the platform services — billing, reporting, trading, sleeves, alternatives, client experience — run behind your brand on that instance.
It depends on your current firm's relationship with you, your custodians, and your client account structure. With an independent custodian and no restrictive covenants, we have completed transitions in as short as 15 days. The standard onboarding workflow runs ten weeks, from child database set-up to your first billing review.
No. You can use your own brand or ours, your choice. Axxcess takes no equity in your business and does not use closed-end contracts or equity partnerships. All technology can be white-labeled — we are in it for your brand, not ours.
The opposite. Our incubation model transitions you onto our books and records while you establish your own RIA in parallel. Once your registration is approved, we port the fully transitioned business to your new firm with no break in service, and you can keep the platform behind you as a TAMP relationship.
You do. Your data is segregated in your own child database, your clients sign your agreements, and your reporting carries your brand. If your business is ported to your own RIA, the data goes with it.
Before you resign, the memorandum of understanding sets out in writing the economic and business commitment Axxcess will make to meet your model and client-support requirements. You run your production through your own P&L. The specifics depend on your model and your practice, and they are the second conversation we have, right after the NDA.
The complete Axxcess advisor onboarding guide — the three transition models, the platform, the process, and what you will get nowhere else.
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Adrienne runs every transition on a documented plan: precise milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines, with a dedicated team that understands every functional area — wealth planning, investment strategy, regulatory, compliance, and business operations. Her team has transitioned wirehouse advisory teams, broker-dealer hybrids, and standalone RIAs.
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