IAR affiliation model · Axxcess Platform

Your brand, your clients, your business, inside our RIA.

Register as an investment advisor representative of Axxcess Wealth Management and run your practice under your own name. We handle compliance oversight, billing, reporting, trading, model management, and operations behind you. You own the clients, the data, and the enterprise value you build. Axxcess takes no equity.

Four minutes, no email required. Every transition conversation happens under NDA. With an independent custodian and no restrictive covenants, transitions have completed in as little as 15 days.
Our platform is built for the experienced advisor looking to improve its current RIA platform, or as an operational solution for a high-caliber professional thinking of going independent.
$14.4BPlatform assets · Dec 31, 2025 (Form ADV)
7 yrsAmerica's Best TAMPs, consecutively
400+SMA and sleeve strategies available to your clients
15 daysFastest transition completed
The model

Independence without the overhead of running an RIA.

Most advisors who want out of a wirehouse or a broker-dealer do not want a second job as a compliance officer, billing clerk, and IT department. The IAR model splits the work cleanly: you keep everything that makes the practice yours, and we run everything that makes it operate.

What you keep
  • Your brand and DBA on the door, the portal, the app, and every report
  • Your clients and their agreements with you
  • Your data, segregated in your own child database and portable if you ever leave
  • Your choice of custodian
  • Your economics, set out in writing before you resign
  • Your equity: Axxcess takes none, and there are no closed-end contracts
What we run
  • Compliance oversight for affiliated IARs
  • Billing at the sleeve, account, and household level
  • Client reporting across bank, brokerage, mortgage, business, and liability accounts
  • Trading and execution, including options and structured products
  • Model management, with asset analysis and stress testing
  • Operations, HR, and administrative support
  • Client portal, the Axxcess Allocator, and channel marketing under your brand

Vendors sit between you and your client. We sit behind you. Your clients see your name; our team does the work.

IAR platform services

Everything a home office does, delivered through your brand.

Three services are available only to IARs who affiliate with Axxcess. The rest are shared with the RIAs on our enterprise platform, so your practice runs on the same infrastructure as a firm many times its size.

IAR only

Advisor transitions

A disciplined, documented process for protocol and non-protocol transitions, run by a dedicated team.

IAR only

Compliance

You operate under the Axxcess compliance program. Registration, supervision, books and records, and review of client-facing materials are overseen by Axxcess.

IAR only

Operations & administration

Operations, HR, administrative, and client-services support for your team.

Client billing

Sleeve, account, and household level. Monthly or quarterly, in arrears or in advance, performance-based, hourly, or per project.

Investment selection

Advisor-directed and third-party strategies in one custodial account through the UMA/UMH platform, with alternatives held and reported alongside.

Trading & execution

Trade order management, prime broker access through partners, options, and structured product services.

Client reporting

Bank, brokerage, mortgage, business, and liability accounts reported together in one secure portal and a white-labeled mobile app.

Axxcess Allocator

Current-versus-proposed proposals, stress tests against 90+ economic and market factors, and digital acceptance and account opening in one tool.

Portfolio management

Model management with detailed asset analysis and stress testing across asset classes.

White-labeled solutions

Portal, app, reports, proposals, and website carry your logo. Our in-house creative team builds them.

Channel marketing

Compliance-reviewed content, curated by client allocation and manager preference, sent through your portal, email, blog, and social under your domain.

Business development

Marketing services and a prospect portal that lets prospects link their accounts and self-onboard before they are clients.

Need more behind the practice? Outsourced CIO, the alternatives platform, and tax-aware portfolio management are available to affiliated IARs.

Economics

Straightforward, competitive economics, in writing before you resign.

Axxcess takes no equity in your business and does not use closed-end contracts or equity partnerships. Your economics are documented in a memorandum of understanding drafted to your model and your client-support requirements, and they do not change when our strategy does.

Whether you are better served as a W-2 employee or a 1099 independent contractor depends on your book, your state, and how you want to run your P&L. That is a conversation we have under NDA, with your counsel if you prefer.

Take the readiness assessment
The assessment scores your readiness across seven areas and unlocks a preview of your economics afterward, with a code from Adrienne.
What the memorandum of understanding puts in writing.
  • The economic commitment Axxcess makes to you, tied to your model, not a recruiting grid.
  • The client-support commitment: which services we run, how they are staffed, and what your clients experience.
  • Your ownership of clients, data, and brand, and the portability of all three.
  • The transition plan, with milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines, before you give notice.
The transition process

Confidential from the first call to live on platform.

Timelines depend on your current firm's relationship with you, your custodians, and your client account structure. The standard onboarding workflow runs ten weeks. With an independent custodian and no restrictive covenants in your employment agreement, we have completed transitions in as little as 15 days.

Execute the NDA

Transitions are discussed only under NDA, so your plans are known to you and Axxcess alone. Your legal counsel is welcome at every step.

Sign the memorandum of understanding

The economic and business commitment Axxcess makes to you, drafted to your model and client-support requirements.

Transition plan and timeline

A dedicated team runs a documented plan through the ten-week workflow: child database, paperwork, data transfer, resignation, training, and first billing review.

Growth plan

Retention through the transition, then business development: channel marketing, brand services, and the prospect portal, built into the plan rather than added after.

Most transition documents are signed by clients virtually. The week-by-week workflow is on the onboarding and transitions page.

Questions IARs ask first

The answers, before the NDA.

Who owns my clients?

You do. Your clients sign agreements with you, their data lives in your own segregated child database, and their portal, app, and statements carry your brand. If you later move to your own RIA, the clients and the data go with you. Axxcess takes no equity in your business and uses no closed-end contracts.

Can I keep my brand and my DBA?

Yes. You can operate under your own DBA inside the Axxcess RIA, or use ours if you prefer. Every client-facing surface can be white-labeled: portal, mobile app, reports, proposals, website, and marketing. Our in-house creative team builds it, and your logo is the only one on it.

What does compliance look like as an affiliated IAR?

You register as an investment advisor representative of Axxcess Wealth Management, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Our compliance program covers your practice: registration, supervision, books and records, and review of client-facing marketing. Channel marketing content is compliance-reviewed before it goes out under your brand. Through the transition, we provide regulatory guidance alongside your counsel.

How are my economics set?

In the memorandum of understanding, before you resign. Axxcess sets straightforward, competitive economics tied to your model and your client-support requirements, and takes no equity. Whether W-2 or 1099 fits you better is part of the same conversation, held under NDA. The readiness assessment unlocks a preview of your economics afterward.

What if I later want my own RIA?

Then you take it. Our incubation model transitions you onto our books and records while your own RIA registers in parallel; once your registration is approved, we port the fully transitioned business to your firm with no break in service. Affiliated IARs can follow the same path later, and many keep Axxcess behind the new firm as an enterprise platform relationship.

Which custodians can I use?

Schwab, Wells Fargo First Clearing, Goldman Sachs Advisor Solutions, Morgan Stanley, and leading trust companies. You choose where your clients' assets live; one reporting engine sits behind all of them. Axxcess never takes custody of client assets.

Your onboarding and transitions lead

Adrienne Rivett, AIF®

Director of Platform Services

Adrienne owns onboarding and transitions for every advisor joining the platform. Her team runs each transition on a documented plan with milestones, tasks, and execution deadlines, and has moved wirehouse advisory teams, broker-dealer hybrids, and standalone RIAs. Before Axxcess she spent ten years as a senior vice president at Redhawk Wealth Advisors running growth, operations, and compliance.

Contact Adrienne

Find out where you stand before anyone knows you're looking.

Carlsbad, CA · Scottsdale, AZ · support@axxcessplatform.com