BillFin Launches Termination Billing
The industry’s first cloud-based billing solution also handles termination calculations.
June 07, 2019 | Product News
BillFin was developed specifically for Registered Investment Advisors. In fact, since day one, we regularly receive feedback and constantly improve our solution. One such enhancement is termination calculations and rebates!
Independent Financial Partners Selects Redi2
Independent Financial Partners Selects Redi2 for Fee Billing, Revenue Management Solutions
April 25, 2019 | Press Releases
Independent Financial Partners, an SEC-registered investment advisor, and soon-to-be broker-dealer, has selected Redi2 Technologies as their provider of hosted fee billing and revenue management solutions. Redi2 delivers a number of services through their Wealth Manager Enterprise solution to IFP advisors, including simplified client billing, transparent fee disclosures, an enhanced online experience and much more. At the core of their technology, Redi2 strives to improve each client interaction through quality design and a progressive software development life cycle.
Ensuring Correct Fee Rates: Issue #3
Being audited is stressful enough—don’t let your billing process add alarm.
January 30, 2019 | Product News
BillFin is committed to helping advisors calculate and collect accurate management fees from their clients while helping you understand the fee billing process. This is a continuation of a six-part series discussing the risk alert issued by the SEC last April noting six common errors found in reviewing financial advisors’ fee billing and compliance. Continue reading for details on how BillFin helps with fee rates.
My BillFin Story by Aaron Hattenbach
Founder and Managing Member of Rapport Financial
November 19, 2018 | Customer Spotlight
At prior RIA firms, we used Excel spreadsheets for calculating quarterly billing and generating invoices. But this is both time consuming and cumbersome with different fee schedules, clients joining your practice mid-quarter, prorated billing, etc. What I really like about BillFin is that once it’s all set up and you learn the user interface, you’re
Billing Fees in Advance or with Improper Frequency: Issue #2
Advisors’ Billing Practices Inconsistent with their ADV or Advisory Agreement
October 15, 2018 | Product News
The six part “improper practices” BillFin article series continues this month moving onto risk number two: Billing Fees in Advance or with Improper Frequency. Since the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a risk alert on advisory fee billing and compliance back in April, Redi2 is committed to resolving these worries by explaining how BillFin handles such concerns. Issue: Advisors’ Billing Practices Inconsistent with their ADV or Advisory Agreement OCIE staff found that many advisors’ claim to bill on a quarterly basis; however, they actually ran their advisory fees on a monthly basis. They also found advisors’ billing in advance when their agreement states in arrears. BillFin Solution: Flexible Billing for Consistency While BillFin will not review your ADV before you bill, it will allow the flexibility advisors need to properly bill and maintain accuracy with their ADV and advisor agreement. Advisors can bill monthly or quarterly, forward and arrears, with override settings available for clients with different billing arrangements.
Ensuring Correct Market Valuations Are Used for Billing: Issue #1
SEC issued a risk alert on advisory fee billing and compliance.
August 31, 2018 | Product News
Back in April, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a risk alert on advisory fee billing and compliance. Of the six most frequent compliance issues they outlined, BillFin can help ensure the top five are not concerns for your fee billing (see our June article). Let’s start with issue number one: Fee Billing Based on Incorrect Account Valuations. BillFin is extremely flexible and simple to use. The workflow is as simple as calculating fees, exporting your invoices, and then exporting your debit files. Since the first step is critically important, you will need your management fees to be correct and for that, the account valuations must be correct.