Trading Technology

Integrated Managed Strategies Platform

Offered through TCAdvisor II, our integrated managed strategies trading platform allows for increased portfolio control with dramatically decreased time requirements.

Advisors set up portfolio strategies with desired asset choices and allocations and assign the strategies to each client account, based on the investment goals of the client. With a minimal amount of effort, the advisor may later alter the composition of the strategy, modify a client’s exposure to a strategy, or rebalance entire groups of accounts.

Furthermore, trades processed through TCAdvisor II are executed at an omnibus level, so all transactions in a security are consolidated prior to execution. Any resulting transaction fee is spread across as many accounts as were involved in the trade.

Proven effective in executing active or passive asset allocation strategies, TCAdvisor II’s integrated managed strategies platform allows advisors to optimize trading activities over hundreds of individual accounts.

Platform Advantages

By placing trades through TCAdvisor II, advisors enjoy the following benefits:

• Multiple accounts may be rebalanced to predefined target allocations with just a few keystrokes.
• The quick and easy process features online order building and seamless processing through Trust Company.
• Real-time data is easily accessed through the web.
• When Trust Company serves as custodian, no extra time is required for transaction or position reconciliation between the custodian and the portfolio management system.

Trade Processing and Execution

To help advisors assess trades, the TCAdvisor II platform allows for in-depth analysis of position data and information. Once a trade is approved, the system automatically consolidates like trades from across the entire range of the advisor’s portfolios, creating omnibus trades that minimize trading costs. Until a trade is settled, the shares or proceeds are listed as a pending event in each account, a factor that is taken into consideration as additional trades are processed. Once a trade is settled, the shares or proceeds are automatically distributed across relevant accounts, with an appropriate portion of the single trading fee (if applicable).

Sub-Advisor Strategy Management

For advisors who enlist sub-advisors to manage one or more of their investment strategies, TCAdvisor II improves the dynamics of the relationship while effectively shielding the firm’s operations from the sub-advisor. While the sub-advisor is granted access only to the strategy or strategies that they manage, efficiencies such as the consolidation of like trades across multiple strategies are still realized through the platform. Meanwhile, the sub-advisors are prohibited from viewing other strategies or client account information. 

No Trade Confirmations

As a state chartered financial institution, Trust Company of America is not required to send trade confirmations following every transaction. Instead, we include trade details within our regular statements, which gives clients all of the information they need in a single periodic report. (Confirmations are available upon request.)