Advisory Shelf Due Diligence Expertise
DDW At a Glance
The DDW Difference
Superior Product and Shelf Management Support for Financial Institutions
Product Shelf Management
Get specific advice on your product shelf, what to keep, remove or add to your shelf with a documented process every quarter.
Research
Asset Manager and Product level research for your product shelf. Gain scale from our research used across the industry (a must in a Reg BI environment).
Product Committee In A Box
Product Committee Meetings Made Easier. We prepare the material for your committee, and yes we can attend and present as well.
Product Shelf Management
- Review and perform due diligence on your product shelf
- Support acquisitions and review overlaps
- Identify issues or concerns and bring recommendations to product and risk committees
- Compare your current products to industry products, making replacement recommendation where appropriate
- Ensure your product shelf is compliant, best in class, and ready for today’s market environment
- Ensure Best Interest Advice can be provided through the best product shelf
- Actively manage onboarding and removing products to align with today’s environment, your Advisor expertise, and client needs…supporting increasing revenue
- Add products that are expected to fill a gap, grow revenue, and provide better advice, minimizing overlap and product cannabilization
- Prepare material for product committee and provide real time answers to questions, shortening decision time
- Provide insights on the industry regarding new products, sales trends, risk points
Research
- Review your current product shelf to ensure appropriateness by monitoring track record, tenure, complexity, and assigning risk parameters to the product
- Provide quarterly due diligence update reports that, when married with sales reports, provide a true picture to grow your business and mitigate risks
- Perform annual deep dive due diligence reviews
- Provide always on due diligence monitoring of product changes, industry changes, client changes, and provider changes
- Support your product committee with periodic reviews, documentation, & expertise, helping you get to the right answers in an efficient manner
Product Committee In A Box
Understand the Market
- Market Trends
- Should we add that new product
- Remove under performing products
- Understanding risks on product shelf
Make Decision
- We provide the knowledge to make good decision
- We provide experience to have confidence in your decision
- We structure and document everything that will stand the test of time
Asset Manager Operational Due Diligence
Have you ever done operational due diligence on your asset managers? What are their AI policies? Do they have cyber insurance?
DDWs' in-depth annual analysis covers.
- Officers and Principals
- Organization and Structure
- Compliance Structure
- Conflicts
- Firm Risks
- Operational/Back Office Processes
- Regulatory Findings/Audits
- Cyber Security
- Diversity and Inclusion
The Technology
Side By Side Comparison
The only product research and comparison portal your advisors need. Access product scoring, due diligence across your firms complete advisory shelf and the universe of products in each category
Research at your Finger Tips
Access qualitative and quantitative research across your complete product shelf. Access shelf recommendations and asset manager due diligence research via the vault.
Reasonably Available Alternatives
One-Click Reasonably Available Alternatives across your product shelf fine tuned with DDW intelligence and your firms policies and procedures.
Advisory Product Categories
- Fund Strategist Portfolio
- Exchange Traded Funds
- Mutual Funds
- Unit Investment Trusts
- Unit Investment Trusts
- Structured Notes
- Annuities
- Fund Strategist Portfolio
- Exchange Traded Funds
- Mutual Funds
- Unit Investment Trusts
- Unit Investment Trusts
- Structured Notes
- Annuities