Julex-OCIO offers a range of services and products for advisors to select from. For us, it’s all about providing choice, customization, and nimble responsiveness. Some of our more popular offerings include: (i) Client communications, (ii) Advisor preparedness, (iii) New business proposals, (iv) Client/prospect events, (v) Investment management, (vi) Regulatory support, and (vii) Ad-hoc consultations. Client communications and advisor preparedness generally cover: (i) Recent model-portfolio performance, (ii) General investment market behavior, (iii) Macroeconomic developments, (iv) Expected future model-portfolio performance, (v) Geopolitical challenges, (vi) Domestic political developments, and (vii) Crisis events. Julex-OCIO investment professionals make themselves available seven days a week.
Services and Products
We offer a menu of products and services that we believe allows advisors to:
- Operate more efficiently
- Grow faster
- Achieve higher profit margins
- Gain advantage over competing advisory firms
- Shrink operational and regulatory risk
- Reduce complexity
- Spend a greater portion of their time on what they enjoy most
Julex-OCIO offers a range of services and products for advisors to select from. For us, it’s all about providing choice, customization, and nimble responsiveness. Some of our more popular offerings include:
Client communications
- Compliance-approved written documents that induce the advisor’s clients to feel favorably about specific relevant topics (list below)
- Direct interaction between Julex investment professionals and the advisor’s largest clients
Advisor preparedness
- Enabling advisors to speak more effectively with their clients concerning specific relevant topics (list below)
- Written advisor talking-points
- Advisor-facing video conferences
- Ability to interact with Julex investment professionals seven days a week by phone or video conference . . . preparing the advisor for their next client/prospect meeting
New business proposals
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Written prospect-facing documents
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Highlighting the attractiveness and applicability of the advisor’s investment management capabilities
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Advisor talking-points for use with their prospect
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Direct interaction between Julex investment professionals and the advisor’s largestprospects making it clear that Julex-OCIO is part of the advisor’s team, following their lead and instruction
Client/prospect events
- Speak at advisor-sponsored events
- Being responsive to what the advisor seeks to achieve
Investment management
- Build and manage unique custom-tailored investment models, serving highly targeted needs (for use by the advisor)
- Individual client account trading
- End-of-year tax loss harvesting
- Institutional-quality alternative investments, both public and private
Specific relevant topics
- Recent model-portfolio performance
- General investment market behavior
- Macroeconomic developments
- Expected future model-portfolio performance
- Geopolitical developments
- Domestic political developments
- Crisis events
Regulatory support
- Converse with SEC or FINRA representatives
- Covering all relevant audit/inspection inquiries
Ad hoc consultations
- One-off pre-defined project work
- With clearly defined end-dates
Fees
Everyone’s preference
- We would all benefit from understanding that the cost is “X”
- But that is just not realistic . . . nor is it helpful
Need for discussion
- The price that we mutually agree upon will result from a serious conversation
- As it properly should
- After all, it is about meeting your needs as an advisory practice. and each practice is different
- So “price” can only result from a meaningful conversation
What will I pay
- The fee for Julex-OCIO services and support ranges from a low of 10 to a high of 60 basis points
Why such a wide range
- Because the Julex-OCIO service/product offering is all about unbridled customization, thoughtfully tailored to each advisor’s individual needs
- And those needs are quite different from one advisory-practice to the next
Key factors that impact pricing include:
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Size of the relationship . . . dollars being billed upon ($AUM)
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Complexity . . . number of investment models designed and managed
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Alternative investments . . . use, type, and extent
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Trading of individual client accounts . . . inclusion or exclusion
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Advisor’s largest client/prospect accounts . . . custom tailoring for the day-to-day management of these critical relationships
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Active tax loss harvesting . . . of individual client accounts
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Seven-day-a-week access . . . to Julex-OCIO investment professionals by phone and video conference
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In-person meetings with your largest clients and prospects
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Specific services selected . . . from the menu of services/products offered (see above)
Examples of Hypothetical Cases
$30 million RIA
- 11 model portfolios
- No trading of client accounts
- Supporting collateral describing the model portfolios and related investment market and macroeconomic developments
- Numerous new client account proposals
- No use of alternative investments
- 20 basis point fee
$275 million RIA
- 26 model portfolios
- Trading of all of client accounts
- Active tax loss harvesting across all taxable accounts
- Supporting collateral describing the model portfolios and related investment market and macroeconomic developments
- Weekly video conferences with advisors
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest clients
- New client account proposals (with follow-on revisions)
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest new business prospects
- Heavy use of numerous and complex limited partnership alternative investments
- 60 basis point fee
$525 million RIA
- 36 model portfolios
- No trading of client accounts
- Year-end active tax loss harvesting across all taxable model portfolios
- Supporting collateral describing the model portfolios and related investment market and macroeconomic developments
- Monthly client-facing, compliance-approved, white-labeled pieces covering the most impactful investment, macroeconomic, and political developments
- As required (but at least quarterly) video conferences with advisors
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest clients
- New client account proposals (with several follow-on revisions)
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest new business prospects
- Minimal use of a diverse set of complex limited partnership alternative investments
- 25 basis point fee
$800 million RIA
- 20 model portfolios
- Trading of all client accounts
- Year-end active tax loss harvesting, but only at the model level
- Supporting collateral describing the model portfolios and related investment market and macroeconomic developments
- Monthly video conferences with advisors
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest clients
- New client account proposals (with limited follow-on revisions)
- Video conference calls with the advisor’s largest new business prospects
- Heavy use alternative investments, but strictly limited to interval funds, a short list of private REITs, and related 40-Act daily access funds (no limited partnerships)
- 10 basis point fee