Custom SMAS

Start providing personalization at scale with Fidelity's custom SMAs

Create portfolios tailored to clients’ preferences and tax management goals—without placing high demands on your time.

Creating personalized portfolios just got easier with our custom SMAs

Our holistic end-to-end process allows you to focus your time on your clients and their investment objectives, preferences, and tax management goals. With streamlined digital experiences that are integrated with Wealthscape1, you can give us your clients’ investment choices in just a few clicks. We take it from there and will build and manage their unique portfolios.

3 steps to help you get started with Fidelity Institutional Custom SMAs

Creating a custom mandate with your clients gives them an investment solution that's truly tailored to their preferences. Consider identifying their needs in three essential areas:

1. Determine market exposure

What are your clients’ investment goals? Work with them to identify what they’re looking for their portfolio to achieve. For example:

  • Do they need a specific market exposure or global coverage?
  • Is there a target risk exposure for the equity portfolio that global blends could help with?
  • Is your client interested in sustainable investing?

2. Clarify tax goals

Identify if your clients have any specific tax considerations that could impact how you build their portfolio, such as:

  • Are they tax sensitive and looking to align potential tax benefits with their chosen market exposure?
  • Does their risk sensitivity need to align with their chosen market exposure and smaller potential tax benefits?
  • Is there a capital gains budget to consider in transitioning assets to a new portfolio?

3. Prioritize preferences

Talk with your clients to see if they have any specific ideas, interests, or preferences they’d like reflected in their portfolios. Consider questions like:

  • Do they want a portfolio that expresses their faith or other values?
  • Is there a type of business or product that they would like to avoid?
  • Could excluding a specific company or industry help address a concentrated position in their portfolio?

Get insights along the way using our digital self-service custom SMA platform1

Screenshots are for illustrative purposes only. FI Custom SMA Platform availability and capabilities are subject to change. See additional disclosure below.

Diversification does not ensure a profit or guarantee against a loss.

Accounts that are tax-managed invest generally in equity securities and use investing techniques that seek to enhance after-tax returns, including, without limitation, harvesting tax losses and the potential deferral of capital gains. The effectiveness of such techniques cannot be guaranteed.

It is important to understand that the value of tax-loss harvesting for any particular client can only be determined by fully examining a client's investment and tax decisions for the life of the account and the client, which our methodology does not attempt to do. Clients and potential clients should speak with their tax advisors for more information about how a tax-loss harvesting approach could provide value under their specific circumstances.

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