Model Comparison
The Model Comparison tool was designed to empower financial advisors by enabling them to identify and transition their clients into comparable investment models.
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The Model Comparison tool was designed to empower financial advisors by enabling them to identify and transition their clients into comparable investment models.
The Model Comparison tool was designed to address a critical challenge faced by financial advisors: minimizing the tax implications associated with migrating an existing portfolio of investments to a new set of investments over time. To achieve this, the tool operates by adhering to a capital gains budget and strategically optimizing the assets that undergo the transition. This process allows advisors to allocate the maximum market value to the new portfolio while minimizing the tax burden.
Without utilizing the Tax Transition tool, advisors run the risk of encountering significant and unexpected tax liabilities when implementing a new strategy for a customer's account. Tax Transition mitigates this risk by reducing the tax impact during the initial rebalance, ensuring a smoother experience for both the client and advisor.
The Tax Transition tool is planned to be developed in multiple phases, and this brief focuses on V2, which introduces the capability to allocate (journal) positions into new models without generating additional trades.
Embark on a journey by delving into user research and needs. Conduct user interviews and gather data to understand how advisors currently manage portfolios and the pain points they face. Dive deep into their financial goals and challenges to inform the design process.
Armed with valuable user insights, begin designing the Tax Transition features with a user-centered approach. Create wireframes and prototypes based on the research findings. Continuously gather user feedback through usability testing and iterations to ensure the tool aligns with their preferences and needs.
Validate the tool's effectiveness through extensive user testing. Observe how advisors interact with the interface and make adjustments based on their feedback. Ensure that the Tax Transition tool not only simplifies tax optimization but also enhances the overall user experience.
The Impact Effort Matrix is a visual tool used to evaluate and prioritize potential features based on their expected impact on users and the effort required for their implementation. This matrix can be divided into four distinct quadrants:
1. High Impact, Low Effort (Quick Wins): This quadrant includes features that demand relatively low effort to implement but promise high positive effects on the user experience. These are the low-hanging fruits that should be pursued immediately as they offer substantial benefits without requiring extensive resources.
2. High Impact, High Effort (Big Bets): In this quadrant, we identify features that have the potential to deliver significant value but demand a substantial amount of effort and resources. These items should be approached with careful planning and prototyping because, if successfully executed, they could serve as differentiators against competitors and have a substantial impact on the business.
3. High Effort, Low Impact (Money Pit): The Money Pit quadrant contains features that, despite their high implementation effort, do not offer substantial benefits to users or the business. These items are generally not worth the investment of time and resources and should be deprioritized in favor of more impactful initiatives.
4. Low Effort, Low Impact (Fill-Ins): This quadrant encompasses low-effort features that, while relatively easy to implement, provide minimal value to users and the business. These items may not be the best use of resources and should be considered for implementation only if there is spare capacity or a specific strategic reason to do so.
