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Title: Unified Managed Accounts: An Innovation


1
Unified Managed Accounts An Innovation? MMI
Fall Conference October 20,2004
2
Panelists
  • Co-Moderators
  • Ashley Rabun, President InvestorReach
  • Wayne Morris, SVP Wachovia Securities
  • Panelists
  • Jennifer Abate, Director, Lazard Asset Management
  • Paul Hatch, Director of Managed Accounts, Smith
    Barney
  • Jay Link, Associate Director, Consulting Services
    Group,
  • Morgan Stanley

3
What is a UMA?
  • Some define as a single custodial account with
    one contract that
  • Has multiple sleeves for separate investments
  • Can incorporate different security types SMAs,
    mutual funds, ETFs, etc.
  • Uses an overlay manager
  • Reports client performance in one consolidated
    statement
  • Means different things to different
    sponsors/entities

4
Sponsors Issues for Today
  • What does UMA mean to your firm? What investments
    are included?
  • When did you/are you launching UMA?
  • What were/are your major challenges?
  • Operations
  • Systems integration
  • Investment overlay advisor or sponsor
  • Manager participation
  • Individual tax management
  • Rebalancing
  • What enhancements are you planning?
  • Impact to FAs and investors?

5
Asset Managers Issues for Today
  • What does UMA participation mean to your firm?
  • Apprehensions of various constituents at firm?
  • Benefits to you?

6
What is a UMA at Smith Barney?
  • SB UMA (IIS) is a single custodial account with
    one contract that
  • Has multiple sleeves for separate investments
  • Can incorporate different security types SMAs,
    mutual funds, ETFs, etc.
  • Does NOT use an overlay manager
  • Reports client performance in one consolidated
    statement
  • Provides for rebalancing
  • Launched one year ago
  • 70 of accounts are new money
  • 50 of accounts combine funds and SMAs
  • Average account size 1MM

7
Smith Barney Issues and Future Development
  • IIS is our platform of the future and the PRESENT
  • Expect full integration with ALL fee based
    products by mid year 06
  • Includes Rep as Portfolio Manager and Fee based
    brokerage
  • Alternative Investments remain a challenge but
    expect integration to begin in 05
  • Major Challenges
  • Systems development is substantial
  • Regulatory hurdles
  • Pricing
  • Tools are critical
  • Education and Training are keys to adoption
  • Simplicity is BIGGEST challenge

8
Morgan Stanleys UMA Defined
  • UMA a single brokerage account
  • Unified portfolio multiple brokerage accounts
    linked for aggregating portfolio components
  • UMAs can be used in combination to create a
    unified portfolio (for example, taxable
    accounts and IRAs)
  • Ideal is to limit the number of custody accounts
    in delivery of holistic investment solution

9
Key UMA Features
  • Single client profiling and asset allocation
    process
  • One client contract
  • Manager and investment vehicle selection
  • Systematic rebalancing
  • Ability to segregate holdings and investment
    activity for each discipline
  • Actual account performance at investment
    discipline and account level
  • Single performance report, statement and tax
    report

10
Evolution
  • Today
  • Fixed allocations
  • Affiliated SMAs
  • External SMAs
  • Affiliated mutual funds
  • ETFs
  • Tomorrow
  • Custom allocations
  • Full open architecture
  • SMAs
  • ETFs
  • Mutual funds
  • Alternatives
  • Rep-as-PM
  • Non-discretionary advisory

11
Asset Managers Issues for Today
  • What does UMA participation mean to your firm?
  • Apprehensions of various constituents at firm?
  • Benefits to you?
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