Getting Started for Financial Advisors

IBKR’s Advisor Portal is our free and powerful CRM platform, which serves as a one-stop destination to manage clients, access reporting features, client billing, and more. This lesson will introduce how to navigate the Advisor Portal.

Interactive Brokers offers multiple options for adding or opening client accounts on our platform. The process is seamless and is designed to facilitate a smooth transition for both the advisor and the client. This lesson will walk through initiating client applications in the Advisor Portal.

IBKR’s Advisor Portal enables Financial Advisors and RIAs to view the status of pending applications and modify or cancel applications if needed. IBKR also offers advisors the ability to enable Client Activation Notifications so new clients will receive an email notification upon account approval.

Interactive Brokers’ Advisor Portal allows Financial Advisors to add, sort, edit, and export contact information of existing and prospective clients.

The IBKR Advisor Portal offers Financial Advisors and RIAs an integrated suite of tools for Client Relationship Management (CRM) that are designed to help the advisor manage their clients’ and prospective clients’ information from a single platform. This lesson will review creating notes, assigning task workflows, storing documents, tracking calendar events and email integration.

The IBKR Advisor Portal offers Financial Advisors and RIAs an integrated suite of tools for Client Relationship Management (CRM) that are designed to help the advisor manage their clients’ and prospective clients’ information from a single platform. This lesson will review tracking goals, creating risk score questionnaires, running Account Queries, and using the RMD Calculator.

Client Account Templates help Financial Advisors and RIAs save time when sending application invites to prospective clients. Using templates, advisors can specify the account type, trading permissions and trading objectives that will be automatically applied to the application.

Advisors may charge their clients for services rendered either through automatic billing, electronic invoice, or direct billing. Fee schedules can be assigned at the time of the client's registration and may be modified at any time in IBKR’s Advisor Portal.

IBKR’s platform offers several automatic billing methods to financial advisors. This lesson will review the first two methods: Annualized Percentage of Net Liquidation (NLV) and Annualized Flat Fee.

IBKR’s platform offers several automatic billing methods to financial advisors. This lesson will review the Percentage of P&L method, which allows advisors to charge a performance-based fee.

Financial Advisors and RIAs can manually charge their clients a fee for services rendered via electronic invoices by using Interactive Brokers’ Invoicing tool.

A financial advisor or RIA may give any person access to their master account and grant specific access rights for that individual to have. The user roles may be used as a template and assigned to multiple people that need the same access rights.

Interactive Brokers offers a suite of robust reporting software for financial advisors to pull statements, create custom reports, enable automatic report delivery, and access IBKR’s PortfolioAnalyst.

PortfolioAnalyst ® is a powerful analytical tool housed within Advisor Portal that consolidates, tracks, and analyzes the portfolios, offering multi-custody solutions, advanced reporting, custom benchmarks, risk metrics, and powerful on-the-go allocation and performance analytics. This lesson will review how financial advisors can use PortfolioAnalyst to manage their clients' portfolios.

Interactive Brokers offers a solution for registered advisors to use their own banners for white branding purposes. White branding allows RIAs to display their own logos and company information on our Registration system, Client Portal, Reports, Trader Workstation and other materials. White branding is a great marketing tool that can give your customers the impression that you are offering a complete package of in-house trading tools and supporting products.

Learn how to open a paper trading account which lets you use the full range of IBKR’s trading features in a simulated environment using real market conditions.

Learn where you can review IBKR’s market data bundles and packages and how users can subscribe via Advisor Portal.

Professional Advisors and Introducing Brokers can use IBKR’s Mass Upload application process to simultaneously migrate a large number of accounts to IBKR. Mass Upload streamlines the application process for both the advisor or broker, and their clients.