Welcome to the October 2026 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!
This month’s edition kicks off with the news that Anthropic has announced the launch of Claude for Financial Advisors, an industry-specific plugin for its popular AI chatbot, which connects to a number of different existing advisor technology tools and moves data in and out to execute functions like creating a pre-meeting summary
From there, the latest highlights also feature a number of other interesting advisor technology announcements, including:
- Two new announcements in the financial planning space – the launch of Hazel’s new AI Financial Planning Agent and Conquest’s AI planning platform being released to individual (non-enterprise) advisors – show how AI-enabled financial planning startups are aiming to disrupt the incumbent “Big 3” of eMoney, RightCapital, and MoneyGuidePro – but with the slow pace at which advisors adopt new financial planning software, it could take years to know whether that ‘disruption’ is actually happening
- Savvy has announced the launch of a new custody platform – open to all advisors regardless of whether they’re affiliated with Savvy’s RIA – suggesting a potential shift in strategy towards technology and custody (and possible competition with Altruist in both categories) which could better allow for the tech-style growth and valuation that Savvy is seeking?
- The estate planning software Luminary has announced a recent $22M fundraising round, showing how despite a hard year for specialized planning tools – which have been pressured both by the potential of having their features co-opted by comprehensive planning software and by the ability for advisors to build their own low-cost tools using AI – there is still a path for success for software that can get into deeper and more complex planning than generalized financial planning software or homebuilt options are able to go
Read the analysis about these announcements in this month’s column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including:
Read the full article at Kitces.com
