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IRALOGIX, the leading cloud-based IRA provider, is now available on the vWise Experience Platform
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Aliso Viejo, Calif. – vWise, Inc. (vWise), a leading provider of technology solutions for the retirement industry, today announced its partnership with IRALOGIX, a leading provider of cloud-based technology enabling institutional partners to offer IRA solutions to all investors regardless of account size. Providers using vWise will be given the opportunity to quickly launch a profitable white label IRA solution that leverages the same types of institutional investments found in employer plans, along with professional advice and more. “We are excited to have IRALOGIX as part of our platform and as a client. This partnership will give vWise the ability to offer the most advanced technology-forward IRA account services to our clients and their Advisors. The new offering will include both force-outs and voluntary IRA account capabilities,” said James Liberi, CRO of vWise. “Their best-in-class IRA solutions, combined with our ability to optimize participant outcomes through personalization, will forward both companies’ mission to bring better retirement options and outcomes to the American worker.” “At IRALOGIX, we are dedicated to helping recordkeepers and their Advisors provide the latest advancements in IRAs and servicing technology to everyone saving for retirement, and our partnership with vWise is a great example of how teaming up with experts in the industry helps our ongoing efforts to fulfill that mission,” said Peter Littlejohn. “The work that vWise is doing with its clients around building trusted relationships with participants and using data to drive better outcomes is instrumental in accelerating widespread accessibility to IRALOGIX solutions through digital transformation, making this an ideal partnership.”

About vWise

vWise optimizes investor outcomes through interactive, data-enabled personalized experiences that drive informed decision- making. Utilizing the way today’s investors consume content, the vWise Experience Platform enables asset managers and financial service providers to efficiently deliver personalized digital experiences to complement existing sales and marketing efforts. For more information, visit vWise at www.vWise.com.

 

About IRALOGIX

IRALOGIX is an industry-leading cloud-based IRA provider providing our institutional clients the ability to service all investors regardless of account size while acting in their best interest. IRALOGIX can complement your market strategy, streamline your IRA service options, and help you expand your business. For more information about IRALOGIX, please visit www.iralogix.com.

The capital raise will help the company expand its growing institutional client-base in the IRA market

Pittsburgh, PA (June 7, 2021): IRALOGIX, Inc., an innovator in products for the IRA market, announced today that it has completed an $11 million Series B extension capital raise led by independent investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: MORN) with additional investments made by existing investors.

IRALOGIX enables institutional partners to rapidly launch profitable white-label IRA programs that leverage institutionally priced investments as well as professional advice and education. The company’s modular technologies are cloud-native and support a fully paperless process with no account minimums.

Upon making this investment, Morningstar will own a minority stake in IRALOGIX, and James Smith, Head of Workplace Strategy and Business Development for Morningstar Investment Management, will be appointed to its Board of Directors.

David Bernard, Chief Executive Officer of IRALOGIX, commented: “In addition to its investment in IRALOGIX, Morningstar brings the power of its industry reach to our business. The combination of our uniquely flexible technology and institutionally priced investments with Morningstar’s highly respected investment advice and managed account capabilities makes for a compelling business model that will help more clients achieve profitable IRA business growth while providing better options to investors saving for retirement. It offers a competitive opportunity with inherent cost and scale advantages the industry has been searching for.”

Morningstar’s financial investment is accompanied by a strategic collaboration between IRALOGIX and the Workplace Solutions group within Morningstar Investment Management, a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. and a registered investment adviser offering a range of products and services in the retirement market. Its managed account service, including the Morningstar® Retirement ManagerSM version designed to be offered by plan sponsors and the newer version designed to be offered by retirement advisers, today enables 231,000 plans and 1.7 million retirement plan participants to receive personalized retirement advice by Morningstar Investment Management. The two groups will work together to integrate Morningstar Investment Management’s personalized managed retirement accounts services into IRALOGIX’s platform.

Brock Johnson, President of Global Retirement and Workplace Solutions at Morningstar Investment Management, added: “IRALOGIX offers a natural expansion of our approach to democratizing high-quality investment and saving advice for every working American, no matter their salary or account balance. Together, we will expand on the success of our managed accounts platform so more people can access personalized advice across not only retirement accounts like 401(k)s, but also for IRAs to help them reach their retirement goals.”

About IRALOGIX
IRALOGIX is an industry-leading provider of technology-enabled, fully paperless, white label IRA recordkeeping and technology solutions. The company’s proprietary technology solutions enable any financial institution to easily customize their IRA offering and compete effectively in all segments of the IRA market.Through modular technology, institutional clients have the choice to use their internal investment or advisory capabilities or select from a number of industry leading providers. IRALOGIX can complement your market strategy, streamline your IRA service options, and help you expand your business. For more information, please visit www.iralogix.com.

About Morningstar, Inc.
Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $244 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2021. The Company has operations in 29 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company. Follow Morningstar on Twitter @MorningstarInc.

About Morningstar Investment Management LLC’s Workplace Solutions group
Our parent company, Morningstar, Inc., was founded on the simple idea that when people have good investment information, they can make better choices that help them achieve their financial goals. In the Retirement Solutions group at Morningstar Investment Management LLC, a subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. and a registered investment adviser, our advocacy for the individual investor extends to the workplace retirement market where the responsibility for investing and saving now rests with employees. Our products and services which range from a managed accounts service to target-date products to custom models and fiduciary services are not only designed to help people save for the retirement they want, but to help them make their money last once they get there.

 

IRALOGIX, Inc. announces that it has completed a $7.5 million Series B financing led by Great North Labs, with participation from Trog Hawley Capital, Riverfront Ventures, and Circadian Ventures. IRALOGIX is a unique, cloud-native technology platform providing paperless, white label IRA product capability to financial services firms. The company’s modular offerings enable partners to rapidly launch profitable IRA programs with no account minimums while leveraging institutionally priced investments as well as professional advice and education.

David Bernard, IRALOGIX’s CEO, put the capital raise in context, “With this investment, we’ll be able to accelerate our efforts to help our partners provide greater service, high-quality institutional investments, and personal advice, all at a lower cost than has been available. That’s a game changer and it comes at a critical time when IRA providers, Wealth Managers, Advisors, Banks, Brokerage firms, Mutual Funds, Affinity groups, and Investment providers are all seeking new ways to generate revenue, expand market share and strengthen competitiveness. This underscores why we were successful achieving this additional funding even in a challenging economic environment.”

“We invest in excellent management as much as we do excellent ideas,” added Circadian Ventures’ Founding Partner, Mike Dowdle. “The company’s leaders are both successful fintech start-up innovators and seasoned retirement industry executives. They’ve spent their careers dealing with the very problems IRALOGIX now solves. That was a compelling rationale for us to make an investment in their success.”

Ryan Weber, Great North Lab’s Managing Partner added, “Legacy technology available today just isn’t designed to provide flexible, cost-efficient, easy-to-deploy solutions for IRA providers. IRALOGIX enables industry partners the opportunity to bring truly differentiating offerings to the market.”

About IRALOGIX
IRALOGIX is an industry-leading provider of technology-enabled, fully paperless, white label IRA recordkeeping and technology solutions. The company’s proprietary technology solutions enable any financial institution to easily customize their IRA offering and compete effectively in all segments of the IRA market. Through modular technology, institutional clients have the choice to use their internal investment or advisory capabilities or select from a number of industry leading providers. IRALOGIX can complement your market strategy, streamline your IRA service options, and help you expand your business. For more information, please visit https://www.iralogix.com.

About Great North Labs
Great North Labs is an early-stage venture fund based in St. Cloud/Minneapolis and focused primarily on the Upper Midwest. It is led by successful tech founders/investors in Minnesota and Silicon Valley. As founders backing founders, the fund cultivates access to investment intelligence and opportunities via strategic relationships to directly help entrepreneurs and startups develop, grow, and find exits. https://GreatNorthLabs.com

About Circadian Ventures
Circadian Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in early stage tech and tech-enabled businesses. Circadian Ventures actively partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to build enduring businesses. Based in Atlanta, Circadian Ventures has investments in various sectors across the United States. https://www.circadian.vc

About Trog Hawley Capital
Trog Hawley Capital is a single-family office based in West Palm Beach, Florida. The firm is stage agnostic, investing in seed to late-stage highly scalable technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, fintech, and medtech verticals. Trog Hawley Capital values and backs exceptional founders and management teams given its principal’s entrepreneurial and operational pedigree.

About Riverfront Ventures
Riverfront Ventures LLC (RFV) is a venture fund investing in early stage technology companies and seeks to invest in high-growth early-stage companies primarily located in southwestern PA. RFV is the affiliate of Innovation Works, Inc. (IW). Over the past 15 years, IW’s Seed Fund has become the most active early-stage technology investor in southwestern Pennsylvania, investing over $80 million in over 350 companies that have gone on to raise more than $3 billion+ in follow-on funding. https://www.riverfrontventures.com/

 

IRA recordkeeping and trading technology platform provider is expanding its capabilities to help financial institutions offer high quality products to accounts of all sizes.

Pittsburgh, PA (October 19, 2018): iraLogix, Inc. announces that it has completed a $5 million Series A financing led by Integrated Retirement Initiatives with participation from Riverfront Ventures and other strategic investors. iraLogix is a unique, cloud-native technology platform providing completely paperless, end-to-end white label IRA product capability to financial services firms interested in growing their IRA business quickly and profitably. iraLogix provides a wide range of institutionally-priced investment choices and seamless access to professional advice, education and other financial services, all with no account minimums.

“This timely investment will help us accelerate as we expand our ability to provide advanced IRA technology solutions to our rapidly growing list of institutional IRA provider clients” said David Bernard, iraLogix’s CEO. “Integrated Retirement’s continued confidence and support has been instrumental as we increase the speed at which we secure new clients and add new services for existing clients. We are excited about the positive impact we’re able to make in helping our clients address this $3 trillion opportunity in the retirement market.”

About iraLogix:

iraLogix is an industry-leading provider of technology-enabled, fully paperless, white label IRA recordkeeping solutions. The company’s recordkeeping and technology solutions enable any financial institution to easily customize their IRA offering and compete effectively in all segments of the IRA market. Through modular technology, clients have the choice to use their internal investment or advisory capabilities or select from a number of industry leading providers, as desired. Regardless of market strategy, iraLogix can streamline your IRA service options and expand your business. For more information, please visit www.iralogix.com.

About Integrated Retirement Initiatives:

Integrated Retirement is an independent, privately held corporation with deep retirement plan expertise and industry insights that provides the highest quality thought leadership, professional development, content, and ERISA support to enhance its clients’ products and distribution channels. For more information please visit www.integratedretirement.com.

About Riverfront Ventures:

Riverfront Ventures LLC (RFV) is a venture fund investing in early stage technology companies and seeks to invest in high-growth early-stage companies primarily located in southwestern PA. RFV is the affiliate of Innovation Works, Inc. (IW).

iraLogix Acquires Integrated Retirement to Accelerate Growth

IRI expands the company’s business-critical go-to-market consulting services

Pittsburgh, PA (January 22, 2019): iraLogix, Inc., an innovative technology-based IRA recordkeeper, announces it has acquired Integrated Retirement Initiatives, LLC, (IRI) a first-tier provider of retirement product design, go-to-market consulting, training and compliance solutions for financial institutions. Integrated Retirement, a widely-respected organization, will operate under its own name as a division of iraLogix, Inc.

iraLogix delivers modular, fully paperless, white-labeled IRA recordkeeping solutions that enable financial institutions to easily customize their offerings and compete in all segments of the IRA market. The acquisition of IRI responds to a growing demand by institutional clients for business-critical consulting on product design, go-to-market strategy, implementation training, education and compliance program support.

“Integrated Retirement has long been lauded for its talent, expertise and commitment to client success. Their team is well positioned to help us accelerate our delivery of outstanding technology and service expertise to the retirement industry” said David Bernard, iraLogix’s CEO. He added, “They immediately augment our capacity to respond to the growing demand for expert marketing, legal and technical resources needed to launch and support highly competitive IRA programs.”

Pam O’Rourke, Sr. Vice President and ERISA Counsel for Integrated Retirement added “The iraLogix and Integrated Retirement teams have an aligned philosophy and approach to advising clients on how to build and maintain best-in-class retirement plan products. With this merger, we are well-positioned to provide clients with both technology and consulting expertise they need to be successful in all aspects of their retirement business.”