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Risk Ecosystem
Renewing comfort on the path to prosperity.
See It In Action
By knowing how comfortable a client is with investment ups and downs, advisors can help bring calm and peace of mind when risk is realized. The Morningstar Risk Ecosystem provides a world-class psychological risk tolerance tool that helps simplify processes, stay compliant, and reassure clients.
How It Works
Accurate psychometric risk assessment
Accurately measure investors’ familiarity with risk and market dynamics, plus their likely behavior in the face of volatility. Risk Profiler makes it easy for investors to understand the tradeoffs between risk tolerance, risk need, and risk capacity.
Risk Profiler accurately measures investors’ familiarity with risk and market dynamics, plus their likely behavior in the face of volatility. It makes it easy for investors to understand the tradeoffs between risk tolerance, risk need, and risk capacity. By asking better questions about risk we help investors understand its role and stick to the plan when they encounter volatility.
Personalized investment guidance
Identify the best investments and allocations for your clients’ by aligning their personal risk profile with their equity goals and timeline. Risk Profiler's investor-first approach helps you understand your clients’ needs and connect them with the right products.
Risk Profiler identifies the best investments and allocations for your clients’ by aligning their personal risk profile with their equity goals and timeline. It’s an investor-first approach that helps you understand your clients’ needs and connect them with the right products.
Simplified compliance and defensibility
Risk Profiler features a transparent methodology that meets the regulations and compliance frameworks of the 20+ countries where it’s used.
Risk Profiler features a transparent methodology that meets the regulations and compliance frameworks of the 20+ countries where it’s used.
Academically validated and trustworthy
Risk Profiler has been independently vetted using academically rigorous methods. Our software earned best-in-class scores and received an A+ rating for legal defensibility.
Full integration with Morningstar's ecosystem
Risk Profiler is part of a complete financial planning toolset, powered by Morningstar®. Full integration gives you access to Morningstar’s unparalleled research and expertise and puts all your client information in one place.
Risk Profiler is part of a complete financial planning toolset, powered by Morningstar®. Full integration puts all your client information in one place and enables data to flow end-to-end, eliminating redundant tasks and driving productivity. And Risk Compass gives you access to Morningstar’s unparalleled research and expertise, so you can give your clients the most informed and effective guidance.
An essential program to deepen and improve client engagement. It has assisted me in building a very successful practice and we highly recommend it for any advisor who wants to enhance the overall value of their client relationships.
Tina Bates CPA, CA, MBA, CIM®
Investment Advisor, Manulife Securities
Morningstar Risk Ecosystem: An Integrated Client Risk Profiling and Portfolio Risk-Scoring System
In line with our mission to Empower Investor Success, we simplify the process of connecting a person's risk profile to the risk score pf a portfolio so they can understand how finding the right 'fit' is beneficial to their long-term success.
Measurement of Client Risk Tolerance: How Improving Methodology Could Offer Advisors a Significant Competitive Advantage
The technology is here to make distribution of questionnaires, generation of risk tolerance scores, and conversations with clients, a much easier and thoughtful process. Choosing the right approach could lead to much higher retention and a better connection with your clients.
How You Can Get It
Morningstar® Advisor WorkstationSM
Risk Profiler is available as an add-on to a Morningstar Advisor Workstation license.
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