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OUR VISION

The industry is still in the “mailing DVDs” phase.

A BRIEF ANALOGY

A MacBook Pro laptop with a Netflix logo displayed on the screen.

Netflix started by mailing DVDs one at a time. They did not wait for broadband to become widely available before building the company.

But when broadband was readily available, they became a juggernaut!

Netflix started delivering movies with a manual, time consuming process until they could stream movies to every device.

The financial industry is still in that “mailing DVDs” phase when it comes to managing “held-away” assets.

Plan Confidence has the ability to automate everything today except the trading — but the company is working on solving that too.

A comparison chart showing how Netflix changed entertainment and how technology is transforming 401(k) advice, into three phases each. On the Netflix side, Phase 1 is manual DVD delivery, Phase 2 is technology catching up with broadband internet, and Phase 3 is streaming everywhere. The result is industry domination by Netflix. On the technology advice side, Phase 1 is traditional annual meetings, Phase 2 is technology opening the door with platforms modernizing advice, and Phase 3 is automated held-away advice. The result is industry domination by financial firms that automate trading and hold assets digitally.

THE FUTURE STATE

The word “held-away” should disappear.

— Kevin T Clark, RF, CEO & Co-Founder of Plan Confidence