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Morningstar Office Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

Easy way to get access to instant risk and return information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Inability to change the class or series of the fund from the same fund page. You need to start a new search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Morningstar Office:

It’s the most popular industry tool for fund comparisons and reviews and trusted by advisors and clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Access to third party information in an easy to use system. When sending this information to clients the Morningstar name is trusted as a third party to give the information credibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Morningstar Office Overview

What is Morningstar Office?

Morningstar Office is the only turn-key portfolio accounting and practice management platform for RIAs (Registered Investment Advisors) that fully integrates Morningstar’s robust data, analytics, and ratings. Included with Morningstar Office, advisors receive: Reporting and Client Engagement Morningstar Office features a complete portfolio management and client reporting experience. All assets and liabilities are aggregated and accounted for – then reported out in client statements, the advisors web experience, and the client web portal. A Batch reporting feature automatically generates PDF client reports for a single client or an entire practice. Morningstar Research and Investment Data Unique to Morningstar – advisors have access to industry leading investment data. Along with data for open-end mutual funds, stocks, variable annuity/life subaccounts, exchange-traded funds, closed-end funds, separate accounts, and 529 college-savings plans, Morningstar Office includes data for offshore funds, hedge funds, and bonds. Morningstar® Back Office Services Morningstar Office includes daily multi-custodial imports and reconciliation services. This allows advisors to log in to each morning and view up-to-date client data from their custodians, as well as held-away assets via Morningstar® ByAllAccounts®. Morningstar can also convert data from other systems, importing the entire transaction history for a practice including cost basis. Portfolio Monitoring and Rebalancing Morningstar® Total Rebalance Expert® provides comprehensive modeling, monitoring, and rebalancing at the household or account level. Advisors can also use the tax-aware tools to harvest tax losses opportunistically, manage cash, and minimize fees and capital gains distributions. Financial Planning and Risk Help your clients identify meaningful goals and then quickly connect those goals to an easy-to-understand plan with Morningstar Goal Bridge. Advisors can also measure a portfolio’s level of risk compared with Morningstar’s Target Allocation Indices and define a recommended asset allocation based on client’s psychometric risk tolerance and goal time horizon. Client Relationship Management Client management is fully included and integrated via Redtail CRM (Customer Relationship Management), or advisors can utilize other CRM integrations such as Salesforce.

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Morningstar Office SMCloud, the new web-based platform for modern advisors.


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Year Founded
1984
HQ Location
Chicago, IL
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@MorningstarInc
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11,697 employees on LinkedIn®
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MORN
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$798
Description

Portfolio Management: Morningstar lets you create, edit, and analyze portfolios quickly and efficiently using a clear, intuitive interface.

Portfolio Marketing: Tell your stories using Morningstar data and analytics to distill complex investment information into clear, custom-branded reports, product-comparisons, and presentations.

Due Diligence: See how you’re doing, how others match up, and which investments are best in class. Create streamlined, automated, and easy-to-read performance reports, so you never lose track of your place in the world.

Data and Research: See the markets through thousands of different lenses, including exclusive Morningstar datapoints such as Analyst ratings, fund flow data, and firm diversity data to find investments that fuel your strategies.  

And More: From asset allocation and investment selection to advanced analytics and pre-built data sets, Direct is the industry standard.


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4.5 out of 5
"regular user"
integration with the other tools and simplicity of user
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Lauren N.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Long time office user"
I love the account managment aspect and reporting that we can provide to our clients. It's integeral to our daily operations.
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Jie H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Basic research, portfolio management and backoffice in one."
Integrated Back office and Portfolio management. Good supporting team
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Morningstar Office Pros and Cons

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

I love the account managment aspect and reporting that we can provide to our clients. It's integeral to our daily operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

The lag at end of quarter can be very frustrating and somtimes getting techinical assistance when there is an issue can take a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps most with consolidating accounts and providing reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

Research and reporting. Appreciate the integration with our custodian Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Systems such as CRM are bolted on so the process is not seamless Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Client billing and performance tracking. It allows us to have a high level view and also focus on individaul investment holdings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

Integrated Back office and Portfolio management. Good supporting team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

System is lack of versatility. Functions are very basic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Back office data inegration and managment fee calculation, and tracking and creating performance reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

integration with the other tools and simplicity of user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

User design , though very simple, could be more intuitive by adding Ai suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

integration of analytics and governance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

I love the all-in-one design. This was crucial for me after working at a large B/D with an in-house all-in-one system. Everything in one spot with one look made the transition much smoother for me and transitioning clients.

Combining portfolio research, design, reporting, accounting, billing, and rebalancing yields exceptional data integrity and seamless functionality. Advisor-facing research, reporting, and risk assessments, including simulations, are much better than I had before. Clients love the simple yet comprehensive reports with my own branding.

Access to the Morningstar data, articles, and presentations has provided many co-branded and original marketing content for clients.

Support from Morningstar has been the best in my tech stack. They have an incredible onboarding/training staff and a very helpful and pleasant ongoing support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Like all rebalancers and accounting, it takes a little time to get everything set up how you want it.

Goal Bridge has been glitchy at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Office solves my research, portfolio risk simulations, rebalancing, reporting, billing, client web portal… it’s called an all-in-one for a reason! Importantly, this also gives clients a common aesthetic for nearly all their interactions with my firm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

Office Cloud gives extraordinary incentive inside an organization, as a heap of as often as possible utilized applications that are fundamental to day by day business and creation undertakings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

While generally the product functions admirably, the UI can be confounding or baffling on occasion. Windows and tooltips don't generally carry on as you would, and discovering highlights can demonstrate difficult enough that regularly you end up simply utilizing the hunt to discover them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Morningstar Office:

Simply incredible, I have attempted a few suites (open source and freeware) and the distinctions are humongous! I incline toward this suite overall options out there on the grounds that are sans bug, continually refreshed, and have everything of the element you may require to get an incredible and cleaned work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

The office cloud goes about as our portfolio bookkeeping programming and encourages us to monitor exchanges and arrangement of customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

It's really easy to use. Inputting data in tales some time, but the reports are beautiful, and more importantly, helpful when meeting with clients. They're also very informative and easy to read. Most clients are able to answer their own questions about the activity of the investments in their accounts. Morningstar has essentially helped us build and maintain our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Manually entering data isn't fun. I wish integration with Wealthscape becomes a reality. My coworkers and I have to manually enter the values of each investment from each of our clients' accounts into Morningstar and it takes. One of the assistants was assigned to get a few dozen reports done on the week of Christmas (which I had off) and I ended up staying up until 2 AM to do it before client meetings because he didn't get any of it done. It would have been easier if Morningstar was integrated with Wealthscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Morningstar Office:

Please work on integration with Wealthscape, Paper Clip, etc. It would be so much easier to use if we didn't have to waste our time manually inputting data. Equitable (previously AXA) allowed us to input data straight from their website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Morningstar provides easy-to-generate reports that clients love to receive. They help us acquire more accounts because of the trust it helps us build with clients when seamlessly displaying investment activity. Clients LOVE to receive the reports and end up asking tons of questions. This engagement cultivates our relationship with them and motivates them to open new accounts and invest more money into our firm Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

Presentation studio

Database with qualitative reports written by Morningstar Analysis

Info on portfolio positioning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Peer analysis is not quite accurate given that every share classes is put in the universe. This means that for some asset class only institutional share class get five stars. Dividing the universe for retail and institutional investors would be a massive improvement

Excel add-in is slow: it doesn't update data quickly

Creating portfolio accounts by inserting funds per quotes is difficult because of the limitation of only two decimals

Contribution analysis is quite complex to use, it needs a lot of elements to be set and not in an intuitive way, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Presentations are the best, if you are monitoring a fund and you have to do periodic presentations Morningstar can do a very good presentation and updates it quickly with most recent data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

The presentation of chart data and comparison of funds is great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

The interface is slow and the desktop application needs improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use it for fund analysis which helps in comparing various funds across geographies. I am able to showcase funds performance visually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael O.
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What do you like best about Morningstar Office?

This has great tools for analysis on portfolios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Morningstar Office?

Sometimes can load slowly and can be a bit clunky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Morningstar Office:

If you are in the investment management industry, this is a very helpful tool and platform to consider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Morningstar Office solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping with portfolio management and being able to analyze portfolios. It is a must easier process to do this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.