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Tuesday, June 01 2021 - 23:00
AsiaNet
Vestwell Partners with Wealthtech API Provider Bambu to Expand Investment Advice in Retirement Journey
SINGAPORE, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

Vestwell, a digital recordkeeping platform, and Bambu, a global robo-advisory 
technology provider, are teaming up to provide customers with an even more 
robust retirement plan experience. By leveraging Bambu's wealth management API, 
Vestwell and its partners will be able to offer personalized investment 
strategies to help their clients better prepare for retirement based on 
actionable retirement goals.

The new relationship played a role in Vestwell's recently released advisor 
managed account offering with Franklin Templeton. Together, they are rolling 
out an innovative, goals-based offering using Franklin Templeton's Goals 
Optimization Engine.

"As workplace investor expectations evolve, it's vital to deliver participants 
the types of personalized solutions they've become accustomed to in all other 
aspects of their lives," said Ben Thomason, EVP of Revenue at Vestwell. 
"Working with Bambu and Franklin Templeton has made it possible to create a 
seamlessly data-integrated, low-friction, bespoke managed account experience at 
a reasonable price."

Bambu has developed a Wealthtech API proven to provide the information 
investors need to maximize success for achieving their retirement savings 
goals. The retirement API has features to cater to US retirees' needs, which 
considers Social Security Benefits (SSB), tax, and retirement goals. The 
investing platform starts with the user's current status in terms of savings 
amount and lifestyle needs. Then, the proprietary engine presents investors 
with an overview of various options, including investment strategies that may 
be appropriate based on their answers to a targeted risk tolerance 
questionnaire.  

"With the rapidly changing landscape of retirement planning in America, it is 
important for financial institutions to provide a seamless experience that 
helps individuals save and plan their future," said Ned Phillips, Bambu Founder 
& CEO. "Being able to offer API as an option along with the enterprise and 
white label solutions has been beneficial. It allows clients, who already have 
technical resources at their disposal, to build a wealth management platform 
more quickly by using our APIs for endpoints like retirement goal calculators 
and portfolio projections."

Bambu has a library of over 70 Wealthtech APIs designed to make wealth 
management easy for companies looking to create their robo-advisory platform. 
These can be categorized by financial planning, country and fund data, machine 
learning, transactions allocations, and performance monitoring. Bambu provides 
readily available goal-based wealth management API; no set-up required. 

About Vestwell

Vestwell is the digital recordkeeping platform bringing the 401(k) and 403(b) 
industry into the modern Fintech era. We have rearchitected the workplace 
retirement offering from the ground up and built an engine to power the $30T 
industry. Our customizable, open architecture and white-labeled platform 
becomes a natural extension of financial services and payroll partners while 
removing traditional friction points plaguing legacy recordkeeping. The result 
is an easier, more efficient, and all-around better experience for everyone, 
delivered at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at Vestwell.com and on Twitter 
@Vestwell(https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3006404-1&h=591709165&u=https%3A%2
F%2Ftwitter.com%2FVestwell&a=%40Vestwell).

About Bambu

Bambu is a leading global digital wealth technology provider for financial 
institutions. We enable companies to make saving and investing simple and 
intelligent for their clients. The cloud-based platform is powered by our 
proprietary algorithms and machine learning tools. The company serves 
approximately 300,000 end users on the platform in 10 countries. PEAK6 
Investments and Franklin Templeton fund Bambu. Founded in 2016, Bambu is 
headquartered in Singapore with a subsidiary in the United Kingdom and the 
United States and EMEA representatives. For more information, visit 
https://bambu.co/ and follow us on 
LinkedIn(https://www.linkedin.com/company/bambu-roboadvisory) and 
Twitter(https://twitter.com/bambu_robo).

SOURCE  Bambu