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The Cloud-Native Wealth Platform Designed for Growth

Millennials and Gen Z together, at an average age of 34, own $1.35 for every $1 of wealth owned by Baby Boomers at the same age — outpacing every prior generation at the same life stage.¹ Activate emerging investors and deepen relationships with current clients on a platform built to scale with a ready-made hybrid advice model, access to complex asset classes like options, and real-time data flowing to every corner of your tech stack.

AscendOS™ Is Built to Evolve With You

AscendOS is a comprehensive, cloud-native platform designed to be the cornerstone of your business for years to come, giving your team the infrastructure, tools, and modular flexibility to expand your offering as client needs evolve and the competitive landscape shifts.

Here’s what AscendOS makes possible for investors today:

Open Brokerage Accounts in Seconds²

Digital account opening meets the speed and simplified process younger investors expect

Offer a Digital Investing Experience

A modern web portal and mobile app give investors real-time access to their accounts and portfolios

Provide Integrated Education

Deliver bite-sized financial literacy through an integrated, customizable education platform from Zogo

Launch Proven Options Trading

In 2025, Apex correspondents cleared $1B+ options contracts across 158M+ options trades³

And here’s what AscendOS makes possible for your business:

  • Offer Multiple Advice Models. Support robo, self-directed, hybrid, and advisor-led investing simultaneously — so clients get the experience they want
  • Free Up Your Advisors. Built-in automations and algorithms handle a host of administrative tasks so your team can focus on clients
  • Automate Portfolio Management. Capture investor goals and risk preferences through configurable questionnaires, then let the platform help you do the work — mapping clients to model portfolios, automating rebalancing, and supporting direct indexing at scale
  • Use Advanced AI. Create financial and tax plans in minutes with the Wavvest-powered tool, part of the Apex AI Suite
  • Build With Agentic AI. Empower your developers with Apex’s Agentic Development Kit (ADK) and a third-party agentic AI assistant to help accelerate their work
  • Accelerate Operations. Replace overnight batch reconciliations with straight-through processing; count on automated corporate actions and more
  • Count on Enterprise-Grade Security. With Google Cloud infrastructure, SOC 2 assessments, penetration testing, and ongoing data security management, AscendOS supports a robust and resilient security posture

What Can You Do With AscendOS Over Time?

AscendOS is designed to grow with your ambitions, expanding its capabilities as the industry evolves and your clients’ needs become more sophisticated. Read “Apex Wins Cash App Investing Mandate As Clearing Infrastructure Battle Intensifies” to learn why choosing real-time infrastructure is a product strategy.

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Expand Your Asset Classes

Turn on asset classes such as options to broaden client choice, then add alternatives, margins, and prediction markets over time.

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Evolve Your AI Capabilities

The Apex AI Suite delivers GenAI and agentic AI tools today on a platform built to integrate what comes next.

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Deepen Portfolio Sophistication

Start with model portfolios and automated rebalancing. Add 130/30 direct indexing, sleeve rebalancing, options and margins, FDIC sweeps, and more.

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Integrate Banking and Beyond

Although Apex does not offer banking services, our API-first architecture makes it straightforward to build that experience.

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Mitigate Risk With Greater Confidence

Reduce intraday, overnight, and weekend risk with real-time positions and account data that can help your team identify and respond to exposures.

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Serve Millions of Investors

AscendOS is designed to handle high-volume businesses and peak trading days without slowdowns or hiccups.

Our Hybrid Advice Model: Augmented Advice™

Younger investors aren’t looking for a robo or a traditional advisor — they want both. A digital experience that feels modern and intuitive, with access to human guidance when it matters. That’s why we built Augmented Advice™, so wealth firms can automate the workflows that consume advisor time and deliver human expertise when it matters most.

The Apex Augmented Advice solution uses advanced technology to let your team:

  • Turn investor goals into portfolio strategies automatically
  • Provide multiple advice models simultaneously
  • Proactively suggest advisor-led advice when investors using a robo model cross a pre-defined assets or holdings threshold
  • Rebalance accounts in seconds
  • Segment clients for targeted actions
  • Integrate your own tools and models

Read 10 FAQs about Apex Augmented Advice.

Retain More Great Wealth Transfer Heirs

Eighty-one percent of next-generation inheritors plan to replace their parents’ wealth management firms⁴ — most citing poor digital offerings — even as Millennials and Gen Z prepare to receive $124 trillion in the largest wealth transfer in history.⁵ The firms that retain those assets will be the ones that can establish a relationship with the next generation built on the digital-first experience they expect. Here’s how AscendOS can help.

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Convert Accounts to Digital

Give clients the opportunity to switch to a digital brokerage account in seconds² and switch confirms and statements to e-delivery.

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Blend Advice Styles as Needed

Offer advisor-led planning, robo portfolios, and self-directed trading, with hybrid engagement options including on-demand support.

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Use AI for Transition Planning

Leverage AI-powered transition planning, powered by Wavvest, to realign with heirs’ glide paths and goals.

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Expand Your Asset Classes

Add asset classes next-gen investors already hold away, such as prediction markets, crypto, and alternatives.

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Suggest Account Consolidation

Use our new ACATS protocols to help make transferring held-away accounts easier and faster.

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Provide Financial Education

Help keep heirs on your branded app or platform with bite-sized, gamified education from Zogo.

¹ Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. “The State of U.S. Household Wealth.” Community Development Research. November 2025.

² Most securities accounts can be opened in seconds and funded moments later, enabling trading thereafter.

³ Based on Apex Clearing Corporation internal data for the period January 1–December 31, 2025.

⁴ Capgemini. World Wealth Report 2025. As reported by CNBC, June 5, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/next-generation-wealth-advisors.html

⁵ Cerulli Associates. The Cerulli Report — U.S. High-Net-Worth and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Markets 2024. December 2024. https://www.ml.com/articles/great-wealth-transfer-impact.html