ASSET CLASSES AT APEX
Expand Your Offering. Simplify Your Infrastructure.
Give your investors access to more asset classes without adding operational complexity. Apex supports equities, ETFs, mutual funds, options, futures, fixed income, alternatives, and more — all through one integration with real-time clearing, custody, and trading infrastructure.
Available Asset Classes
Jump to any section to see what’s available — including fractional availability, investor requirements, and links to learn more.
FRACTIONAL INVESTING
Innovating Beyond Trading Barriers
Some of Apex’s boldest innovations have been introducing and expanding fractional investing. Apex has been first-to-market with fractionalizing multiple asset classes, including equities and fixed income.
By helping to popularize fractionality, Apex has lowered the barrier to entry for countless new investors and enabled those already in the market to fully deploy their cash.
U.S. Equities and ETFs
Give your investors 24×5 trading access to U.S. equities and ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) with overnight sessions and infrastructure built for speed. With real-time account opening, real-time funding, and fractional share trading across both asset classes, your platform can keep pace with modern investor expectations., real-time funding, and fractional share trading across both asset classes, your platform can keep pace with modern investor expectations.
U.S. Equities
U.S. equities represent direct ownership in publicly traded corporations. Through Apex, you can offer investors access to the full range of U.S. Reg NMS (National Market System) securities.
ETFs
ETFs are pooled investment vehicles that trade throughout the day. Layer in Apex rebalancing and direct indexing tools to personalize portfolios around investor goals, preferences, and tax considerations.
Mutual Funds
Give your investors access to thousands of mutual funds without the usual operational barriers. Apex supports fractional and whole share trading, so account size doesn’t limit diversification. And with connections to major fund gateways, you can offer domestic and international options through a single integration.
- Access to domestic and international mutual funds
- Connections to Schwab, DTCC, Euroclear, and Allfunds
- Priced 1x per day and offered as whole or fractional shares
- Trade, settle, and custody global funds with the same APIs
Options
With Apex, firms can clear, custody, and execute options trading through a single, integrated experience. Apex supports all U.S.-listed options instruments, including single-leg and multi-leg strategies, for both retail and institutional clients. Support for Reg T and Portfolio Margin is included. For more information, check out the Options Trading Fact Sheet.
Smart Order Routing and Execution
Smart order routing and specialized execution algorithms help optimize trades across diverse liquidity sources — including market makers, ATSs, and exchanges — with opportunities for price improvement from the best publicly available price.
Full Range of Direct Market Access
Access traditional and non-traditional liquidity providers and venues, with flexibility in how orders are routed and executed.
Scalable Infrastructure
Integration with FIX (Financial Information eXchange) interface allows firms to connect Apex’s options capabilities to their existing systems.
Dedicated Support
Veteran operations professionals and the Apex Trade Desk provide support and analysis across routing, best execution, and workflow optimizations.
Futures
With Apex, firms can offer futures trading through our registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) infrastructure — no need to build your own. Apex is registered with both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), so your firm can offer futures with the regulatory foundation already in place.
- Clear, custody, and execute futures through a single integration
- Access equity index and individual stock futures
- Leverage existing Apex APIs and infrastructure
Prediction Markets
Event contracts are available through Apex integrations to leading event contract exchanges, allowing qualifying firms to offer clients access to CFTC-regulated event contract trading — also known as cleared swaps — without the time-consuming process of building their own Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) infrastructure.
Real-World Outcomes
Investors can purchase binary outcomes relating to sports, political events, culture, economic indicators, and more.
Dedicated Accounts
Event contracts can be offered through the same app your clients already know and trust, held in a separate account that’s adjacent to their traditional brokerage account.
24/7 Trading
Around-the-clock trading allows for engagement even when the markets are closed — letting investors act on shifting sentiment in real time.
Turnkey FCM Infrastructure
Apex handles the technical operations, so you don’t have to. Access multiple inventory providers through a single integration.
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Fixed Income
With Apex’s Fixed Income API, firms can offer a wide range of fixed income products — and replicate the familiar infrastructure, data, and workflow of equity trading, so there’s no need to learn a new system.
Apex introduced the industry’s first fractional fixed income platform in 2023, allowing investors to start with as little as $100 for select bonds and treasury securities. Interest and dividend payments are proportionate to the fractional investment amount.
Alternative Investments
Offering alternative investments has historically been a complex, paper-heavy process. As a result, these hard-to-find, hard-to-trade investments have primarily been available to ultra-high net worth (UHNW) individuals and institutional investing. With Apex Alts, you can offer alternatives in a process that feels as familiar as trading an ETF.
- Enable investors to access a wide range of alternative assets including pre-IPO SPVs, private equity, hedge funds, non-traded REITs, private credit, and more
- Browse the Alts Marketplace, make choices, and trade with built-in investor attestation forms
- Manage fewer documents manually and use a real-time ledger to keep your books up to date and error-free
- Display alts in an account that’s side-by-side with traditional brokerage accounts for a seamless, hassle-free client experience
- Bring your own alternative fund to the Apex Alts Marketplace to expand your fund’s reach to our 40 million+ investors
Learn more: How To Get Started With Alternative Investments
Offshore Investing
Through an integration with Allfunds, Apex enables U.S. and international firms to provide global investors with access to a large array of offshore mutual funds, ETFs, and alternative investments.
This integration simplifies access to international investing and eliminates the need for firms to manage countless individual connections with different fund houses. For broker-dealers, RIAs, and fintechs, this can expand their investment offerings both on a global scale and for their U.S. offshore business.
Available Asset Types:
- Offshore ETFs
- Offshore Mutual Funds
- Offshore Alternatives
- American Depositary Receipts (ADRs)
Crypto
Offer crypto trading to your investors through our integration with Bakkt, allowing crypto to sit alongside stocks, ETFs, and other investments within the Apex ecosystem.
Streamlined Account Opening
Bakkt can pull existing Apex account information, reducing friction for investors.
Simplified Funding
Accounts are funded directly from the investor’s existing brokerage account.
Access to 40+ Crypto Coins
Including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, more.
Automatic Updates
Changes to investor profiles automatically sync, reducing administrative upkeep.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Some asset classes have eligibility requirements. For example, options trading typically requires investors to apply for approval by demonstrating investment experience and financial stability. Additionally, investors must be accredited to trade alternative investments.
Yes. Apex’s ledger infrastructure is designed to support a wide range of asset classes — from equities and ETFs to fixed income and alternatives — through one integration. This can help reduce operational complexity for your firm, with digital workflows to replace manual ones for further efficiency.
We welcome you to browse our library of resources for fact sheets, blog posts, and other published materials. You can also use the form on this page to start a conversation with our team about your firm’s specific needs.
Apex is a B2B company that supports trading in U.S. markets through clearing, custody, and trading infrastructure. We serve companies looking to give their clients access to U.S. securities. Apex supports businesses with clients across 171 countries and six continents, including those in Latin American and Asian markets. For example, Apex partnered with Avenue Securities to help Brazilian investors access U.S. equities, ETFs, fixed income, mutual funds, and options through a fully digital experience. Reach out to our team to discuss your company’s geographic needs.
Apex provides dedicated support teams across trading operations, technical integration, and client service. Whether you’re adding options, expanding into fixed income, or exploring alternatives, our team can help you navigate the process and get up and running.
Let’s Talk Asset Classes
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