Cetera today announced the launch of Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios, a suite of customizable investment portfolios designed by Cetera Investment Management and offered to Cetera-affiliated advisors exclusively through the Envestnet Private Wealth platform to meet the needs of affluent and high-net-worth households.
Cetera Investment Management provides financial professionals with a full-service platform that includes in-depth product and market research and analysis, a wealth of publications to communicate its perspectives to advisors' clients, portfolio and asset allocation strategy design, and investment recommendations.
This unique collaboration can, in essence, function as an advisor's Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO), pairing Cetera Investment Management's institutional-grade portfolio expertise with the personalized, white-glove support of the Envestnet Private Wealth platform to address the complex needs of affluent and high-net-worth clients. The Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios offering is available exclusively within the Unified Program of Cetera's My Advice Architect platform, which includes approximately $154 billion in assets under management*, as of Sept. 30, 2025.
"Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios is a powerful addition to our growing platform, reinforcing Cetera's position as a premier financial services partner for advisors," said Kerry Pierce, Head of Advisory Solutions at Cetera. "Through our Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios, we are enabling our advisors to deliver sophisticated, institutional-quality investment strategies to affluent and high-net-worth households, all without advisors having to build or scale their own investment infrastructure."
While other investment advisory firms rely exclusively on outsourced portfolio construction models, the Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios offering delivers the market intelligence from its internal Cetera Investment Management team, led by Cetera Chief Investment Officer Gene Goldman.
Goldman said: "One example on how we see this fitting in a Cetera financial professional's arsenal is the ability to take over an existing portfolio of low-cost-basis securities and build a customized solution around that."
Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios offers advisors benefits including:
The Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios offering is best for advisors who:
Cetera Investment Management's research, asset allocations, and capital market assumptions drive Envestnet's portfolio recommendations. In short, Cetera Investment Management is responsible for the Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios strategy, and Envestnet manages program execution and product availability.
"What truly sets Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios apart is the hands-on, strategic involvement of Cetera Investment Management. It's not just guidance, it's Cetera personnel directly signing off on critical elements such as asset allocation, drift parameters and security selection," Pierce said. "Advisors have long sought Cetera Investment Management's expertise in managing sophisticated portfolios. Through our partnership with Envestnet, we're now able to deliver that expertise to more advisors and investors with the high level of care and attention they deserve."
The Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios offering is composed of six strategic model portfolios described below, which Cetera Investment Management updates annually or more often as required by market conditions. The models' underlying security selections include separately managed accounts, mutual funds, ETFs and bond portfolios, all of which can help deliver the kind of wealth management advice affluent and high-net-worth clients want.
"Envestnet's Private Wealth consultative service enables our client portfolio managers to work closely with Cetera-affiliated financial advisors to gain a comprehensive understanding of each client's unique objectives," said Andrew Stavaridis, Chief Relationship Officer at Envestnet. "From there, they assess the model portfolios developed by Cetera Investment Management to determine whether customization is needed. The program's flexibility is extensive, allowing for tailored overlays that can address tax considerations, values-based investing preferences, and other specific client priorities."
Models and objectives of Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios**:
The Cetera Private Wealth Portfolios launch builds on the July 2025 introduction of Cetera's first alternative investments model portfolio, the Cetera Blended Alternatives Model – Moderate, which includes six alternative funds with exposure to private equity, private credit, and private real estate investments. That model portfolio was researched and vetted by Cetera's Due Diligence and Cetera Investment Management's research teams.