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With the dissatisfaction with several Investment firms,
specifically with the distribution of assets to withdrawing
club members, is there a list of brokerages that are
compatible and integrate with Bivio and are user friendly to
partnership accounts?
Fidelity has been amazing for us. Accountsync with Bivio.


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM Bernard Worst via bivio.com <user*16855300001@bivio.com> wrote:
With the dissatisfaction with several Investment firms,
specifically with the distribution of assets to withdrawing
club members, is there a list of brokerages that are
compatible and integrate with Bivio and are user friendly to
partnership accounts?
Ditto! Fidelity is fantastic! 
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On Oct 17, 2025, at 1:21 PM, David Karbulka via bivio.com <user*26468500001@bivio.com> wrote:


Fidelity has been amazing for us. Accountsync with Bivio.


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM Bernard Worst via bivio.com <user*16855300001@bivio.com> wrote:
With the dissatisfaction with several Investment firms,
specifically with the distribution of assets to withdrawing
club members, is there a list of brokerages that are
compatible and integrate with Bivio and are user friendly to
partnership accounts?
I agree with David. We just finished moving our account over from Schwab. Once we completed the paperwork and got all the wet signatures to set up the account, Fidelity has been very responsive. It is a little more complicated to set up a new account at Fidelity because investment clubs are considered to be a business but the sync with Bivio was really easy. If you have any issues with the sync, just email support at Bivio. They will walk members thru any glitches and clarify anything that might be unclear or confusing. 

Marjean 



On Friday, October 17, 2025, 11:21 AM, David Karbulka via bivio.com <user*26468500001@bivio.com> wrote:

Fidelity has been amazing for us. Accountsync with Bivio.


On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM Bernard Worst via bivio.com <user*16855300001@bivio.com> wrote:
With the dissatisfaction with several Investment firms,
specifically with the distribution of assets to withdrawing
club members, is there a list of brokerages that are
compatible and integrate with Bivio and are user friendly to
partnership accounts?
We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab. Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock. We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this? We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Our Partnership Agreement referenced our ByLaws, wherein we stated the duties of each officer. The ByLaws made the Treasurer responsible for all cash and brokerage transactions and the President had that power in the absence of the Treasurer. We made them both authorized persons on our Fidelity accounts (brokerage and cash account), although it only took one of them to authorize a transaction.

Hope.this helps.

Carole Jansen
Wise Investment Club

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:23 PM Mary Fran Novak via bivio.com <user*7094300001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab. Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock. We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this? We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
Same with our club. 

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On Nov 11, 2025, at 6:51 PM, Carole Jansen via bivio.com <user*8441200001@bivio.com> wrote:


Our Partnership Agreement referenced our ByLaws, wherein we stated the duties of each officer.  The ByLaws made the Treasurer responsible for all cash and brokerage transactions and the President had that power in the absence of the Treasurer.  We made them both authorized persons on our Fidelity accounts (brokerage and cash account), although it only took one of them to authorize a transaction.

Hope.this helps.

Carole Jansen
Wise Investment Club

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:23 PM Mary Fran Novak via bivio.com <user*7094300001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab.  Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock.  We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this?  We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks
We just moved our account over to Fidelity from Schwab. We identified three people who were authorized on the account to have access but we had to submit wet signatures from all of the partners as well. Now that the account is over to Fidelity, we were able to did a partial distribution to one of our members. If the distribution is to an account at Fidelity, it is a simple process. I would recommend that all of your members open a Fidelity account, as it doesn't cost anything to do that, and you won't have to have all the heartburn that Schwab was creating for all of the investment club accounts.



On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 04:23:58 PM MST, Mary Fran Novak via bivio.com <user*7094300001@bivio.com> wrote:


We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab.  Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock.  We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this?  We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks
That was our experience as well.

Marjean Daniels
Principal Broker
Four Winds Realty, LLC

"Where the Winds of Good Fortune Charter Your Course"

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On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 05:51:37 PM MST, Carole Jansen via bivio.com <user*8441200001@bivio.com> wrote:


Our Partnership Agreement referenced our ByLaws, wherein we stated the duties of each officer.  The ByLaws made the Treasurer responsible for all cash and brokerage transactions and the President had that power in the absence of the Treasurer.  We made them both authorized persons on our Fidelity accounts (brokerage and cash account), although it only took one of them to authorize a transaction.

Hope.this helps.

Carole Jansen
Wise Investment Club

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:23 PM Mary Fran Novak via bivio.com <user*7094300001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab.  Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock.  We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this?  We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks
We have three "authorized" individuals (Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer and President) and all duties and responsibilities are delineated in our partnership agreement and bylaws.

Leo Gonnering
Pure Strategies Investment Club
West Bend, WI 53095

On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 at 08:35:11 PM GMT-6, Tracy, Molly M via bivio.com <user*40992200001@bivio.com> wrote:


Same with our club. 

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On Nov 11, 2025, at 6:51 PM, Carole Jansen via bivio.com <user*8441200001@bivio.com> wrote:


Our Partnership Agreement referenced our ByLaws, wherein we stated the duties of each officer.  The ByLaws made the Treasurer responsible for all cash and brokerage transactions and the President had that power in the absence of the Treasurer.  We made them both authorized persons on our Fidelity accounts (brokerage and cash account), although it only took one of them to authorize a transaction.

Hope.this helps.

Carole Jansen
Wise Investment Club

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 5:23 PM Mary Fran Novak via bivio.com <user*7094300001@bivio.com> wrote:
We are moving to Fidelity from Schwab.  Started the
paperwork, their legal people are asking for a specific
instructions re who can actually buy/sell/stock.  We are
adding 2 people, in addition to myself, but how did other
clubs write this?  We originally had aa couple of others,
but over the years, members have dropped out/passed away.
We started in 1998, I don't remember having this to open
account back then.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks
We have an interesting arrangement. The Treasurer manages
the bank account (collects, deposits, and moves money TO the
brokerage account) but does not have brokerage access or
authorization to trade. We have two "Valuation Officers"
that can trade (the extra for redundancy) and via EFT can
move money TO bank accounts, but neither have direct access
to the bank accounts. At first, we did this just to divide
out the work, but it turns out to have the added security
benefit of requiring at least two people to transfer funds
from the brokerage out.

Jimmy Dickerson
TLP Investment Club