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Organization and Description of Business

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Organization and Description of Business
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Organization and Description of Business [Abstract]  
Organization and Description of Business
1. Organization and Description of Business

Envestnet, Inc. (“Envestnet”) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) provide open-architecture wealth management services and technology to independent financial advisors and financial institutions. These services and related technology are provided via the Envestnet AdvisorSuite ®, Envestnet | PMC ®, Envestnet | Vantage, Envestnet | Prima and Envestnet | Tamarac.

AdvisorSuite is a platform of integrated, internet-based technology applications and related services that provide portfolio diagnostics, proposal generation, investment model management, rebalancing and trading, portfolio performance reporting and monitoring solutions, billing, and back-office and middle-office operations and administration.

The Company’s investment consulting group, Envestnet | PMC, provides investment manager due diligence and research, a full spectrum of investment offerings supported by both proprietary and third-party research, and overlay portfolio management services.

Envestnet | Prima provides institutional-quality research and due diligence on investment and fund managers and Envestnet | Tamarac provides leading rebalancing, performance reporting and practice management software.

Through these platform and service offerings, the Company provides open-architecture support for a wide range of investment products (separately managed accounts, multi-manager accounts, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, stock baskets, alternative investments, and other fee-based investment solutions) from Envestnet | PMC and other leading investment providers via multiple custodians, and also account administration and reporting services.

Envestnet operates six registered investment advisor subsidiaries (“RIAs”) and a registered broker-dealer. Four of the RIAs are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), one RIA is registered only with States of Colorado, North Carolina and Texas and one RIA is registered only with the State of Washington. The broker-dealer is registered with the SEC, all 50 states and the District of Columbia and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”).