Introduction
A client's wealth rarely sits where it works hardest. Some of it idles in a sweep account waiting to be invested, some of it is locked inside appreciated positions that are too expensive to touch, and some of it gets borrowed back at retail margin rates.
This month's updates go after all three: a dedicated loans view for box spread borrowing, cash management that deploys on a schedule you control, and a Long Short overlay that harvests losses around positions that never get sold.
Here's what's new on Vise in August:
Harvest losses in every market
Concentrated, low-basis portfolios are where tax management usually gives up: every trade realizes a gain, so the positions sit untouched and unharvested for decades. The Long Short overlay changes what those portfolios can do.
The overlay layers market-neutral Long Short extensions on top of the client's existing equity positions, which serve as collateral and are never sold. The underlying positions are preserved while the extensions generate factor alpha and harvest losses independently. Because the extension holds both long and short positions, it harvests on both sides of the market in every regime: long positions generate losses when markets fall, and short positions generate losses when markets rise. Harvesting doesn't stall in a bull market, which is exactly when concentrated clients need losses most.
Extensions range from 130/30 to 250/150, sized to the client's risk tolerance and tax need.

Create, track, and manage box spread loans in one view
When a client needs liquidity for a home, a business, or a capital call, the usual choices come with a trade off: sell appreciated stock and realize the gain, or take a margin loan at retail rates. A box spread offers a third path. It uses exchange-listed options to create a synthetic loan priced near institutional rates, collateralized by the portfolio, with no position sold and no gain realized.
Until now, requesting one meant sending it off and waiting to hear back. This month we shipped a dedicated loans view that puts the whole lifecycle in your hands:
Create a loan request directly from the platform
Track every loan from request through execution, with current status always visible
Cancel a request if the client's plans change
Box Spread is one of three options overlay strategies on Vise, alongside Protection and Income, available on accounts of $250k and above.
Set cash aside, spend from it, or invest it on a schedule
Client cash usually has a job: tuition due in the spring, a home purchase next year, an emergency reserve. The problem is that portfolios only know two states, invested or not, so purpose-cash either sits inside the model where a rebalance can reach it, or outside the account where nobody can see it. Cash management on Vise now handles it properly, with three new capabilities built around a cash sleeve:
Set-aside cash: Set aside a fixed dollar amount in any client account for tuition, a home purchase, or whatever's next. Set-aside cash is configured in portfolio creator and swept into money market funds, the same way Vise handles cash today.
Distributions from set-aside cash: Select the cash sleeve as the source when scheduling distributions, funding client withdrawals from set-aside cash without disturbing the target model or generating capital gains.
Dollar cost averaging (DCA): Schedule one-time or recurring transfers from the cash sleeve into the target model at a fixed cadence, $25K monthly for example, so a large cash position moves into the market on a plan instead of on a feeling.

That's what's new this month
Three ways to put more of a client's wealth to work without selling a thing: harvest losses around concentrated positions, borrow against the portfolio at near-institutional rates, and give set-aside cash a schedule. Subscribe below to get next month's updates as soon as they're live.

