# What financial advisors collect from clients

Source: https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors
Author: Arthur Teboul, DokuTrak
Published: 2026-11-10
Language: en-US

> Financial advisors and planners collect investment and retirement statements, recent tax returns, bank statements, 1099-R and SSA-1099 forms, pay stubs and a voided check from each client. Requests go out at onboarding, when accounts are transferred and before each annual review. The friction: outside accounts left out, a tax return without its schedules, and clients who promise to send things after the meeting.

A plan is built on a full picture of the client’s money, including accounts held elsewhere. Advisors ask for statements for every account, the latest tax return to see income and brackets, and income records for retirement planning, then ask again each year to update the plan.

Onboarding stalls when the client sends the accounts they remember and not the old 401(k) at a previous employer, or when a statement shows a summary page without the holdings. After the first meeting, documents trickle in, so one precise request per document works better than a long list.

## Request guides

- [Investment statement](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/investment-statement)
- [Prior-year tax return](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/prior-year-tax-return)
- [Bank statement](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/bank-statement)
- [1099-R](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/1099-r)
- [SSA-1099](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/ssa-1099)
- [Pay stub](https://dokutrak.com/requests/financial-advisors/pay-stub)

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- Your client uploads from one link, with no account and no password.
- Reminders go out on a schedule, by default 2, 5, 10 and 14 days after the request, until the file arrives.
- You accept every file or mark it for re-upload, and your client gets the note by email. The AI never accepts a file.

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