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Overview:
In these times of mergers and acquisitions, privacy, and demand for transparency (performance, risk, attribution and compliance) is growing
significantly across financial sectors. The ability to make informed decisions is important, but the ability to understand and interpret the
results of these investment decisions is critical. Many firms are now looking to providers of transparency services in order to to 1) gain
awareness of the landscape of their investment portfolios and 2) help justify their roles in the overall investment decision process. Now, more
than ever, we are experiencing a definitive shift towards a more focused look at the investments results and the manner in which these
results are reported and/or displayed to the account owner, advisor, manager or other interested party.
Challenges:
- Load daily financial events for all instrument types including holdings, transactions, corporate actions, cash, prices, fx rates, etc
- Perform a daily reconciliation of data
- Acquire, normalize and provide a means by which the data can be consolidated without commingling data across many customers
- Deliver timely account valuations, transactions and relevant reference data aggregated across multiple data sources
- Provide aggregated data in a consistent and normalized format for loading into internal databases and other applications (performance, risk, etc.)
- Eliminate manual data gathering/ processing tasks
Our Solution:
- Interface with multiple data providers and produce an aggregated view of the data
- Deliver aggregated data in a variety of formats based on the requirement for loading data into an a performance engine, risk engine, compliance engine, attribution engine, proprietary database, etc.
- Engage a set of entitlements via the aggregation workflow that will direct the appropriate data to and from the set of transparency applications
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
Benefits:
- Set a new standard for data quality and timeliness
- Capture significant market share away from the market leader
- Provide infrastructure for daily maintenance and monitoring
Overview:
Investment Advisors are challenged, especially at their outset, by the necessity of acquiring investor clients from formidable competitors that have established relationships. This challenge is heightened by the cost (in time and money) and difficulty of building or buying, and then implementing a service platform. Furthermore, traditional providers of these service platforms typically require that all of the assets managed by the firm be placed in their custody, all of which create barriers to entry and impediments to success.
Challenges:
- Ease the capture of new customers by allowing them to leave funds at their current banks
- Enable a startup firm with limited resources to quickly get from concept to delivery in 3 months
- Provide smaller asset managers web-based tools to manage client holdings at multiple banks
Our Solution:
- Provide managed, secure co-location service to house the entire systems environment
- Engage multiple custodian banks to acquire and aggregate daily data on held away assets for customer accounts
- Use OpenFinance co-location and support services to install/deploy the entire hardware/software environment
- Manage automated data delivery to a Portfolio Accounting system including daily prices, F/X rates and corporate actions
Benefits:
- Set a new standard for data quality and timeliness in the small advisor space
- Client captured significant market share away from the market leader
- Provide infrastructure for daily maintenance and monitoring
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Overview:
Managers are challenged, especially at their outset, by the necessity of acquiring investor clients from formidable competitors that have established relationships. This challenge is heightened by the cost (in time and money) and difficulty of building or buying, and then implementing a service platform. Furthermore, traditional providers of these service platforms typically require that all of the assets managed by the firm be placed in their custody, all of which create barriers to entry and impediments to success.
Challenges:
- Ease the capture of new customers by allowing them to leave funds at their current banks
- Enable a startup firm with limited resources to quickly get from concept to delivery in 3 months
- Provide smaller asset managers web-based tools to manage client holdings at multiple banks
Our Solution:
- Provide managed, secure co-location service to house the entire systems environment
- Engage multiple custodian banks to acquire and aggregate daily data on held away assets for customer accounts
- Use OpenFinance co-location and support services to install/deploy the entire hardware/software environment
- Manage automated data delivery to a Portfolio Accounting system including daily prices, F/X rates and corporate actions
Benefits:
- Set a new standard for data quality and timeliness in the small investment manager space
- Client captured significant market share away from the market leader
- Provide infrastructure for daily maintenance and monitoring
Overview:
In these times of mergers and acquisitions, privacy, and demand for accurate and complete reporting and delivery of the investment results via portal dashboards is growing significantly across financial sectors. The ability to make informed decisions is important, but the ability to monitor the results of these investment decisions is critical. Many firms are now looking to Reporting and Portal providers in order to to 1) gain awareness of the landscape of their investment portfolios, 2) have the ability to quickly access information and 3) customize views of the information to meet specific requirements. Now, more than ever, we are experiencing a definitive shift towards a more focused look at the investments results and the manner in which these results are reported and/or displayed to the account owner, advisor, manager or other interested party.
Challenges:
- Load daily financial events for all instrument types including holdings, transactions, corporate actions, cash, prices, fx rates, etc.
- Perform a daily reconciliation of data
- Acquire, normalize and provide a means by which the data can be consolidated without commingling data across many customers
- Deliver timely account valuations, transactions and relevant reference data aggregated across multiple data sources
- Provide aggregated data in a consistent and normalized format for loading into internal databases and other applications (performance, risk, etc.)
- Eliminate manual data gathering/ processing tasks
Our Solution:
- Interface with multiple data providers and produce an aggregated view of the data
- Deliver aggregated data in a variety of formats based on the requirement for loading data into one or many reporting engines, proprietary databases, etc.
- Engage a set of entitlements via the aggregation workflow that will direct the appropriate data to and from the set of transparency applications
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
Benefits:
- Set a new standard for data quality and timeliness
- Capture significant market share away from the market leader
- Provide infrastructure for daily maintenance and monitoring
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Overview:
Institutional investors are subject to increasing pressure to achieve outstanding performance returns while controlling risk. In pursuit of investment returns they aggressively seek out advisory expertise and innovative products that lead them to firms and investment opportunities that are spread across the globe. The data arising from these disparate providers and investments is fragmented and dissimilar in form, thus impeding consolidated, consistent and transparent reporting. Furthermore, as the complexity of the investments increases the challenge of capturing and preserving the investment data at the most fine-grained level while aggregating it across multiple sources exponentially increases the challenge and importance.
Challenges:
- Deliver timely account valuations and performance to end customers aggregated across multiple data sources via web reporting services
- Acquire data for “held away” assets from many financial institutions some of which are key competitors
- Provide aggregated data in a consistent and normalized format for loading into internal databases and other applications (performance, risk, etc.)
- Eliminate manual data gathering/ processing tasks
Our Solution:
- Interface with multiple data providers and produce an aggregated view of the data
- Deliver aggregated data in a variety of formats based on the global custodian’s requirement for loading into an accounting engine, reporting application, risk engine, compliance engine, proprietary database, etc.
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
Benefits:
- Enabled Client to deliver an automated web reporting of all end-customer data
- Automated a cumbersome manual process and enabled greater customer control, cash management and asset control
- Provided business and technical expertise for the successful delivery of daily aggregated data as well as monthly valuations and monthly performance
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Overview:
A leading provider leverages data aggregation to enable its clients to deliver institutional investment consulting services at a game changing level while increasing scalability and reducing cost. Institutional investors are responsible for attaining the highest level of investment returns while rigorously managing the related risks. This requires monitoring and holding investment advisors accountable for performance results as well as their compliance with investment guidelines and risk controls.
Investment consultants provide expert analysis and advice. Institutional investors have long relied on consultants as a critical component in the fulfillment of their fiduciary responsibility. However, in spite of the criticality of the timeliness of this advice, the norm has been the delivery of the reporting on a quarterly frequency, typically 6 weeks following the quarterly accounting cycle close. While some consultants have shifted to monthly (and some even to daily) reporting cycles, the inability to reduce the elapsed time between the cycle close and the delivery of the reports has restrained the absolute value that consultants could deliver to their clients, and to leverage their operations at scale.
Challenges:
- Provide daily and monthly account valuations and monthly performance to end customers currently receiving quarterly data
- Provide aggregation for the client’s many end customers through a single efficient process while ensuring the security and privacy of each end customer’s data
- Aggregate like positions across differing security identifiers
Our Solution:
- Enable multi-level account and plan hierarchies
- Interface with multiple data providers and produce a normalized view of the data
- Deliver aggregated data in a variety of formats based on recipient’s requirements for loading into an accounting engine, reporting application, risk engine, proprietary database, etc.
- Provide a robust asset master process to enable aggregation at the security level
- Calculate performance and deliver in a custom format for easy loading to the reporting application
Benefits:
- Enabled firm to obtain the largest consulting clients in the plan sponsor vertical
- Provided business and technical expertise for the successful delivery of daily aggregated data to end customers
- Provided an aggregated view of all daily and monthly transactions and financial events no matter where the plans are held
- Set up infrastructure for seamless project delivery
- Enabled a reduction in operational staff
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Overview:
Corporations are subject to increasing pressure to achieve outstanding performance returns while controlling risk. In pursuit of investment returns they aggressively seek out advisory expertise and innovative products that lead them to firms and investment opportunities that are spread across the globe. The data arising from these disparate providers and investments is fragmented and dissimilar in form, thus impeding consolidated, consistent and transparent reporting. Furthermore, as the complexity of the investments increases the challenge of capturing and preserving the investment data at the most fine-grained level while aggregating it across multiple sources exponentially increases the challenge and importance.
Challenges:
- Deliver timely account valuations and performance to end customers aggregated across multiple data sources via web reporting services
- Acquire data for the integration of internal systems and “held away” assets from many financial institutions some of which are key competitors
- Provide aggregated data in a consistent and normalized format for loading into internal databases and other applications (performance, risk, etc.)
- Eliminate manual data gathering/ processing tasks
Our Solution:
- Interface with multiple data providers and produce an aggregated view of the data
- Deliver aggregated data in a variety of formats based on the global custodian’s requirement for loading into an accounting engine, reporting application, risk engine, compliance engine, proprietary database, etc.
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
Benefits:
- Enabled Client to deliver an automated web reporting of all end-customer data
- Automated a cumbersome manual process and enabled greater customer control, cash management and asset control
- Provided business and technical expertise for the successful delivery of daily aggregated data as well as monthly valuations and monthly performance
Overview:
Family Offices, multiple family offices, IFA's as well as, private banking clients, seek investments that provide the highest returns, which often results in their assets being distributed among multiple investment firms. This distribution of the assets potentially impedes their oversight and effective analysis and management of the investment risk, thus creating a challenge and an opportunity. Private banking clients also have an over-riding requirement for privacy.
Challenges:
- Integrate financial data from many financial institutions into the firm’s portfolio management system from which clients trade on the aggregated positions
- Load daily financial events for all instrument types including holdings, transactions, corporate actions, cash, prices, fx rates, etc.
- Perform a daily reconciliation of data
- Acquire, normalize and provide a means by which the data can be consolidated without commingling data across many customers
- Acquire initial positions for all assets across all accounts
- Aggregations must be processed without client identification and data must stay in Switzerland
Our Solution:
- Serviced from Geneva, Switzerland, with additional facilities and redundant back up in Zurich
- Aggregation service utilizes proprietary “tokenization” process to replace personal information with “tokens”
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
- Provide a summary level report that includes performance at the portfolio level and by asset class, financial Institution asset breakdown, currency and country breakdowns as well as fixed income analytics
- Provide aggregated data to transparency and reporting partners who will produce a comprehensive booklet that includes performance, attribution compliance and risk for client reports
- Provide daily reconciliation reports for tracking potential outages
Benefits:
- Complied with the client's strict privacy policies
- Enabled the firm to retain current clients and add many clients in the ultra-high-net-worth wealth vertical
- Provide business and technical expertise for the successful delivery of daily data to end customers
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Overview:
Foundation and Endowment clients seek investments that provide the highest returns, which often results in their assets being distributed among multiple investment firms. This distribution of the assets potentially impedes their oversight and effective analysis and management of the investment risk, thus creating a challenge and an opportunity. Private banking clients also have an over-riding requirement for privacy.
Challenges:
- Integrate financial data from many financial institutions into the firm’s portfolio management system from which clients trade on the aggregated positions
- Load daily financial events for all instrument types including holdings, transactions, corporate actions, cash, prices, fx rates, etc.
- Perform a daily reconciliation of data
- Acquire, normalize and provide a means by which the data can be consolidated without commingling data across many customers
- Acquire initial positions for all assets across all accounts
- Aggregations must be processed without client identification and data must stay in Switzerland
Our Solution:
- Serviced from Geneva, Switzerland, with additional facilities and redundant back up in Zurich
- Aggregation service utilizes proprietary “tokenization” process to replace personal information with “tokens”
- Enable multi-level account hierarchies
- Provide a summary level report that includes performance at the portfolio level and by asset class, financial Institution asset breakdown, currency and country breakdowns as well as fixed income analytics
- Provide aggregated data to transparency and reporting partners who will produce a comprehensive booklet that includes performance, attribution compliance and risk for client reports
- Provide daily reconciliation reports for tracking potential outages
Benefits:
- Complied with the client's strict privacy policies.
- Enabled the firm to retain current clients and add many clients in the ultra-high-net-worth wealth vertical
- Provide business and technical expertise for the successful delivery of daily data to end customers
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