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Technology for fund managers

Optimising your workflows and technology can boost your portfolio returns. Improve the clarity of your investment decisions with accurate modelling, accessible risk data and efficient order generation.

We integrate your trading and risk operations to consolidate data, and help you:

• model and analyse your portfolio performance
• measure and limit market risk
• enhance workflows for dealing and compliance
• attract new investors using GIPS compliant reporting

To achieve enterprise-wide trading, risk and reporting, we can:

• automate order generation
• extend market risk across all products and benchmarks
• consolidate your performance and risk reporting
• select and integrate software systems
• build bespoke components

We customise your systems to incorporate your distinctive trading approach. And we use a change management programme to ensure stakeholder expectations are met and large numbers of users are migrated smoothly.

Our asset management experience

• We implemented an order management system for equity and fixed income products, using a change management programme to integrate a large number of operational processes. An additional messaging layer provided market data feeds and connected back office operations.
• We integrated a market risk management system that operated across seven global investment centres and around the clock. We consolidated data from more than 1,500 portfolios and included all instruments and benchmarks. Coverage was extended in phases to deliver initial project wins quickly and gain stakeholder support.
  
• We consolidated a number of performance attribution systems into a single, global infrastructure. We built a risk and investment performance database and reporting system, which met strict regulatory requirements for security and data quality.
  
• We developed a peers analysis system that quantitatively evaluated fund performance, using Monte Carlo techniques. An algorithm randomly generated sample portfolios and analysed their expected returns. The multi-asset system handled short positions, calculated tracking error and ranked the performance of funds, their peers and fund managers.
• We undertook a software assessment and selected a suitable market risk system for our client. We used a gap analysis to benchmark 12 suppliers against weighted requirements. And we assessed four short-listed candidates using realistic sample data on our client’s infrastructure.

Our technology services

Our services for asset managers span order management, market risk and compliance systems. These include:

• management change
• model validation
• business requirements and gap analysis
• software selection
• systems integration
• client reporting systems for GIPS compliance
• internal and external connectivity