To drive success, investment managers need to spend their time focused on their core business and with clients, not the burden of operational tasks. When facing unexpected “key person” employee turnover or preparing for period-end crunch time, you need expertise and you need it fast. Our co-sourcing services and outsourced solutions help firms address both the planned–and unplanned–operational challenges and staffing disruptions that every business encounters:
Family Offices
Banks & Trusts
Asset Managers
Fund Managers
RIAs
Broker-Dealers
Wealth Managers
Institutional Managers
Utilizing our decades of experience and industry best practices, our approach is to tailor our flexible, customized services and solutions to your unique needs. A typical outsourcing vendor offers a “one-size-fits-all” approach to investment operations. However, we know that every manager and advisor has a different set of challenges and needs; what suits an Asset Manager might be irrelevant to a Family Office.
That’s why we work closely with you to select the specific services and solutions you need to help maximize efficiencies, growth, and scale.
Cost Basis Reconciliation & Reporting
Dividend reclassifications, wash sales, step-ups, tax lots, maintenance, corporate actions, tax lot accounting, transfers, realized gains & losses, tax-loss harvesting, calculations, adjustments, IBOR, closing methods, initialization, baseline, custodian sync, updates, & tax-efficient trading.
Market Value Reconciliation
Review and address pricing differences between your various sources and compare portfolio market values to the counterparties.
DTCC Trade Settlement Services
Reconcile trade confirmations and affirmations & monitor, track, and communicate discrepancies with the appropriate parties. Includes T+1 post-trade processing, trade matching, and settlement verification.
Performance Updates & Validation
Review and update daily performance by portfolios, accounts, asset classes, securities, sectors, groups, composites, households, or as defined by your firm’s standard operating procedures.
Performance Calculations & Reviews
Calculate & validate performance returns, reconcile performance, compare benchmarks and indexes, and research & troubleshoot all identified performance outliers and communicate fixes.
Composite Maintenance
Composite updates, corrections, validation, maintaining memberships and proper construction, or as defined by your firm’s policies and standard operating procedures.
Client Reporting Services
Client Reporting Packages workflows including content & client group creation and maintenance.
Quarter-End & Month-End Reporting
Period-End Report Generation, Packaging, Scheduling, & Distribution.
Billing & Client Invoicing Services
Provide fee billing, invoicing, and revenue management services as defined by your firm’s standard operating procedures, fee structures, calculations, and schedules.
Management Fee Services
Confirm that all portfolio management fees have been charged including both the calculation and posting of fees and upload fee files to the custodians.