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:
Asset Managers
Institutional Managers
Financial Advisors
RIAs
Family Offices
Broker-Dealers
Wealth Managers
Private Banks
Fund 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.
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
Update 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, audit data accuracy for outlying items, review reports, and test, research, & troubleshoot all identified performance outliers and communicate fixes.
Composite Maintenance
Composite reviews, updates, corrections, validation, maintaining memberships and proper construction, or as defined by your firm’s policies and standard operating procedures.
Client Reporting Services
Streamlining and automating the client package creation and delivery process.
Client Reporting Packages workflows including content & client group creation and maintenance.
Quarter-End & Month-End Reporting
Period-End Report Generation, Packaging, Scheduling, & Distribution.
Fee Billing & Invoicing Services
Prorated billing, advisory fees, invoice generation & payments management, discounts, family billing, tiered billing, asset exclusions, management fees, cash flow adjustments, flat rates, performance fees, revenue sharing, forecasting, reconcile payments, or as defined by your firm’s standard operating procedures, fee calculations & fee schedules.
Management Fee Services
Upload fee files to the custodians and confirm that all portfolio management fees have been charged including both the calculation and posting of fees.