Modular Fund Administration Architecture

As the complexity of financial instruments increases, a monolithic architecture that does both portfolio management AND fund administration starts to break down. This paper entitled Modular fund administration architecture enables business flexibility explains how to manage fund administration, when assets are spread across different portfolios. (pdf file).

Solving the Outsourced Fund Administration Problem

Investment managers want to focus on making the best investment decisions possible. Outsourced fund administration partners can make sure everything is in order. It makes a strong partnership. download this article about how Investment Managers can reap the benefits of the most recent fund administration platforms. (pdf file).

Solving the Investor Information Distribution Problem

Investment managers need to give their investors easier access to information about the assets under their management. Customers can see their banking transactions on-line. Soon they will want to interact with their Investment Management firm in a similar fashion. This article discusses the upcoming change, and how new platforms are addressing it.. (pdf file).

Solving the Distributed Investment Manager Problem

Corporations need to maintain significant working capital to finance operations and protect against changes in business conditions. They also need to keep their capital working. This article shows how the corporations can track the performace of these distributed Investment Managers. (pdf file).

Automation as a tool for the finance professional

In talking to companies in the industry, many are suffering from the fact that their programs don't talk to one another, and they suffer from the need to re-enter data, or manually pull data from one system, and put it in the next. In this article, we discuss the problem in more detail, and how to take specific steps to lower labor costs, improve responsiveness to customers, and minimize the possibility of making mistakes.

General Market Information

Just as general background about the growth of the market for outsourced fund administration, we recommend this article, entitled " Fund Administration Ripe for Outsourcing" (pdf file)

Here's an excerpt:

"several recent transactions in the fund arena are evidence that the economic and operational considerations will combine to make the outsourcing of basic fund administration services and the IT backbone inevitable"