Institutional Asset Managers

¨      Valuation Reports
¨      Quarterly Investment Performance & Trustee Reporting
¨      Client Statements
¨      Consultant Reporting
¨      Intermediary Reporting
¨      RFI/Pitch Book Presentations

Client Report Production
The business reputation of Institutional Asset Management is under constant review by clients, potential clients and consultants. 

The past…
Performance, management costs and transaction costs differentiated the competition. 

The present…
As competition has grown, margins have decreased and the investment community and individuals have changed.  They demand timely and accurate information and they want it delivered in a multiple of ways.  Not only has the demand for information increased but the information demanded is incredibly more complex.  As derivatives and funds of funds become common practise across the equity, fixed income and balanced structures the capture and presentation of commentary, security holdings and performance attribution becomes more and more of a challenge.  There has been a parallel increase in regulatory requirements often depicted by footnotes and corporate disclaimers as FSA, SEC and other regulatory bodies endeavour to protect not only investors but also the investment institutions.

The future…
The goal is the efficient delivery of quality reports capable of handling ever increasing amounts of complex content in an array of formats.  Institutional client reporting no longer requires only customisation but personalisation.  As assets under management grow, clients can only be serviced by the use of an automated but intelligent and flexible solution that empowers the client reporting analyst. 

Scalability is key.  Whether you are a large investment company with the capacity to provide detailed research commentary and performance attribution through large client services departments or a small enterprise with limited resources, you still need to provide a cost effective client service within budget and agreed service levels. 

One Future, One Solution
Vermilion Reporting Suite (VRS) provides the future – a straight through client reporting solution.

With VRS, valuation, risk and performance data are pulled from any number of underlying systems. Client account details may be maintained within VRS screens or pulled from any CRM system.  Manual commentary from financial writers is typed or cut and pasted in to the user friendly Commentary Editor within VRS.  These comments may be chained to data, parameterised or filtered to allow for extensive reuse.    Not only may data need to be pulled or created; a sign off process may also be required.  A composite security access matrix allows only certain roles and users access to aspects of the system.  If sign-off of reports is required by fund managers, legal and compliance departments before publication, the security matrix will ensure that the appropriate users and/or roles only have access to specific areas.  Finally a Workflow Module may manage and control this entire process, polling for ready data, prompting users through email URL to complete any number of tasks before generating a batch of marketing quality and usually personalised reports.  These valuation, investment, quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily, factsheet, hedge or private client reports may need a final sign off by a Client Reporting Analyst before the workflow schedule will automatically send them to print, FTP or email.  The all encompassing Workflow engine tracks, audits and manages this complex process with the click of a button – regardless of whether you run just a few accounts or thousands.

By using a single straight through reporting solution, you are in the best position to provide the efficient delivery of quality reports while being capable of handling ever increasing amounts of complex content in an array of formats. 

When template changes need to occur, the intelligent and flexible rendering tool within VRS empowers the users to drag and drop new components, completely rebrand old styles, customise and personalise their reports independent of IT.

Clean Data?

If data is not already collected from a clean source such as a processed data repository, or in some cases even if it is, VRS is able to automatically apply last minute custom data validation checks on what is rendered such as 100% total confirmations, inconsistency reviews or percentage-change-since-last-reporting on the data, alerting the workflow and client service teams that something needs closer inspection and potentially revision before being allowed to be published.

Find out more
Click here to find out more information on the Vermilion Reporting Suite (VRS) client reporting solution.