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An industry-leading margin and financing management solution

Syncova’s flexible calculation engine gives you the power to create your own rules and build your own calculations – to service as many business lines as you need – all within a single platform.

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With Syncova

Managing and accurately accounting for the costs associated with margin, stock borrowing and financing agreements can be a major challenge for buy-side firms. Syncova is an automated and highly-configurable calculation engine that offers improved flexibility, transparency and accuracy – letting you access this information when and how you want it.

Merge and organise

Accurately consolidate and attribute margin by underlying fund, strategy or portfolio managers.

Validate findings

Validate the accuracy of financing and borrowing charges by replicating broker calculations.

Compare costs

Provide accurate side-by-side comparisons of broker financing and borrow costs.

Charge fairly

Reduce the risk of overcharges with broker-by-broker comparisons.

Verify finances

Support all financing calculation structures, including net and gross financing, asset-based financing, and tiered spreads.

Control costs. Enhance profitability. All within one powerful tool.

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2023 Guide for Fund Admins

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2022 TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS TRENDS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORT

Data excellence

In today’s world, data excellence is crucial for success – covering everything from data quality, to ESG and data utility, and client custodial data.

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Data quality

Data is the lifeblood of wealth managers, especially in the cloud era. Powerful opportunities exist for making gains in deep, efficient personalisation. Significant investment is already in motion with data-driven and insight-led institutions pulling away from the pack. But there are still significant weaknesses.

63/100

Average rating for reliability, timeliness and accessibility of data in organisations

Even the best-rated firms – wealth managers and private banks – scored themselves just 68/100 and 67/100 respectively.

ESG and data utility

Firms often draw on a range of ESG ratings houses and other specialist data providers for insights and understanding. This can create significant data management challenges; no wonder many firms view their ESG approaches as works in progress.
Fortunately, technology comes to the rescue, with the trend towards ESG data utilities.

“This gives firms the ability to flex their approach in line with key use cases and accelerate the sophistication of their approach by building in AI analytics and counterparty data, for instance.”

Ian Woodhouse, Lead Wealth Management Transformation and Thought Leader for Europe, Accenture Wealth and Asset Management

Leveraging client custodial data

Fully leveraging custodial data can massively enhance the client experience because firms aren’t having to ask their clients for mountains of information.

“It can also be instrumental in improving client acquisition by plugging that investor’s entire financial picture into your CRM.”

Nassaan Noor, Alvarez & Marsal

63/100

Average self-score for leveraging client custodial data

Yet firms are often still receiving and managing data files in a range of non-standard formats, inevitably leading to manual patch work.

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About SS&C Advent

With solutions that enable any or all elements of a fully digital operation, SS&C Advent can help you catch up and stay competitive. Our offering includes innovative decision support and construction tools, as well as expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on middle and back offices. Many of our core solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS).

By continually investing in our platforms and functions we ensure we always deliver positive results for firms’ clients, people, businesses and futures.

SS&C Advent has helped over 4,000 investment firms in more than 50 countries grow their businesses and thrive. Gain investment clarity, simplify complexity and enable full firm digitisation with SS&C Advent.

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2022 TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS TRENDS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORT

Operational investment drivers

Technology budgets are set to soar even higher until 2025, as firms find ways to deflect competition, reduce risk and costs, and maximise productivity.

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Increased competition

The factors spurring further technology investments are numerous and compelling. Arguably the biggest is the number of new entrants in market.

65%

Believe their technology budgets will increase in the next three years.

↑ from 61% of firms in 2021

72% of wealth managers
68% of private banks

Ramping up their technology spend

15%

Overall foresee technology budget cuts

Risk and cost reduction

Improved operational efficiencies are a defence against ongoing margin pressures and a tool for coping with ever-growing regulatory burdens.

69%

See tech as either an extremely or very important means of reducing costs and risks

14%

The average productivity gain from technology investments (Deloitte)

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SS&C Advent has seen a huge growth in demand for managed services in the UK and elsewhere, including managed portfolio service (MPS) type offerings.

Overall there are still huge efficiencies to be gained through automation.

Bearing in mind that adopting an outsourcing model is a major transformation project; its scale and complexity make hiring of senior digital talent even more crucial.

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About SS&C Advent

With solutions that enable any or all elements of a fully digital operation, SS&C Advent can help you catch up and stay competitive. Our offering includes innovative decision support and construction tools, as well as expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on middle and back offices. Many of our core solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS).

By continually investing in our platforms and functions we ensure we always deliver positive results for firms’ clients, people, businesses and futures.

SS&C Advent has helped over 4,000 investment firms in more than 50 countries grow their businesses and thrive. Gain investment clarity, simplify complexity and enable full firm digitisation with SS&C Advent.

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2022 TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS TRENDS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORT

Client experience and advisor productivity

Given almost equal weighting in this year’s report, firms can’t afford to neglect these two key motivators for investing in technology.

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Key drivers now hand in hand (neither can be neglected)

Enhancing client experience/advisor productivity and growth.

The report identifies gaps in efficient client onboarding and scaling the provision of advice; and opportunities for digitising the process of identifying client needs in their life cycle and targeting them with relevant prompts.

Pandemic impact driving CX needs

A truism these days, but the pandemic stimulated investment and changed attitudes towards technology.

“Covid finally moved the dial on technology and swept away a lot of ‘nay-saying’ because institutions and advisors came to recognise that digital is not a threat to a high-touch service.”

Gilly Green, Managing Partner, Wealth Management and Private Banking Practice, Sionic

Connected and seamless digital offerings

While the pandemic has accelerated consumer expectations and shifted business priorities to online, KPMG’s Bill Packman described how investing needs to go far beyond just customer interfaces; the focus needs to be on more connected and seamless digital offerings all round to drive efficient operating models, and wipe out silos.

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About SS&C Advent

With solutions that enable any or all elements of a fully digital operation, SS&C Advent can help you catch up and stay competitive. Our offering includes innovative decision support and construction tools, as well as expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on middle and back offices. Many of our core solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS).

By continually investing in our platforms and functions we ensure we always deliver positive results for firms’ clients, people, businesses and futures.

SS&C Advent has helped over 4,000 investment firms in more than 50 countries grow their businesses and thrive. Gain investment clarity, simplify complexity and enable full firm digitisation with SS&C Advent.

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2022 TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS TRENDS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORT

Investment choice and performance

Firms are prioritising digital spend for maximum impact, choosing to invest in key growth drivers such as model portfolio automation and ESG.

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Model portfolio automation

Using model portfolios efficiently allows both client and AUM growth without a linear growth in costs, but firms are still working through the automation piece.

58%

How far along institutions are (on average) in the process of maximising automation in portfolio construction and rebalancing

“There seems to be quite a high degree of spreadsheet use by some firms. To maximise the potential of MPS there needs to be as much Straight-Through Processing as possible and an elimination of workarounds as any form of ‘end-user computing’ adds risk to the process.”

IAWMC’s Steve Dyson

ESG embedded

ESG is not only the new normal in investing, but increasingly a hygiene factor in many clients’ choice of providers and products. But embedding of ESG is far from complete.

38%

Have embedded ESG into their investment processes

11%

Believe their organisation already has a leading ESG proposition

Digital maturity and investment focus choices

The big question for firms now, with so many competing requirements, is how to prioritise digital spend for maximum impact. Much will depend on their current and target digital maturity.

It means making tough choices between holistic projects that achieve wholesale transformation – in effect, making digitisation an integral part of day-to-day business – against projects that would bring direct cost benefits.

“You have to look at it through two lenses, the first being the client’s digital experience and the second the firm’s internal digital experience and the whole operational piece.”

Caroline Burkart, Head of UK/Europe Client Insight, Wealth, Aon

Read the full Tech & Ops Trends in Wealth Management report 2022 now

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About SS&C Advent

With solutions that enable any or all elements of a fully digital operation, SS&C Advent can help you catch up and stay competitive. Our offering includes innovative decision support and construction tools, as well as expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on middle and back offices. Many of our core solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS).

By continually investing in our platforms and functions we ensure we always deliver positive results for firms’ clients, people, businesses and futures.

SS&C Advent has helped over 4,000 investment firms in more than 50 countries grow their businesses and thrive. Gain investment clarity, simplify complexity and enable full firm digitisation with SS&C Advent.

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2022 TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS TRENDS IN WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORT

How technology is transforming the wealth management industry

2022’s Tech & Ops Trends in Wealth Management report shows the wealth industry has made substantial progress over the past year, with the level of digitisation continuing to improve. Here, we take a look at some of the key themes from the report, including why ‘digitisation’ is much more than just a buzzword, and how the right technology will put your firm in the driving seat as we look to the future.

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Read the full Tech & Ops Trends in Wealth Management report 2022 now

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About SS&C Advent

With solutions that enable any or all elements of a fully digital operation, SS&C Advent can help you catch up and stay competitive. Our offering includes innovative decision support and construction tools, as well as expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on middle and back offices. Many of our core solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS).

By continually investing in our platforms and functions we ensure we always deliver positive results for firms’ clients, people, businesses and futures.

SS&C Advent has helped over 4,000 investment firms in more than 50 countries grow their businesses and thrive. Gain investment clarity, simplify complexity and enable full firm digitisation with SS&C Advent.

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INVESTMENT ADVANTAGE
DOESN’T HAPPEN BY CHANCE

The hunt for alpha continues. Firms seek better book, better strategy, better returns. Being able to move with the markets, expand business lines and grow client bases are all essential. For many, there is no alternative to alternative investments.

But with alternatives come complex workflows. That level of complexity can only be managed using a sophisticated, scalable, flexible solution – one that can help you maintain relevance and stay competitive in volatile conditions.

In the search for a truly holistic portfolio accounting and position management solution, there is no alternative to Geneva®.

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Alpha doesn’t happen by chance

In our current global economy, firms must find ways to adapt to changing market conditions to get the best possible returns, through an ever-broader array of investment vehicles.

 

A laser focus on generating alpha for investors is more critical than ever.

 

The magic of Geneva® is it enables you to focus on that core competency: generating alpha. Firms are increasingly relying on the Geneva® platform to handle their complex accounting needs and solve operational challenges.

 

Taking that one step further, SS&C Advent has seen a huge growth in demand for managed services. Geneva® and its ecosystem of complementary solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Managed Services, along with a customizable menu of expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on your middle and back offices.

Any asset. Any region. One system.

With its inherent flexibility, scalability and capacity for customisation, Geneva® works with all asset classes and adapts to the unique operating models of a broad range of firms across regions.

SS&C Advent is continually reinvesting in Geneva® enhancements to keep our clients ahead of an ever-evolving global marketplace. Our focus is always on continuing to make Geneva® the gold standard.

Many Geneva® enhancements are shaped by the needs of our client base and the demands of their investors, from the kinds of reports they need to turn around, to the data they need to access.

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Elite performance demands elite software

Geneva® offers firms:

  • Full flexibility to pursue new strategies and diversify lines of business as opportunities arise
  • The transparency and reporting detail investors demand
  • Comprehensive instrument coverage for complex global strategies and support for multiple account and fund types, eliminating the need for expensive and inefficient integrations in the future
  • Seamless, simple operations, with errors and inconsistencies mitigated or reduced
  • Local or cloud deployment options
  • Complete trade lifecycle management, full ledger and support for daily NAV calculation and simplified data access and reporting
  • Easy integration with internal and external systems including market data providers, CMS, risk systems and counterparties

Meeting the most complex accounting needs

Download our “Fundamentals paper” and find out how SS&C Advent’s Geneva® platform manages complex, multi-tiered fund structures including the full range of private equity fund types and structures. It seamlessly handles the processing and accounting complexity of syndicated loans and private debt, and supports you in maintaining your own internal book of records.

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About SS&C Advent and Geneva®

SS&C Advent is the premier provider of portfolio and investor accounting for private market investments. Geneva® is our world-leading global portfolio accounting platform.

A proven solution for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, mutual funds, and increasingly, institutional asset managers, Geneva® is the solution of choice for any firm that requires a high level of operational efficiency and easy access to real-time data.

Geneva® has evolved with the alternative segment, and today spans private equity, private credit, real estate and real assets in addition to hedge funds. More than 350 firms worldwide trust Geneva® for their most complex accounting needs, ranging from under $100 million to over $100 billion in assets.

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ALPHA DOESN’T HAPPEN BY CHANCE

For institutional asset managers seeking better returns, there is no alternative. Now is the time to seek out a broader array of investment vehicles, whether private equity, private credit or other alternatives.

But with alternatives come complex workflows. That level of complexity can only be managed using a sophisticated, scalable, flexible solution – one that can help you maintain relevance and stay competitive in volatile conditions.

In the search for a truly holistic portfolio accounting and position management solution, there is no alternative to Geneva®.

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Move with the markets 

In our current global economy, firms must explore new lines of business to adapt to changing market conditions and continue to generate alpha. Institutional asset managers are increasingly relying on Geneva® to handle their complex accounting needs and simplify complex operations.

 

It’s the solution of choice for any firm that requires a high level of operational efficiency and easy access to real-time, unified data with data governance built in.

 

Taking that one step further, SS&C Advent has seen a huge growth in demand for managed services. Geneva® and its ecosystem of complementary solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Outsourcing Services (AOS), along with a customizable menu of expert-delivered operational services to ease the burden on your middle and back offices.

Any asset. Any region. One system.

Geneva® is the proven solution for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, mutual funds and now, institutional asset managers. With its inherent flexibility, scalability and capacity for customisation, Geneva® works with all asset classes and adapts to the unique operating models of a broad range of firms across regions.

SS&C Advent is continually reinvesting in Geneva® enhancements to keep our clients ahead of an ever-evolving global marketplace. Our focus is always on continuing to make Geneva® the gold standard.

Many Geneva® enhancements are shaped by the needs of our client base and the demands of their investors, from the kinds of reports they need to turn around, to the data they need to access.

REQUEST A DEMO

Elite performance demands elite software

Geneva® offers firms:

  • Full flexibility to pursue new strategies and diversify lines of business as opportunities arise
  • The transparency and reporting detail investors demand
  • Comprehensive instrument coverage for complex global strategies and support for multiple account and fund types, eliminating the need for expensive and inefficient integrations in the future
  • Seamless, simple operations, with errors and inconsistencies mitigated or reduced
  • Local or cloud deployment options
  • Complete trade lifecycle management, full ledger and support for daily NAV calculation and simplified data access and reporting
  • Easy integration with internal and external systems including market data providers, CMS, risk systems and counterparties

Meeting the most complex accounting needs

Download our “Fundamentals paper” and find out how SS&C Advent’s Geneva® platform manages complex, multi-tiered fund structures including the full range of private equity fund types and structures. It seamlessly handles the processing and accounting complexity of syndicated loans and private debt, and supports you in maintaining your own internal book of records.

READ THE FUNDAMENTALS PAPER NOW

Request a demo

Complete the form and we’ll be in touch to schedule a demo with one of our Geneva® experts.

REQUEST A DEMO

About SS&C Advent and Geneva®

SS&C Advent is the premier provider of portfolio and investor accounting for private market investments. Geneva® is our world-leading global portfolio accounting platform.

A proven solution for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, mutual funds, and increasingly, institutional asset managers, Geneva® is the solution of choice for any firm that requires a high level of operational efficiency and easy access to real-time data.

Geneva® has evolved with the alternative segment, and today spans private equity, private credit, real estate and real assets in addition to hedge funds. More than 350 firms worldwide trust Geneva® for their most complex accounting needs, ranging from under $100 million to over $100 billion in assets.

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New asset classes and fund structures bring big opportunities. But they also introduce complexity: more moving parts, vastly different workflows, and different structures within each asset class.

And that requires a measure of business transformation.

Can your technology platforms support the intricacies of accounting for and reporting on a diverse asset mix?

Ours can. Geneva® is a comprehensive portfolio management, accounting, and reporting platform that supports any investment within any structure for any region in the world. It manages complexity using a customisable, scalable, flexible solution, making operations as seamless and simple as possible.

This doesn’t happen by chance. Everything is by design.

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Investment advantage doesn’t happen by chance

Our clients are in the business of generating returns for investors – not processing interest payments and paydowns, doing reconciliations, or any of the other complex workflows, accounting and operational tasks demanded by alternatives.

These firms increasingly rely on the Geneva® platform to do that work, so they can focus on their core competencies and achieve real investment advantage.

Multiple asset classes

Supports multiple asset classes and instruments, and multi-currency portfolios, across the full range of alternative fund types

Consolidated systems

Eliminates the need for multiple systems and processes to manage different types of loans

Accurate reporting

Accounts for and reports on each entity accurately and allocates profit and loss down to the investor level

Standardised reporting

Delivers the standardised reporting necessary for your books and records, client and regulatory transparency and tax reporting

Monitor and manage

Monitors and manages the underlying positions within derivatives instruments

Private market assets

Opens up the opportunity to move into private market assets such as private equity, private credit, real estate, real assets and more – mix the public and the private with ease

Global fund management

Understands alternative global fund structures; streamlines and automates the processes involved in managing them

Accurate accounting

Accounts accurately for all investments, capital and cash activity

Handle complex waterfall calculations

Monitors and manages complex waterfall calculations, expense allocations, hurdles, tiered incentive and management fees, liquidity terms and more

Automated rebalancing

Provides automated rebalancing to reduce the risk of errors, drive efficiencies, and improve client servicing

Unified data doesn’t happen by chance (and nor does data governance)

Anyone seeking to expand asset classes will need to access and integrate the relevant data sources to support those assets; also provide accurate, consolidated reporting for both investors and internal requirements. Firm-wide data consistency and governance is key; as is maintaining a single, golden source of data, which is much harder when data is spread across multiple systems.
Geneva® brings it all together.

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Get faster data access with Enterprise Information Store

Ensure data governance and exception management with Advent Lumis, and significantly reduce operational risks associated with substandard data quality

Add new data types, fields and calculations to accommodate new instruments and asset classes

Integrate portfolio management and investor accounting for seamless data flows and transparency; track investors across multiple investments and provide exposure reporting and opt-in/opt-out

Harness unique, dynamic data derivation capabilities without batch processing; correct discrepancies in real-time across the entire system, with a single change

Incorporate relevant external data, such as carbon ratings, to properly classify investments as ESG; enable proper ESG reporting

Achieve real-time data updates, data storage and merged data reporting with the Geneva SmartSync solution

Automate and streamline your data discrepancies across various counterparties and solutions to seamlessly manage data reconciliation and improve reporting

Deliver highly customised communications for clients, leveraging business intelligence, external aggregation and reporting

Scale doesn’t happen by chance

Geneva® is made for operational scalability, seamlessly supporting new lines of business to meet growing demand and removing operational barriers.

Expand into non-traditional assets without stressing the system or driving up operating costs

Reduce manual processing, improve efficiency and reduce risk significantly

Grow your business faster by eliminating the need for separate systems and spreadsheet workarounds

Handle higher volumes and more detailed reporting associated with expanding business lines and client accounts, transactions and portfolios

Delivering on client needs doesn’t happen by chance

Over two decades of continuous innovation, SS&C Advent has reinvested a substantial percentage of annual revenue into solution improvements and enhancements. New features reflect the real needs of clients now and in the future, learned through constant consultation and collaboration.

  • Updates to keep the user experience intuitive
  • Extra support to keep ahead of an ever-evolving global marketplace
  • Features to ensure we continue to cover any asset, in any region, in any structure
  • Reporting based on what clients need to turn around for investors
  • The data they need, accessed easily With Geneva, you will always be able to take advantage of the latest technology as it becomes viable. It’s more than likely the only platform you will need over the life of your business.

And now you can choose to outsource it all.

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Geneva® and its ecosystem of complementary solutions are now available as a managed service from Advent Managed Services. Clients can choose from a comprehensive menu of operational services to cover any operational or accounting need, with solutions tailored to roles and firms.

Approved staff can access the platform remotely and securely through an intuitive portal, with 24/7 around-the-clock support. Meanwhile, investment managers are freed from managing technology and routine operational tasks, so they can focus on their core business team. And firms no longer need to compete for specialist talent to do the work inhouse. Remove the stress on your infrastructure and reduce security risks by offloading problem areas to a service provider whose core competencies are IT and operations.

About Geneva®

Geneva® is a proven solution for asset managers, hedge funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, mutual funds and institutional asset managers. With the Geneva® platform on side, you can move with the markets and take advantage of investors’ growing appetite for diversification.

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