Portfolio managers need immediate access to portfolio data to make timely investment decisions and to effectively communicate that information to clients. Achieving that goal requires that the data be in one database, replacing silos of data.

Benefits

  • Enable effective data management to ensure accurate data
  • Reduce costs and simplify maintenance while improving reliability
  • Respond quickly to customer requests for information using IMS’ integrated report writer, presentation reports, report publishing system, and our web reporting portal

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Key Features

  • Performance measurement tools
    • Many price sensitivity, yield, and return measures
    • Asset allocations and contribution returns broken out by country, currency, sector, sub-sector, asset type, portfolios or any desired group
    • Maintain GIPS compliance with return analytics including IRR, time weighted rate of return and others.
    • Integrated analytics such as sharpe, sortino, standard deviation, beta, yield, duration, convexity
  • Fund Administration
    • IMS’ flexible accounting engine provides full daily accrual and pooled funds accounting (unitization)
    • IMS accounts for investment pools with varying distribution rules for shares, income, spending, and gains
    • Full participant NAV accounting (using omnibus accounts or individual participant tracking)
    • Money Market Funds with 2A-7 and UCITs compliance support.
    • Hedge Funds, multi-class funds (with ‘expense’ fees), and master feeder structures
    • Unlimited depth of ownership for funds of funds structures
    • Calculate internal mutual fund NAV’s
    • Hedge Fund Partnership K-1 reporting
  • Powerful Reporting Capabilities
    • Drag and drop design tool to add fields (including user defined fields), groups and formulas
    • Powerful formula engine turns reports into analytical tools
    • Directly output any report to Excel, PDF, Word, Email or Fax
    • Web reporting for customer access via a secure client portal
  • Accounting
    • Portfolio contribution and attribution
    • Compute returns in various currencies
    • Yield curve analysis
  • Analytics
    • Automatically projects cash flows and valuations user chooses, enabling “what if” and side-by-side scenario analyses
    • Supports required fee structures at every level
    • Reconcile daily activity with custodians using reports that show matched and unmatched records for correction or deletion
    • Complete real-time cash accounting and management. Total liquidity is available at all times
    • Reconcile daily activity with custodians using reports that show matched and unmatched records for correction or deletion
    • Drill-down from summary reports into the detailed transactions and securities
    • Front Office Features
    • Full multi-currency support
    • NAV funds (units), dollar per share funds, unitized funds, and derivative funds
  • Trade Order Management
    • Issue trade settlement and track status through SWIFT and FIX
      messaging capabilities
    • Require Trade approval by restricting unauthorized users to save
      non-compliant trades to a staging area for management approval
    • Allocate block trades across various portfolios various means: by
      percentages, share counts, or other methods as easily as you would a standard trade with a single owner.
    • Produce customizable trade tickets for back office processing
    • Integrations to various Trading systems can be provided
    • Portfolio contribution and attribution
    • Compute returns in various currencies
    • Yield curve analysis