Data Warehouse Implementation for Multi-boutique Investment Manager

BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, a multi-boutique investment manager, struggled to generate timely client or management reporting. Products included public funds, ETFs, institutional, private client UMA and retail UMA. Portfolio accounting, reconciliation, performance and client reporting functions were outsourced to multiple vendors. A lack of governance across the data further challenged the client in this complex landscape. […]

Scalability and Repeatability for Global Service Provider

BACKGROUND Meradia was retained by a leading global asset servicing company to solve scalability problems arising from the rapid growth of their data warehouse. Expansion of the firm’s data warehouse to meet the influx of new clients and service offerings was complex with the extension of historical data and addition of new functionality. Complicating the […]

Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO): Key Selection Factors

The Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) space has grown dramatically during the past decade, with new institutions moving into the market daily offering OCIO services. Plans and endowments are dealing with changing investment mandates, complex market structures, hundreds of investment manager options, and challenges finding talent. Additionally, OCIOs are offering more and building models that support all types of delegated services and clients. For organizations, the number of choices and internal pressures can be daunting and difficult to navigate. The challenges include determining how to work with an OCIO provider, how to find the right fit, and how to implement and incorporate one into your organization. Meradia offers the expertise to help answer those questions, and to lead a successful transition.

by Joshua B. Levitt, Principal

Performance Measurement and Attribution RFP and Selection for Global Asset Management Firm

BACKGROUND A top-ten global asset management firm’s performance measurement and attribution operation had grown over time into a disparate web of feeds, sources and platforms. Internal customers including the front-office and risk teams cobbled together different workflows often resulting in different outcomes. Furthermore, performance calculation workflow had become excessively manually-intensive, creating risk on a variety […]

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