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BACKGROUND A large Canadian pension fund manager needed to replace their outdated performance measurement and attribution platform. After years of asset growth and complexity, the investment manager was constrained by homegrown systems. Additionally, reporting on portfolio and benchmark relative performance information grew into a highly customized system of data staging and visualization dashboards. Operations teams
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BACKGROUND A multi-family office with thousands of clients hired Meradia for assistance with information delivery content and strategy. With increasing industry competition and fee pressure, leadership wanted to ensure their clients understood the full breadth of services provided and information delivery platforms, such as reporting, reflected this. Historically, reporting focused primarily on investment management with
Read Full ArticleIntegration into Eagle Data Management System
BACKGROUND An asset management firm that trades a significant number of ETFs was in the process of acquiring another firm which would increase their AUM to $80 billion. The acquired firm traded predominantly derivative securities and needed expertise on how to handle these securities in Eagle Data Management. The client then acquired a second firm
Read Full ArticleMarket and Competitive Analysis for Software Provider
BACKGROUND A well-respected software provider engaged Meradia to help it develop a strategic product and marketing plan aimed at driving future growth and success. Meradia’s investment management expertise, deep industry contacts and focused determination led to a successful project that helped shape the company’s vision and direction. Working collaboratively with the company’s executive leadership team,
Read Full ArticleEnterprise Transformation for Wealth Manager
BACKGROUND A wealth manager with over $20 billion AUM was replacing legacy technology with a new reporting platform. Over the course of 15 years, the legacy platform acquired additional functionality: security master, internal reporting, order management, rebalancing, OCC Reg-9 compliance, analytics, proposal generation and performance reporting. Virtually all aspects of the business were impacted including
Read Full ArticleClient Journey Optimization Leveraging Design Thinking
BACKGROUND Meradia was engaged by a multi-billion dollar wealth management firm to map and refine their client experience from initial prospect contact through the entire engagement lifecycle. The firm desired to provide increased scale for client and company growth while maintaining the level of excellence that has resulted in an extremely high retention rate. Furthermore,
Read Full ArticleIBOR and ABOR Needs Assessments and Roadmap for OCIO
BACKGROUND Meradia was engaged by an OCIO with over $25 billion AUM to assess their current IBOR and emerging ABOR (US GAAP) needs, system requirements, and future roadmap. The existing IBOR-like solution had been in place for many years yet limitations in functionality, integration and the underlying architecture caused issues with processing and forced workarounds
Read Full ArticleOMS and Portfolio Accounting System Consolidation
BACKGROUND An independent registered investment advisor with over 100 institutional clients retained Meradia to design new operations and technology processes and workflows. Their trading and operations staff juggled multiple trading platforms and two different portfolio accounting systems. They had already selected target platforms for both trading and accounting. The client selected Meradia based on our
Read Full ArticleLegacy Accounting Systems Conversion: Project Management & Analysis
BACKGROUND Our client, a large financial services accounting outsource provider, engaged Meradia to convert an investment manager (the end-client) from two separate legacy accounting platforms onto a new strategic platform. Our client had been providing mutual fund accounting services to a large investment manager for over a decade and all funds were to be converted
Read Full ArticleCharles River Implementation Program Lead
BACKGROUND A global OCIO provider with over $100 billion AUM decided to change from a proprietary trading platform to Charles River. Their current order management system supported trading for in-house branded mutual funds, third-party-managed collective trusts, separately managed accounts and alternative assets. The system also acted as IBOR and provided data to several downstream applications.
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