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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 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 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 ArticlePension Fund Performance and Risk Analytics Assessment
BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, a superannuation* fund manager in Australia, needed accurate, timely and consistent data fit for their analytic requirements. Historically, the operations team generated Performance from raw custodial files. While a substantial portion of the assets are externally managed, the futures, FX and cash portfolios – representing major exposures – are managed and traded
Read Full ArticleSecurity Master Scalability for Institutional and Wealth
BACKGROUND A leading global provider of integrated solutions for institutional asset managers used Markit EDM to provision the security master supporting their multi-client investment management platform. The organization wanted to adopt an approach that would extend the capabilities to also satisfy their wealth management and banking security master needs. The client had growing demands for
Read Full ArticlePricing Data Process Modernization for Investment Advisory Firm
BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, an independently-owned investment advisory firm with over $50 billion AUM, needed to modernize their ability to manage market data, especially pricing data. The firm’s existing data architecture consisted of Excel-based processes to manage, download, review and maintain important market data assets underlying daily positions and portfolio valuations. With continuing growth, the firm
Read Full ArticlePerformance 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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