Performance Vendor Selection: RFP and Proof of Concept

BACKGROUND A large Canadian pension fund manager needed to replace their outdated performance measurement and attribution platform.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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Enterprise 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

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Accounting RFP for Multi-Family Office

BACKGROUND Meradia was retained by a multi-family office to assess their investment application stack, organizational design and operational processes. Like many investment management firms, the company had grown over time and their system stack had become patchworked, resulting in an operating model that had become overly manual and inefficient. Our initial assessment determined that most

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Performance and Attribution Capabilities Audit for a Global Asset Servicing Company

BACKGROUND Meradia’s client, a global asset servicing company, acquired a European asset servicing firm, which included a middle-office software vendor. The software vendor served both the newly acquired European asset servicing business and had independent clients. Meradia was engaged to identify and evaluate ways our client could leverage this newly acquired software asset. Options included:

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Asset Manager Client Reporting Requirements and Vendor Selection

BACKGROUND An investment management firm with $100 billion AUM wanted to ensure their end-state client reporting platform would support their evolving business. They retained Meradia to lead a strategic initiative to evaluate the current client reporting environment, prioritize and document future state reporting requirements. Following this, Meradia led the client through a selection process and

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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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