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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
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BACKGROUND A Fortune 500 company’s asset management division retained Meradia to help facilitate the conclusion of a challenging implementation of and conversion to SS&C’s Sylvan Global Performance Measurement and Risk platform. Meradia provided portfolio accounting, performance measurement and testing expertise and identified and troubleshooted errors hindering progress. Issues impacting Sylvan, the data flows, defined acceptance
Read Full ArticleEnd-to-End Process Evaluation for Service Provider
BACKGROUND A leading global provider of integrated solutions for institutional asset managers engaged Meradia to document operating procedures. As a service vendor to the industry this firm was asked by existing clients, sales prospects and regulatory bodies to provide comprehensive documentation to substantiate business practices as part of due diligence exercises. Existing documentation was fragmented,
Read Full ArticleOperational Assessment for Multi-Family Office
BACKGROUND Meradia was retained by a 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 had come to realize it was time to take a holistic review of their organically grown patchwork of systems and overall operating model that
Read Full ArticleAccounting 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
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 ArticleBlackRock Aladdin Front Office Implementation Project Manager
BACKGROUND A global asset manager had multiple vendor and proprietary trading systems to support equity and fixed income trading. The firm struggled to get a timely, accurate and holistic view of trading activity and decided to standardize by implementing a single instance of BlackRock’s Aladdin globally. Functional scope for the full Aladdin suite included trading
Read Full ArticlePerformance 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:
Read Full ArticleAsset 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
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
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