DISCRETIONARY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
ObjectWay discretionary portfolio management software fully meet the most advanced requirements of institutional clients,
monitoring compliance with extremely flexible investment rules and restrictions.
This solution can also be used for the traditional retail discretionary portfolio management contracts,
recently updated for MiFID compliance.
The solution consists of two components:
ObjectWay Portfolio Manager and
ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator.
ObjectWay Portfolio Manager assists portfolio managers in decision making and execution tasks by supporting construction of model portfolios,
portfolio valuation, risk assessment and performance measurement, portfolio rebalancing, investment rule compliance, order management as well as reporting.
DETAILS
The product’s functions are:
- Position keeping, exposure analysis, cash flow projections;
- Construction of model portfolios recursively composed of asset classes and securities;
- Hedging strategies using listed derivatives and OTC contracts;
- Simulation of buy/sell orders, specified directly or according to targets;
- Complete or partial realignment of portfolios;
- Compliance - regulatory, contractual and other types of investment rules and constraints;
- Order transmission, order allocations;
- Reports for relationship managers, portfolio managers, clients and compliance;
- Risk-performance indicators, performance attribution.
ObjectWay Portfolio Manager grants users maximum flexibility while maintaining operational efficiency:
- allows the highest degree of personalization in portfolio management;
- offers the best support to compliance checks, thanks to the capability of dynamically classifying securities, customer accounts and setting
various types of constraints;
- adapts in real-time to market movements and external events;
- preserves the high scalability needed for mass-market discretionary portfolio management;
- is capable of serving portfolio management needs of both institutional and retail clients.
ObjectWay Portfolio Manager can be run together with ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator securities and is also ideal for Banks and Asset Managers with existing back-office securities platforms in need of software that enables state of the art portfolio management.
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ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator meets all requirements of a middle and back office for discretionary asset management.
DETAILS
ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator, built on the ObjectWay Smit2 Suite, has a modular, flexible and extendible, multicurrency and multilingual structure superimposed on multichannel scalable and secure architecture.
This solution for asset management units comprises:
- Management of client transactions;
- Compliance monitoring;
- Calculation of management fees;
- Generation of reports in the format required by national authorities;
- Taxation;
- Regulatory reports.
The solution also features ObjectWay Smit2 generic functions used for both securities safekeeping portfolios and discretionary portfolios:
- Full master database of securities and corporate actions with integrated information providers;
- Order book, trading;
- Settlement management;
- Account and client master data;
- Account postings.
The solution’s strengths are:
- Thanks to a uniform application architecture and the high amount of expertise incorporated in the platform, it is possible to rapidly implement new products and services relating, for instance, to management fees, portfolio composition and investment restrictions.
- All aspects of account management such as fees, model portfolios, etc., may be grouped in classes for management purposes and it is even possible to separately configure the software for individual accounts thus offering the flexibility needed for discretionary asset management.
- The Graphical User Interface and the high-volume processing model increase productivity thus reducing operations costs.
- The SOA architecture, with hundreds of functions displayed in the form of Web Service, means that the solution can be rapidly incorporated in the client’s application ecosystem.
ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator may also be used at the middle & back office of asset management companies and banks that use third party front-ends to generate orders.
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WHO & WHAT
CREDIT AGRICOLE ASSET MANAGEMENT
Credit Agricole Asset Management SGR (AMUNDI), with more than € 17.3 billion in assets under management, is a joint venture of Crédit Agricole and Société Générale, one of the world’s top ten banking groups.
AMUNDI uses ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator and ObjectWay Portfolio Manager (GPMET) to support discretionary portfolio management for its private and institutional clients.
AMUNDI has selected ObjectWay SaaS mode which it has used in Italy since 2007.
DUEMME
Duemme SGR is the asset management company of the Banca Esperia Group. The firm uses ObjectWay Portfolio Manager - IPM, provided by the Kedrios outsourcing service centre, to support all Duemme private and institutional client managers.
MC GESTIONI SGR
MC Gestioni SGR, a Banca Sara Group company repeatedly awarded as a distinguished Italian asset management firm, selected the ObjectWay Portfolio Administrator to support its middle and back office activities in discretionary asset management.
The software is run on a Microsoft Windows platform and copes with millions of portfolio rebalancing transactions per year, generated by MCG quantitative
asset management models.
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