Investment Systems Expertise

Reliability and Accuracy

InvestTech’s expertise is focused on the evaluation, selection, installation, and ongoing support of investment accounting, portfolio management, performance and securities trading systems. Having completed numerous successful client engagements, InvestTech has helped some of the financial industry’s largest and well-known firms achieve a higher level of efficiency and accuracy of operations.

InvestTech is able to offer informed and educated solutions to your firm’s technology queries thanks to a wealth of experience with the leading financial technology systems. We’ve been able to help some of the largest institutional asset management firms with their trading systems needs based on a comprehensive review of specific investment system requirements, alternative service providers and software products, as well as a recommendation for the optimal system to satisfy your firm’s current and future needs.

Our knowledge and expertise runs deep

  • Extensive market knowledge of the varied software vendors and products serving institutional investors and portfolio managers and experience with the vendor evaluation process.
  • Experience deploying investment technology solutions such as investment portfolio accounting systems, trade order management systems, performance management systems and performance attribution (including enterprise asset management software), client/server platforms, data warehouse strategies, local and wide-area networks, web-enabled applications, open-systems architecture, and database modeling.
  • A philosophy that emphasizes practical solutions that incorporate your unique organization, personnel and technical resources, and current and future requirements.
  • Development of a proposed recommendation resulting from careful evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of each alternative. Our goal is to identify an investment systems solution that will support your future requirements, address current processing requirements in a cost-effective manner, and enable you leverage the benefits of technology.

The Right Fit

In evaluating and deciding upon the systems that best fit your firm’s needs, InvestTech employs a comprehensive analysis of current investment operations and trading work-flows beginning with on-site interviews with key management, traders and operations team members.  The discussion includes the review of the following:

  • Existing internal workflow documents from IT and Operations.
  • Organizational structure and available resources
  • Detail data management and reporting requirements including:
    • Front Office systems: trade history, STP capabilities, Moxy usage and Allocations
    • Data aggregation and client reporting capabilities and requirements
    • Pricing sources and reference data sources for equity and fixed income securities
    • Custodian communication, reconciliation capabilities and confirm/affirm process
  • Documented system requirements including custom applications
  • System interfaces and interoperability capabilities and requirements.
  • Audit controls, compliance and additional operational practices.
  • Operations functions and work-flow characteristics
  • Iinvestment systems topology (systems application architecture).
  • Performance measurement, composites and attribution needs.
  • Client reporting, servicing and CRM tools.
  • Portfolio pricing process.
  • Electronic trade connectivity and STP considerations.
  • Training and certification levels on current applications.
  • Operational readiness to support of a quantitative strategy.
  • Develop a profile including trading volumes, number of accounts, account types, systems used and operational workflows

    • View detailed Trading Systems engagements