“Our firm has been using EasyAUM’s MarketBridge product since 2016 to automate and enhance some processes such as pricing and retrieving / translating other market data. We are very pleased overall with EasyAUM reliability, knowledge, and ability to adapt the software to our needs as conditions change. Their team is always a pleasure to work with. I would recommend to anyone looking for an investment management software solution.”

– Vice President, Settlements

Client: Global Investment Manager, $5Billion AUM

Investment Universe: 500 US & International Equities

Challenges

Per the client “Prior to MarketBridge implementation our firm experienced difficulty maintaining security master data, establishing new securities and keeping active information current for about 500 securities in a consistent, reliable and automated manner”.

  • Manual lookup and data entry while adding or updating securities
  • Maintaining MSCI GICS Industry Classifications for the securities was time-consuming and error-prone
  • Need for a secondary source of price and index data
  • Required Bloomberg security master, pricing data integration with Advent APX

Solution

  • Implemented EasyAUM’s MarketBridge product with Bloomberg, MSCI data repository and
  • Provided seamless source and maintenance of security master, custom security properties, pricing of global equities, indexes
  • Automated weekly, on demand processing of security master including GICS classifications with SS&C Advent APX
  • Automated daily early pricing, end of day pricing, index rates with SS&C Advent APX

Benefits

  • Weekly automated unattended update of security master and industry classifications data for the global holdings and watch list securities into the portfolio accounting System
  • Daily automated unattended update of early prices, end of day prices for global holdings and index rates into the portfolio accounting system
  • Resulted in significant servicing improvements with timely client and performance reporting
  • Enhanced portfolio accounting procedures, increased operational efficiencies and minimised error

Per the client “Our jobs have become easier as a result of having MarketBridge software in place. The peace of mind in having processes that are completely automated, with the option to manually run jobs ad-hoc is invaluable. “