The quality of investment management reports can be a significant element in attracting and keeping clients. Investors are looking forward to clear and concise information regarding a portfolio’s investment objective along with the risk level, costs and objectives along with performance metrics as well as holding information.

Investors should also have information about the dollar amount of the fees that are attributable to their account. This information is e-mail and FTP usually found in the semi-annual or the annual shareholder report, based on the company’s performance. In the case of mutual funds, this could include a breakdown of total fees paid by each individual shareholder and a description of how the fees were assigned to the performance of the portfolio.

Many companies may have difficulty providing this information in the context of a general performance report. For one thing, the majority of investors hold their funds in accounts that are omnibus with broker-dealers. To provide personalized fee information, a broker-dealer must establish interfaces with the record owners of these accounts to calculate and disseminate this information to every shareholder.

Technology allows these difficult requirements for reporting to be met without the need to overhaul internal systems. Clearwater Analytics provides an industry leading SaaS solution for investment accounting and reporting, enabling growth for more than 1,100 customers including pension plans, government as well as asset managers and global insurers. Our platform is fully integrated into the market-leading suite of Broadridge’s Analytics Master Data Warehouse and is accessible via the web and mobile dashboard application. This enables the delivery of high-quality investment-performance-net-of-fees and other reporting outputs for both client and regulatory purposes.