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Case Study

Index Construction

"In our firm’s early stages of growth, EasyAUM helped us build a set of scalable data tools in support of our index construction process. They delivered right on the money. Our collaboration expanded from there and we ultimately worked together to establish a strong foundation for a suite of applications spanning research, investment operations, compliance and marketing. The EasyAUM team’s depth of investment knowledge, technology delivery experience, and direct communication style made them a valuable partner and easy to work with."


Vice President, Operations Strategy


Client: Leading Fundamental Index firm with large assets under license and direct AUM


Challenges

Operational Challenges

Existing portfolio construction process was Excel based single user process.

Data collection and computational process was time consuming.

Ability to share models across the enterprise was limited.

Versions of models and tracking changes was not possible.

Source data outliers resulted in errors and delays and were hard to identify.

Challenges with affiliates management, pricing and security master data for Portfolio Accounting application.

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Solutions

Implemented EasyAUM’s MarketBridge data management solution

Integrated Bloomberg’s global Back Office Equity data set, including security master, pricing, corporate actions, company financials dataset

Integrated datasets from other vendors such as FTSE and Markit

Established global equity universe datasets using client’s quantitative models

Provided comprehensive range of Bloomberg market data interfaces with leading portfolio accounting system

Provided portfolio, benchmark performance returns repository and separate custom application for performance reporting and affiliates management

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Benefits

Global Equity Universe models with latest data was available each day for research team to work with

Robust vendor data capture, transformation and load processes meant the datasets were clean and reliable with outlier handling processes

Users could focus on analysis, refining models and making business decisions

Brought significant operational efficiencies including timely portfolio valuations and reconciliation

Web-based Affiliates application facilitated management of affiliates