News and current developments

Yesterday, another Friends of Funds forum was held in Zurich on the Limmat in the beautiful and historic walls of the Zimmerleuten guild in the usual professional manner with around 90 participants. The topic was ‘Fund Administration: What are the major challenges?’. The panellists largely agreed that the flood of regulation, cost pressure and customer requirements can only be addressed through automation, innovation on the part of providers, the use of standards and other pr

We completed a migration project with 4 master funds and many segments in mid-August with satisfaction on both sides. Despite a tight schedule and many inexperienced project team members at the start, the migration was completed successfully and in full. We assisted our client in the establishment of a standard (data, rules, procedure), in particular the introduction of a standard data sheet for all segments and funds. in interpreting contractual requirements and integrating

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a final rule to enhance reporting requirements for investment funds, including open-end, closed-end, and exchange traded funds, and provide further guidance on liquidity risk management for open-end funds. Specifically, this final rule requires more frequent and detailed reporting via Forms N-PORT and N-CEN to improve transparency and regulatory oversight. The SEC also clarified that funds must reassess liquidity classif

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released translations of its Guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms across all official EU languages. These guidelines, effective from 21 November 2024, aim to prevent greenwashing by ensuring that funds accurately represent their investment strategies. They establish clear criteria for funds using terms like "transition," "environmental," "impact," and "sustainability."

A German asset manager has been using FundDesigner® for the lifecycle management of the investment guidelines of more than 350 funds...

An international asset manager uses FundDesigner for the Investment Guidelines Lifecycle of around 2,000 funds and mandates. Investment...

We support a global asset manager with the migration of investment guideline monitoring to SimCorp Dimension. In the first step, we are now using FondsDesigner to build the central platform for investment guideline management with optimized IG structures for mutual funds, institutional funds and mandates incl. downstream processing towards ex-ante and ex-post investment guideline monitorig systems.

A Swiss financial institution chose FundDesigner to comprehensively manage investment guidelines with FundDesigner modules Investment...

We support an global asset manager in investment compliance implementation on Charles River IMS as part of an overall strategic...

A German full service asset manager / fund admnistrator is now using FundDesigner for institutional client onboarding. In cooperation with the KYC team, client support classifies investors according to German regulations WPHG and KAGB, including the creation of required documents (e. g. classification sheet, form for semi-professional investors, etc). The subsequent advisory process is based on the investor classifications and determines suitable investment products for the i

A German full service Asset Manager / Fund Admnistrator is now using FundDesigner to manage institutional fund share transactions....

We support an independent, global asset manager in migrating investment compliance monitoring to SimCorp Dimension. In the first step, we...

As of today, we are once again delighted to implement the Bloomberg Compliance Manager CMGR. In this case, it is about the contractual...