For any hedge fund or alternative asset manager, the day starts with reconciling positions, cash balances and transactions amongst internal portfolio accounting systems and external counterparties, including prime brokers, custodians and fund administrators. At its core, this daily task is operationally complex, making the use of manual Excel-based processes inefficient, error-prone and a drain on overall productivity. Due to this complexity, along with the fact that managers have to routinely deal with high transaction volumes and esoteric instruments, many are now seeking solutions that systematically analyze the root cause of repetitive exceptions, automatically escalate aging exceptions, establish multi-level approval workflows and ensure a robust audit trail of all actions.
With that being said, establishing a simple and unified reconciliation output across funds and brokers is emerging as a critical requirement for asset managers, and it can be done by implementing a solution to perform the below set of core processes and steps:
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