Annual
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Asset management companies are increasingly
expanding marketing of their products
internationally in order to tap new potentials.
This goes hand-in-hand with increasing demands
on fund documentation processes as a result
of different rules in different jurisdictions, the need
for standardization of data across the various
publications and the necessity of a uniform and
recognizable layout.
IDS GmbH – Analysis and Reporting Services ( IDS )
delivers solutions for consistent, low-cost creation
of annual and semi-annual reports, fact sheets
and key investor information documents ( KIIDs )
offering outstanding graphic and formal quality.
In times of growing competitive and cost pressures, asset managers are increasingly turning to the possibility of international marketing for their products. In addition to the advantages, however, such a move also increases the burden of reporting:
– Annual and semi-annual reports are not only subject to the laws governing content and structure in their home country, but also to the legal frameworks in the countries where the funds are publicly distributed. – Additional requirements apply in many countries as a
result of regulations, recommendations or standards set by national industry associations.
– In order to create the reports, data and text material from multiple functions within the company (fund accounting, compliance, fund management, market-ing, legal) must be consolidated, coordinated and structured according to specific national requirements. – The annual reports must be audited and the reports
submitted to the regulatory authority of each country within 2 to 4 months – usually in the country’s official language.
At the same time, annual and semi-annual reports are important tools for marketing the fund: every investor, before completion of a transaction, must be presented with the current annual report or– if this is older than eight months – the latest semi-annual report. As a rule, investors receive three documents in close proximity to their planned investment decision: the reports, fact sheets and the key investor information document (KIID). Consequently, many fund managers place great emphasis on ensuring consistency of data across all documents, as well as a compelling and recognizable layout in line with their unique corporate design.
Annual and semi-annual reports
are important tools for fund marketing.
Reporting | Annual and Semi-Annual Reports for Funds As a result of the numerous requirements relating to content, layout, language and deadlines, generating reports for international distribution is often a cost- intensive and error-prone process. Although database-supported and structured processes can help compen-sate for these disadvantages, implementing them is usually complicated and expensive. With our “Annual and Semi-Annual Reports for Funds” services, IDS offers a proven solution to ensure consistent, high-quality and low-cost report production.
Features
IDS provides full-service production of annual and semi-annual reports – from implementation of the data inter-faces to consolidation of all necessary information and production of reports in a variety of formats, languages and layouts. We even handle distribution.
IDS does this by drawing on long years of experience with data integration, structured administration of instrument, position and portfolio data, text modules in a variety of languages, performance and risk analysis, as well as rule-based report generation. For many years, our know-how in this broad field has helped us to successfully implement production of fact sheets and KIIDs in numerous countries and languages. For an overview of our services, please refer to the table on the right.
Benefits
– Cost savings through maximum automation in relation to a complex topic with only limited usefulness as a competitive factor
– Reduction of non-investment-specific costs, increased focus on core competencies
– Optimum quality through structured data warehousing and rule-based production of reports under financial services regulations
– Production of all relevant investor documents based on consistent data with a uniform, highly recognizable layout
IDS offers a proven solution to
ensure consistent, high-quality and
low-cost report production.
Full-service support during the implementation and operational phases, by experts with years of experience in the industry
Dramatically reduced resource utilization with full transparency over all process stages, from data consolidation to quality assurance and release of the generated reports, all the way to distribution and delivery to specified recipients Maximum-security and consistency through structured data warehousing, rule-based production as well as comprehensive plausibility and consistency reviews of the generated reports
Substantial cost savings through greater efficiency and access to additional synergies and quality benefits by combining the service with other IDS products – especially Fact Sheets and KIIDs.
Extensive flexibility when it comes to meeting clients’ demands on structure, content and corporate design
Report generation in a full range of languages and character sets
On-time, cost-effective production and distribution through broad automation of individual process steps
Flexible service depth: clients can choose which parts of their overall process they want IDS to handle
Persistent and reliable treatment of a key regulatory theme by an experienced and established service provider
Expert support
Minimized resource utilization
Security
Economy
Flexibility
Multiple language support On-time delivery
Modular solution
Reliability
Reporting | Annual and Semi-Annual Reports for Funds
Functionalities
Efficient data collection
IDS supports the various departments of the fund company with a structured procedure to setup interfaces for quantitative and qualitative information collection. In the operating phase, largely automated processes are used to collect and analyze the relevant information and data.
Specialized database
A central element of the production process is a data-base structure, specially developed for the complex reporting requirements, which serves to automatically merge text components and data.
Basic functions
– Monitoring of imported data and text modules, plausibility testing, structured data warehousing and verifiable audit trails for all entered values
– Optional calculation of indicators such as portfolio or benchmark returns, portfolio and risk breakdown on the basis of imported data using methods agreed with the client
– Maximum uniformity of report structures across all funds; no-hassle application of exceptions and fund-specific rules
– Easy generation of status reports and support for controlling of outsourcers
Expert support
IDS offers comprehensive service and help desk functionalities through an international team of industry experts for reporting process realization and direct customer support.
Our platform ensures reliable and economical mass production of the necessary reports within the timeframes set by national regulators for publication. – Production of reports based on the time-tested
interplay between database and document prepara-tion systems
Reporting
Consistent reporting is indispensable.
We deliver compelling presentations of
investment results, decision-oriented reports
and solid regulatory reporting.
Related products
Fact Sheets Key Investor Information
Document (KIID)
Fact Sheets Key Investor Information Document (KIID)
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February 2014
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