Service Overview: Investment Consultants

Investment consultants provide advisory services to pension plans (both Defined Contribution and Defined Benefit), trusts, foundations, and high-net worth individuals and families. Their roles include recommending investments, reconciling data, measuring and assessing performance, reporting, analyzing portfolios (risk, attribution), monitoring compliance with investment policies, and assessing and controlling fees and expenses.

What these tasks have in common is a reliance on timely and accurate data.

Insignis' data service, Insignis Portfolio Intelligence, automates the collection of data from custodians and other financial institutions for the investment consultants. In today's environment, the data feeds are typically monthly feeds. But the Insignis technology also delivers daily data for those applications for which it is important. This flexibility in the timing of data feeds is enabling our clients to make a seamless transition from quarterly to monthly to daily applications.

Insignis Portfolio Intelligence (IPI) is not simply an automated data aggregation system. While IPI can run in an automated, untended mode, IPI also offers the investment consultants a powerful family of automated tools which serve to improve the back-office productivity associated with a wide-variety of data handling tasks, including:

• Web-based tools for viewing, sorting, and filtering data
• Data feeds formatted for input into third-party applications
• Automated alerts for data exceptions (eg. large contributions/withdrawals, missing data, etc)
• Notifications when data providers send updates to automated feeds
• Automated account splitting, including creation of "phantom" transactions
• Flexible entry of data on "held-away" assets
• Tracking of expected delivery timing on audited data
• Dynamic computation of performance using modified Dietz
• Rapid response to data issues (format changes, new codes, etc)

Insignis currently collects daily and monthly data on both holdings and transactions for custodial accounts representing over $1.2 T in assets.

For more information please contact Insignis at 312.368.3630 or email us at: info@insignis.com