Fund Accounting Services

We collaborate with asset managers, wealth managers and hedge funds to help them with best-in-class, tool-agnostic, cost-effective and robust Fund Administration Services covering a number of asset classes.

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Overview

At Acuity, we strategically partner with our clients to work as an extension of their teams. Our ability to hire, train and retain top finance talent remains our main differentiating factor. Our firm’s capital markets research heritage has helped us understand and manage requirements of Fund Administration teams. Our ability to provide cost-effective and stable fund administration services has enabled our clients to achieve their operational alpha goals.

Through our Fund Accounting Services, experienced analysts provide support on several fund accounting and shadow accounting activities, such as trade processing, reconciliations, corporate actions, pricing/valuation and NAV calculations, for simple securities to complex structured products across global markets. We also provide support on capital activity, administrative tasks (including invoicing support), investment management regulatory reporting and portfolio management.

Who we serve

Fund Accounting support we offer

Investment management and regulatory peporting

  • Form PF reports

  • AIFMD reports

  • Final terms

  • PRIPS, KIIDs, etc

Capital activity

  • Client onboarding and bookkeeping

  • Subscription and redemption processing

  • Dividend reinvestment

  • Switching (within the same AMC)

Fund accounting support

    Transaction/trade processing

    • Trade confirmation

    • Identifying and fixing trade failures

    • Manual booking of complex trades

    • Counterparty confirmation

    • Cash flow monitoring

    • Liquidity management

    Reconciliation

    • Reconciliation of cash and positions

    • Reconciliation of custody/broker/trustee vs fund admin books

    • Automated and manual reconciliation

    • Clearing breaks in a timely manner

    • Report publication

    Corporate actions and reference data

    • Creating and maintaining security and event databases/security master functions

    • Corporate action feed monitoring

    • Comparing data against data sources for accuracy

    • Corporate action processing on tools

    • Modelling securities not supported by the platform

    Valuations/pricing

    • Ensuring 100% price availability

    • Comparing data from different data sources for accuracy

    • Identifying price inconsistencies, justifying price jumps/stale prices, etc.

    • Manually updating prices of OTC products

    • Producing reports in line with price volatility

    NAV calculation

    • Recording capital flow received from transfer agency

    • Recording accruals and income from treasury team

    • Integrating price/corporate action feed and checking O/S breaks

    • Computing fees (performance, management fees, etc.) and invoicing

    • Calculating/generating NAV packs and IRR

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How we are different

Customised automated solutions
Customised automated solutions
Our customised automated solutions improve and help to build in-house system capabilities, streamlining the fund administration model
End-to-end analytics and reporting support
End-to-end analytics and reporting support
We provide end-to-end analytics and reporting support in addition to our fund accounting services
Flexible outsourcing model
Flexible outsourcing model
We manage BAU operations while the onshore client team focuses on priority tasks
Bespoke investment reporting tool
Bespoke investment reporting tool
We provide regulatory and shareholder reporting solutions, filing to governing bodies and other reports through our bespoke investment reporting tool FundMETRIX
Innovative workflow technology and robotic process automation
Innovative workflow technology and robotic process automation
We provide innovative workflow technology and robotic process automation that reduces the burden on onshore teams and increases clients’ operational cost savings

What we have done

Support for Consulting and Corporate Firms
Shadow accounting (direct lending, CLOs, hedge funds, liquidity) support to a Europe-based credit and private debt manager
What we are proud of

40%+

annualised operational cost savings

5x

increase in client interactions

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Support for Consulting and Corporate Firms
Trade confirmation and reconciliation support to a leading US-based hedge fund
What we are proud of

40%+

annualised operational cost savings

Time-difference advantage resulted in faster trade settlement

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Fund accounting support to a US-based exchange-traded product (ETP) provider
What we are proud of

300%

increase in product coverage

50%

faster turnaround in NAVs released through our streamlined process

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Stevi Joseph
Stevi Joseph

Director, Head of Investment Operations
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