Investment Compliance Services
Acuity Knowledge Partners’ (Acuity’s) support across pre- and post-trade monitoring, guideline interpretation and coding and trade surveillance has enabled compliance functions to do more with less. We help our clients protect themselves against reputational and financial risk as a result of guideline breaches, incorrect trades, market abuse and insider trading.
Our team of experts has a unique combination of skill sets. They have extensive experience in order management/compliance systems such as Bloomberg AIM, Ion’s Latent Zero Sentinel, Charles River Database (CRIMS), LDC, ThinkFolio and BlackRock’s Aladdin, BTCA and SMARTS. They also bring deep domain understanding and knowledge of global regulations such as the Investment Company Act of 1940, UCITS, Inv-G, ERISA, FINRA, the Securities Act of 1933, SFC, MpFA, FSA and APRA.
Who we serve
Trade surveillance and investment compliance support we offer
- Onboarding new funds, client accounts (institutional, private clients & general accounts)
- Interpretation and analysis of guidelines (IMA, prospectus, SAI etc.)
- Creation and/or adding rules per guidelines on investment compliance platform
- Account hierarchy mapping, documentation and process hygiene flows
- Quality Check and simulation testing for validation of rules and their output
- Guideline mandate revisions/amendments
- Testing and auditing of amended rules as well as not amended existing rules
- List creation, updates and maintenance
- Rule optimizations and/ or updating rules per system enhancements
- Rule coding standardization through universal rules and rule libraries
- Scrubbing existing accounts to incorporate new logics and enhancements
- Account termination or closure process.
- Pre-trade monitoring of to be executed trades to ensure adherence of guidelines
- Post-trade monitoring to ensure no violation of guidelines due to executed trades or other factors such is inadequate data, market movements, etc.
- Monitoring notifications to portfolio managers or client account managers to take corrective action for any violation occurred
- Root cause analysis of investment guideline violations alerts
- Standardizing the process through best practices and standard templates
- Responding on ad-hoc queries & requests from the portfolio management team
- Trends and volume analysis reports
- Data science tools for analysis and resolutions of major contributing alerts
- Responding to custodian emails in case if there is any difference in coding or monitoring methodology.
- Market abuse monitoring
- Market manipulation monitoring
- Short Sales “block” reviews
- Take-over panel disclosures
- Significant shareholding disclosures
- Trade allocation & best execution reviews
- Layering, spoofing
- Front running
- Insider trading activity
- Ramping
- Marking the open & Close price
- Wash and cross trade monitoring
- Rapid increase in order activities
- Internal surveillance controls (as of trade, extended settlements, etc.)
- Late trade monitoring
- Rule 793 disclosures
- Post trade reallocation monitoring
- Trade order priority monitoring
How we are different
We implement industry best practices for pre- and post-trade monitoring, rule testing and documentation to create an efficient and robust process framework
We conduct deep-dive analyses to help design efficient investment compliance operating models for gap analysis (on regulatory changes) and incorporate the changes to make the solution more efficient and effective in any compliance environment
We have the expertise to compile investment policies based on categories and asset classifications, which could be further leveraged to build innovative automation solutions for investment compliance and assist in investment decision making
We provide simulation and real-time validations for compliance in pre-trade and post-trade activity and while executing what-if scenarios to ensure all risks are covered and every anomaly is captured
We are experienced in compliance tools such as S entinel, C harles River, Bloomberg AIM, and BlackRock‘s Aladdin
What we have done
Meet our experts
Rahul Narsian
Assistant Director, Investment Compliance
Rahul manages the Investment Compliance division, and is responsible for expanding and stabilizing the investment compliance team and enhancing the client experience. He has 10 years of experience in asset management compliance. He previously worked with firms including AXA, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan Asset Management.
Rahul Narsian
Assistant Director, Investment Compliance
Jehan Jeyaretnam
Director, Head of Compliance Services
Jehan is global head of Compliance Services, serving buy- and sell-side clients. He was previously the head of global projects and transitions — equity, and led all inbound scoping requests and delivery solutions for buy- and sell-side clients. Jehan managed the setup and transition of several large engagements, including lift-and-shift of processes for clients across multiple work streams. He has over 17 years of experience in investment research and analysis, compliance, project management, audit control and systems implementation. He has led large projects and teams across multiple work streams and global locations and is a Certified Investment Advisor (Colombo Stock Exchange)
Jehan Jeyaretnam
Director, Head of Compliance Services
Puneet Prakash
Associate Director, Product Head, Compliance Support
Puneet Prakash is the product head of the firm’s Compliance Services business unit. He is responsible for strategizing and creating optimal solutions for the firm’s Compliance clientele, globally. He has over 15 years of experience in financial services and knowledge offshoring. He has previously worked with firms such as TCS and WNS. Puneet holds an MBA (Finance & Marketing) from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, India
Puneet Prakash
Associate Director, Product Head, Compliance Support
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