Advent for Asset Managers - Geneva Platform

A Single, Scalable Investment Management Solution
Advent® for Asset Managers is the first integrated investment management solution that has the power to support the world’s largest asset managers. Powered by Geneva®, Advent’s revolutionary investment accounting platform, Advent for Asset Managers dramatically simplifies the management of sophisticated global instruments, resulting in greater operational efficiency and lower operating costs. So no matter where in the world your assets are, or how complex your investment strategies, Advent for Asset Managers enables your firm to meet tomorrow’s global investment challenges today. Advent for Asset Managers includes:

Maximize the Scalability of Your Infrastructure
The transformation of the investment marketplace is placing extraordinary pressure on asset managers’ infrastructure, squeezing both efficiency and profitability. Today’s firms are challenged by:

Diversified offerings such as hedge funds and separately managed accounts
Infrastructure consolidation resulting from mergers and acquisitions
Strict attention to evolving regulatory and risk management standards
Client expectations of improved data timeliness and transparency
Worldwide operations which require local customization, global consolidation, and 24x7 access

Advent for Asset Managers enables your infrastructure to scale in the face of the challenges of the changing market. It includes:

Investment accounting support for all products, strategies and instruments, anywhere in the world
A unique processing architecture, designed for real-time updates, analysis, error correction, and reconciliation—so that firms may expand their business significantly without increasing staff
Flexible real-time reporting, to meet the diverse needs of the back office, the front office, and clients around the world
Vast scalability to enable high volume global deployment, with no batch processing and zero downtime
Sophisticated tools for cross application integration to create a fully supported best-of-breed solution

Increase Management Control & Reduce Operational Risk
Advent for Asset Managers empowers your firm to truly control your investment operations and reduce operational risk by enabling:

Integrated real-time processes -- with no batch processing and no reconciliation–to reduce potential points of failure throughout the trading life cycle
Sophisticated pre and post trade compliance, with customizable triggers to send data and alerts to other systems
Streamlined transaction processing for even the most complex instruments, eliminating the need for manual intervention and work-arounds
Unparalleled data accuracy—with a fraction of the administrative effort—through “no caveats/no exceptions” dynamic error correction
A watertight audit trail of all system changes with their associated “knowledge date”, plus the ability to restore information as of any point in time
Enormous reporting flexibility, to provide internal and external clients with timely information at any level of detail
Elimination of side spreadsheets and off-line accounting
Stable and supported cross system integration