WEPEX Unternehmensberatung
Hummel & PartnerStephanstraße 10
60313 Frankfurt am Main
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WEPEX Unternehmensberatung
Stephanstraße 10
60313 Frankfurt am Main
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Asset management
Establishing an investment fund administrator
- Major German fund administrator: Assistance in defining the functional make-up of a retained organisation. Definition of the new service investment trust's product portfolio.
- Major German fund administrator: Management of the Customer Care, Sales and Marketing divisions. Presentation of the services to the customers in the market. Assistance with establishing the Sales department. Assistance with responding to RFPs. Help with integrating the German fund administrator into a European fund administration service provider.
Middle and back-office process optimisation
- Major German service investment trust: Optimisation of back-office operations processes.
- Multinational service investment trust: Process analysis to harmonise middle-office procedures and functions, fund accounting, risk controlling and performance measurement at the company's offices in the UK, Luxembourg and Germany.
Selecting fund accounting systems
- Multinational service investment trust: Selecting a software package for the middle office and fund accounting, including RFP, test installation and a business case as a central platform for three locations in Europe.
Replacing a front-office system
- International asset management company: Managing a project ahead of the launch of a front-office system at two production sites.
Configuring a new limit-testing module
- German asset manager: Defining and implementing all contractual and legal investment limitations in the front-office system, both pre and post-trade, for Germany and the UK.
Example of client benefits from Asset management
Project: Multi-Country Process Analysis and Software Selection
Client: Multinational Asset Manager
- Compelling analysis based on a precise process model for asset managers
- Hands-on project delivery - from interviews with clerks to the presentation for the CEO
- Comprehensive requirements catalogue and professional selection process - praised by the vendors
- To-be process and function blueprint that combines UK requirements with German standards
Business Situation
The client is an integrated asset manager with operations in Germany, the UK and Luxemburg. In these locations, separate systems are used in the Middle and Back Office, which support specific processes that have evolved over the years. Wepex is called to analyse whether these processes can be harmonised, and whether the requirements of each location can be covered on the basis of a common system platform. For this purpose, leading software packages are to be screen for the best fit.Our Approach
- Analysis of the current processes in the middle office and back office, with special focus on fund accounting, based on a proven process model for asset management operations.
- Definition and sign-off of a common, cross-location Blueprint for target processes.
- Collation of a comprehensive RFP for leading back office and fund accounting software vendors; processing and scoring of the vendor offers.
- Structuring, coordination and evaluation of workshops and test installations.