IBOR & A Single Source of Investment Data

The concept of performance reporting isn't new or disruptive— it remains the blood line of investment managers, tied to the efficiencies across the investment team, operations, counterparties and data.  Accurate performance reporting is a direct result of accurate data management. And today, your data is coming and going at all angles and at all times. Properly taking control of this data— your NAV, positions, exposures and ultimately compliance checks— has a direct impact on your ability to generate runway, justify your fees and keep the business from liquidating.

Every fund manages their investments differently and might require specific infrastructures based on their approach.  But there's one thing that every fund has to communicate to retain and win new mandates... and that is performance. Regardless of the assets you manage, it's critical that the data powering your performance and risk analyses and reporting is cleansed, housed properly and securely, and can be accessed at any time. But, if getting access to that data requires batch processing or manual workarounds, you could miss opportunities to capitalize on market changes and expose the business to risk.

This is where the concept of IBOR (Investment Book of Record) comes into play. Operating in the global markets where extreme volatility happens at a moment's notice requires fund managers to have a single, complete and real-time picture of their positions, performance, and exposures across all holdings. This holds true when a CIO wants to see the contribution to performance of all equity investments across the business, instead of at the individual portfolio or fund level.