Title: Northern Trust
1Technology Trends in Wealth Management
Subir Chatterjee CEO, Fi-Tek
Ramsey El-Fakir CIO, Fi-Tek
2Wealth Management Business Drivers
Technology trends are primarily being driven by
several key business drivers.
- Continued Asset Accumulation by Baby Boomers
- Continued aging of baby boomers
- They will hold a significant portion of personal
trust assets - Large growth expected in High Net Worth
households - Increased Regulation and Compliance
- Compliance will continue to be a key business
priority - KYC, AML, pre and post trade compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley - This will continue to increase in light of
impending regulations - Selling Clients Multiple Products
- WM model has been fragmented by products
investments, brokerage, banking, credit,
insurance, trust, retirement - The challenge is how to bring the client under
one roof with a single RM supported by Product
Specialists - Cross sell
- Open Architecture Adoption for Products
- Need for integrating more third party independent
products vis-à-vis in-house ones - Integration challenges
- Potential regulatory scrutiny in light of what
happened in 2008
3Wealth Management Business Drivers
- Customer Centricity
- Most wealth management firms would like to be
trusted advisor to their clients - Especially transaction providers like B/D want to
get into advice to increase asset stickiness - FP, advisory, data integration tools
- Rise of the Mass Affluent
- Defined by clients with assets between 500K to 2
MM - Under-serviced by WM
- Need better tools for economic servicing of
clients have to lower unit cost of service
delivery - Increased Customer Sophistication
- Baby boomers will be challenging clients
- A lot of do-it-yourselfers in the group will
demand sophisticated tools for research, analysis
and reporting - Competitive Business Environment
- WM firms of all sizes small-medium-large are
getting ready to mount an assault on acquiring,
keeping and increasing the wallet of their
clients - Technology will be a key differentiator
4Wealth Management Technology Trends
Technology plays a key role in addressing these
business challenges.
- Customer Data Integrations
- Firms find it challenging to have a common
platform for CRM to integrate all client info - ML has gone to SalesForce.com goes to show the
length to which they will go to accomplish this - Many are struggling with 2-3 platforms internally
- Integrated or Seamless Compliance Tools
- To meet with regulatory issues many have brought
in KYC, anti-money launderingsystems at a
firm-wide level - Extremely important to have automated Reg-9
reviews, investment reviews - Pre and post trade compliance to reduce risk and
automate process - Financial Planning and WM analytics
- Asset allocation and modeling
- Validation of third party models or internal
models in different market conditions - Tactical Financial Planning goal based approach
or return based approach - Trust Life Expectancy analysis
- What-if analysis
- Proposal generation
- Client Reporting
- Consolidated reports with drill down capabilities
- Performance reporting with trends and
benchmarking - Multiple targets for data client advisors,
FAs, clients and their contacts
5Wealth Management Technology Trends
- Account Aggregation
- Clients are driving this they want to see all
their assets in a single report - WM firms want to increase their size of clients
wallet and would need to see full data to be the
trusted advisor - Challenges remain reliability of third party
data - Advisory Workstation Integrated Desktop
- This is extremely critical for efficient
management of information and processes - Reduce risk (compliance alerts)
- Identify opportunities (client gets new cash into
the account) - Enhanced client service delivery model
- Data Risk Management
- We live in the age of ID theft
- Huge liability with secured client data
- Secured client communication tools like Tumbleweed
6How Does Fi-Tek Address These Trends?
Fi-Tek and Northern Trust have developed an
integrated solution for the trust and investment
management community addressing many of these
trends
TrustPortal with Wealth Management
Institutions Clients
Integrated Desktop
Wealth Management Platform
Data Vendor
Prospect Management
Financial Planning
Account Workflow
Enhanced Performance
Asset Allocation Modeling
Electronic Fixed Income
Accounting
Investment Management
Reviewer
Reporting Statements
Client Reports
Web Based Reports
Adhoc Reporting
Contact Mgmt
Equity Brokers
Service Providers
OFAC Compliance
Auto Asset Setup
Third Party Applications
Extraction
Consolidation Database
Assets Held Elsewhere
Production Database
Generic API
Phase 1 incorporate 3rd party held assets to
report or query alongside of held assets
Replication
Third Party Information
Models
7Integrated Total Solution
- Brand new .NET Technology with scalable database
- Integrated with Northerns Custody and Global
Processing Capabilities - Completely integrated straight thru solution to
help you grow your business
8Major Functionalities
- Wealth Management Analytics and Financial
Planning tools - Investment Management and Transaction Processing
- Portfolio Management
- Trading
- Market execution
- Compliance pre and post trade, rules driven set
up - Accounting and Securities Processing
- Full trust accounting with the PI split
- Tax lot accounting
- Most robust accounting platform in the industry
- Automated Account Review
- Performance Measurement
- Reporting
- Internal operations, compliance and
administration reports - External investors or client reports and
statements online - Third Party Interfaces for pricing, tax,
compliance etc.
9Appendix
About Fi-Tek Integrated Wealth Management Solution
10About Fi-Tek
- Provides industry leading business solutions for
wealth management - Started operations in 1998 by combining
technology with business knowledge - Run by senior managers from Fortune 500 financial
services companies - Expertise in our clients business and work to
solve the right problem! - Over 150 financial institutions with over 700 Bn
dollars in assets under servicing are using
Fi-Tek software to run their key business
functions - Work with major financial institutions like
Citigroup, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, JP Morgan
Chase, Bank of New York-Mellon, State Street,
Northern Trust, and some of the major hedge funds - Excellent financial health with a strong
balance sheet and high DB rating - Successfully competing with the majors SunGard,
Metavante, Advent and SEI
11Business Solutions Overview
- TrustPortal Wealth Management Platform
- Trust and investment management on a single,
web-based platform for trust banks and
institutions - HedgeTek Hedge Fund Partnership Allocation
- Industry-leading, fully integrated book and tax
allocation platform for hedge funds, and other
securities partnerships requiring 704C
allocations
12Solution for Trust Banks
- Fi-Tek and Northern Trust have developed a total
solution for the trust and investment management
community primarily geared towards the trust
banks - Northern Trust is a leader in Wealth Management
and provides all banking related services such
as custody, research, securities lending and
short term investments - Fi-Tek provides the state of the art TrustPortal
platform to deliver a suite of functionality for
front, middle and back-office services
13Portal Dashboard
- Portal Dashboard
- Efficient tool for everyday work with quick
access to function that are used on regular
basis - Customized per user so they see the functions
that they use the most - Look up Account / Contacts
- Efficient manage Account upcoming events /
Ticker through Calendar Widgets - Create customized memo ticker for each Account on
different areas that need attention. - Get alerts on the Calendar
- Release the tickler when you have done with them
so they cycle to the next period - Customize your news as RSS feed. Be actively
alerted for any market activity - Use our Map widget to locate the address for a
onsite visit to client. Pull up the contact and
map widget will give you the destination plotted. - Get Alerts
- Work on Account exception than going through all
Accounts - Alerts
- Excess Cash
- Cash shortfall
- Out of variance alerts for Account associated to
Asset allocation Model - Be informed if Account has securities not on
your approved list.
14Wealth Management Analytics
- Full suite of wealth management analytics to help
develop asset allocation models based on customer
risk profile and provide tools to generate
financial planning options - Enable portfolio managers to define investor
needs through a series of questions - Set risk tolerance, as well as goals and
objectives - Define current conditions of investor
- Through sophisticated analytics generate
portfolio models to meet investor needs based on
current and future scenarios - Provide portfolio managers tools to match the
simulated models with the models currently used
adjusting the likelihood of attaining goals
15Illustration Base Plan
Some goals are not met in over 25 of the
projected futures. Plan adjustments are needed
for a better guarantee of success. ? May need to
adjust goals to increase likelihood of success
16Investment Widgets
- Proactive Alerts on dashboard helps you manage
accounts efficiently - Can customize the widgets for a users workflow
- Rearrange to suit your needs
- Most often used and important functions can be
displayed - Fi-Tek can create custom widgets
17Life of a Trade
Portfolio Manager Proposes Trades Executes Trades
1
Broker confirms trade Northern Auto affirms
2
Northern confirms Trades Operations imports
confirms reconciles and settles
3
18Portfolio Modeling
- Proactive alerts on dashboard help you to manage
accounts that needs rebalancing - Create / import models and make Model of Models
to better organize - Associate accounts and set rebalance variables
- Create rebalance exclusion for non-traded
securities in a position - Create cash exclusion to cover recurring
obligation - Rebalance the account or invest cash to get the
market spread
19Modeling and Rebalancing Summary
- Investment Management allows you to
- Create and Manage a
- Comprehensive Model (Mix of Equity / Fixed
Income / ETF / Cash / Real Estate etc) - Base Model (Like Equity or ETF / Mutual Fund only
Model) - Consolidated Model (Model of Model) to create
Models reflecting the Bank / Portfolio Manager
Investment objectives. - Associate Models with Account
- Rebalance Account or Model
- Invest / Divest Cash as per the Model
- Get Alerts on Portal page for Accounts not in
line with Model objective
20Modeling Creating Models
- Creating Models
- Name a Model
- Create Model hierarchy (Levels)
- Assign asset allocation
- File Models by Portfolio Manager and / or
Investment Objective. - Save Model
- Manage Models
21Modeling Import Models
- Importing Models
- Name a Model
- Define Model hierarchy (Levels)
- Import the Model from Spreadsheet
- File the Models as per PM and Investment
Objective - Save Model
22Modeling Associate Models to Accounts
- Use Models to manage Investment strategies
- Associate multiple Accounts to a given Model
- Set Rebalance parameters
- Minimum trade Amount
- Effective date
- Rebalance strategy
- Portion of Model to rebalance.
- Easy to learn and use
23Rebalancing Summary
- Investment Management allows you to
- Easily rebalance any selected Accounts to an
associated Model - See the proposed trades and fine tune them
- See the expected Gains / Losses with estimated
changes to net Income. - See the effect of Rebalancing to your cash
position - Get what-if reports showing impact on Position
before and after, trades per Account, trades per
Security or Proposed Holdings report - Save the session or Block and execute with one
click
24Trade Execution
- Comprehensive Trade blotter that can be
customized to show all Trades for the
organization or be restricted to the Accounts
you are managing. - Allows you to create a trade advice and keep it
on the blotter for Market to move for trade
execution. - Allows pre-trade blocking of like trades for
better execution, reduce fees and charge - Allows post-trade blocking if your Broker
supports - Control release of a trade (slice a trade) for
thinly traded stock so you are not moving the
market - Electronic execution of Common Stock / ETF to 450
Brokers of your choice.
25Reporting
- Feature rich reports help projecting account
overview along with in-depth details - Can be run for today or can go back as-of any
date in past. - Extensive equities and fixed income reporting to
help answer client / users need - Can be output to PDF / EXCEL / RTF
- Create a report packet and mix and match report
to prepare for client presentation. - Create as many report packets and save the
criteria for one touch packet generation for
future
26Trust Accounting
Comprehensive and integrated trust accounting
with detailed PI split and tax lot accounting
- Cash Management
- Income Accounting
- Amortization and Accretion
- Accrual
- Automated Fee Processing
- Audit Trail
- Operational Management
- Common Funds
- Full regulatory and compliance reports
- Production Scheduler
27Statements Options / Production Process
- Configurable Statement Packages
- Large Repository of Statement Report Formats
- EB Statements, Market to Market Summary,
Holdings, Transaction, Taxlots - Court Accounting, GASB Reporting, Chart Reports
- Ability to attach notices and letters
- Customized Cover pages per package with Logo
- Customizable Schedules for Accounts and / or
Recipients - Automated Through Night work or On Demand (both
Ad-hoc and Production) - Delivery to Secure Web site, encrypted email or
Printed Copy - Statement Formats PDF, DOC, RDF
28Compliance
- Compliance Reporting such as Schedule RC-T, 13F
Reporting, 13G Reporting - Audit Compliance using audit trail and RFM logs
- Automated Account Reviews with customizable
questions and workflow - Auto approval of Reviews for No Breach
accounts. - Trust Committee, Administrative and Investment
Reviews - Rich repository of Account Review Report formats
29Client Internet Access Functionality
- Graphical Representation of Account Portfolio and
Holdings - Views Transaction Overview, Pending Trades, Tax
Lot Information - Statement upload facility
- Supports multiple account and consolidated views
- Accessible 24X7 via RSA Secure Risk Based
Authentication - Ability to upload Adhoc documents
- Data refreshed every night automatically thru
night work - Ability to white-label site with Client Logo and
Color Scheme
30Performance Reporting
- TrustPortal has integrated performance reports
and statements. - The reports are available in the Report Manager
for internal use or in the Statement Package for
distribution to end clients - The reports can be set up from the inception of
the account - Reports are expandable to meet client needs
31Automated Account Review
The TrustPortal offers a powerful and streamlined
solution that enables Trust Providers to create
regulatory and ad-hoc reviews. It eliminates the
need to gather information and coordinate efforts
from different parties throughout your
organization.
- Web Based Account Review
- Regulatory ad-hoc reviews
- Business Process Integration
- Review Team Collaboration Tools
- Email Notifications
32Online Reporting
The TrustPortal provides clients secure web based
access to their trust account to view, sort,
download, and print daily account activity and
access their monthly statements securely over
the Internet.
- Web Based Account Reporting
- Five Detailed Reports
- Portfolio
- Holdings
- Transactions
- Taxlots
- Pending Trades
- Strong Authentication
- Secure Electronic Statement
- Delivery
- Auto Secured Data Uploader
33Thank You.
Subir Chatterjee CEO, Fi-Tek
Ramsey El-Fakir CIO, Fi-Tek