Advent Software, Inc., a provider of software and services for the global investment management industry, announced that asset management firm, Munder Capital Management, has implemented Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX). APX is Advent’s industry-leading portfolio and client management platform. Headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan, Munder has $21 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2008.
Munder was previously using two separate portfolio accounting systems, one for fixed-income reporting and one for portfolio accounting. The firm decided to look for a new integrated portfolio management solution with strong accounting capabilities for its fixed-income portfolios, which included mortgage-backed securities, in addition to traditional corporate and government instruments. Munder turned to Advent, and once all of its portfolio management and reporting had migrated onto APX, Munder saw major efficiency gains almost immediately.
“Because we’re now on one system, we don’t have to worry about interfacing or manually keeping up more than one accounting system, which is a tremendous improvement for us,” says Judy Weipert, manager of investment operations. “Our previous system could take up to 30 seconds just to post one trade of one security in one account. When we imported trade files from our trading system, it took hours with 1,000 trades. In APX, we’ve had files of 50,000 transactions that post in 30 or 40 minutes max. The difference is night and day.”
In addition to APX, Munder uses Advent Revenue Center for billing and revenue management; Advent Custodial Data (ACD) for managing and reconciling portfolio information; Advent Corporate Actions (ACA) for customized, position-level corporate action reports; and Rex for reconciliation management.
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