MAP™

The separately managed account industry is experiencing tremendous growth. This growth presents many administrative and technological challenges for investment managers such as labor-intensive processes, duplicate recordkeeping efforts, and relatively high costs.

DST developed Managed Asset Platform™ (MAP™) to streamline the full range of operational processes that support investment managers and sponsors of separate and multiple discipline accounts.

MAP has an application service provider (ASP) infrastructure that can provide clients with better management of separate accounts, reduced administrative costs, and enhanced customer service. MAP is comprised of three main components: Portfolio Management, Workflow, and Message HubSM.

Portfolio Management offers a wide array of functions including: decision support, order management and routing, and performance measurement. Portfolio Management also offers a number of automated interfaces such as a position and cash interface for new accounts, OASYS domestic/custom trade allocation, an ongoing cash activity interface, and a position reconciliation interface.

The Workflow component of MAP provides advanced image-enabled workflow and customer management. Workflow creates parallel, rather than serial, workflow for accounts - by providing multiple parties simultaneous access to data and paperwork for new account creation, quality and compliance review, notification of cash deposits and withdrawals, special manager instructions, and more.

The Message Hub is a common trading protocol that integrates with the sponsors' back office systems. The Message Hub incorporates a robust communication infrastructure that has the ability to process more than a million messages per day, in real time, with guaranteed delivery. A rules-based architecture allows content and subject-based routing to multiple target applications and sponsors.

The integration of Portfolio Management, Workflow, and the Message Hub result in MAP, a single platform that can support multiple distribution channels—a huge benefit for the investment manager. Some other key features for the investment manager using MAP include:

• Workflow support for account administration
• Institutional quality portfolio modeling, compliance, and trading tools
• Sophisticated interfaces for trading, reconciliation, and transaction processing
• Accounting, performance measurement, and reporting

Managed account sponsors can expect to realize the following benefits of MAP:

• Automated communications for timely and accurate exchange of information
• Integrated data transmission between sponsor and manager for efficient account administration including:
  • New account creation
  • Notification of cash deposits and withdrawals
  • Special manager instructions

MAP is a comprehensive, innovative solution that is available in the business model - full, remote, or selective - that best suits your needs.