SimCorp Buy-Side Poll Exposes Inaccurate Portfolio Valuations, Asset and Exposure Tracking Errors

• Over 60% of firms admit that data reconciliation errors impact the accuracy of their portfolio valuations. 53% state that daily tracking of assets and exposures occur with errors.

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– SimCorp, a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today released the results of a recent buy-side poll on the impact of back-office systems on the accuracy of portfolio valuations, asset and exposure tracking.

Surveying over 50 executives from almost 30 major buy-side firms across North America, the SimCorp poll revealed that 63% of firms experience data reconciliation errors that impact the accuracy of their portfolio values.

Additionally, more than half of respondents stated that tracking and reporting on assets and exposures occur with errors.

“If a fund manager has to correct a NAV price due to the wrong portfolio value, it is very damaging to the firm’s reputation,” notes David Kubersky, Managing Director, SimCorp North America. “For other buy-side organizations, inaccurate portfolio valuations lead to poor investment decisions and deplete investor confidence. At the heart of these failures are disparate system landscapes and fragmented position-keeping. This is why SimCorp’s technology approach is built on centralized position-keeping across the entire portfolio for an authoritative source of the ‘truth’ from which investment decisions can be made with peace of mind.”

In light of these challenges, the majority of firms surveyed do have plans to evaluate and make technology changes in the back-office, with 63% citing investment in improvements within a two-year timeline. However, a significant 35% of respondents stated that they have no plans to modernize their back-office infrastructure in the near future.

Kubersky adds, “Our question to investors is: do you want the 35% who have zero plans to upgrade their infrastructure to manage your investments?”

About SimCorp

Since 1971, SimCorp has been providing investment and portfolio management software and services to the world’s leading investment managers, asset managers, fund managers, fund administrators, pension funds, insurance funds and wealth managers. SimCorp’s world-class software provides global financial organisations with the tools they need to mitigate risk, reduce cost and enable growth. SimCorp is a global company, regionally covering all of Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen, SimCorp is dedicated to supporting the global investment management industry, its clients and its investors. For more information about SimCorp’s products, please visit www.simcorp.com/product.

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