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Build vs Buy — Asset Management
Weigh SaaS subscriptions against a custom build for Asset Management — see the multi-year total cost of ownership and which path wins.
What this means for Asset Management
- Compliance reporting is a recurring fire drill — ADV updates, Form PF, AIFMD, MiFID II transaction reporting, and ESG disclosures each require pulling the same data from the same systems in slightly different shapes, every quarter.
- Fee compression has been structural for a decade — passive flows, ETF substitution, and platform consolidation are eating margin, and the operating model built for 75bps doesn't work at 35bps without serious cost surgery.
- Investment data lives in 11 systems — Bloomberg/FactSet, the order management system, the portfolio accounting system, the risk engine, the CRM, the ESG vendor, and a handful of Excel models that the PMs actually trust more than any of them.
Where it pays to act
- Research analyst copilots — earnings transcript summarization, filing diff detection, model-update assistance, and thesis-writing support that gives the analyst back the hours currently spent on the rote layer.
- Alternative data integration and signal extraction — satellite imagery, credit card panels, web traffic, and supply chain data ingested at scale and surfaced as analyst-ready signals rather than a CSV in a shared drive.
Adjust the inputs to match your Asset Management context.
Total cost of ownership
SaaS total (3yr)
₹19.9 L
Custom build total
₹21.8 L
Difference (cheaper to buy)
₹1.89 L
Breakeven
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What this means
A hybrid path fits best.
For Asset Management, the gap is ₹1.89 L over 3 years — close enough that a hybrid approach (buy core, build differentiating layers) often wins.
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