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Tool Sprawl Risk Audit — Asset Management

Find out how much spreadsheet and SaaS sprawl is costing Asset Management — and where a purpose-built internal tool pays off.

Signs of tool sprawl in 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.
  • Research workflows haven't changed materially in 20 years — analysts read transcripts, build models in Excel, write up theses in Word, and the firm captures none of the institutional intellectual property in a reusable form.
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Source of Truth

Whether your operational data lives in one place or is scattered across tools.

1.Where does your core operational data live?
2.How many tools/spreadsheets hold 'the truth' for one workflow?

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