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ACA Technology Solutions is a division of ACA Compliance Group, a leading provider of governance, risk, and compliance advisory services and technology solutions. Our clients include leading investment advisers, private fund managers, commodity trading advisors, investment companies, broker-dealers, and domestic and international banks. Our team of financial technologists has real-world industry experience and understands the dynamic needs of today’s investment managers.

Asset Control provides reliable, high performance financial data management solutions, helping financial organizations deliver high-quality reference, market and risk data to the people and applications that need it – on time, all the time. Serving the world’s most successful financial institutions, including G-SIBs and investment managers, as well as growing firms across global markets, our software and operational expertise makes processing and reporting possible sooner, with absolute accuracy and consistency. Our systems track every data element from the point of capture to final delivery, giving clients the ability to manage costs and achieve the highest standards of data governance.

Because every minute matters, Backstop’s mission is to help the institutional investment industry use time to its fullest potential. We develop technology to simplify and streamline otherwise time-consuming tasks and processes, enabling our clients to quickly and easily access, share, and manage the knowledge that’s critical to their day-to-day business success. Backstop provides its industry-leading cloud-based productivity suite to investment consultants, pensions, funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate investment firms.

Broadridge, a global Fintech leader and S&P 500® company with over $4.5 billion in revenues, provides communications, technology, data and analytics. We help drive business transformation for our clients, including asset managers, with solutions for enriching engagement, navigating risk, optimizing efficiency and growing revenue. Our integrated, front-to-back solutions translate data into actionable insights and streamline the investment life cycle. Touching 90 percent of the world’s mutual fund assets and drawing from the most complete sales and asset data collection in the industry, we are uniquely positioned to help asset managers get ahead of today’s challenges and capitalize on what’s next.

Broadridge delivers state-of-the-art technology, data and services to bring transparency and automation to the investment management and private lending process. Our portfolio management solution offers managers full front-to-back-office functionality on a single platform across all asset types. The product suite is used by many of the largest and most respected asset managers and investment firms in the world.

Investment, wealth and alternative managers, asset owners and insurers in 30 countries rely on Charles River IMS to manage USD $46 Trillion in assets. Together with State Street’s middle and back office services, Charles River’s cloud-deployed front office technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha℠. Charles River helps automate and simplify the investment process across asset classes, from portfolio management and risk analytics through trading and post-trade settlement, with integrated compliance and managed data throughout. Charles River’s partner ecosystem enables clients to access the data, analytics, application and liquidity providers that support their product and asset class mix. We serve clients globally with more than 1,200 employees in 11 regional offices. (As of Q2 2022)

Clearwater Analytics is a global industry-leading SaaS solution for automated investment data aggregation, reconciliation, accounting, compliance, risk, performance, and reporting. Each day, the Clearwater solution reports on more than $5.9 trillion in assets for clients that include leading insurers, asset managers, corporations, pension plans, governments, and nonprofit organizations – helping them make the most of their investment portfolio data with a world-class product and client-centric servicing. Investment professionals around the globe trust Clearwater to deliver timely, validated investment data and analytics. 

Eagle Investment Systems, a BNY Mellon company, is committed to helping financial institutions worldwide grow assets efficiently with its innovative portfolio management suite of data management, investment accounting and performance measurement solutions that are delivered over its secure private cloud, Eagle ACCESS(SM). Eagle deploys trusted solutions and services that create operational efficiencies and help reduce complexity and risk. In addition to the cloud solutions, Eagle’s Managed Services offering helps deliver enriched and ready for use investment data. Eagle Investment Systems' integrated technology, products and services help our clients to grow their assets efficiently and effectively.

FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for financial institutions and businesses of all sizes and across any industry globally. We enable the movement of commerce by unlocking the financial technology that powers the world’s economy. Our employees are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests through our trusted innovation, system performance and flexible architecture. We help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a member of the Fortune 500® and the Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (@FISGlobal).

GoldenSource's enterprise data management platform enables investment managers to make more informed decisions to facilitate better outcomes for their clients. The cloud-based GoldenSource platform sources, standardizes, validates, and delivers mission critical financial data to whoever needs it in real time to any team globally. Leveraging this centralized data store gives firms the ability to speak a consistent language which allows firms to manage risk more effectively, meet regulatory requirements, and optimize operating models.

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) is a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. thinkFolio from IHS Markit is a multi-asset investment management platform, which mitigates risk, increases operational efficiency and supports decision-making by investment managers. EDM from IHS Markit is a data management platform that acquires, validates and distributes trade, operational, risk, finance and customer data. IHS Markit also provides a data warehousing solution, EDM Warehouse. This is a single platform that consolidates data and empowers users to interrogate it on a real-time basis in order to understand risk, exposure, AUM and periodic metrics.

INDATA is a leading specialized provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, including trade order management (OMS), compliance, portfolio accounting and front-to-back office delivered via iPM Epic® – the industry’s first investment technology platform specifically designed for the era of big data and iPM Portfolio Architect AI, the industry’s first portfolio construction, modeling, rebalancing and reporting tool based on AI and Machine Learning. INDATA’s iPM – Intelligent Portfolio Management® technology platform allows end users to efficiently collaborate in real-time across the enterprise and contains the best of class functionality demanded by sophisticated institutional investors. The company’s mission is to provide clients with cutting edge technology products and services to increase operational efficiency while reducing risk and administrative overhead.

INDATA provides software and services to a variety of buy-side clients including asset managers, registered investment advisors, banks and wealth management firms, pension funds and hedge funds. Assets under management range from under $1 billion to more than $100 billion across a variety of asset classes globally.

Indus Valley Partners (IVP) is a global provider of front, middle and back-office technology solutions, consulting and “digital-first” managed services to over 160 of the most prestigious fund managers on the buy side.

Hedge funds, private equity firms and other traditional and alternative asset managers rely on IVP’s expertise as a thinking partner and best-of-breed platforms to digitally transform and future-proof operations – reducing their costs, improving control and increasing productivity across their enterprise.

Founded in 2000, IVP remains at the forefront of moving Finance ForwardTM with approximately $4 trillion of global AUM managed using its technology and $1.6 trillion AUM reported through its regulatory reporting solution. IVP is headquartered in New York with additional offices located in Salt Lake City, Dallas, Toronto, London, Mumbai and Noida.

Asset owners, pension plans, fund managers and insurance companies rely on Matrix to help solve their most complex investment, risk and data manage challenges.

Matrix is an investment data platform that empowers firms to understand everything from the true nature of the exposures within funds to the indirect fees borne by investors and the impact of investment re-structuring decisions.

The foundation of the platform is a unique algorithm that structures the data during the processing phase of the data management lifecycle. This structuring enables a range of solutions to be implemented on the core platform.

• Asset allocation
• Exposure management
• Rebalancing
• Data Management

The platform simplifies the management of the complex, multi-level investment and product structures that underpin endowments, pension plans, retirement savings, insurance and asset management businesses. All of our customers are references and we have never had a failed implementation!

Milestone Group is a specialist technology solutions firm serving the global investments industry, with a consulting and operational heritage that allows us to understand the bigger picture.

Milestone Group is recognized globally as a thought leader and architect of a new class of enterprise level solutions. We understand the challenges associated with formulating, enabling and managing operating models in investment businesses, across multiple suppliers, partners, geographies and jurisdictions.

We bring a fresh approach to data and product management, transparency and operational agility as integrated capabilities across key investment and operational functions.

We deliver solutions that are purpose built for institutional asset allocators, pension funds and multi-asset product providers, and are category leaders in NAV automation and Fund Oversight including Backup NAV capabilities. Our innovative pControl SmartSourcing™ model delivers more intelligent and flexible blended operating model choices.

Clients trust Milestone Group to consistently deliver a unique mix of innovative and dynamic solutions backed by deep industry know-how. For Milestone Group and its people, this is a journey that continuously ‘raises the bar’ enabling clients to realize their investment and product strategies.

SimCorp offers industry-leading, integrated investment management solutions.

Our platform and ecosystem, comprising partners, services, and third-party connectivity empowers us to provide 40% of the world’s top 100 financial companies with the efficiency and flexibility needed to succeed.

With over 25 offices around the world, and more than 2,200 employees, we are a truly global, collaborative team that connects every continent and industry seamlessly.

Solovis is leading fintech innovation for institutional investors with a powerful Cloud platform for multi-asset class portfolio management, reporting and analytics – uniquely designed for the limited partner community. Endowments, foundations, pensions, OCIOs and family offices leverage Solovis to transform how they collect and aggregate investment data, analyze portfolio performance, model and predict future outcomes and share meaningful portfolio insights with key stakeholders. The Solovis institutional investment management technology platform enables detailed analysis and dynamic data modeling across multiple portfolios and pools of capital for actionable, transparent insights that empower investors from the front to back office.

Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of all sizes improve productivity, while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs.