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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.

Calypso Technology, Inc. is a cloud-enabled provider of cross-asset front-to-back solutions for financial markets with over 35,000 users in 60+ countries. Its award-winning software improves reliability, adaptability, and scalability across several verticals, including capital markets, investment management, central banking, clearing, treasury, liquidity, and collateral. Calypso is leveraging innovative cloud microservices and blockchain distributed ledger technology (DLT) based solutions to reduce trading costs and improve time to value.

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.

eFront pioneers technology in alternative investments to help alternative investment professionals achieve superior performance. With more than 850 Limited Partner, General Partner and Asset Servicer clients in 48 countries, eFront is the leading technology partner to alternative investment professionals. eFront is the only solution suite addressing all the needs of alternative investment professionals end-to-end: fundraising, portfolio construction, due-diligence, deal-flow, portfolio monitoring, positions tracking, investor reporting, accounting, operations management, General Ledger, Private Market data, benchmarking and advanced analytics (Value at risk, cash flow forecasting, risk management). For more information, please visit eFront.com. In 2019, eFront was acquired by BlackRock and since then operates as a specialized business unit within BlackRock Solutions, alongside Aladdin Institutional and Aladdin Wealth.

As a trusted source for global corporate actions data and workflow tools that streamline activities across the lifecycle of an event, we give clients the confidence they need to effectively process this time-sensitive information. Our experienced team runs data from multiple global sources through our proprietary announcement capture and validation process to quickly rectify any discrepancies, enabling us to deliver timely clean information. You can leverage this information or capture and validate your own announcements using our powerful data engine and event management platform.

Additional configurable software solutions support election and instruction management workflows and entitlements processing. A logical user interface, informative dashboards, and mobile applications provide the latest capabilities to easily review information and stay on top of developments.

We are a Fidelity Investments company and focus on quality, service excellence, and continual investment to meet the evolving needs of the clients we serve around the world. We are also a service provider to many business units within Fidelity.

Process corporate actions with confidence to help minimize time spent, costs, and risks.

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.

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.

RIMES is an award-winning data management and regulatory technology specialist that truly understands the challenges faced by its customers. It serves nearly 400 asset managers, owners, servicers and banks in 45 countries including 60 of the 100 largest global asset managers and 9 of the 10 largest asset servicers by TAUM.

SimCorp provides integrated, best-in-class investment management solutions to the world’s leading asset managers, fund managers, asset servicers, pension and insurance funds, wealth managers and sovereign wealth funds. Whether deployed on premise or as an ASP solution, its core system, SimCorp Dimension, supports the entire investment value chain and range of instruments, all based on a market-leading IBOR. SimCorp invests more than 20% of its annual revenue in R&D, helping clients develop their business and stay ahead of ever-changing industry demands. Listed on NASDAQ Copenhagen, SimCorp is a global company, regionally covering all of Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific.

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.

SS&C Advent, a business unit of SS&C, is helping over 4,300 investment firms in more than 50 countries—from established global institutions to small start-up practices—to grow their business, minimize risk, and thrive. The Advent Investment Suite (AIS) is specifically designed for firms looking to expand into new markets, new regions, and new lines of business with one fully integrated, end-to-end solution. Built to support investment managers, the Advent Investment Suite offers customized and complex portfolio management at scale, rebalancing, trading, compliance, multi-currency accounting, reporting, and performance. Today, AIS is available in the cloud through Advent Managed Services, along with a customizable menu of operational services for clients to leverage.

State Street Global Exchange® combines information and insights, risk and trading analytics and data solutions to help clients focus on opportunities that generate the most value. We deliver market expertise and insight across investment strategy and data science, helping clients find new ways to drive performance.