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Implementing a fit-for-purpose risk management and reporting function is expensive. But for asset managers, the cost of sub-standard risk capabilities is even higher.

Family offices increasingly aspire to deliver comprehensive, accurate and timely consolidated reports to families, and ultra-high-net-worth families have increasingly come to expect it. But to provide high-quality consolidated reporting, firms first need to navigate a host of complex data challenges.

After a recommendation from a market peer, a UK-based multi-strategy hedge fund approached Landytech for a managed solution that would provide expert risk management support, as establishing and maintaining this function inhouse would come at significant cost. Read the full case study here.

So you know you need a robust, institutional-grade risk management capability to attract investor allocations and meet clients’ ongoing demands. But what does a fit-for-purpose risk management and reporting function entail in practice?

Enrichment is an important element of the consolidated reporting process. This is because it adds colour and granularity to the raw data that the family office sources from its custodians and stores in its database. It does this by appending to the raw data descriptive metadata from secondary sources. So, what should your family office know about enrichment?

For downstream reporting, disparate information needs to be transformed into a single standardised schema, which can be processed systematically. And once the data is harmonised, it has to be stored – in a database. Discover the four key database considerations for family offices.

Effective data sourcing is the starting point for the journey towards consolidated reporting, but it’s difficult to achieve. Family offices typically manage complex, multi-asset-class portfolios, with fragmented data sources that comprise disparate, non-standardised data sets. How can these data sourcing challenges be overcome?

Faced with ever more demanding investor and regulatory expectations, asset managers are increasingly entrusting their risk function to specialist risk management service providers.

Skerryvore Asset Management needed a sophisticated risk management and data analysis platform to meet the exacting due diligence requirements of institutional investors and so help grow its business. Read the full case study here.

Comprehensive risk management capabilities are an integral and growing ingredient in asset manager success. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the value a strong risk management infrastructure and team bring has moved to the fore. Download our whitepaper examining the true cost of risk for asset managers.