Discretionary Management

An all-in-one portfolio system

Sharpfin’s portfolio management system includes all the tools you need for effective discretionary management, including know-your-client procedures and the selection of investment instructions, risk and limit controls, smart management of model portfolios and strategies, as well as rapid rebalancing and order placement. The portfolio system can also be supplied with a fully integrated client portal within your graphical interface and, of course, generates all regulatory reports at the touch of a button.

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More effective discretionary management

There are numerous advantages to discretionary asset management. It enables firms to manage more clients with fewer staff, ensures a higher standard of management, and allows fees to be charged in a future-proof manner in line with the MiFID II Directive. Sharpfin brings together all business processes within a single system, with a strong focus on discretionary management.

Comprehensive portfolio management system: supports the entire discretionary portfolio management process from start to finish.

Unique model portfolio management: a multi-level structure that enables more complex management with less administration

Rapid rebalancing: fully customisable to facilitate investments, withdrawals and the allocation of monthly savings

Digital KYC and compliance: streamlined customer onboarding processes that ensure secure compliance.

Trading and reporting: Ready-to-use trading connections and fully integrated reporting to clients and regulatory authorities.

Customer portal in your graphic profile: fully customisable and branded to suit your business, for professional communication

Your competitive advantages

✔️ Improved cyber security
 – fewer interfaces reduce the risk of intrusion

✔️ Robust system
– a group of systems is only as strong as its weakest link

✔️ Less manual work
 – no more cut-and-paste processes between systems

✔️ Frees up time for what creates value
– managing capital effectively

How Sharpfin works in discretionary management

✔️ Seamless data import
– a simple and secure process for importing data

✔️ Efficient model portfolio management
 – quickly create model portfolios containing securities or other models

✔️ Rapid rebalancing
 – rebalances large numbers of portfolios in a matter of seconds

✔️ Generate reports
 – client reports and regulatory reports

✔️ Communicate with investors
 – via a client portal customised to your brand identity

Compare Sharpfin with other solutions

Sharpfin

149 /month

Traditional solution

8 /month

Sharpfin

Traditional solution

Features
Model portfolio management
Multidimensional
One-dimensional
Portfolio rebalancing
Incredibly time-consuming
Reporting
External tools
Customer Portal
Integration is required
KYC/AML
Often a third party
Investment instructions
Fully integrated into the onboarding process and limit control
Often not linked to the administration

Why Sharpfin?

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Comprehensive platform for discretionary management

All business processes relating to your discretionary management, brought together in a single system.

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Custody system with allocation and returns
Sharpfin is entirely transaction-based, which makes it easy to combine asset allocation and returns from several different portfolios to create a comprehensive view of the client.
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Automated regulatory reporting

Fully integrated reporting compatible with the relevant regulatory interfaces, which simplifies compliance.

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Efficiency and precision

Streamlined workflows reduce the amount of manual work, resulting in greater precision and better scalability for portfolio managers.

FAQs

Sharpfin has been developed in collaboration with leading asset managers in Sweden. Here you will find frequently asked questions about Sharpfin. Please contact us if you have any further questions or require further information.

  • Can I manage all the business processes for my discretionary asset management within a single system?

    Sharpfin offers an all-in-one platform for portfolio managers, where model portfolio management, order management, trading, reporting and the client-facing trading interface are all handled within the same system. Where required, accounting and payment flows can also be integrated into the platform.

    Competitors often use several separate systems, which increases costs and complexity.

  • How many clients can I manage on a discretionary basis?

    There is no limit to this. The only limitation is how many customers you choose to rebalance at the same time. By segmenting the customer base intelligently, the system continues to provide fast and accurate responses, and it is no problem to carry on working with the system whilst waiting for a response from a larger rebalancing operation.

    Many competitors have built their systems on batch processes that lock the system during high data loads and are designed to run overnight.

  • Is the reporting automated?

    Yes, Sharpfin offers fully integrated and automated reporting.

    Competitors often need external tools to meet the same requirements.

  • How secure is the platform?

    Sharpfin reduces risks through fewer interfaces and high levels of cyber security.

    Competitors often have more vulnerabilities due to separate systems.

  • Is the system easy to use?

    Yes, the platform is designed to enable intuitive workflows and reduce the amount of manual work.

    Competitors often use legacy interfaces that are more time-consuming.

  • How does Sharpfin’s model portfolio management work?

    Sharpfin has structured its model portfolio framework across several levels so that, for example, fixed-income management can be handled separately from equity management within different model portfolios. By linking the model portfolios for each asset class to overarching models that control risk, it is possible to reduce the number of models under management whilst making the structure clearer for the client.

    Traditional portfolio systems often have a linear structure for model portfolios, which results in a very large number of models to manage, with a risk of errors and high complexity when strategies are changed.

  • How fast is Sharpfin’s rebalancing?

    Rebalancing a large number of portfolios is a complex task, and one quickly reaches limits where the process starts to take minutes rather than seconds. However, Sharpfin’s high-speed architecture is specially designed for this type of operation and delivers significantly faster results than many competitors. In comparisons, Sharpfin takes less than 5 per cent of the time required by several legacy systems.

  • How do I go about taking payment from customers?

    Sharpfin’s Back Office module supports various types of fee structures, including both performance-based fees and volume-based management fees. Fees are calculated down to daily figures and can be configured in various ways to accommodate a wide range of contract structures. If Sharpfin is used as a custody account system, management fees are deducted directly from client custody accounts; otherwise, supporting documentation can be generated and sent directly to the custodian bank, e.g. Nordnet or Avanza.

  • What reporting requirements do investment firms with a discretionary management licence have?

    Investment firms with a discretionary management licence are subject to extensive reporting requirements, including reporting relating to their investment firm licence, capital adequacy rules, CSR, FATCA, SFDR/PAI sustainability reporting, and MiFIR/MiFID-related transaction and transparency reporting, in addition to local regulations.