SimCorp , a leading provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, today announced that Swisscanto , the fourth largest provider of investment funds in Switzerland with assets under management exceeding EUR 40 billion, selected SimCorp Dimension for in-house administration of its funds.
Since 2004, Swisscanto has successfully operated SimCorp Dimension as an integrated system that handles the entire investment management process for a wide range of financial instruments. To date, an external service provider has carried out the asset manager’s fund administration.
As current market developments – including increasingly complex products, heightened regulatory requirements, mounting demands on data management, and increasingly individualized customer needs – continued to progress, the limited flexibility of outsourcing fund administration became increasingly apparent. Based on experiences in this environment, Swisscanto reevaluated its business practices and chose to expand the use of SimCorp Dimension to include fund administration.
“Through the use of SimCorp Dimension we recovered the necessary flexibility in the administration of our own funds as well as on client mandates,” explains Hans Frey, Head of Corporate Services and member of the Swisscanto Group management. “In addition, we were able to realize efficiency gains by only using a single piece of software for the entire value chain.”
“In the neighboring German-speaking countries, SimCorp Dimension is already the market leading system in the fund administration area," explains Claudia Rosenhövel, member of SimCorp Central Europe’s management. “We are happy to see that financial institutions in Switzerland value the benefits of using our solution within fund administration and accounting.”
Enquiries regarding this announcement should be addressed to:
SimCorp GmbH Northoff.Com Public Relations
Oliver Widmann Volker Northoff
Tel.: +49 (0) 6172 9240-0 (535) Tel.: +49 (0) 69 408980-00
Fax: +49 (0) 6172 9240-40 Fax: +49 (0) 69 408980-10
E-Mail: oliver.widmann@simcorp.com E-Mail: info@northoff.com
About Swisscanto
Swisscanto is a leading Swiss investment fund provider and asset manager, winning awards both nationally and internationally on a regular basis. Shareholders of Swisscanto are the 24 Swiss cantonal banks. For over fifty years, this specialised joint venture has developed successful investment and pension solutions for private and institutional investors. The Group employs around 400 staff and manages client assets of over 50 billion CHF.
About SimCorp
Since 1971, SimCorp has been providing investment and portfolio management software and services to the world’s leading investment managers, asset managers, fund managers, fund administrators, pension funds, insurance funds, and wealth managers. SimCorp’s world-class software provides global financial organizations with the tools they need to mitigate risk, reduce cost, and enable growth. SimCorp is a global company, regionally covering all of Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Listed on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen, SimCorp is dedicated to supporting the global investment management industry, its clients, and its investors. For more information about SimCorp’s products, please visit www.simcorp.com/solutions .
