Front Office Solutions


Platform Features

Manage your portfolio, not just your data
Sophisticated, multi-asset class investors deserve high-tech and high-touch data management solutions for front, middle and back offices. Northern Trust Front Office Solutions is engineered to efficiently evaluate portfolios, derive better insights and mitigate operational risk to power investment decisions.
Designed for complex and diverse portfolios, this cloud-based platform features an exceptional range of functionality and customization options to empower asset owners performing asset allocation, manager selection and direct investing.
Front Office Solutions is an integrated digital and service solution ideal for asset allocators with:
- Complex portfolios and a large exposure to alternative assets
- Investment teams actively investing
- A need for a unified platform

Investment & Research Analysis
- Research management
- Holdings data collection and support
- Referential data management
- Customized reporting and APIs

Data Management & Administration
- Performance reporting
- Attribution analysis
- Stress testing
- Liquidity analysis

Customized Onboarding
- Pre-implementation due diligence
- Implementation design and planning
- Database configuration
- Historical conversion and integration

By asset owners for asset owners
Front Office Solutions was created in 2017 by Melanie Pickett, a former top 20 endowment COO and Northern Trust’s human-centered design team. The Front Office Solutions team is over 70 professionals strong and is led by experienced industry veterans headed by Melanie.
Scouting dynamic, creative individuals
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We can help the whole office
Our open architecture strategy is aimed at providing clients with Increased efficiency, interoperability and transparency at all points of the investment lifecycle. Front Office Solutions brings leading-edge capabilities through a blend of technological sophistication, advanced fit-for-purpose data and deep expertise.
The Latest from Front Office Solutions
Melanie Pickett, Head of Front Office Solutions and Paul Fahey, Head of Investment Data Science join the Appetite for Disruption podcast to discuss how a traditional financial services company thinks about and engages with FinTech

Northern Trust Launches Machine Learning Module for Asset Owner Research Management
Front Office Solutions tool is the latest feature to be released as part of Alternative Asset Digitization initiative.

Northern Trust Automates Data Extraction from Alternative Asset Documentation
The solution leverages Microsoft Azure Applied AI Services to extract unstructured data from investment documents, providing investors with actionable insights.

Northern Trust Launches Alternative Asset Servicing Digitization Initiative
Intelligent document capture is key step in digital transformation built on machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing solutions

Northern Trust Front Office Solutions To Expand Outside U.S.
Head of Front Office Solutions Melanie Pickett discusses strategy and growth plans for Front Office Solutions.

Business Woman of the Year USA 2021
2021 Global Banking & Finance Awards selects Melanie Pickett as Business Woman of the Year USA 2021
Front Office Solutions
On a mission to empower asset owners
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