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Family Office Technology Solutions Guide
Leverage powerful tools for data management and performance monitoring
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TAILOR YOUR TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION TO YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS
Serving the needs of family members and their advisors, Wealth
Passport® is an industry-leading technology platform developed
by Northern Trust. Wealth Passport® takes advantage of our single
operating platform, allowing our clients access to a vast range of information, reports,
and market news. Backed by the experience, innovation and advisory capabilities of
Northern Trust, Wealth Passport®’s integrated technology provides
comprehensive information gathering and aggregation, resulting in a complete picture
of a family’s net worth.
The Wealth Passport® platform
also includes reporting features created for the most sophisticated financial and
family structures, enabling family offices to save time and run more efficiently. In
leveraging our global asset servicing infrastructure, our primary goal is to provide
you with accurate asset aggregation and pricing, in-depth reports and a host of services
to make the ‘family enterprise’ more effective.
To streamline the use of Wealth Passport®, clients can easily personalize their homepage to select which applications to use. Some of the information and tools available include:
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Anchor Analytics allows you to navigate and report on your data in a simple and
intuitive format using cutting edge technology. It possesses powerful reporting and
data visualization tools that provide you with the ability to create countless data
queries, to easily visualize data through automatic dashboard or chart/graph recommendations,
to create and share reports across platforms, and to receive automated alerts on essential
portfolio changes.
Investment partnerships impose accounting requirements on those responsible for tracking and reporting partner-level allocations. Northern Trust has Partnership Accounting solutions designed to address these complexities, streamline accounting processes and to optimize reporting.
Key service levels include:
Partnership Accounting
- Fully automated income allocation and reallocation to partners.
- Special allocations for including/excluding specific P&L by partner by either investment or general ledger account.
- Capital activity contributions, distributions, unitary reallocations, allocations, automated deferred capital processing.
- Automated incentive fees and management fees, including loss makeup and hurdle(s) relative to indices.
- Capital-based or shares-based fund valuation.
- Issue series of class shares.
- Statement of changes, investor capital statement, entity performance, detail gain/loss and NAV calculation detail.
General Ledger
- Entitlement/aggregate tax allocation methodology.
- Layering tax allocation methodology, upon request.
- Fully automated tax allocation to partners.
- Produces tax worksheets for 1065 and K-1.
- Easy drill-down and retrieval of information.
For clients running their own general ledgers in-house, we have many automated custom interfaces in place for electronically feeding trust accounting data to client systems. These interfaces can run on a periodic schedule, on client demand, or both.
We have management reporting templates that provide standard financial statements
as well as on-line reports to meet ad hoc reporting needs. Northern Trust has existing
interfaces with a variety of vended general ledger systems.
