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Third Party Transfer Agents

Who says it's lonely at the top?

Third-party transfer agents must support all types of pooled investment products in order to be competitive. Firms today need to support all types mutual funds, interval funds and alternative investment products efficiently and cost effectively. That's why our solution is used by more third-party transfer agents than any other investor recordkeeping system.

 

Envision’s system gives third-party transfer agents a fully configurable shareholder recordkeeping system providing real-time customer data and account processing. The result is more efficiency, better customer service and less operational risk.

Improve investor and customer satisfaction
  • Give investors or reps what they need through a modern and device-responsive digital portal that's digital-accessibility certified
  • Facilitate the exchange of information integrating with internal surround systems and third party applications
  • Eliminate quality issues by processing activity correctly the first time using 500 data checks and validations
  • Provide real-time access to information and reporting so that your clients know exactly where they stand at any point in time
  • Provide real-time 24/7 system access
Increase productivity and reduce cost
  • Eliminate delays and provide shareholders and advisers up-to-the-second access to real-time information through a customer-centric intuitive user interface.
  • Make your new employees productive sooner through an intuitive design.
  • Reduce fund and firm administration with the use of templates and parameter driven data fields.
Control and customize the experience
  • Create product differentiation by eliminating system hurdles that get in the way of your great ideas
  • Configure investment options, account types, transaction types and fee types and many more at the click of a button to support your business model, not someone else’s
  • Process mutual funds, interval funds, institutional money market funds, offshore and alternative funds on a single system—avoiding the additional costs of multiple systems
Solutions

Core Recordkeeping System

Envision offers a core recordkeeping system surrounded by highly integrated extensions that are configured to your business model.

Add-On Software Modules

Business Process Automation

A tightly integrated imaging and workflow system helps automate your back-office operations. The system captures and shares documents and data electronically through client defined workflow processes allowing for meaningful operational efficiencies and cost benefits. The system captures images and files from:

  • Batch run jobs
  • Scan/Capture
  • Fax
  • Email
  • Voice response systems
  • Web

It contains a real-time dashboard to monitor work in progress and quality.

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker-Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Investor & Rep Digital Interfaces

The internet interface is a fully integrated, device responsive investor and advisor internet portals. The internet portal has been independently verified to meet the WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards.

Shareholders & Reps have access to account information including transactions, distributions and valuations. Account maintenance and transaction processing permissions can be given if desired. The information access and activities undertaken online is in real-time and immediately synchronized with the core system. 

Investor communication such as account statements and tax forms can be made available for online viewing, printing or archiving.

The portal can be branded for the investment sponsor or financial intermediary firm and can be deployed so users stay within a company’s own web domain.

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker-Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Digital Interface Add-On: RTQ/ Asset Allocation Modeling

You can add a risk tolerance questionnaire to the investor or rep digital interface and assign any number of risk-based asset allocation models to the response outcomes.

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Bank Reconciliation System

The cash reconciliation system automates the management of the money movement calculations and reconciliation process to minimize the time and cost spent on the daily cash reconciliation process.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Broker-Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

We offer a wide selection of over 175 APIs allowing external development to facilitate real-time inquiries and transaction processing from any surrounding system such as websites, voice response units or customer relationship management systems.

The API tool kit provides full control over the application development environment. 

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker-Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Real-Time Cash Availability

The real-time cash module provides portfolio managers a real-time dashboard of funds-available cash so they can match the fund performance to the index being tracked.

The module provides an accurate view of projected cash  flows with real-time  accounting of pending purchases, redemptions and exchanges using all of the trade information from sources including NSCC, file transmissions, phone calls, web trades, faxes, etc.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Investor Correspondence

The system makes it easy to create and generate customized investor and advisor outbound communications. Information residing within the recordkeeping system is available for use in communication pieces. The system comes with standard letter templates for capital call notices, tender offer letters, and investor statements & confirms.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Investment Types Supported
Mutual Funds

The Investor Management Suite supports all known mutual fund share classes including classes with:

  • No load
  • Front-end load
  • CDSC
  • Advanced commission
  • Fixed term
  • Daily accruals
  • Trailer payments
  • Revenue sharing
  • Redemption fees may be added to all fund types as needed
  • Jumbo purchases

SUPPORT FOR

In-house Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Institutional Money Market Funds

The Investor Management Suite supports the unique aspects of institutional money market funds:

  • Stable & floating rate NAV with and without gates
    • Multi-cycle pricing
    • Four decimal NAV
  • Reverse distribution processing across all settled shares
    • Supports negative dividend rates
    • Automatic dividend adjustments for as of and voided transactions
  • Bulks/ nets transactions
  • Built-in wire processing dashboard
  • Assign capabilities based upon the person (e.g., who is authorized to trade the account, who can perform maintenance on the account, who has web access to the account, etc.)

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Asset Allocation Models

The system can support an unlimited number of asset allocation models. The models can rebalance automatically based on set frequencies, drift from target allocation or manually, at any time.

SUPPORT FOR

In-House Investment Firm Transfer Agents
Third-Party Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators
Alternative Investment Sponsors
College Savings & ABLE Act Funds

The Envision 529 system supports:

  • Advisor and direct sold 529 plans
  • Asset allocation models (including age-based realignment)
  • Contribution limit calculations
  • Investment change limits tracked across internal and external sources
  • Beneficiary tracking
  • Configurable and maintainable options for life-to-date contribution limits

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
529 Administrators
Interval & Tender-Offer Funds

Interval & tender-offer funds are among the most popular vehicles as managers of private funds expand into the registered-fund space. Envision supports all types of closed-end funds, including those with prescribed investment/redemption timing and those with more flexible timing.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
Alternative Investment Sponsors
Non-Traded REITs

Our system supports illiquid real estate investment trusts that don't trade on securities exchanges. Alternative investment managers appreciate the flexibility of the Envision platform 

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
Alternative Invesment Sponsors
LGIPs

You can recordkeep Local Government Investment Pools using the Envision investor recordkeeping suite.

SUPPORT FOR

State Pool Managers
Third-Party Administrators
BDCs

The system supports business development company investor recordkeeping.

SUPPORT FOR

Product Sponsors
Third-Party Administrators
Target-Date Portfolios

Our system supports target date mutual fund portfolios that automatically re-balance the asset mix at the target date for its use nears.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators
Aged-Based/ Years-to-College Realignment Portfolios

We support ready-made portfolios that adjust based upon a child's age. In these products, a portfolio may have higher-risk investments with a bigger potential for growth when the child is younger, then transition to more conservative investments as the college years approach.

SUPPORT FOR

Investment Firms & Transfer Agents
Broker Dealers
529 Administrators

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