| OpenAIR
Concept OpenAIR Investments is a fully multi-currency investment monitoring
system. It is aimed at several different types of users in the market place: multi-manager
externally managed schemes; self-managed schemes; and third party administrators.
OpenAIR Investments is a module of OpenAIR,
developed to interface with OpenAIR
Accounts, but can stand-alone. It has automated links to download trades and income
from fund managers and custodians, and a direct feed from FT Information for dividend
announcements, market prices and exchange rates.
OpenAIR is fully
compliant with Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) relational database and
standard reportwriter.
Business
Benefits
- Independent check
and verification on custodians and fund managers (income, realised
and unrealised profit & loss, currency accruals, market
value).
- Multi-scheme
reporting.
- Full audit trail
(lower audit costs).
- Facilitates
flexible and rapid enquiry.
- Produces regular
investment figures.
- SORP Compliant.
- Capital and
electronic income interfaces with fund managers and custodians.
- Report and
analysis in multi-currency of actual and expected cash
balances.
- Ensures external
institutions meet agreed mandates.
Fund
Manager Interfaces (FMI)
- Automatic updates
via disk or modem/email.
- Validates
transactions and creates new securities automatically.
- Over 10
participating institutions e.g. Northern Trust, JP Morgan,
Schroders etc.
Download
list of current FMI and FMI under development
Reporting
Process
- Cash forecasting.
- Integration into accounts
module for year-end accounts and SORP notes.
- Dividend, foreign
exchange and tax recoverable monitoring.
- Asset break down
by market sector (portfolio specific).
- Multiple pricing
sources (portfolio specific).
Customer Service
- Remote database
administration.
- On-site
implementation and training.
- Application
software support.
- Liaison with fund
managers and custodians.
- Supply of data
(Exshare).
- Full-time helpdesk
support (8.30am-5.30pm).
- Software upgrades.
- In-house
professional advice from qualified pension accounts and
experienced investment analysts.
Download
Further Literature & Investment Reports
OpenAIR Investments -
Introduction (157 KB)
OpenAIR Investments - System
Overview (1,085 KB)
OpenAIR Investments -
Investment Reports (161 KB)

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