Consulting practice

Asset management technology & operations.

Our front-to-back ops consultants are hands-on with the systems they advise on. Delivering asset management technology and operations since 2009, across SimCorp Dimension, BlackRock Aladdin, eFront and Bloomberg AIM. We work with asset managers, insurers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and fund administrators across public, private and alternative markets.

17
Years on SimCorp Dimension
Since 2009
60+
SimCorp + Aladdin consultants
Hands-on across both platforms
100+
IBOR / ABOR programmes delivered
Across Europe and APAC
20+
Tier-1 asset managers and institutions
Asset managers · Insurers · Fund administrators
Domain coverage · 01

What our consultants cover.

Our consultants have modelled the instruments, walked the trade lifecycle, sat next to PMs and risk teams, and shipped the platforms underneath. Domain breadth across asset classes, investor types, functions, and programmes.

Asset classes

  • Equities (long-only, long/short)
  • Fixed income (sovereign, IG/HY credit, ABS/MBS)
  • FX (spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs)
  • Listed derivatives (futures, options)
  • OTC derivatives (IRS, CDS, TRS, swaptions)
  • Private equity, venture, private debt
  • Real estate, infrastructure, real assets
  • Hedge fund strategies, structured products

Investor types

  • Asset managers (traditional and alternative)
  • Hedge funds and multi-strategy platforms
  • Pension funds (DB, DC, sovereign)
  • Insurance (life, non-life, separate account)
  • Fund administrators and custodians
  • Private banks and wealth managers
  • Family offices
  • Sovereign wealth and endowments

Functions

  • Front office (PM, trading, dealing)
  • Middle office (risk, compliance, investment ops)
  • Performance and attribution (GIPS)
  • Fund accounting and NAV production
  • Settlement, custody, collateral
  • Reference data, security master, corporate actions
  • Treasury, cash and FX management
  • Regulatory and client reporting

Programme types

  • IBOR and ABOR build-outs
  • PMS, OMS, EMS implementations
  • Risk and analytics platforms
  • Performance and GIPS reporting
  • Regulatory (SFDR, AIFMD, EMIR, MiFID II, CSDR)
  • ESG data sourcing and integration
  • Data warehouses, lakehouses, vendor feeds
  • Cloud migrations and version upgrades
Practices · 02

Four ways to engage us.

Three adjacent practices that wrap around Implementation: Functional design before, Managed services after, and Staff augmentation alongside.

Flagship · 100+ delivered

Implementation.

Greenfield PMS, OMS, IBOR and ABOR builds on SimCorp Dimension, BlackRock Aladdin, eFront and Bloomberg AIM. Front-to-back delivery across public, private and alternative markets. Cross-system integration, data vendor feeds, custom modules, version migrations. One hundred plus programmes delivered.

Typical deliverables
  • Programme management to vendor-implementation standard
  • System configuration across IBOR, ABOR, risk, accounting and reporting modules
  • Cross-system integration across custodians, market data, DWH and downstream systems
  • Data vendor feeds and reference data integration
  • Data migration from legacy platforms with reconciliation evidence
  • Custom-module development against vendor APIs
  • Version migrations including blocker analysis on running platforms
  • UAT, go-live and hypercare ownership
Engagement
9 to 30 months
Track record
100+ programmes delivered
Platforms
SimCorp, Aladdin, eFront, Bloomberg AIM
4 to 16 weeks

Functional design.

The thinking and documentation that anchors an IBOR, ABOR, PMS or OMS programme. Business analysis, target operating model, system blueprint, modelling of new asset classes across public equities, fixed income, private markets and alternatives. Where complex front-to-back programmes begin.

Typical deliverables
  • Business requirements documents authored to platform-vendor standard
  • Target operating model and process architecture
  • System blueprint, integration design and controls library
  • Modelling of new asset classes, lifecycle events and reference data
  • Workflow and data-flow diagrams, gap analysis
12 months to multi-year

Managed services.

Business as usual after go-live. Follow-the-sun IT and operations support across IBOR, ABOR, PMS and OMS stacks, from our Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and European desks. We keep the platform in production alongside your team, not from a project room.

Typical deliverables
  • IT and operations support, follow-the-sun across four time zones
  • Production monitoring, incident response and release management
  • Data quality controls, exception workflows and reconciliation
  • User support, change requests and new configuration
  • Standard operating procedures maintained against your internal playbook
3 to 24 months

Staff augmentation.

Senior PMS, OMS, IBOR and ABOR specialists embedded inside your team. Not bodies, not juniors. Front-to-back ops consultants, hands-on with the platforms they advise on, across public, private and alternative markets.

Typical deliverables
  • Named consultants with five-plus years on the platform
  • Embedded inside your team, reporting to your delivery lead
  • Available across SimCorp Dimension, BlackRock Aladdin, eFront and Bloomberg AIM
  • Time-zone coverage across Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, and Europe
  • Three to twenty-four month engagements with right-to-extend
Run·On · by Sedona

The agentic platform that runs your ops.

AI agents that plan, decide and complete multi-step work across your asset management operations. The natural next step after Managed services.

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Platforms · 03

Where we're deep.

50+ consultants

SimCorp Dimension.

Implementation, upgrade, migration, BAU support. SimCorp Dimension practice since 2009.

Talk to our SimCorp Dimension consultants
What we work on
  • IBOR, ABOR, NAV production
  • Corporate actions and reference data
  • Performance, attribution, risk
  • Data Warehouse Manager and Coric reporting
  • Custom development against the SDK
Selected work · 04

A few of the programmes.

Client names withheld until consent is on file. Reference calls available under NDA at proposal stage.

Tier-1 European asset manager

SimCorp Dimension front-to-back implementation

Greenfield IBOR and ABOR build across equities, fixed income and OTC derivatives. BRD authored through hypercare, two parallel-running cycles, zero open critical defects at go-live.

APAC multi-strategy asset manager

SimCorp OMS to third-party execution platform

FIX 4.4 integration between SimCorp Dimension OMS and a third-party EMS for low-touch and high-touch equity execution. Real-time order acknowledgement and allocation push back into Dimension. Production within nine months.

European wealth manager

Aladdin implementation and managed services

BlackRock Aladdin greenfield across portfolio management, compliance and reporting. Followed by follow-the-sun managed services from our Hong Kong and Paris desks. Three release cycles delivered without a single rollback.

APAC insurance group

Investment-data warehouse and reporting platform

Centralised data warehouse feeding accounting, performance and regulatory reporting. Vendor-feed normalisation across Bloomberg, MSCI and ICE. Three jurisdictions, four reporting engines.

Start · 05

Begin a brief.

Real-time chat with our discovery agent, voice or text. We follow up within three working days with a named partner and an initial scoping call.

Run·On · agentic platform ops