Sponsor Monitor
Preserving assets and providing guidance for over 40 years
As fiduciaries, a plan sponsor has a legal obligation to monitor managers’ (and their brokers’) equity, FX, fixed income, futures, and derivatives trading processes for best execution.
Multi-Asset Trade Analytics for Asset Owners
Our leading TCA and compliance Sponsor Monitor analytics can provide you with the critical transparency, substantive due diligence, and insight into how your managers are handling fund assets. Not only do we provide you with customized metrics so you can control excessive trade costs, often the single largest expense of a fund, we give you the reporting and archiving necessary to mitigate investment and fiduciary risk.
Our multi-asset fund analytics service includes:
- Multi-faceted summary and detail reporting for equities, fixed income and foreign currency
- Flagging of compliance/fiduciary issues, by manager
- Written recommendations to address flagged issues
- Quantifying and ranking manager turnover rates
- Quantifying and ranking the impact of manager trading process and capacity on investment performance
Equities Sponsor Monitor
Detailed analysis evaluates each manager’s equities trading processes and its impact on returns. Key metrics include: total execution costs, brokerage costs, commissions, and the performance attribution associated with trading.
Fixed Income Sponsor Monitor
Meaningful assessments of the fixed income trading costs and execution quality obtained by your fund managers and their chosen counterparties. This oversight helps reduce unnecessary costs, identify inefficient trading processes, manage counterparty risk, and encourages the use of fixed incoming trading best practices.
FX Sponsor Monitor
Provides an independent assessment of your custodian and manager currency trading as measured against our FX trade universe. Our analysis monetizes the costs associated with foreign currency trading in order to shed light on the loss of fund assets and provide recommendations to improve performance.
Why Utilize TCA Auditing?
- Satisfies legal obligation, as fiduciaries, to monitor your managers’ (and their brokers’) equity, FX, fixed income, futures, and derivatives trading processes for best execution
- Provides critical transparency, substantive due diligence, and insight into how your managers are handling fund assets.
- Helps control excessive trade costs, often the single largest expense of a fund
- Mitigates investment and fiduciary risk
Clients also have access to Trade Zoom – our industry-leading multi-asset post-trade platform that offers:
- Drill down functionality (By Manager, Broker, Security, Trade Date…etc.)
- Peer benchmarking ($37+ trillion universe)
- Manager timing/alpha profiling
- Venue and routing analysis
- Next-Gen Fixed Income TCA
- Standard and customized report generator
- Unlimited user subscriptions
- 1000+ metrics