Grow Faster with Archer

Accelerate your workflow. Reduce operational risk. Race products to market. Whereas other vendors have Archer’s investment management platform and complete outsourcing solutions transitioned their solution speed up and simplify operations at every stage, freeing your team to get ahead, portfolios over to a cloud- and say ahead. We achieve this through products and services developed by hosted model in recent years, leaders who have direct experience in the investment management industry, and Archer has had the cloud with direct input from managers themselves. This combination leads to results measured by each investment manager’s unique needs and achieving their at the core of its solutions strategic vision. and services offering since its foundation in 2000. Archer’s single investment book of records and cloud-optimized technology improve data visibility, helping to reduce risk while improving client relationships. The vendor’s approach to With solutions for institutional, private wealth, retail, and multi-channel firms, building out its technology Archer helps managers focus on their investment portfolios, client relationships, architecture has centered and scaling their business, while gaining firm wide visibility in support of evolving on a single, cloud-based compliance needs. service to provide investment Our integrated platform and complete ecosystem enable investment managers to managers with a fully increase assets through new products and new distribution channels. And our full integrated platform that aims suite of outsourcing services supports growing managers’ operations, providing a quicker time to market for new products and channel expansion. to simplify processes across investment channels while increasing scalability.” Brazier, John. “Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cloud-Based Services Provider— Archer.” Waters Technology, August 1, 2017

©2021 Archer. All rights reserved. 484-615-6271 archerims.com Outsourcing some operational functions or technology to a vendor like Archer is a way for firms to enter the business without INVESTMENT ACCOUNTING some of the headaches that can come with handling a higher number of accounts with lower minimums.” Verbrigghe, Danielle. “T. Rowe Jumps Into Retail SMA.” FundFire, May 17, 2017 DATA MART SECURITY MASTER

INVESTMENT ACCOUNTING: Generate block trades for manager- BILLING SECURITIES VALUATION Posts all trades, corporate actions, directed portfolio changes cash and other transactions via the Create and execute trades multi-currency accounting application accommodating client-initiated activity Intraday positions and portfolio CUSTOMIZED CLIENT CORPORATE ACTIONS Distribute model portfolios to UMA valuations REPORTING sponsors Investment book of record that Manage trade, broker and model identifies, describes and defines all PORTFOLIO & delivery rotation schedules RECONCILIATION investments and transaction in each RISK MONITORING account Facilitates institutional orders, third party OMS, market-not-held orders, and Maintains records of client account COMPLIANCE & step-out trades TRADING & REBALANCING data and third party participant data RISK MANAGEMENT including: client profiles, account types ESG OVERLAY SOLUTION: and custodian account numbers ESG profiles can be built to emphasize positions that are highly rated in COMPOSITE SECURITIES VALUATION: specific themes, reduce exposure to MANAGEMENT TRADE ADMINISTRATION Maintains security master records poorly rated holdings, or eliminate Intraday pricing exposure to specific industries ATTRIBUTION & Updated FX throughout the trading day altogether MODEL DELIVERY RISK REPORTING Maintains paydown factors for Scalable solution -- apply ESG profiles mortgage-backed securities across thousands of accounts; Prices adjusted to reflect domestic and automatically updated with changes BILLING & REPORTING: PERFORMANCE SETTLEMENT SERVICES international corporate actions from underlying models Maintain billing profiles to investment MEASUREMENT (GIPS) manager specifications for accounts PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: CORPORATE ACTIONS: and account groups -- allows different Domestic and international corporate Supports Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) profiles for asset class or type, down action announcements ESG OVERLAY SOLUTION standards set by the CFA Institute to individual security level, including Processes mandatory corporate exclusions from billing actions such as cash dividends, stock Composite performance is fully supported through automated Option to calculate individual account dividends, splits, reverse splits, spin- bills using household market values offs, returns of capital, shares awarded, composite membership with member mergers, exchanges and cash-in-lieu tracking. Robust reporting facilitates firm WWIntegrated document library wide oversight, compliance, and ...the Archer system provides us the assurance that we have an up-to- Ensures that each mandatory action is performance monitoring, including: applied to accounts records client requests, automating composite membership changes, and Cash; Positions; date resource, and the scalability to facilitate new client onboarding Voluntary corporate action monitoring streamlining verifications Commissions; Security Cross and management. The transformation from those Wild West-era home- with available operational support Reference; Restriction Exceptions; Top ATTRIBUTION & RISK REPORTING: grown systems to one of standard conventions has been remarkable.” TRADE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT: Multi-class attribution analysis provided Holdings; Performance; Gain/Loss; and Bayazitoglu, Kristen. “Case Study: Achieving a Growth Standard in a Non-Standard Industry.” Enables order entry, allocations, through partnership with Wilshire Portfolio Turnover Family Wealth Report, August 1, 2017 settlement instructions, affirmations, Analytics, delivering deliver best-of- Custom client reporting that matches and confirmations breed portfolio attribution firm branding, increases flexibility ©2021 Archer. All rights reserved. 484-615-6271 archerims.com Streamline Operations

A single solution for the entire account lifecycle.

Successful outsourcing for investment management firms goes beyond ...Archer also provides reconciliation and account processing by offering services that help you enter a complete portfolio of new distribution channels and deepen your product bench. With front offices accompanying middle- and facing increasing pricing pressure, competition, and an evolving regulatory space, back-office services alongside outsourcing middle and back office services provides the ability to focus on achieving strategic goals rather than scaling operations. the platform, setting it apart from its competitors in the Archer’s flexible outsourcing solutions include unique services such as trading and trade settlement, model delivery supporting UMAs, and support for ETF space through a customized management. Transparency is provided at every level of outsourcing, providing set of outsourcing options the control and peace of mind you need to innovate every day. covering reconciliations, corporate actions processing, trade settlement and billing.” Trade Services Brazier, John. “Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cloud-Based Services Provider— Archer’s trade services deliver Archer.” Waters Technology, August 1, 2017 more options designed to help you concentrate on your core business of investment management. Services Model Delivery Services ETF Support Services include maintenance trading, across- the-board portfolio trades as well as Outsourcing model delivery to Archer For managers with an established ETF trade execution and settlement support. can eliminate much of the additional or those who may be looking to create support required by managers one, Archer now provides services Maintenance trading using model delivering models to multiple that help reduce the operational portfolios can be completed when new platforms. burden of managing an ETF. Archer accounts are opened, to accommodate Operations, working in concert with cash flows, or for tax-harvest requests. Archer provides a dynamic model your fund accountant and with a Trades can also be completed across- maintenance interface allowing consolidator of authorized participants’ the-board following model changes managers to choose a full model activity, supports the ETFs’ unit across groups of accounts. Services refresh, or individual security changes. creation /redemption process. Global can include custom rotations of trade Same-day model delivery output is data exchanges, multiple accounting request deliveries. Throughout the customized to meet each platform’s streams, real-time positions, and process, managers are able to fully requirements, including e-mail and dispersion reporting are some of the monitor account drift and compliance web-portals. Archer can also deliver features that enable the effective through Archer’s robust, real-time scheduled periodic model updates to deployment of your investment reporting. sponsors. strategy as an ETF.