Technology

Built by Practitioners for Practitioners

Oakwood provides comprehensive fund management technology for portfolio management, investor management, multi-currency accounting, compliance and risk. Developed in-house, designed to support the range of services we offer and is made available to clients either bundled with fund administration, as stand-alone software or as a software plus services arrangement. It supports front, middle and back office functions and is integrated with a number of third party systems.
Client requirements govern the evolution of the platform and we are committed to ensuring that our clients benefit as the technology evolves. Our platform is in use by private debt managers, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, private banks, pension funds and family offices. We recognize the advantages of collaboration with asset managers and external software providers and have worked closely with them to produce industry recognized technology.

REPORTING AND MOBILE

The platform features hundreds of reports including fund, portfolio, investor, accounting, risk, performance, compliance, executive and client custom reporting. Reporting is available in a variety of formats including PDF, SSRS and Excel reports, slice and dice UltraGrid reports, interactive and magazine style mobile apps and dashboards.

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Developed from years of practical portfolio management expertise. It is built to meet three main objectives: a unified platform; alternatives caliber front to back office functionality; and an architecture that readily allows for development of client requirements.

SECURITY MASTER

Oakwood’s Security Master Reference Data module seamlessly integrates complex alternative investments into a robust framework that ensures data accuracy, completeness and timeliness across operations, portfolio management, investment execution, risk management and compliance.

INVESTOR SERVICES

Oakwood combines specialized expertise and experience to deliver unmatched investor services technology. Supports investor management, performance reporting and accounting for global alternative investment fund structures. It supports all fund legal and operating structures and offers the most comprehensive support for complex fees in the industry.

RISK AND ANALYTICS

Supports firm wide risk and analytics including investment and portfolio, counterparty and collateral, operational and compliance. Together with portfolio valuation and NAV production, risk and analytics data drives investor transparency, performance, regulatory, and custom client reports.

ORDER MANAGEMENT

Order management uniquely supports private placement asset classes including hedge funds and private equity. The Order Manager is integrated across all platform components providing efficient, accurate, semi-automated transaction processing and position life-cycle management.

RECONCILIATION

The reconciliation module delivers control and accuracy through customized data source mapping, transaction matching workflows and exceptions tracking. Supported by a dedicated team of client-specific specialists, reconciles client positions and underlying transactions across multiple brokers and all asset classes.

COMPLIANCE

Compliance components are embedded across FM3 in the form of monitoring and alerting tools, process controls, specific regulatory support, investor and executive reporting. As a single platform, drives these components with powerful data collection and management resulting in accurate and timely enterprise compliance.

CUSTOM

Oakwood internal development capabilities give us the opportunity to take on consultative projects. These custom projects are almost always technology intensive, involving development which others are unwilling or unable to do. Clients benefit from a platform that matches their requirements today and may be enhanced for the future..