NRI provides comprehensive front-, middle- and back-office solutions to help asset managers enhance mutual fund and investment advisory operations. NRI asset management products allow for the production of various reports encouraging improved regulatory compliance and best practice portfolio reporting.
Along with execution management, asset managers use NRI products T-STAR/RX for balance and P&L calculations, reconciliation, external and internal reporting, compliance checks and data warehousing.
Additional functionality provided by NRI includes T-STAR/GX calculation of the time-weighted rate of return, performance attribution analysis, alternative balance views, trading and rate of return by asset type, sector and by security.
NRI also offers a mutual fund sales network solution FundWeb with connections for more than 270 mutual fund distribution houses and asset management firms.
NRI supports asset managers with straight-through processing (STP) for trading securities SmartBridge and an integrated order management system (OMS) for institutional investors SmartBridge Advance. NRI provides a data management system IDS for asset managers that allows firms to swiftly respond to various requests from regulators, respond to help desk inquiries and assure secure data management.
Launched in the 1980s, the e-AURORA product suite was developed as an IDS data viewing platform for investment data transmission services to fulfill the respective needs of major brokerage firms and asset managers. e-AURORA offers flexible data viewing, secure system management, as well as the ability to utilize the historical database, which NRI has been accumulating since the 1960s. Users can perform highly sophisticated analysis using an easy wizard.
In the market for more than 10 years, FundWeb is a mutual fund sales network solution. FundWeb provides connections for more than 280 mutual fund distribution houses and asset management firms in Japan. This network provides data such as fund subscription and redemption, net asset value (NAV), dividend and other messaging functions.
IDS provides unique access to NRI’s high quality database for financial services firms. IDS offers domestic and foreign economic, financial, corporation and securities information. The NRI team of data analysts collects and analyzes information to distill the specific data that institutions need. IDS covers a range of asset classes including Japanese equity, Japanese bonds, mutual funds and global indices. For firms seeking added support, NRI can extend data management and customization services.
SmartBridge is a network solution that provides straight-through processing (STP) for trading securities. Institutional investors, brokerage firms and trust banks use SmartBridge to exchange messages such as orders, trade acknowledgements, execution notifications and management instructions. SmartBridge also offers matching functionality and links to the back office.
SmartBridge connects to SWIFT and JASDEC settlement matching systems and provides external messaging for trade order and allocation instruction to promote STP with external firms.
SmartBridge Advance is an integrated order management system (OMS) for institutional investors. SmartBridge Advance promotes straight-through processing (STP) by providing not only the OMS, but various front-office operations such as position cash management, compliance checks, automated post-trade management and management of sub-advisory funds. SmartBridge Advance is built with rich client technology as well as real-time messaging technology. It can also seamlessly integrate with other products in the T-STAR suite for further STP.
SYNTAX, a de facto standard in the industry, is an investment management data disclosure solution that allows firms and trust banks to disclose their trust accounts’ status for sponsors and investment advisors electronically. SYNTAX provides an industry standard format, which includes asset management securities trading and balance information and enables smooth communication between related systems. SYNTAX’s electronic processes reduce complex manual operations at asset management companies, reducing risk and promoting efficiency.
T-STAR/GV is a portfolio management solution that enables global asset management firms to have a single back-office system. T-STAR/GV lets clients have a single database worldwide and promotes real-time straight-through processing (STP). In addition, T-STAR/GV collects each operational hub's trading information real-time, allowing portfolio managers to access up-to-date accounting information from anywhere, anytime. Using T-STAR/GV, portfolio managers can manage a single global portfolio with real-time balance information, helping them to make better investment decisions.
Designed for the front- and middleoffice, T-STAR/GX is a data warehousing solution for asset management firms. T-STAR/GX connects to back-office data systems, such as T-STAR/TX, T-STAR/RX, SYNTAX and market data platforms. T-STAR/GX supports front- and middle office operations of portfolio management for asset managers, including investment advisors, mutual funds, trust banks and pension funds. T-STAR/GX allows firms to calculate the time-weighted rate of return, performance attribution analysis, obtain different views of balance, trading and rate of return by asset class, sector and by type of security.
T-STAR/ReportAssist is a mutual fund reporting tool, designed to automatically produce management performance reports. Eliminating manual, error-prone processes, T-STAR/ReportAssist uses T-STAR/TX data to create accurate information for asset management company disclosure and reporting departments.
In addition, T-STAR/ReportAssist provides a single data warehouse of commonly used reporting information, which helps managers organize the report production schedule and sign-off process. T-STAR/ReportAssist is fully compliant with the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act in Japan, which mandates that asset management companies issue summary prospectuses.
A back-office portfolio management system, T-STAR/RX provides diverse capabilities for asset management firms including investment advisors, trust banks and insurance companies. Along with portfolio management, asset managers use T-STAR/RX for balance and P&L
calculations, portfolio and security attribution, total book value and balance calculations, external and internal reporting and execution registration. T-STAR/RX connects to T-STAR/GX and works with T-STAR/TX to calculate NAV for pension funds. The solution also works with
SYNTAX to produce disclosure reports for sponsors.
Launched in 1994, T-STAR/TX is a backoffice solution for asset managers and trust banks that helps calculate net asset value (NAV) with daily changing pricing data. In addition to handling large amounts of complex calculations, T-STAR/TX also provides one single platform for mutual fund operations.
Using T-STAR/TX, firms can produce a range of reports, including securities filings, performance measures and regulatory disclosures. By seamlessly integrating with other NRI solutions, such as SmartBridge and FundWeb, T-STAR/TX allows for enhanced regulatory compliance and
portfolio reporting.