Sarah Chain, director of global strategy and product management at Pershing.
BNY Mellon's Pershing subsidiary unveiled a new Manager Gateway, a consolidated digital solution that it said features a centralized portal and will deliver "simplified account access and a seamless model delivery process" to asset managers when it launches by the end of the fourth quarter this year.
The new portal is a successor to the company's Manager Workstation, which Sarah Chain, director of global strategy and product management at Pershing, said launched more than 10 years ago and is now used by about 400 asset managers.
"One of the main things we wanted to do was to streamline the model delivery experience," she told ThinkAdvisor Monday, adding Manager Gateway has been in development internally at the company for about 12 months. "It's in its final stages" of development now, she said.
Manager Gateway will help asset managers "act on service requests and orders with ease" and reduce "duplicative efforts," automatically collecting and processing information on behalf of their clients, Pershing said. Manager Gateway uses a single ID for simple access to all accounts, account details, billing, corporate actions, transactions and on-demand performance reports, according to the company. It also "eliminates the need for commingled manager codes, delivering better efficiencies to active sleeve managers via a single portal access," Pershing said.
Featured in the new portal is a redesigned user interface offering new features including type-ahead, expanded search and on-demand access to reports, according to the company. Also featured is an enhanced workstation application that streamlines day-to-day processes for investment managers and a workflow tool that allows model providers to "efficiently create, manage and deliver models to investment professionals," Pershing said. Asset managers can also customize their view using new context search criteria based on firm, style, investment professional and/or account.
