Northern Trust, the Chicago-based fund administrator, has enhanced its forward looking investment risk reporting capabilities, in response to the expanding and increasingly sophisticated risk management needs of institutional investors.
Pension funds now have access to broader and deeper risk analysis including more integration between analysis of investment risks and the impact they may have on the fund’s ability to meet its liabilities at a future point in time.
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The enhancements will focus on asset liability reporting, asset allocation and trend analysis.
Ian Castledine, global head of Investment Risk and Compliance Product for Northern Trust said the tools have been developed to provide clients with increased risk awareness which will facilitate better investment decisions.
The enhancements also offer clients an improved user experience with more informative graphics and intuitive visual information.
Northern Trust’s analytics model both assets and liabilities, and the data is brought together in one report to show comparisons of risk levels and potential risk mismatch alongside the managed assets.
Enhanced active allocation and risk contribution reporting will allow clients to gain exposures on an asset class, region and sector basis, or manager selection decisions, and strengthens overall risk awareness.
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By GlobalDataThe firm has also added trend analysis that aims to add context around current risks that exist and improved graphics enable clients to better understand historical volatility trends.
Ian Castledine said: "Our next generation risk reporting services have been developed to provide our clients with increased risk awareness which will facilitate better investment decisions."
"We believe that these enhancements present our analysis of essential risk information in a clear and actionable format. Equally important, our risk reports, combined with the support of one of our expert consultants, can help create an effective dialogue around the investment process facilitating discussions between asset owners and their chosen investment professionals," he added.
