Last month, Delta Data released a new Knowledge and Support Center, which empowers clients to get product support and helpful information when and how they need it. The new portal grants clients ownership of their individual service experience. The Knowledge Center includes a robust,...

  Last month, Delta Data hosted a collection of clients and mutual fund industry leaders in Boston for a roundtable discussion that included some of the investment community’s most influential contributors. The invitation-only annual forum on March 28, 2023, featured an agenda that included in-depth...

Fee Management Solutions Help Funds Monitor Waivers To Protect Against Regulatory Risk   Earlier this year, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Investment Management issued a bulletin cautioning mutual funds and their boards of directors about potential implications under the Investment Company Act of...

  Last week, Delta Data hosted a collection of clients and mutual fund industry leaders in Boston for a roundtable discussion that included some of the investment community’s most influential contributors. The invitation-only annual forum on March 28, 2023, featured an agenda that included in-depth...

Next week, Delta Data will host a collection of clients and mutual fund industry leaders in Boston for a roundtable discussion that will include some of the investment community’s most influential contributors. The invitation-only annual forum on March 28, 2023, features an agenda that includes...

Part III: Public Cloud Serves as a Catalyst for Modernization in Financial Services Industry   This is the third and final installment in a three-part series that explores Cloud Technology and the Financial Services Industry. In the previous entries, we addressed the slow cloud adoption...

Industry Pushes Back on SEC Swing Pricing Proposal In November, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed significant revisions that would require, among other reforms, the adoption of swing pricing and a “hard close” for transacting in fund shares. The proposals apply to all open-end...

Part II: Benefits of Third-Party Cloud-Based Solutions in the Financial Services Industry By Colt Younger, Delta Data, Senior Vice President, Product This is the second installment in a three-part series that explores Cloud Technology and the Financial Services Industry. In the previous entry, we addressed...

New Proposed SEC Rule to Impact Third-Party Providers Engaging service providers and outsourcing various functions is a routine part of running an effective business. Fund companies regularly rely on service provider relationships to fulfill various functions, including valuation, investor reporting, regulatory compliance, and trade implementation....

Part I: The Past and the Potential of Cloud-Based Solutions in the Financial Services Industry  By Colt Younger, Delta Data, Senior Vice President, Product This is the first installment in a three-part series that explores Cloud Technology and the Financial Services Industry. In addition to...

Importance of Building a Strong Intermediary Oversight Program Oversight is one of the hottest topics in the mutual fund industry today. While the SEC sweeps have come and gone, fund boards still have a high interest in dealer oversight as well as how that oversight...

Five Steps to Prepare for Mutual Fund Dividend Season For banks, record keepers, broker dealers, insurance companies, and financial professionals in the pooled investment fund industry, the periodic distribution events in December, as well as those scheduled through the rest of the year, can make...

Fee Management Too Crucial to Rely on Inefficient Manual Processes By Jason Davenport, Delta Data  Intermediary fee payments are one of the top expenses in the mutual fund industry, accounting for as much as 40 percent of a firm’s total annual expenses. The complexity and...

Open Letter to the SEC: Please Stop the Swing Pricing Proposal By Burton Keller, Advisor Emeritus, Delta Data  Oh, how we “strain after gnats, and swallow the camel.” Swing pricing…again. Let us just take a moment and go back in time. Remember in 2016, when...

Top Takeaways from 2022 ICI Tech Summit Delta Data attended and exhibited at the inaugural Investment Company Institute (ICI) Tech Summit in Dallas, Texas November 8-9, 2022, which explored the current and emerging technologies across all aspects of asset management while providing an excellent opportunity...

Dividend Calendar Tools Help Pooled Investment Industry Navigate Tsunami of December Distribution Events Dividend payouts can quickly snowball, creating a perfect storm of events that create opportunities for missed distribution events and make employee time allocation difficult, especially during December and the holiday season. For...

Delta Data is set to attend and exhibit at the Investment Company Institute’s (ICI) Tech Summit in Dallas, Texas November 8-9, 2022. This will be the first-ever ICI event for leaders and professionals in financial technology, and Delta Data looks forward to being part of...

There is a saying that information is power, which is why big data has become such an important part of the financial world. That includes the mutual fund industry, where having access to real-time investment data can provide distributors with a major competitive advantage.  While...

By Colt Younger, Senior Vice President, Product Industrywide, investment management firms are starting to pull back on risky or discretionary spending. Many are also starting to tap the brakes on hiring, with plans to even keep some open roles unfilled. A lot of institutions today...

Technology increasingly influences everyday life and business operations. It is always evolving, creating more efficient processes, offering new capabilities, and opening doors to new ways to fundamentally do business. The additional future costs and loss of flexibility that a company sustains resulting from a depreciating...

The investment management industry has seen several key changes in the past few years, with one of the most notable trends being regulator-driven changes in the mutual funds industry. Some of the significant shakeups that have sent firms scrambling have been the SEC modernization rules...

Last month, as part of an ongoing commitment to increase customer communication, Delta Data hosted a Mid-Year Update virtual user conference to update clients on all the recent organizational changes and to discuss what lies ahead for the leader in the mutual fund pool asset...

Many organizations are not employing best practices when it comes to due diligence, missing key opportunities to maximize the value of their risk management strategies.

  “The Great Resignation” is the préoccuper de jour for the financial industry and one of the leading conversations at this year’s NICSA Strategic Leadership Summit. Industry observations take on real meaning when they migrate from the media and land on a company’s doorstep. Recently,...

Bi-weekly conversations on important issues for the pooled investment industry. https://www.youtube.com/embed/7JKmNoYlOgo  

Bi-weekly conversations on important issues for the pooled investment industry. https://www.youtube.com/embed/OrLtdM5bs_w  

Tate Rupprecht, PGIM Investments, and Brad Smith, American Funds discuss Share Class Portability Recently Delta Data conducted its sixth annual customer roundtable, bringing in over 40 pundits and experts from the financial industry for a series of conversations covering various subjects from regulations of managing...

If the word out of Washington is any indication of the weather, we’re in for a stormy time, with a one-eyed skipper looking for the horizon. Recently Congress proposed taxing of in-kind exchanges inside of ETFs to help fund their 3.5T budget package. Online publication...

Bi-weekly conversations on important issues for the pooled investment industry. https://www.youtube.com/embed/CUKrDmMS9Aw  

John Randall, ICI update Recently Delta Data conducted its sixth annual customer roundtable, bringing in more than 40 pundits and experts from the financial industry for a series of conversations covering a range of subjects, from regulations to managing COVID-19. Participants included representatives from the...