- Software consulting
- Technology consulting: AI/ML, big data, blockchain
- Digital transformation consulting for mutual funds
- IT infrastructure consulting, including cloud consulting
- QA consulting
- Project management consulting
- Mutual fund software product consulting, including SaaS consulting
IT Services and Solutions for Mutual Funds
In financial IT since 2005, ScienceSoft provides full-cycle technology consulting, software engineering, and IT support services to mutual funds. The solutions we deliver help mutual funds streamline administrative routines and enhance investment profitability while ensuring secure, compliant, and cost-effective operations.
Custom Software Solutions for Mutual Funds
Here are some of the mutual fund solutions ScienceSoft delivers. Depending on your needs, we can engineer standalone software for a particular operational area or combine several custom tools into a multi-functional system that transforms the entire fund management process.
Core operations management solutions
A secure, centralized platform to manage interactions with mutual fund investors, handle KYC/AML verification, process and store the fund’s operational documents. Fund managers can track investor subscriptions, financial goals, portfolio performance, and service-related fees.
Software meant to automate investment opportunity screening based on the mutual fund’s custom criteria (asset class, industry, value, returns, ESG score, etc.) and pre-set rules for fund-specific strategies, such as index replication, portfolio diversification, and style tilting.
Solutions that enable rule-based modeling, construction, tracking, and rebalancing of the mutual fund’s portfolios, taking into account market-cap weighting, financial and duration targets, and style factors. Artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied for accurate portfolio planning and optimization.
Performance attribution analysis tools
Using such tools, mutual fund analysts can evaluate portfolio performance against pre-set benchmarks and identify major drivers of returns and risks. The software analyzes asset selection, allocation, and timing decisions, automates multi-factor attribution calculations, and generates reports.
Order management systems (OMS)
Software that automates the creation of mutual fund investment orders (buy, sell, switch), order routing to the relevant execution venues, and real-time order status tracking. Custom OMS can support mutual funds’ specific workflows like T+1 trade matching and settlement.
Execution management systems (EMS)
Software aimed to streamline trading and post-trade settlement for actively managed mutual funds. It automates VWAP, TWAP, and PoV strategies based on the fund’s tailored rules and can accommodate machine learning (ML) algorithms for smart order routing.
Risk management solutions
Mutual funds use such tools to model and stress-test investment, portfolio, and liquidity risks, monitor real-time exposures, as well as plan hedging strategies and assess their efficiency. The software calculates the necessary risk metrics, flags indicators nearing the preset limits, and automates root cause analysis.
Solutions that automate mutual fund bookkeeping and fund-specific calculations, including daily NAV, returns, distributions, front loads, 12b-1 fees, and taxes. They handle multi-currency cash positioning, reconciliation, and reporting in compliant forms (N-Q, N-CSR, 1099-DIV, N-CEN, N-PORT, etc.).
Transfer agency systems
Software that offers rule-based fund investor recordkeeping, real-time account balance tracking, and automated processing of subscriptions, redemptions, dividend distributions, reinvestments, and fee transactions according to the fund’s share-class-specific rules.
Software that automates the generation and delivery of tailored investor reports, such as mutual fund fact sheets, shareholder statements, investment performance summaries, ESG reports, and K-1 forms. It automatically aggregates report data across mutual fund systems.
Digital platforms that let mutual fund investors securely access commitment and transaction history, holding reports, and tax documents. They can be integrated with portfolio and accounting systems to automatically pull investor-relevant data and introduce real-time reporting options.
Compliance management software
Software used for ongoing monitoring of the mutual fund compliance with internal policies and region-specific regulations (e.g., federal AML/CFT rules and the SEC investment restriction and reporting provisions for the US). Such solutions automatically spot and report compliance breaches.
Data management and analytics solutions
Solutions that automate the integration, cleansing, enrichment, and quality control of mutual fund data from multiple sources. They maintain a single source of truth for investor, portfolio, transaction, and reference data while ensuring data security and integrity.
Document management systems
Software that relies on robotic process automation (RPA) and image analysis techs for straight-through processing of mutual fund documents. It automatically retrieves and structures document contents and validates the data for accuracy and compliance.
Such solutions analyze the mutual fund’s operational, financial, and risk data and produce insights for strategic and tactical decision-making. They compute and report the chosen fund metrics and can include AI components for accurate predictive and prescriptive analytics.
Intelligent assistants for mutual funds
Smart chatbots powered by large language models (LLM) that assist mutual fund staff in daily routines through intuitive conversational interfaces. They instantly process textual and voice employee inquiries and communicate the requested information in regular human language.
Blockchain-based solutions
Solutions designed to automate the execution and immutable recordkeeping of mutual fund operations on the blockchain. Smart contracts can automate multi-step workflows like investor onboarding, trading, dividend payouts, compliance checks, and regulatory reporting.
Solutions that let mutual funds represent the fractions of fund shares as liquid digital tokens stored on the blockchain. The issuance, distribution, and trading of tokenized funds occur automatically based on the management company’s specific rules and tokenomics.
IT Services for Closed-End Mutual Funds
Technology and business consulting
Software engineering
- Full-cycle engineering of investment solutions for mutual funds
- Architecture design for complex mutual fund solutions
- Proof of concept and MVP delivery
- Software integration
- Testing and QA for solutions under development
- UX and UI design for mutual fund apps
- DevOps services for ongoing development projects
- Team augmentation (with software engineers, architects, testers, consultants, PMs, etc.)
Software modernization
- Legacy app modernization
- Cloud migration services
- Software rearchitecting (e.g., monolith strangling to microservices)
- Code review and refactoring
- Tech stack modernization
- Software evolution with new features
- Software integration
Managed IT services
Security and compliance services
- Cybersecurity consulting
- IT security audit
- Security testing
- Establishing application security and network protection: implementing SIEM, IAM, UEBA, firewalls, and more
- Compliance consulting: SEC, NYDFS, GDPR, SOC, SAMA compliance, and more
- Compliance assessment
- Managed security services