How Easy Is Your Reporting?
“What was the P&L for Fund A yesterday?”
“What was the day-on-day delta?”
“Can you check the attribution?”
“What’s our portfolio-level exposure risk and sector concentration?”
“What trades make up the position?”
“Can you send me the daily cash and liquidity?”
If these questions sound familiar, you know the pressure of delivering answers fast, accurately, and often to multiple stakeholders at once.
Reporting is the mainstay of communication with clients, senior management, and a variety of key stakeholders on a myriad of front-to-back-office use cases from performance analysis, position and P&L, asset allocation, investment strategy, and risk, to important workflow deadlines such as upcoming corporate action events, and margin reporting for capital allocation.
Professionals across various roles, whether in finance, operations, or management, constantly seek timely insights, transparency, and precision. Yet the reality is that reporting remains one of the most frustratingly manual, complex, and time-consuming processes in the industry.
So, how easy is your reporting?
Reporting realities
Consider the following questions to evaluate your reporting:
1. How quickly can you access a daily fund performance report?
2. Do you have self-service capabilities, or must you rely on another team?
3. How long does it take to receive requested information?
4. Can you customize or add data fields on the fly?
5. Can you combine data from multiple sources or apply formulas within a report?
6. Can reports run automatically on your chosen schedule and distribute to different groups at specific times?
For many financial firms, the answer is often “not easily.” These realities expose the operational friction still embedded in reporting workflows today.
The challenges behind reporting
Reporting in financial services is inherently complex. Generating a performance report by fund, sector, or asset class often requires gathering data from multiple systems, spreadsheets, databases, and APIs, before formatting, validating, and aligning it to internal standards.
This manual process can take hours or days, introduces inconsistencies, and often depends on specialized data or IT teams. Customizing a report on demand or applying analytical formulas is rarely straightforward. And without automation, teams spend valuable time manually generating and sending reports instead of focusing on higher-value analysis.
Additionally, many reports require multiple levels of review, extending timelines and often necessitating requests from dedicated data teams. This reliance on others can leave you without real-time access to critical information, making it difficult to customize reports on the fly or apply formulas for dynamic insights.
Reporting then becomes a bottleneck, slowing decisions and absorbing time that should be spent on higher-value analysis.
Reporting reimagined
Arcesium® Report Manager solution is designed to change that. Built for speed, simplicity, and flexibility, it streamlines the entire reporting process; empowering teams to generate, customize, and automate reports effortlessly. Whether you need a one-off view or a recurring, global reporting package, Report Manager delivers in minutes.
Key capabilities:
- Instant access: Generate fund performance reports instantly through a simple, intuitive interface.
- Real-time customization: Add, remove, or adjust data fields on the fly.
- Built-in formulas: Apply calculations directly within the report for immediate insights.
- Multi-source integration: Combine data from multiple systems to build a complete picture.
- Automated scheduling: Run and distribute reports at any frequency – daily, weekly, or quarterly.
- Dynamic delivery: Send reports to specific recipients or groups at preset times.
- Intuitive filters: Sort, group, and filter results easily to focus on what matters most.
Experience easy reporting
With its guided setup and Excel-like interface, Report Manager enables users of any technical background to create reports in just two steps — no tickets, no coding, no waiting.
Create simple reports in two steps:
1. Load Data: Insert your data source URL and preview results instantly.
2. Configure Output: Apply changes, validate, and save. Your report is ready to go.
Preview Outputs in Real Time:
Instant Excel/CSV previews let you verify column selections, formatting, and grouping before running the report. You can see results as you go, reducing errors and turnaround time.
Guided Report Creation:
Our guided setup simplifies the process so any team member can build essential reports independently, building a self-service culture and freeing technical teams for higher-priority tasks.
Frictionless collaboration
Reporting is often about getting the right numbers to the right people at the right time. Report Manager’s Integrated Scheduling feature automates distribution across channels, email, SFTP, or file storage, right from the report setup screen.
Simply:
1. Choose your delivery method
2. Set frequency and recipients
3. Click Apply
Your reporting workflow is now automated.
Power for advanced users
While easy to use, Report Manager also supports advanced configurations for power users.
- Relative date handling: Use predefined or custom date expressions without writing templates.
- API-based computed columns: Enrich columns with API data through an intuitive form.
- Simplified variables: Define and reuse variables seamlessly across reports.
Key Feature: Multi-Source Data Stitching
Combine data from multiple funds, strategies, sectors, or asset classes, including public and private investments, into a single, unified report. No more juggling systems or manual reconciliation.
About Report Manager
Arcesium Report Manager is a comprehensive, automation-driven reporting solution built for the investment lifecycle. Designed to streamline reporting processes, it empowers users to make data-driven decisions with ease. Integrated within the Arcesium platforms, Report Manager enhances accuracy, transparency, and operational efficiency.
Advantages:
- Faster reporting: Turn days into minutes for timely decision-making.
- Greater accuracy: Reduce manual errors with automated data collection.
- Self-service flexibility: Empower users to generate their own.
- Enhanced collaboration: Facilitate better communication and alignment across teams through integrated scheduling.
Conclusion
By prioritizing ease of use and accessibility, Report Manager empowers you to maximize your reporting capabilities. In today’s fast-paced investment environment, timely and accurate reporting is essential. The redesigned Arcesium Report Manager puts ease, flexibility, and control back in your hands.
So, how easy is your reporting? With the right tools, it can be as simple as a few clicks.
Visit Opterra Operational Platform to learn more or contact us for a demo.
Authored By
Jyoti Orphanides
Jyoti joined Arcesium in its early days and spent 8+ years focused on the firm’s client training and sales engineering initiatives. Jyoti’s recent move to a technical marketing role marries her unique perspective of Arcesium’s capabilities with a focus on ensuring thought leadership and product content is relevant to clients’ distinct challenges.
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