Building on the success of PMCR 2025, we’re expanding next year’s performance measurement and client reporting event, taking place February 24-26, 2026, in New York City. We’re working with this year’s Board of Advisors — including Alex Shafran (Cohen & Steers), Ambika D’Souza (Cambridge Associates), Christine Iannacone (Prudential Financial), Janice Kitzman (Cascade Compliance), and Pamela
FinTech Ops
A.I. Adoption in Client Reporting & Performance Measurement: Strategy, Training & Investment Challenges
Vinod Jain, a strategic advisor for Datos Insights, explores the strategy, training, and investment challenges of A.I. for performance and client teams.
FinTech Ops
New Skillsets & Integrations Are on the Rise for Performance Teams
A recent study reveals how the performance profession is evolving in two key aspects.
Back-Office
Natural Language Generation: Sailing Through Your Data Lakes
While most might not admit it, many wealth managers are drowning in their data lakes. Whether structured or unstructured data, performance, or regulatory information, corporate or client documents, it is easy for firms with a large number of accounts to feel like they can’t get their head above water to make the best decisions for
KYC
Outsourcing Client Reporting: What Are the Options?
What is client reporting? Client reporting coupled with face-to-face client meetings have been the signature of successful client-manager relationships. With face-to-face meetings, figures can be articulated with sufficient context to bring understanding; shifting objectives can be more clearly explained, and the partnership is strengthened on both a social and professional front. These dialogues are key.
KYC
Data Governance to the Rescue?
Introduction: Is data governance the silver bullet for all your data issues? Has the marriage of performance departments and the data office been a successful one? In this blog, we’ll explore the significance of data governance and its impact on addressing data challenges in the performance measurement and client reporting industry. Understanding Data Governance: Data
KYC
Calculating Value Add at Scale for Tax-Managed Accounts
In this post, we will explain what tax-managed separately managed accounts (SMAs) are, clarify terms relative to performance measurement for tax-managed SMAs, and the challenges faced by performance professionals in measuring and attributing performance. After-Tax Returns Investors who care about maximizing after-tax returns may sometimes consider using tax-managed SMAs as part of their portfolio strategy.
Standards
UMAs Are Popular But They Have Reporting Challenges
What is a unified managed account also known as a UMA? In simple terms, it is a way to unify a client’s managed assets into one account. Instead of having one account for a large-cap separately managed account (SMA), another one for a fixed income SMA, and a third one housing mutual funds and exchange-traded
Buy-Side
What’s at the Heart of Investment Skills?
Investment skill is the raison d’être of the asset management industry. Asset managers are paid to have it and their clients pay them for it. Despite this, empirical evidence of its existence, and what it looks like in practice, up to now, has been sparse, to say the least. We at Inalytics have filled that
Automation
T+1 in Canada: Same Goal, Different Plays
Canada and the U.S. have shared a common standard securities settlement cycle for longer than most in the industry today can remember. Industry participants in both countries successfully moved from a standard cycle of five to three business days after trade date (from T+5 to T+3) in 1995 and from T+3 to T+2 in 2017.
