Custom software for portfolio reporting in wealth management
Appfront builds software for asset managers, family offices and private banks that report to their clients on a regular basis: positions, transactions and prices brought together from the portfolio system and custodian banks, returns calculated per portfolio and per asset class, fees and costs clearly displayed, and a report in your own house style that appears in the client portal once reviewed. So the reporting period no longer costs weeks of exports, spreadsheets and manual work.
What is portfolio reporting software in wealth management?
A wealth manager reports to their clients on their portfolio at regular intervals: what it holds, what has been bought and sold, what return has been achieved, how that compares with the benchmark, and what the management has cost. For a client with accounts at two custodian banks and a few unlisted investments, that information has to come from several sources. Portfolio reporting software brings those sources together and produces an accurate report for each client.
Without such software, the reporting period becomes a project. Someone retrieves exports from the custodian banks, reconciles them with the portfolio system, works out the returns in a spreadsheet, adds the costs and pastes everything into a template. A discrepancy between two sources costs hours. A client who made deposits part-way through receives a return that is not correct. And the manager's commentary is inserted by hand into each report.
We build custom solutions because the reporting has to fit your clients and sources: which custodian banks and systems you use, how you calculate returns and which benchmark you apply per profile, which costs you show and how, what your clients want to see, and which house style your report should follow. A standard package produces a standard report; it often doesn't know your structure, your commentary or your unlisted investments.
All sources together
Positions, transactions and prices from the portfolio system, the custodian banks and manually managed investments, reconciled before reporting begins.
Figures that add up
Returns per portfolio, category and period, taking deposits and withdrawals into account, alongside the benchmark and with costs shown.
Your report, your tone
A report in your house style with the manager's commentary, as a PDF and in the client portal, once reviewed and approved.
How we build your portfolio reporting software for wealth management
We start with the last reporting period: how many reports, from which sources, how much manual work, and where the discrepancies that took the longest to resolve came from.
Your custodian banks and systems, the way you calculate returns, the benchmarks, the costs you show, and the report as you want it.
Importing positions, transactions and prices from all sources, and the reconciliation that makes discrepancies visible.
Returns, benchmark and costs per portfolio, the report in your house style, and the manager's commentary.
Review and approval for each report, publication in the client portal, the archive, and ongoing management afterwards.
What portfolio reporting software for wealth management actually does
The components below feature in almost every wealth management firm. Which ones you need depends on your sources and your clients.
Importing data
Positions, transactions, prices and cash flows from the portfolio system and custodian banks, and manually managed investments.
Reconciliation
Positions and balances compared across sources, with a list of differences that must be resolved first.
Yield
Return per portfolio, category and period, adjusted for deposits and withdrawals, alongside the benchmark.
Costs and fees
Management fees, transaction costs and fund costs per portfolio, clearly presented.
Report and commentary
The report in your house style, with a commentary from the manager per profile or per client.
Review and portal
Release per report by a second person, publication in the client portal, and an archive of everything that has been sent.
For whom we build portfolio reporting software for wealth management
The software is intended for managers for whom the reporting period is currently mostly manual work.
Asset managers
Many clients with model portfolios. The reconciliation and the report per profile are the core.
Family offices
Few clients with many types of holdings. Bringing all sources together and the commentary matter most.
Private banks
Reporting alongside advice, with strict requirements for justification. Control and the archive are what is needed.
Fund managers
Reporting to participants per fund. Return and costs per class are the core.
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This page is about the periodic client report. For wealth management as a whole, see our page on a wealth management platform; for checking portfolios against the mandate, see our page on mandate monitoring; and for reporting to fund participants, see our page on a participant reporting app. You can read about how we work under custom software development.
If you report to participants quarterly as a fund manager, have a look at our quarterly participant reporting software.
Why choose Appfront for your portfolio reporting software for wealth management?
For many clients, the report is the only moment they see your work. We build on that: figures that add up, a report that suits your firm, and a reporting period that is no longer a project in itself.
Less manual work
Data comes from the sources and is reconciled. The period is spent on checking, not on cutting and pasting.
Differences caught early
A difference between sources is spotted before the report is produced, not by the client.
Your own story
The report carries your house style and your commentary. The client reads about your management, not a package template.
Security and privacy in portfolio reporting software for wealth management
The software holds clients' asset data, which is highly confidential. Access is set up by role: the manager sees their clients, the reviewer sees reports for release, and the client sees only their own report. Every change and release is logged with name and time.
The software runs in a European data centre or in your own environment, with encrypted storage, daily backups and two-factor sign-in. Integrations with custodian banks use dedicated keys that can be revoked.
Frequently asked questions about portfolio reporting software for wealth management
Questions that wealth managers ask before getting started.
It reads positions, transactions and prices from the portfolio system and custodian banks, reconciles them, calculates return per portfolio and category alongside the benchmark, shows costs and fees, produces a report in your house style with commentary, and publishes it to the client portal after release.
Yes. Positions and transactions from each custodian bank are imported and combined per client. We'll review which custodian banks you use and how they supply data in the first step.
Based on the method you apply, for example time-weighted or money-weighted, adjusted for deposits and withdrawals. The calculation can be recalculated for each report.
Yes. Management fees, transaction costs and fund costs are shown per portfolio. Which costs you are legally required to report, and how, is for you to determine with your compliance team; the software calculates and displays them as you define.
Yes. Property, private equity or other investments without a daily price are updated manually or from a separate source, and appear in the same report.
A second person approves each report, or a sample if you set it up that way. It only appears in the portal after approval.
Check that first. Many portfolio systems generate standard reports, and these are sufficient if you have one custodian bank and simple portfolios. Custom development makes sense if you combine multiple sources, if your report needs your own layout and commentary, or if the reporting period currently involves a lot of manual work.
A reporting period that is no longer a project?
Tell us which custodian banks and systems you use, how you currently report and what your clients want to see. We'll show you what the reconciliation, the calculation and the report look like.