Investment Performance Services

• Pre-Compliance Consulting: Expert advice is needed to bring your firm into compliance with the GIPS standards
• Firm-wide Verification: Independent review of your firm’s claim of GIPS compliance
• Performance Examination: In addition to a firm-wide verification, a composite-specific review can be performed
• 2020 GIPS Compliance Gap Analysis: Assistance in assessing the impact of the 2020 GIPS standards on your firm

• In-depth review of data, methodologies, records, controls, and disclosures to support calculating investment performance
• Assistance with the execution of the firm's compliance program
• Includes review of calculation methodologies for internal rate of return (IRR) for investments or funds in accordance with FINRA Regulatory Notice 20-21
• Results in a summary report to management, including findings and recommendations, in accordance with regulatory requirements and industry-leading practices

• Review and examination of input data, methodologies, and assumptions used to support an investment performance track record
• Provides assurance and lends credibility to the underlying track record
• Results in customized performance certification report provided by ACA to the firm which may be used in marketing efforts

• Visualize how outliers impact overall composite performance
• Determine which composites are reasonable to pass on and which have issues that may need to be addressed before marketing performance
• Establish procedures to monitor portfolio managers and financial advisors to ensure management of the portfolio is adhering to the stated strategy
• Ensure any 'related performance' is not materially higher than that of a composite for the same strategy and in accordance with the SEC's new Marketing Rule

Outsource complex performance measurement and reporting functions to balance your reporting commitments with monetary and time budgets. Our team can support you with:

• Portfolio and fund performance calculations
• Composite management and performance calculations
• GIPS compliance oversight and verification management
• Calculate risk and other performance-related statistics
• Gross and net money-weighted return calculations (fund and deal level IRRs)
• Performance advisory