Composer

Overview

GBST Composer™ offers a single fully integrated system to administer managed funds, structured products and retirement products. That’s why it’s the choice of many premier financial institutions.

Leading Provider

Composer™ is the leading administration and registry platform available today. It has innovative CRM, Imaging, Workflow, proven STP, extensive online capabilities and comprehensive reporting for servicing investors and advisers.

Structure Products with Ease

Composer™ provides a wealth of functionality that enables businesses to easily introduce new products, features and risk benefits in a cost effective manner, including:

• Wraps
• Superannuation – corporate and personal
• Pensions
• Unit trusts – retail and wholesale
• Life products
• Risk products
• Loans
• Cash management including term products

Flexible Administration

As an administration platform, Composer™ provides for a variety of sophisticated investment vehicles, flexible investment choice including model portfolios, workflow driven compliance and quality control procedures, extensive electronic payment processing, tax management and consolidated reporting services.

Adding to Composer's™ CRM facilities is Composer’s™ registry processing which offers a single view of the investor and all holdings, making Composer ideal for servicing financial advisers and investors alike.

Features & Benefits

A single, client-centric administration application for the wealth management industry via a complete, intuitive and flexible solution, GBST Composer™ satisfies the demanding requirements of platform providers, fund managers and fund administrators. Composer™ provides business rule driven functionality to support flexible administration procedures that can be configured quickly and easily, without the requirement for complex software development.

Key benefits

• Flexible, scalable and easy to use administration platform
• Facilitates the introduction of new products and features easily, quickly and cost effectively
• Streamlines applications such as data warehousing, straight through processing and online delivery through web portals and phone systems
• Proven, regulatory compliant solution deployed by leading financial institutions

Key features

• Client centric design allows maintenance of a single record for multiple parties and accounts
• Facilitates the introduction of new products and features easily, quickly and cost effectively
• Extensive on-line CRM and Client Services capabilities
• Up-to-date user interface
• Support for an unlimited number of products, including superannuation, general investment products, containing an unlimited number of Investment options
• Support for white-labelling
• Parameterised distributions with reprocessing options at any stage of the distribution
• Rules based tax and re-investment processing
• Support for mortgaged investments (margin lending)
• Multiple pricing options including forward pricing
• Support for multiple investor types including an unlimited number of joint account holders
• Withholding Tax processing for foreign investors
• Investor grouping for reporting and for fee and trail rebates
• Finite Process Control with Workflow and Imaging integration
• Dealer, Branch, BDM, Adviser hierarchy supported with commissions
• Linked transactions to efficiently search for associated transactions
• Compliance reporting such as the Australian Annual Income Investment Return (AIIR) Reporting Quality Control
• Comprehensive online transaction and distribution history reporting
• Support for Savings Plans and Regular Drawdowns
• Banking functionality - receipting, reconciliations, payments (electronic and cheques)
• Cash Hub capability with daily accruals of income with periodic capitalisation
• Aggregated order processing for externally managed funds and equities
• User and group user security levels for access to functions
• Extensive integration options with third party systems