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IQ-EQ

IQ-EQ

Category
Outsourced solutions

IQ-EQ combines one of the best in class accounting systems for closed-end funds or private assets (FIS Investran) and open-ended funds or public securities (Paxus) with best in class online visualisation technology. No need for in-house developers, as we have our own development team.

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Northern Trust Family Office Technology

Category
Consolidated Reporting

Northern Trust is a global financial institution that provides asset servicing, investment management and wealth management services for institutions, high-net-worth individuals and families or their family offices.

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Company
Employees

  • 5000+

Revenue

-

Founded

  • 1896

Incorporated

-

Locations

  • Amsterdam
  • Belfast
  • Bermuda
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Brussels
  • Cape Town
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cebu City
  • Curacao
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Dubai
  • Dublin
  • Geneva
  • GIFT City
  • Guernsey
  • Hyderabad
  • Isle of Man
  • Jersey
  • London
  • Luxembourg
  • Miami
  • Mumbai
  • Newcastle
  • New York
  • Nicosia
  • Paris
  • Pasig City
  • Port Louis
  • Shanghai
  • Sheung Wan
  • Singapore
  • Tokyo

Top 5 Markets

  • United Kingdom
  • United States of America
  • Singapore
  • Luxembourg
  • United Arab Emirates

Total AUM

-

Avg. AUM per client

-

Ownership

  • Key staff also have ownership
  • Owned by a larger corporation


100-500 (in GFO’s division)


$6.1 billion ($286.3 million – GFO’s trust fees)


  • 1889


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  • United States of America


  • Chicago
  • London
  • Guernsey
  • Luxembourg
  • Abu Dhabi


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  • $114 billion (Northern Trust’s GFO)


$900 million  (median $350 million)

Client
Focus

  • Single-family offices

Secondary focus

  • Individual wealth owners,
  • Single-family offices
  • Multi-family offices,
  • Investment & Financial Advisors (RIAs/IFAs)
  • Fund managers
  • Banks
  • Pensions
  • Endowments
  • Foundations
  • Funds of funds

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  • Single-family offices


  • Individual wealth owners


  • Approx. 500 GFO clients

Product
Main Tasks

  • Consolidated Reporting
  • Data Aggregation
  • Portfolio & Cost Analysis
  • Developers
  • Data
  • Compliance
  • Investing Technology
  • Real Estate

Top features

  • Mobile App
  • Custom Reports
  • Full Multi-Currency Support
  • Custom Development Service
  • Ability to Whitelabel

Assets supported

  • Art & Collectables
  • Alternatives
  • Bankable or Financial Assets & Funds
  • Cash & Equivalents
  • Commercial
  • Commodities
  • Rating Agency
  • Impact Funds & Deal Platform
  • Developed Markets
  • Developing Markets
  • Direct Private Equity
  • Fixed Income
  • Foreign Exchange
  • Equities
  • Hedge Funds
  • Gold & Precious Metals
  • Infrastructure
  • Insurance
  • Lifestyle Assets & Rare Collectibles
  • Private Debt
  • Private Equity
  • Private Equity & Direct Investments
  • Private Equity Funds
  • Real Estate,
  • REITS
  • Warehousing & Industrial
  • Venture Capital
  • Residential

Compliance

-

Whitelabel

  • Yes


  • Consolidated reporting
  • Portfolio management
  • Accounting
  • Governance
  • Compliance
  • Trading
  • Data aggregation
  • Risk management
  • Impact/ESG reporting


  • Holistic, aggregated single source of data
  • Automated cash & trade transaction tools
  • Comprehensive user report library
  • Ad-hoc custom reporting
  • Easily-accessible mobile platform
  • Dedicated client service team
  • Integrated partnership accounting & general ledger
  • Security & integrity of your data


  • All marketable and non-marketable assets
  • Bankable assets
  • Private equity
  • Real estate
  • Rare collectibles (e.g. luxury cars, boats, high-value jewellery)


  • MiFID II
  • GDPR
  • AIFMD
  • UCITS


  • Yes

Technology
Type Of Software

  • Serviced software

Ecosystem

-

Integrations

  • IQ-EQ Navigator
  • IQ-EQ gVUE
  • IQ-EQ Compass
  • IQ-EQ Connect
  • Max Comply
  • Yardi
  • ALLVUE
  • Diligend
  • Enfusion
  • Box
  • Snowflake
  • Novata
  • Power BI
  • Freyda
  • FIS Capital Suite
  • Trident Connect
  • Tableau

Mobile App

  • Yes

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  • Serviced software


  • Multi-factor authentication
  • Anti-fraud programs & IT security team
  • Three-tiered network architecture with redundant firewalls and DMZ layer
  • Network intrusion detections systems.
  • Regular network- and application-level penetration tests
  • Anti-virus practices at network, app and database levels
  • Several limits to employees’ ability to see and manage client data
  • Dedicated fraud prevention and investigations unit


  • Linux
  • Java


  • We interact with a variety of external vended software and send data (once authorized by the client) daily. Existing connectivity can be confirmed on request.


  • Yes