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Private Wealth Systems

Private Wealth Systems

Category
Consolidated Reporting

USA-based Private Wealth Systems provides the digital infrastructure that powers modern family offices across the world. The platform is able to support even the most complex nested ownership structure through its capturing, correcting, calculating and presenting of actionable information across asset classes and currencies.

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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

  • 11-50

Revenue

Founded

  • 2014

Ownership

  • Owned by management
  • Clients are also owners

Incorporated

  • United States of America

Locations

  • Charlotte
  • New York
  • Salt Lake City

Top markets

  • Switzerland
  • United States of America
  • United Kingdom
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Australia

Total AUM

  • $200 billion

Avg. AUM per client

  • $223 million


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

Serves also

  • Multi-family offices
  • Banks
  • Individual wealth owners
  • Fund managers

Number

  • 650+ UHNWIs and family offices


  • Single-family offices


  • Individual wealth owners


  • Approx. 500 GFO clients

Product
Main tasks

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

Top features

  • Data aggregation – our direct bank feeds captures 3x more data than other providers.
  • Data validation – we perform daily reconciliation and correct bank data errors.
  • Performance calculation – in side by side comparisons with other systems we have proven double-digit accuracy in performance and analytics.
  • Custom reporting – our award winning data model empowers each user to personalize their data any way they want.
  • Digital portal – wealth owners can customize their own mobile dashboards to have total power over their wealth.

Assets supported

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

Compliance

  • GDPR

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

  • SaaS
  • Serviced software

Security

  • Multi factor authentication
  • Application scanning
  • Network scanning
  • Encryption at-rest and in-transit
  • Data leakage prevention (DLP)
  • User level access controls
  • Annual audits by global banks

Ecosystem

  • Microsoft

Integrations

  • API that can connect with any third party system including CRM, bill pay

Mobile App

  • Yes


  • 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