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    Andreas Uremovic, Managing Director, Global Head Investment Portfolio Compliance, Allianz Global Investors [Fra: Alv]

    Portfolio managers are required to manage investment portfolios according to the investment guidelines –the general term for the set of applicable regulations and contractual agreements signed with the client. Investment portfolio compliance teams also play a vital in helping the asset manager follow these guidelines, but these teams frequently spend much of their time on administrative tasks to fulfil regulatory and contractual obligations. Fortunately, new technology solutions can be applied to these administrative tasks, giving these compliance teams the bandwidth to add value in other critical areas.

    To be sure, following the investment guidelines is a key part of the portfolio management process, since not adhering to them could expose an asset manager to both reputational risks and financial losses. Apart from that, regulators have – since the global financial crisis – put a great deal of emphasis and attention on enhanced compliance requirements.

    This is where an investment portfolio compliance team comes in – the group that is responsible for advising, coding and monitoring the portfolio manager’s adherence to the investment guidelines. Investment guideline monitoring helps manage and mitigate key risks or breaches, and as such it is one of the most critical steps that compliance teams perform.

    Considering the complexity of an organization’s data management, trade processing, technology and regulatory control, it becomes difficult to eliminate the risk of a breach. But it is possible to take steps to prevent a breach in the first place – and in this case, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The effectiveness of compliance officers rests in their ability to add value – such as by supporting the prevention of breaches – rather than being overly pre-occupied on the routine resolving, managing and documenting of breaches after they already occurred.

    One of the solutions for this is to free up the compliance team by automating administrative post-breach activities around breach monitoring and documentation – ie, for regulatory and audit purposes. To do this, it is necessary to address what may be the biggest drawback in investment portfolio compliance systems: the incomplete and inaccurate data that leads to large workloads and additional administrative work.

    This is where robotic process automation (RPA) can help teams cope with a high amount of daily data and investment guideline rule results from the compliance systems. RPA is a front-end, state-of-the-art automation technology that enables software robots to replicate the actions of humans. In this case, an RPA solution can be applied to the “ex-post monitoring” process, which consists of three parts: screening the daily alerts generated by the compliance engine; recognising and classifying breaches that match specific patterns; and initiating follow-ups for the latter.

    The application of RPA at Allianz Global Investors has significantly improved the accuracy and quality of this critical step. With RPA, the number of errors has been reduced and processing time has decreased – which has been particularly helpful during the heightened market volatility of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since its implementation at the beginning of 2020, our RPA software robot (or “bot”) has reviewed some 100 data points daily. The bot covers 30 percent of potential guideline and data breaches, which are now classified automatically. With part of the guideline monitoring work now done by the bot, this leaves our investment portfolio compliance team with more resources to focus on a deeper analysis of data and other more complex tasks to support the prevention of breaches.

    One Of The Key Success Factors For Implementing This Technology Lies In The Close Collaboration Between The Business And Technology Sides At All Levels – From Sponsors To Process Owners To Developers

    Introducing this technology involves a new way of working – collaboration between bot and human. This in turn enables investment portfolio compliance officers to focus on and to support the first line of defence and build a resilient control framework. RPA and its underlying automation principles have the potential to redesign the compliance function’s nature and generate tremendous value in the years to come.

    RPA implementation helps asset managers apply an agile implementation approach and become highly effective. Furthermore, the success seen now in this area gives asset managers the confidence to try similar collaborations between bot and humans to further automate other compliance areas.

    For example, Allianz Global Investors is looking into using our RPA bots with artificial intelligence tools to further evolve this technology. We are exploring how AI can help us automatically identify investment guideline restrictions that appear in the investment management agreements or prospectus. Then the software can assign this information to a specific investment guideline rule in the compliance system. The entire process can then be done much more quickly and accurately, while freeing up our team members to add value in areas that definitely need the “human touch”.

    One of the key success factors for implementing this technology lies in the close collaboration between the business and technology sides at all levels – from sponsors to process owners to developers. But done properly, it is of great benefit to the entire firm, since productivity, efficiency and accuracy are all improved while reputational risks and financial losses are mitigated. There is no doubt that these types of automation solutions make investment portfolio compliance activities better at what they do.

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