Affiliates: MSCS

Setting the standard.
MSCS provides mutual fund processing and settlement services through the most automated and cost-effective transaction processing available. Serving more than 300 institutions, MSCS has over $100 billion in assets on its platform, making it one of the largest mutual fund processors in the industry.

In 2006, the National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) named MSCS the leading automated mutual fund clearing platform provider for the sixth consecutive year—setting a new industry standard.

Our fully automated, low-cost platform for mutual fund processing includes transparent trading interfaces; daily reconcilement capabilities; a paperless, automated fund-account opening process; and a single net settlement for all trade activity. This all-in-one solution eliminates the difficult task of executing new mutual fund agreements with customers for each trade, saving time and resources while increasing accuracy.

Open for business.
In the financial services world, open architecture refers to the technology that allows multiple service providers to communicate and share data electronically. It’s often used for retirement plan administration, because it allows continual transmission of files—a constant flow of up-to-date plan information between the plan sponsor’s payroll, participants, third-party administrators, plan investment companies and investment advisors. It’s a way to bring together data from multiple service providers and investment providers for a plan or a trust, or even a high-net-worth individual.
 
MSCS’s version of open architecture is different. We process mutual funds in virtually every investment style through multiple distribution channels, managed by some of the world’s leading mutual fund companies. And we don’t offer proprietary investment products, so you are free to choose from thousands of mutual funds managed by some of the best minds on Wall Street as well as stocks and bonds through Individually Directed Accounts, Exchange Traded Funds or Individually Managed Accounts.

Our open-architecture platform allows our customers to compete more effectively, retain customers and attract new customers by meeting the increasingly diverse needs of plan sponsors and their participants. With MSCS, you choose what fits.

Money Market Portal: Provides execution and same-day (T+0) settlement for a robust list of industry-leading money market products. To reduce your operational overhead, increase your operating revenue and eliminate execution risk, contact Matrix Financial Solutions to learn more about the Money Market Portal.

Multi-Broker SDA Solution: Provides flexibility, choice and control over retirement plan assets, allowing for self-direction or assigned third-party investor management.

Mutual Funds: Access over 460 fund families and thousands of funds via FundServ and NSCC’s Defined Contribution & Clearing Services (DCC&S). Processing through the NSCC lets you offer an almost unlimited choice of mutual funds with the ease of a single net settlement.

Individually Directed Accounts (IDAs): Give your clients IDAs via our automated custodial interface, which links to some of the largest discount brokers with many of the full-service broker/dealers of their choice.

Individually Managed Accounts (IMAs): Our end-to-end technology is a fully automated solution to provide managed portfolios of mutual funds. Features include automatic rebalancing, full AIMR standard performance reporting and access to some of the leading portfolio strategists in the industry. IMAs give investors the option to have all or part of their assets professionally managed in accordance with their personal risk tolerance.