Linedata Icon Retail

The Mutual Funds Industry is highly competitive, with complex shareholder administration requirements. The scope is becoming far more pan-European, facilitated by MiFID, UCITS III, and the upcoming UCITS IV. Organisations are seeking ways to differentiate from each other to avoid commoditisation.

Linedata works in partnership with its clients to help them provide better services for increasingly knowledgeable and demanding customers, whilst maintaining economies of scale.

Linedata Icon Retail, your multi-currency, multi-enterprise shareholder solution

Linedata Icon Retail is your transfer agency system for marketing, managing and fully catering for the demands of retail fund vehicles, across all business channels. This solution is adaptable, scalable and suitable for collective investment fund providers of all sizes.  The system incorporates a carefully designed open architecture, allowing new products to be introduced quickly and easily.

Linedata Icon Retail is proven to handle growing business volumes and data. For example, it has enabled one customer to manage over half a million client accounts and thousands of transactions in Unit Trusts, OEICs and ISAs each day.

Linedata Icon Retail uses XML connectivity combined with the latest database technology to improve performance and maximise STP processing. This achieves greater cost efficiency, leaving you to focus on managing customer relationships and dealing with any exception items. Linedata Icon Retail offers complete end-to-end administration with automated throughput, including direct credit payments via BACS


Core Functionalities

Dealing & Administration

  • Deal types include sales (new business, top-up, regular saver, adjustments, reinvestment), repurchases (ad-hoc, regular withdrawal), switches (ad-hoc and regular) and transfers (inbound, outbound and internal)
  • Unit creations & liquidations, dilution levy
  • FX requirement
  • Complex agency structures and servicing
  • Commission and clawback processing
  • Payment (recording, matching, client money, failure/refund, reconciliation) and income (Distribution, tax vouchers, tax credit reclaim, interest calculation) processing
  • Active and passive box management

Products

  • Standard product types such as Unit Trusts, OEICs and ISAs
  • Structured products
  • Lifestyle products
  • Flexible product features, reducing time to market for new product types
  • Comprehensive terms of business including commissions, charges and discounts

Servicing

  • Client and intermediary maintenance
  • Client documentation (standard and ad-hoc)
  • Valuation and transaction history
  • Contact logging
  • Marketing campaigns

Reporting

Linedata Icon Retail has comprehensive reporting capabilities, including client and operational reporting, management information, regulatory reporting, scheduled or ad-hoc reports.

Hosting services

Linedata Icon Retail can be deployed as best suits the needs of different organisations. As business needs change, the deployment can be changed to meet them.

Linedata Icon Retail ASP

(Application Service Provider)

  • Linedata handles IT hosting and administration
  • Cost-effective access to Linedata Icon Retail functionality
  • Disaster recovery arrangements are included as standard

Linedata Icon Retail In-House

For customers who already have IT infrastructure in place, prefer or need the whole system to be located at their own premises.