Asset Management Value Streams
Sixty pre-built asset management value streams covering fund launch, mandate onboarding, the trade lifecycle, valuation, client reporting and distribution, in editable PowerPoint with a guide.
About This Value Stream Collection
Investment Is One Flow. The Firm Runs on Fifty-Nine Others.
Asset Management Value Streams is a set of 60 pre-built flows covering how work moves through an investment manager — idea to position, mandate to funded portfolio, month end to delivered client report, RFP to won assets — in editable PowerPoint, with a guide to putting them to use.
Asset managers describe themselves through the investment process, and the investment process is usually the best documented thing in the building. The flows that determine whether the firm scales are the other ones: launching a product, onboarding a segregated mandate, closing a valuation, producing a client report that does not need a manual override.
Those flows also cross the most boundaries. A valuation touches the administrator; a client report touches the data vendor and the performance system; a mandate onboarding touches the custodian, the client's consultant, and compliance. Each boundary is a place where work stops moving while somebody waits.
These 60 flows are drawn at that level. They are broken into steps rather than shown as a front-to-back diagram, so a team can mark ownership, note where a provider takes over, and identify which step is the one that makes month end late.
Three Questions the Investment Process Diagram Cannot Answer
The investment process is well documented. These questions live outside it.
What does launching a product actually take? Product launch is discussed as a decision and executed as fifty coordinated steps across legal, operations, data and distribution. Only the second version can be planned against.
Why is month end late? Reporting delays trace to a specific upstream step — a price that arrives late, a classification that needs a manual override. Flows locate it; a status meeting does not.
What does a new mandate really cost to onboard? Segregated mandates are won on fee and lost on operational drag. Mapped onboarding makes the drag visible before the mandate is signed.
Why This Matters Now
Fee pressure is permanent, and the response is operational rather than investment-side.
Margin Is Defended in Operations
With fees compressed, the difference between managers is increasingly what it costs to run a product and service a client. That cost sits in steps, and steps are what these flows enumerate.
Outsourced Trading and Middle Office Redraw the Boundaries
Moving execution or middle office to a provider changes who holds which step, not which steps exist. Firms that mapped the flows first negotiate against a document; the rest negotiate against a deck.
Client Reporting Is a Differentiator Nobody Automated
Institutional and consultant reporting still runs on manual assembly in most firms. Identifying which steps are manual is what makes the automation case concrete.
The core deliverablesWhat Is Included
Two files:
Who This Is Built For
These flows pair with the Asset Management Capability Model, which states what a manager does; the value streams state in what order and across which provider. Neither substitutes for the other.
How to Put It to Work
- Mark ownership and provider boundaries on each flow.
- Identify which steps sit on the month-end and quarter-end critical path.
- Use the flows as the scope document for an outsourcing negotiation.
- Locate automation candidates at step level rather than by naming a function.
Where Managers Typically Start
Making product launch repeatable. Turn a coordination exercise that depends on memory into a documented sequence with named owners.
Scoping an outsourced middle office. Use the flows as the inventory of what transfers and what stays.
Fixing a late month end. Trace the delay to the upstream step rather than adding people to the reporting team.
Onboarding a new operations hire. Hand over a map instead of a rotation through every desk.
What You Are Actually Buying Is Time
Sixty flows is a substantial mapping exercise — months of sessions if done from scratch, run against people who are also closing the month. Most of what emerges is common to every manager of comparable shape.
- You edit rather than originate. The flows are drafted; your effort goes to your provider arrangements, your product range, and your client segments.
- Reviewers get something to correct. An operations lead corrects a wrong map far faster than they reconstruct a right one from memory.
- It stays useful. The same flows serve an outsourcing decision, a reporting rebuild, and a target operating model.
Sixty flows across investment, operations, distribution and technology, competing with the reporting calendar.
A consulting engagement producing a comparable flow set.
Immediate download. Editable. Begin marking it up the same day.
Those first two columns describe what comparable efforts tend to involve, not a quoted benchmark — your figures depend on scope and who does the work.
Built From Real Engagements
We are software entrepreneurs and business consultants who have delivered business architecture and transformation work across financial services firms. These flows are the distilled, reusable output of that work rather than a theoretical exercise — which is also why they carry the limits described below.
Read before you buyAn Honest Note on Fit
These are generic flows designed as a starting point. Customization is expected, not a sign that something went wrong.
Specifically:
Terms You Should Know Before Purchasing
Read the description above in full before you buy. Delivery is immediate and the files are yours to keep, which is also why we cannot take returns, issue refunds, or swap a purchase for a different product once it has been downloaded. What you receive is what is listed — no warranty beyond that, and no bundled customization, implementation help, or support. A Enterprise License covers everyone inside one organization; if you intend to reuse the material across several clients, the Consultancy License is the one you need. The full digital product terms govern the sale.
What's Included
At a Glance
- 60 asset management value streams (PowerPoint, editable)
- Fund launch and mandates through trading, valuation and reporting
- Bonus: A Guide to Value Streams (PDF)
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Consultancy License
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