Investment Accounting

Eliminate the gap between investment intent and accounting reality

Where front office and middle office users leverage same the lens on portfolio data.

Illuminate the entire investment lifecycle

Multiple sources for trades, positions and cash provide multiple points of failure. Reduce the risk by embedding real-time, event driven accounting into the investment process.

Charles River helps the front, middle and back office of complex investment managers operate from the same truth.

100+

100+ clients using Charles River’s investment book of record.

$40T

$40 Trillion AUM processed on Charles River’s investment book of record.

Accounting that moves at the speed of investment decisions

Manual processes make it harder to adapt to evolving market needs. Scale for growth with modern, multi-asset investment accounting technology that unifies the front to back office on a single platform.

One accounting truth

Disparity between the front office and operations creates risk. Align your team with event-based accounting, delivering data where and when you need it.

✔ Make more confident investment decisions with real-time visibility
✔ Pass the book across geographies to enable international teams
✔ Automate execution-to-accounting to simplify operations


One book of record from front to back office.

Simplify the stack

Fewer systems mean less reconciliation, less risk, and more efficiency. Confidently grow your business on cloud-based investment accounting technology. Built on a scalable, high‑performance, and secure multi‑asset investment management platform that includes:

✔ Portfolio management system
✔ Performance & Risk Analytics
✔ Order and execution management
✔ Compliance Reg Tech
✔ Post-trade management
✔ Data management

Streamline your investment process with less hassle and far less tech.

Lineage you can defend

Our offering is scalable, traceable and defensible by design. Leveraging the investment accounting expertise of State Street, it is designed to ease operations and controls. Proactive oversight, reconciliation control and exception management were developed with the insight of teams that execute these tasks everyday in high pressure environments.

Give your team the technology that is transforming the middle office and aligning it with the front.

Portfolio Managers see what Accounting knows

Visibility improves investment decisions and reduces downstream problems. Fully integrated performance and risk analytics connect investment accounting to the front office, ensuring investment decisions are grounded in trusted data.

Unify Front to Back Office with Comprehensive Investment Accounting.

Position Management
Cash Management
Corporate Action Processing
Reconciliation
Collateral Management
Accounting & Controls

Enable real-time decision with a single source for all positions.

✔ Positions & Tax Lots
Multi-View, Multi-Price Support
✔ Realized, Unrealized and FX P&L Impacts
✔ Account Structure Position Management

Accurately view cash across portfolios and accounts to better support trading, funding and liquidity decisions.

Real-time cash & positions
✔ Cash enrichments and withdrawals workflows
✔ Cash Forecasting

Understand the true economic impact of corporate actions on cash and positions across portfolios.

Mandatory Corporate Action Processing
✔ Corporate Action Notification
Voluntary Corporate Action Election & Processing
✔ Custodian Communication Services

Scale with automated reconciliation across internal and external systems.

✔ Support for different types of Data Sources
Multi-way Reconciliation
Configurable Rules & Workflow Management
NAV, Accruals & Ledgers

Understand margin impact and control counterparty risk.

✔ Collateral Agreement & Eligibility Management
✔ Margin Estimates & Calculation
Margin Call & Dispute Workflow
Collateral Inventory & Position Management
✔ Industry Utility & Counterparty Integration

Provide the controls, automation and governance required to accurately close books.

✔ Closed Book Workflow
Exception Management – Accounting
✔ Hard Books Close & Complex Automation
Tax Accounting
GAAP for Jurisdictions
✔ COA & Ledger
Contingent NAV

Celebrating excellence at Charles River

Client Success

A top global asset manager centralized their entire investment process on Charles River, retiring & decommissioning 27 legacy systems.

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