Maitland, the largest third party administrator in South Africa, has selected SunGard’s Investran. Investran will help to automate the investment accounting process and investor reporting operations. The automation of key processes will help increase Maitland’s business efficiency to better service its clients and enable agile growth into new markets.

Investran’s single platform will help Maitland facilitate internal collaboration, support investor relations and automate accounting to streamline the investment and investor accounting process and provide enhanced reporting to better service their investors.

Says Bruce McGlogan, head of private equity and real estate, fund services, Maitland, “Our services extend across all fund types, strategies and investment styles. We operate at the highest technological and governance levels and Investran offers a comprehensive support model backed up by skilled resources that will enable us to deliver on our service commitments.

“We found that its broad functionality and the fact that it is a highly configurable product allows ease of customisation for our clients both locally and globally and helps us achieve greater business agility as we look to grow into new markets.”

SunGard’s Investran will help Maitland analyse, manage and disseminate large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data. As an integrated front-to-back solution suite, Investran will facilitate internal collaboration, support investor relations and automate accounting, thereby helping improve overall business efficiency and mitigate operational risk.