It will provide trade capture, matching (Omgeo CTM)/settlement; pricing rules/valuations; cash management; corporate action management; investment accounting; Australian tax calculations and tax optimisation; unit pricing; SWIFT connectivity; performance and attribution; post-trade compliance; reconciliation; interfacing and reporting. "With the rapid development of funds management opportunities in Australia and in the broader Asia-Pacific region, our imperative was to ensure our investment operations platform has the capacity and flexibility to allow the organisation to achieve its business objectives," says Ms Jacqui Cincotta, Principal and Head of Investor Services for Vanguard. "SimCorp clearly demonstrated that its single platform with common data environment and clientconfigurable process flows would facilitate exception-based management and rapid changes to support new clients, products, instruments and asset classes."