PAM Investment Accounting

Unparalleled Accounting Depth Across Asset Classes and Jurisdictions

Over 370 Clients in 40+ Countries Trust in PAM's Accounting Precision

PAM for Securities is a comprehensive investment accounting and management platform that supports international accounting and reporting requirements for a diverse range of assets and portfolio types. Whether you are looking to fulfill domestic accounting needs or require accounting for multiple global jurisdictions, PAM can meet your demands.

Investment coverage ranges from basic equities to complex fixed income and derivative positions. Sophisticated investment strategies and the resulting accounting treatments can be properly reflected, including linking derivatives to underlying positions and meeting hedge accounting requirements. Moreover, PAM can be seamlessly integrated with other elements of the investment cycle to enhance the control environment and create operational efficiencies.

Key Features

  • Multiple basis accounting: local GAAP, TAX, Stat, Management, IFRS
  • Integrated sub-ledger with multiple charts of accounts
  • Multi-currency based with bifurcation of FX & Market G/L
  • Accounting across all asset classes: equities, fixed income, derivatives, structured products, options, futures, swaps, real estate investments, private placements
  • Full Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations for single or multi-class funds
  • Integrated GIPS-compliant performance measurement, attribution and analysis
  • Slice and dice your accounting data across assets classes and managers
  • Risk Management
  • Web-based reporting with user-defined dashboards
  • Bi-directional integration with leading vendors to automate the investment cycle: Bloomberg, BlackRock, StatPro® and others
  • Flexible ownership structure

Your Benefits with PAM

  • Proven accounting and controls environment
  • Extendable instrument modeling facility
  • Automated workflows
  • Accurate and consistent data
  • Flexible system deployment
  • Control operational costs

Enhance Your PAM Solution with

  • PAM Composites guides you through the creation and maintenance of composites to support your GIPS verification or any internal needs
  • PAM Fixed Income Analytics decomposes returns, attribution effects, and bond risks using a large range of segmentations and effects
  • PAM Performance and Attribution provides managers and investors with key information on the investment decision-making process
  • PAM Risk Management is a world-class risk model covering all asset classes and markets, available in a web-based technology
  • Bloomberg Trading Systems Interface is a seamless link between the Bloomberg Portfolio Order Management System and PAM
  • PAM Cash Application Module fully automates your cash accounting and reconciliation process
  • PAM Data Link enables you to translate and load securities related data into PAM quickly and easily, saving you valuable time
  • PAM Export Module optimizes the data extraction process by enabling you to quickly and easily access data and create files of PAM data for export to data warehouses, other applications or reporting tools
  • PAM for Mutual Funds allows the workflow to be configured to match your organization's requirements for security and audit control
  • PAM InfoHub is designed for easy access to PAM data, and makes reporting easy and efficient
  • PAM InfoStream is a standards-based, real-time, crossplatform interfacing and reporting platform that provides efficient access to PAM business information
  • PAM for Multible Bases Accounting provides unlimited accounting bases that enable global investment management firms to use just one system for unique accounting by country and type of accounting
  • CTN and Omgeo - the Custodian Trade Notication Module (CTN), the Omgeo Oasys TradeMatch and Omgeo TradeHub Interfaces automate your trade affirmation and settlement notification process with your brokers and custodian banks
  • PAM for Reconciliation provides a robust solution to reconcile your PAM for Securities positions and transactions with your custodians
  • PAM Recovery offers a dependable, cost-effective solution for ensuring that a mission-critical application like PAM is easily accessible in the event of business interruption
  • PAM Reporting enables users to exploit the richness of information in PAM by creating reports that can slice/dice/aggregate/drillthrough data anywhere, any time

Transaction Management Excellence

  • Full trade cycle management
  • Real-time integration with trading and security master file information
  • Automated position and trade enrichment
  • Settlement instructions via OASYS integration or custodian banks
  • Transaction cross reference

Record-keeping and Valuation Accuracy

  • Yield curve pricing (swaps, private loans) next to bid/ask pricing
  • Asset & cash reconciliation
  • Multiple book values: fair value, amortized cost, hist. cost, carrying value
  • Multiple accounting frameworks: GAAP, IFRS, Tax, Stat, Management
  • Effective interest schedules for amortization and interest income
  • Impairments & reversals
  • Full bifurcation of FX & Market G/L over unrealized & realized G/L
  • Unrealized G/L through equity or P&L

Cash Management Automation

  • Real-time cash reconciliation with custodian banks
  • Automated receivables and cash accounting as well as reconciliation processes
  • Historical database of transaction reconcilements
  • User-defined tolerances per portfolio and flexible reconciliation frequency
  • On-screen exceptions
  • Flexible cash and portfolio analysis reporting

Transparency through Reporting Excellence

  • Web-based reports
  • Simple data queries or board quality reports
  • Custom reporting
  • Management dashboards
  • Analytics

Choose your Delivery Model

With ePAM, our Software as a Service (SaaS) model, clients rely on Princeton Financial Systems for technology, disaster recovery and integration management services. Princeton Financial Systems' SaaS offering leverages our world class data center and operational best practices so that you can focus on your core business activities.

Check out related accounting solutions:

PAM for Mortgages
PAM for Bank Loans
PAM for UVT
Hosted Investment Accounting - ePAM
PAM Architecture
PAM Composites
PAM Performance and Attribution
PAM Fixed Income Analytics
PAM Risk Management

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to email us or simply call your local office.

Selected References




Hosted Solution

We also offer PAM for Securities as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Please find out more about ePAM.

Insular Life

Princeton Financial Systems' experience in providing solutions for the insurance industry was a key factor in our decision. We selected PAM due to its superior accounting functionality and the efficiencies it will bring to our organization.
By automating the investment
and accounting process we will improve our operations and reduce costs.
Insular Life Press Release