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Product Mastering Guide

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GUIDE SUMMARY

The challenge: why fund launches take 6-8 months

If you're like most asset managers, launching a new fund takes somewhere between 6-8 months. That's 6-8 months of missed market opportunities, watching competitors move first, and frustrated stakeholders asking 'why is this taking so long?'

The Industry statistics

  • 56% of asset managers cite data fragmentation and siloed systems as their top challenge
  • 46% struggle with legacy systems and manual processes blocking progress
  • 43% report volume and frequency of updates as a critical pain point

Source: FE fundinfo - Asset Managers Report 2025

That's where Product Mastering comes in. 

Product Mastering transforms fund launches with a single source of truth that governs all product data throughout its lifecycle. Download the guide that shows you how to automate workflows, eliminate silos, and build future-ready infrastructure.

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Investment manager pain points

Teams spend countless hours manually gathering data from multiple systems for a single fund launch. This can equate to huge labour costs before even starting the actual launch process.

Regulatory filing rejection rates of 15-25% are common, with each rejection adding weeks to launch timelines. Different versions of data across systems create inconsistencies between regulatory documents and marketing materials.

Traditional launch processes are painfully sequential. Legal can't start until product team finishes. Compliance can't review until legal completes. Marketing waits for compliance. Distribution setup happens last. What could be done in parallel over 8 weeks stretches to 20+ weeks of sequential work.

Operations teams spend a large portion of their time on manual data entry and reconciliation instead of strategic analysis, client service, or innovation. This time spent on manual data work can equate to the value of staff yearly salaries, where your organisation could be paying for drudgery instead of value creation.

Each new product, share class, or market expansion multiplies manual workload. You can't grow without proportional headcount increases. Your cost per fund managed continues to rise instead of declining with scale.

The solution: Product Mastering

How Product Mastering works

Product Mastering transforms fund launches by establishing a centralised product master—a single source of truth that actively manages, governs, and orchestrates all product data across its entire lifecycle.

Capture once: Data entered once at source, eliminating redundant entry across systems

Govern centrally: Consistent validation rules and approval workflows from central framework

Use everywhere: Automated data flow to all downstream systems through APIs

Launch faster: Pre-validated templates, automated workflows, and parallel processing

What you'll achieve with Product Mastering

  • Faster fund launches
  • Reduce time spent completing manual data work
  • Improve data accuracy - reducing regulatory filing rejections
  • Expand launch capacity
  • Significant cost reductions
  • Scale without proportional headcount increases (eliminate the scalability trap)

Real result: Discover how FTSE250 Asset Manager (35.6bn AuMA) onboarded in under 12 weeks and now delivers validated, trustworthy data downstream.

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What's included in the guide

This comprehensive framework provides everything you need to implement product mastering, to help your firm achieve:

Single source of truth - Centralised repository where data is captured once at source with consistent validation rules

Central governance - Standardised processes and validation rules ensure data quality and compliance across the organisation

Unified distribution - Master data powers all systems, eliminating duplication and inconsistency

Break down silos - Seamless system integration provides a unified view across the organisation with multi-format reporting

Workflow automation - Eliminates manual data entry through built-in validation and streamlined approval processes

Enterprise scalability - Handles thousands of products with continuous updates and enterprise-grade performance

Operational efficiency - Frees teams from manual tasks, dramatically reducing time spent on data entry and validation

Enhanced decision-making - Provides consistent, accurate information for confident strategic choices and collaboration