Asset Management Value Streams

This is a complete set of 60 end-to-end value stream maps for the Asset Management sector, covering how investment management firms generate ideas, build and trade portfolios, service clients, and get paid for performance. Delivered as an editable PowerPoint deck, each flow is broken into stages, with the activities, inputs, and outputs at each stage laid out so the map can be read, presented, and edited without redrawing it from scratch.

Why the Sequence Is Hard to Fake

Ask a generic AI tool to map asset management processes and it will default to a straight line from research to trade to client report, because that's the intuitive order. It's not the actual order. Trades execute in aggregate first — a block order fills once across the market — and only afterward does allocation split that fill down into specific client accounts and funds, the reverse of the per-customer sequencing most industries follow. Institutional distribution runs through a completely different flow than retail/intermediated distribution (RFP and consultant due diligence versus wholesaler and platform onboarding), and performance measurement can't start until trading data and fund accounting data both reconcile against the same NAV strike — three separate stage boundaries a generic prompt has no reason to know exist.

What's Inside

60 value stream flows spanning the front, middle, and back office — investment research and portfolio construction, trade execution and allocation, NAV calculation and reconciliation, client onboarding and KYC, institutional and retail distribution, performance measurement and reporting, and fund operations including corporate actions processing. Each flow is broken into stages with the activities, inputs, and outputs defined at that level, built in PowerPoint so your team can relabel, reorder, or extend any flow without starting over.

How Teams Use It

• Baseline a target operating model review of front-to-back office workflows without commissioning a consulting engagement to draw the current state first
• Onboard new operations, product, or technology hires to how trades, NAV, and client reporting actually connect across the firm
• Scope a system implementation (OMS, PMS, or fund accounting platform) against a real end-to-end flow instead of a vendor's idealized reference process
• Support a distribution or product build-out by showing exactly where institutional and retail servicing flows diverge and reconverge

Who It's For

Operations, technology, and product leaders at asset managers, fund administrators, and wealth platforms who need a credible end-to-end reference fast — not a from-scratch mapping exercise.