SS&C Advent is honored to be the recipient of two 2025 Waters Technology Buy-Side Awards. These wins highlight our continued focus on client-centric innovation, operational excellence, and helping our clients meet their goals.
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SS&C Sylvan earned the award for Best Buy-Side Performance Measurement and Attribution Product. This recognition reflects Sylvan’s advanced capabilities in delivering transparent, timely performance analysis across asset classes, backed by robust data validation and flexible reporting.
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The duo of SS&C’s Advent Geneva and Advent Portfolio Exchange (APX) secured the award for Best Portfolio Accounting Platform. These solutions form the backbone of many of our clients’ operational workflows, handling everything from complex fund structures to crucial accounting capabilities that meet regulatory and client mandates.
What’s Behind the Wins
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Client-Centric Innovation: Every advancement — whether it’s a new attribution method in Sylvan or enhanced unified managed account (UMA) capabilities for APX — is driven by feedback from our clients. These accolades reflect the real-world impact of our solutions in live, mission-critical environments.
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Operational Excellence: With increasing pressure on buy-side firms to meet client and regulatory demands in a scalable, efficient fashion, our solutions help clients reduce risk, streamline workflows, and stay ahead of market changes, reflecting our deep domain understanding and ability to incorporate it into new functionality.
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Sustainable Vision: Our roadmap isn’t just about incremental updates. Plans for AI-driven analytics, event-driven architecture, and enhanced interoperability demonstrate our commitment to future innovation. We believe our clients deserve tools that don’t just solve today’s problems — but are ready for tomorrow’s.
More on SS&C Sylvan: Performance Analytics with Power
Sylvan acts as a “performance book of record,” capturing and preserving calculated results over time, while accommodating a broad spectrum of return methodologies (such as time-weighted, money-weighted, gross/net, after-tax), and supporting GIPS compliance.
But what really sets Sylvan apart is that it is a single, integrated solution for performance, attribution, risk, and composites that can be tailored to match firms’ investment management processes. Sylvan’s highly scalable calculation engine and integrated workflows help clients operationalize performance measurement while customizable dashboards and flexible reports facilitate self-service, collaboration, and informed decision-making. Learn more about Sylvan.
More on Geneva & APX: Accounting That Streamlines and Scales
On the accounting front, Geneva and APX embody SS&C Advent’s long-standing expertise combined with visionary development.
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Geneva handles a full range of complex asset classes (e.g., derivatives and bank debt), offers a fully automated general ledger and streamlines partnership accounting with automated allocations and fee calculations across diverse fund types.
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APX centralizes complex and diverse portfolio and relationship data and can now enable firm-wide reporting and compliance within a unified investment experience as part of the cloud-based platform, Genesis.
“These cornerstone solutions aren’t just keeping pace―they’re actively shaping the future of financial technology. With every enhancement, we’re equipping our clients with scalable, high-impact tools built to thrive in today’s fast-moving marketplace,” said Boris Bykhovsky, senior managing director, head of investment management solutions, SS&C Advent.
Learn more about Geneva and APX.
Thank You to Our Clients and Our Team
We are grateful to our clients — the firms, performance teams, accounting professionals, and operations leaders — whose trust, feedback, and partnership guide every step of our journey and led to this industry recognition.
We also want to recognize our incredible SS&C Advent team. Their dedication, creativity, and expertise are the heart of what we do. From developers and product managers to client success leads — these wins are yours.
Winning these Waters BST Awards reinforces our belief in the power of alignment: Between data and insight, between technology and people, and between today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. We’re committed to continuing on this path — investing wisely, listening actively, and building thoughtfully.
If you’re interested in learning more about our solutions, please get in touch.
