Having up-to-date fund performance data available online for clients and prospects to view isn’t so much a bonus for them as a condition of doing business in the financial sector these days. But gathering, formatting, checking and publishing that data is an arduous task in which corporate branding and efficiency in production can often take a back seat to getting the job out before the data is too old. This was pretty much the situation at Lazard Asset Management’s London offices, where there were a number of business drivers for improving the situation. The acceptable period for producing client reports had shortened over recent years, with clients now expecting accessible information by business day 5 after the end of the period. With one person working almost full- time p

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