Accurate and timely information is the lifeblood of the financial sector. Staff, intermediaries and customers all require up-to- date information on asset allocation and fund performance and in the Internet age, they expect to be able to get it quickly and easily. Producing it isn’t always so easy, though. Preparing accurate quarterly reports for hundreds of funds with consistent formatting to match corporate style can be immensely time-consuming, and if manual preparation methods are used, error-prone, requiring many rounds of proofreading and correction before documents can be made public. Hundreds of funds This was the case at Aegon Scottish Equitable, a 175-year-old provider of pensions, protection, investments and annuities that has been part of the Aegon group since 199

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