Bowne Investment Management Communications
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What do Bowne's integrated services mean for fund companies doing business in Europe?

The short answer is: greater speed, greater control, greater efficiency and lower risk — all at a lower cost. The basic idea behind these benefits is simple yet unique. By taking truly strong capabilities in content management, translation, and publishing and bringing them together under one roof, Bowne is able to offer fund promoters and management firms a degree of quality, control and efficiency that no other provider can match.

How, specifically, can this help fund companies?

When managing and producing fund compliance-related documents – such as the full and simplified prospectus, annual and interim reports, key investor information documents and fund factsheets – investment managers historically have had only two options. One option was to seek out separate vendors for content management, translation and publishing. This could allow a fund company to enjoy quality services in all three areas, but required a high degree of project management and precluded any opportunities for speed and cost efficiency. A second option was to choose a provider who ostensibly offered all three services, but in reality was strong in only one area (such as publishing or translation).

By offering robust capabilities in all three areas – content management, translation and publishing – Bowne is able to deliver unprecedented benefits to fund companies, particularly those with cross-border investment management products. And the synergies become even greater when you use Bowne services for multiple SICAVs or multiple types of compliance documents.

The heart of Bowne's fund document services: superior, proprietary, web-based software.

Bowne's content management tool, smartapps, has been widely recognised as the most advanced content management tool for investment companies by leading firms in Europe and the US. With smartapps, you and your team can modify content online, then immediately get a proof with the changes in layout. Data updates can be handled automatically. Repeated text or other content can be linked, eliminating the possibility of manual updating errors. And smartapps facilitates speedy, accurate translation by linking directly to Bowne's extensive translation resources. It's even possible to have smartapps feed the same content into multiple documents with different formats – so repurposing content from print to electronic documents can literally be accomplished without effort in many cases.

Translation that is truly superior — and truly fast.

Rapid, accurate, idiomatic translation is essential to any fund company with cross-border products in Europe. Slow translation can hamper business efforts and cause compliance violations. Yet quick translation is no bargain if it is inconsistent or poorly done, because it can expose your firm to needless risks. Working with Bowne eliminates both problems. Bowne's translation team includes experts with a deep understanding of fund compliance terms. Our unique three-step methodology, which includes sophisticated tools such as translation memory and glossaries, further maximises the speed, consistency and accuracy of our translations. And with offices in Europe, the US and the Asia Pacific region, our translation experts offer global reach while staying close to local translation requirements.

Publishing capabilities that span the full spectrum.

As a worldwide company with over 3,200 employees and 60 offices, Bowne is ready to serve investment managers with the type of expertise that only a financial communications company can offer. Leading investment managers in Europe and around the world rely on Bowne for low to high pagination volumes, high-capacity print projects, composition (typesetting) services, overnight proofs, multilingual proofreading and many other solutions. And all our services have 24/7/365 support and are seamlessly integrated, so you can be assured of the quality, speed and reliability today's investment management world requires.

No other firm offers Bowne's range of capabilities.

• Online content management with direct-to-publishing capabilities
• Ability to link shared content among different documents (such as between full and simplified prospectuses)
• Ability to create documents in multiple formats from a single source document (print-ready PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft Word®)
• Simplification and harmonisation of content for maximum document management efficiency
• Extensive experience in translating fund compliance documents
• Global translation hub with offices in main financial centres and an around-the-clock service desk
• Seamless integration among content management, translation and publishing areas
• Local and worldwide resources for every type of financial printing and mailing