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Shareholder Reports
Manage the complexities of your financial reporting process

Increasing numbers of products, changing distribution requirements and reporting frequency are just some of the challenges you face in preparing your financial reports. FundSuite SX makes the financial reporting process fast, manageable and more efficient. It receives financial data from multiple sources and combines it into a single platform for the easy creation of Portfolio Statements, Financials, Notes to Financials, Form N-MFP and other regulatory filings.

With FundSuite SX you can:

• Manage portfolio and financial reporting across a wide range of investment vehicles, from mutual funds to hedge funds to partnerships.
• Produce shareholder reports for Registered Investment Products, Alternative Investments that align with US GAAP, IFRS and Canadian GAAP.
• Centrally manage holdings, general ledger, footnotes and other disclosure.
• Combine FundSuite SX with FundSuite Comfiler, a dynamic software solution that provides an effective, cost saving approach for SEC Form N filings, including N-SAR, N-CSR, N-Q, and N-PX.
• Benefit from our unique Integrated Composition solution and automatically typeset your financial pages direct from FundSuite SX.
• Connect your FundSuite data to our Form N-MFP module where you can create, manage and file your Form N-MFP

Leverage technology and service for the creation and composition of your shareholder reports
Control the report creation process, collaborate across organizations, and reduce effort and cost with our content management tools and traditional composition services:

• Work with our traditional composition services for complex projects that require maximum flexibility
• Speed up your process with our content management products--smartapps and Integrated Composition--and compose sections or whole documents automatically
• Eliminate errors and use technology to manage common content

Smart print and delivery solutions that improve the investor experience and reduce costs
Trust Bowne with your complex, time-sensitive projects. Benefit from extensive, scalable resources, and a partner that does more than print. We offer expertise, project management and solutions that deliver success. Turn to Bowne for:

• Ownership and holdings analysis tools (Customized Investor Book)
• Multiple production models
• Digital and offset platforms
• Manifest mailing capabilities
• Centralized service for print, mail, email and hosting
• e-consent, e-delivery, and e-presentment
• Campaign management to increase the adoption of e-delivery

Fund Fact Sheets

A flexible content management system for Fund Fact Sheets
Producing multiple fact sheets simultaneously, coordinating data from multiple sources and managing foreign language content is complex and involved. Convert your content into print-ready Fact Sheets at the touch of a button with smartapps, a web based content management and composition tool.
With smartapps you can:

• Manage the entire Fact Sheet creation process in real time
• Create and revise content collaboratively
• Make multiple changes from a common content library
• Import text, spreadsheets, graphics, and data feeds
• Distribute proofs instantly
• Generate charts and graphs automatically
• Automate translation tasks
• Create print-ready and web-ready formats including PDFs, EDGAR HTML, RTF, stylized Word™, and XML

Learn more about smartapps

Prospectuses

Manage all your documents in one place.
Ensure consistency and accuracy from creation of your prospectus to online hosting. Connect your Summary, Statutory and SAI through the Bowne platform and easily create, manage, print and distribute your documents.

• Work with our traditional composition services for complex projects that require maximum flexibility
• Benefit from our content management systems – smartapps and MergeText that streamline your workflows
• Eliminate errors and use technology to store, update and re-use common content
• Choose from a wide range of Summary Prospectus solutions including template building and language simplification
• Incorporate XBRL tagging of the risk/return summary information seamlessly into your process

Centralized print and delivery solutions backed by service and expertise
Turn to Bowne to help you manage the complexities of multiple documents and multiple distribution and delivery channels.

• Ownership and holdings analysis tools (Customized Investor Book)
• Digital and offset platforms
• Manifest mailing capabilities
• Centralized service for print, mail, email and hosting
• Host and link your documents online with an SEC-compliant solution that enables investors to quickly navigate between documents and order on-demand

Expense Management

Manage expenses across multiple families of funds.
Review all your fund expenses in one convenient place with XpenseTraX. Use our data management solution to centralize and standardize your expenses and feel confident in the accuracy of your balances. Administer multiple account charts from multiple accounting systems. Simplify the process of financial reporting through automation and deliver streamlined output to your shareholders.

Bowne, power over your document lifecycle

Rely on us. Benefit from our technology, perspective, subject matter expertise, and best practices earned in handling regulatory and investor communications including: Shareholder Reports, Prospectuses and Fact Sheets. With a focus on process improvement, we minimize time and waste in document production. Our efficiency and product quality help you execute in any market, under any conditions.