Collaborative Document Authoring, Assembly and Delivery.
Elixir helps you meet the changing SEC requirements for mutual funds
communications and builds in process efficiencies and measurable cost savings.
The SEC Enhanced Disclosure ruling and the XBRL ruling present serious challenges
for 1940 Securities Act companies, but these rulings also present significant
opportunities for customer communication and disclosure document presentation
and process improvements.
The Mutual Fund Disclosure Workbench addresses five core needs:
Organizes the collaborative document authoring process to easily include
SEC rules, investment company policy, and Exchange rules in a process
that is self-documenting, auditable, and user-friendly.
Assures uniformity of disclosure language across fund complexes through
re-use of content and global policies and procedures.
Captures and preserves relationships between disclosure documents as
required in the Enhanced Disclosure ruling without exposing the investment
company personnel to undue risk or technical complexity.
Anticipates future requirements for the use of XBRL in the risk/return section
of the prospectus and develops that mark-up automatically as the documents
are authored.
Provides an automated process for delivery of the documents to print and web.
Key Benefits
Essentially No Learning Curve Interface designed for business users presenting tasks in a straight forward
manner using familiar terms and phrases.
Check Form Process Ensures every discrete text and graphic element is verified against the appropriate
policies and regulations in effect throughout the life of the document.
Automatic Audit Trail Automatically tracks who reviewed the document and its’ individual content
elements. Reports can be viewed at any time online or in print.
Document Linking Process Meets the guidelines for online document access for content and ruling verification.
Linking within and between forms and to external content and information resources.
Cross Marketing Opportunities Documents may be customized based on data regarding the customer’s portfolio to
present additional relevant investment options on a per-customer basis.
Increases Productivity Web-based system allows work to be done from any location/desktop.
Ensures Uniformity of Disclosure Language Allows re-use of textual and graphical elements.
Ensures Presentation Uniformity Document layout follows standard templates.
Smart Document Assembly Reduces the number of document pages to a minimum while ensuring compliance.
Minimizes print and mailing costs and provides significant savings over current
systems where the entire disclosure is printed and mailed.
Accommodates New Rules and Requirements System flexibility supports new rulings easily allowing required changes in the
workflow and access to new information resources.
XBRL-Ready Prepared to meet this requirement as soon as it’s in effect.
Web and Print Delivery Meets required delivery guidelines and allows customers to receive information in
the way they prefer; web or print.