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A glossary for regulated Swiss finance automation.
Plain-language definitions of the reporting, regulatory, and AI terms we use across the site.
- FINMA-aware AI
- AI built to the expectations a FINMA-regulated institution operates under: data with Swiss residency, an auditable record of every step that influences a regulated process, and a human who owns the sign-off. It is a configuration, not a product label.
- Fund factsheet automation
- The automated generation of fund factsheets — the periodic one- or two-page summaries of a fund's performance, holdings, and key data — from a stable template and refreshed data, replacing a manual, multi-day production cycle.
- Investment foundation (Anlagestiftung)
- A Swiss occupational-pension investment vehicle that pools assets from pension funds across investment groups. Investment foundations run regular reporting cycles across many investment groups and are supervised accordingly.
- Fund management company (Fondsleitung)
- A FINMA-licensed entity that administers Swiss collective investment schemes — responsible for fund accounting, valuation, and investor reporting.
- Asset manager (Vermögensverwalter)
- A firm that manages portfolios on behalf of clients. In Switzerland, asset managers are FINMA-supervised and carry reporting and disclosure obligations.
- Owned reporting vs. outsourced reporting
- Owned reporting lives in the institution's own environment, on tools it licenses, and can be run and changed without a vendor. Outsourced reporting is a third-party platform that produces the reports for a recurring fee and retains control of the data and format.
- Swiss data residency
- Keeping data physically and legally within Switzerland. For regulated institutions it constrains where AI and reporting systems may process and store data.
- Performance reporting
- The calculation and presentation of a fund's returns over defined periods, including benchmarks and attribution, for investors and regulators.
- Net asset value (NAV) reporting
- Reporting of a fund's net asset value — the value of its assets less liabilities, per share — which underpins factsheets, performance figures, and investor statements.
- ESG reporting
- The roll-up and disclosure of environmental, social, and governance metrics for a fund or portfolio, increasingly required alongside financial reporting.
- AI audit
- A structured review of an institution's workflows that identifies where AI and automation pay off, delivered as a prioritized roadmap that ends in deployed systems.
- Reporting pipeline
- The end-to-end chain from source data to delivered report — integration, calculation, template, and scheduled output — built once and run automatically.