Episode Details

Who pays when a fund's NAV is wrong and the manager never saw the error? Under CSSF Circular 24/856 the investment fund manager corrects and compensates, even when the administrator calculated the price. The episode argues that managers should own one position and pricing record, backed by a written pricing policy, rather than inheriting whatever the administrator used.

Listeners learn to back-solve reconciliation tolerances from the 0.5% NAV materiality threshold for fixed income UCITS funds: a tenth of it per break for same-day ownership, a quarter of it in open breaks as a NAV gate. Also covered: the aggregation clause, EU T+1, Invesco's identifier consolidation, circular matching, Bloomberg pricing drift and the SEC's Madison Capital Funding settlement.

Key takeaways

• Set reconciliation tolerances from the fund's regulatory NAV error threshold instead of copying vendor default settings.
• Give any single break worth more than a tenth of the NAV threshold a named owner the same day.
• Do not release the NAV while open breaks add up to more than a quarter of the threshold, and log, own and approve any override.
• Check quantities against the custodian and prices against an independent challenger vendor, because IBOR matching the administrator can be two copies of the same mistake.
• Report breaks to the board as money against threshold, age of the oldest break and its owner, not as a raw count.

Chapters
0:00 Who pays for NAV errors under CSSF 24/856
0:59 Custodian, administrator and IBOR disagree on positions
3:23 Back-solving tolerances from the NAV threshold
5:56 NAV gate versus T+1 cut-offs
7:04 Identifiers, circular matching and price challenge
9:40 Reporting breaks to the board

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Full article and transcript: https://www.mba-training.com/blog/custodian-reconciliation-nav-tolerance-budget

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