Adepa is an independent Luxemburg-based global financial services provider with over 40 years of experience. The company specializes in Management Company, Fund Administration, Investor and Corporate Services, under UCITS and AIFM frameworks. Adepa focuses on delivering comprehensive and tailored asset services for asset managers, banks, and institutional investors, combining sophisticated solutions, professionalism, and a client-centric approach.
Adepa operates in Luxembourg’s highly regulated investment management environment, where compliance isn’t optional, it’s foundational. Every process must be documented, auditable, and aligned with strict regulatory standards.
Before adopting etops Asset Manager Pro, Adepa relied on a set of established internal tools and workflows that had grown organically over time. While these methods ensured full regulatory compliance, they required significant manual coordination.
“As our activities expanded, it became clear that we needed a more integrated environment to support our growth and enhance day‑to‑day efficiency,” explains Charles Ogier, Senior Investment Manager at Adepa.
Trade coordination, monitoring activities, and real‑time visibility across processes required additional effort from the team. This approach worked, but it demanded time and constant cross-checking, time that could be better invested in portfolio management, analysis, and client service. As Adepa’s business continued to scale, the need for a consolidated platform with real‑time insights and automated controls became increasingly evident.
The objective was clear: strengthen operational robustness, streamline workflows, and reduce manual friction while maintaining the high regulatory standards that define Adepa’s work. Implementing etops Asset Manager Pro allowed the firm to improve efficiency, and support continued growth in a demanding regulatory environment.
Adepa evaluated multiple solutions. They needed integration, but they also needed something else: a partner who understood their specific market.
The decision came down to three factors:
First: True integration. Not just connected systems, but a genuine single platform. “The fact that it has an integrated platform really helped the responsiveness of the team,” Charles explains.
Second: Responsive support. “With large‑scale providers, the level of proximity and customization can naturally be more limited,” Charles observes. Etops offered something different, a support team that responds quickly and collaboratively to development requests and questions. The relationship mattered.
Third, and critically: Purpose-built compliance. “We’ve looked at other solutions and they were very good with parts, but there was no solution that was tailored for the Luxembourgish market, especially with advisor-investment manager setups,” Charles says. “This has been fully integrated into the tool.”
The compliance module became the dealbreaker. The platform enables a clear workflow where investment advisor recommendations flow to investment managers, then through compliance checks that everyone can review. “This is the really outstanding point, the strength of etops Asset Manager Pro,” Charles notes.
For a team managing complex fund operations in Luxembourg’s highly regulated environment, these improvements aren’t just metrics, they’re what makes excellence sustainable.
100% real-time oversight of all critical fund management steps. From portfolio management through compliance to trading and NAV production, the team now operates with complete transparency.
Time savings on reconciliation and compliance checks alone. The morning workflow that encompasses NAV uploads, quote updates, automated compliance checks, and trade blotter exports now runs systematically, a streamlined process that frees the team to focus on strategic investment decisions rather than administrative tasks.
Drastic reduction in order transmission errors through integrated FIX connectivity: both direct lines to counterparties and FIX lines to Bloomberg EMSX & TSOX. The technology infrastructure has virtually eliminated system-related trading errors, creating what the team describes as an “almost foolproof” environment. While human errors can still occur, the platform itself provides a highly reliable foundation.
Faster and reliable share class and portfolio currency hedging workflows. The team now processes hedging operations for several funds simultaneously using the modeling function, a task that previously required handling funds one at a time.
The team has complete visibility and control. Compliance is proactive, not reactive. Operations run smoothly without adding headcount. And most importantly, they’re positioned to scale, confident that their technology foundation can support growth without compromising precision.
