Over the past ten years, insurance professionals have invested in increasingly complex assets, such as private equity and mortgage derivatives, in their search for yield. Today, insurers invest in a variety of asset classes, in numerous different currencies, across multiple accounting regimes. This uniformly global complexity increases the challenges of managing risk, regulatory compliance, and performance. A lack of visibility over these investments only adds to the mounting pressures on investment teams. In fact, today they rely on a patchwork of inflexible, error-prone legacy systems and processes.