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Geneva Reviews & Product Details

Firms that want to stay current and competitive in this dynamic market need a portfolio management solution that supports multiple asset classes, multi-currency portfolios, complex global fund structures and increasing transaction volumes. Built to natively provide real-time portfolio and general ledger accounting, Geneva seamlessly supports new lines of business and removes operational barriers. Using Geneva as your core portfolio management platform eliminates the need for separate systems or spreadsheet workarounds when managing and accounting for different types of instruments.

Seller

SS&C Advent

Product Description

Advent SS&C Geneva global portfolio management and accounting platform empowers fund managers with instant, real-time performance, P&L, position and exposure information.

Overview by

Ben Bian

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Geneva Community

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

9 months

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Geneva Reviews (12)

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Dave G.

Development Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/14/2022

"Flexible accounting platform"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Offers flexibility to service many investments types and fund structures. Platform is easy to use and intuitive for end users. Powerful accounting engine calculates values dynamically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

Quirks and bugs often require workarounds and re-builds of broken funds, causing large amounts of re-work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/3/2021

"World class software for Portfolio accounting and Hedge Fund Accounting"

4/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Geneva has the best interface amount the Fund accounting softwares I have used in my career. It can support all the type of products. The upload feature is the best and you can create all the types of loaders including deleting the transactions. I had a client who had a very heavy volume of transactions and Geneva can handle the volume very well. Geneav has Java and Dotnet versions and both are good. Geneva can support the transactions in all the currencies and calculate the FX realized and unrealized gain/loss automatically. It can support various types of debt securities and calculate the interest and paydown. Supports all the type of derivatives and OTC products. You can delete the transactions in a single click and upload the thousands of transactions in seconds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

I have heard that it is very costly software and they charge fees on your AUM. For Private equity where we do the user-proved allocations for investors, Geneva is not recommended. For Hedge Funds, it is the best software in the market. Also for some transactions, you may not be able to see the Debit/credit journal entry clearly in the system except for the accounting entries which you post manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Geneva:

Yes if you are dealing in various types of securities and need a portfolio accounting world-class softwars. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Geneva solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was doing Portfloion accounting and NAV calculations using Geneva. The benefits are that it supports all types of securities and also you can customize the reports as per your requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shishir K.

Geneva Consultant

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/31/2021

"Best Real Time Accounting Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Obviously the real time accounting but also the features that is helpful in reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

Actually a bit technical part, difficult to debugging the report code since the compiler is not so smart to point out the exact line of problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahesh K.

Assistant Vice President - Financial Reporting Automation Programme

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/8/2021

"Geneva is awesome investment management platform. Its module world investor with n tier super"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Tax lot level information

Appraisals report

N tier structure in world investor

Expense manager module automatically creates expense

Scalable platform

Report writting easy

Customization is easy with all object being exposed to customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

Some performance related issue may happen

Sometime crashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Accounting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/15/2021

"Amazing software, user friendly"

5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

The software is user friendly and all possible required reports for analysis are very presentable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

I like everything about the application. User friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/7/2021

"Very much user friendly and easy to customize"

5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Geneva is very user friendly with modules for all reports and transaction, and you can also customize it as per organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

A bulk user manual to read, also it is a desktop software.

It is not widely used for Private Equity and waterfall though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Geneva:

Geneva is having good client interphase, and can be used across all areas of Hedge fund accoubting.

It provide good control and connectivity with other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Geneva solving and how is that benefiting you?

Geneva is an accounting software, I worked for all NAV accounting using this software, and I did it with ease.

It also provide reports as per knowledge time, so you can identify backdated bookings with much ease.

It also provide you control date and freeze point, so that you can stop any booking for financial period once it is approved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Munish V.

Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/30/2021

"Advent Geneva"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Geneva handles complex financial instruments nicely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

Geneva has its proprietary language RSL. It should switch to SQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2021

"Geneva products are good an reliable"

4/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

With Advent’s solution, it’s easier to view the structure of the portfolio and see what’s going on from a financing point of view. This means that the costs within the fund can be managed much better than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

Till now I have not found any issues using Geneva rpoducts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pandurang R.

General Accountant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/24/2021

"I used advent geneva for Hedge fund accounting"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

Most powerful thing I found in Geneva is reporting and accounting for hedge fund, fund structure and calendar, and net asset report and operations report. These are really helpful for calculating daily NAV for hedge funds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

All system has their some cons as well. Here in Geneva I see accounting leges are not appropriate, all debit and credit narration should clear and understandebale. Instead of account name they should provide account number that will be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/20/2021

"Geneva has always been a exciting experience and its user friendly tool with the modern days needs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Geneva?

I liked the below

1) Good interface

2) ease of navigation

3) easy to understand process and system

4) Web based interface ( I really liked that )

5) Good for hedge funds clients and easy accounitng software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Geneva?

NO dislikes as such as the overall experience was more valuable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Geneva:

Ease of operations

Simple and user friendly interface

One stop solutions for all business needs

Industry insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Geneva solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was in the operation background with testing Geneva and working with the projects and testing of modules and new implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.