Streamlining an Approach to Accessing and Trading Money Market Funds

The Challenge

The Client

A luxury retailer was seeking to streamline money market funds (MMFs) investing within its treasury operations.

The Objective

Assist the client to streamline its approach to accessing and trading all desired MMFs.

Our Assignment

Create a more consistent and efficient way of investing across the client’s business.
Bring greater transparency and analytics into the client’s MMF holdings and investments.
Automate Straight Through Processing (STP) transaction details flowing to their Treasury Management System.

Our Solution

Implementing Mosaic for efficient investing

A multi-disciplined team of product, service, and technology experts leveraged a proprietary MMF portal (Mosaic) to replace the client’s current approach of using separate platforms across its investment entities.

Mosaic provides end-to-end integration, an open architecture investing platform, comprehensive reporting, and access to robust risk management tools for more investment transparency and reporting.

The Outcome

Operational Efficiency

We provided the client with a better understanding of how they can use technology to create more consistent and efficient ways of investing across their business.

Operational efficiency was further improved through integration with the client’s treasury management system and investment accounting system with Mosaic, which also offered better assimilation and STP.

Automation via our Mosaic investment portal reduced manual risk of tracking separate investment platforms.

Cost Benefits

The implementation of a single portal provided commercial savings benefits through Mosaic partnership programs. And with capacity constraints alleviated, the client was able to focus on optimizing cash balances.

The portfolio risk management process includes an effort to monitor and manage risk, but does not imply low risk. Mosaic is made available in the United States by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and outside of the United States by Goldman Sachs International, or its local affiliates in accordance with applicable law and regulations. Goldman Sachs International and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC are the distributors of the Goldman Sachs Funds. Depending upon the jurisdiction in which you are located, transactions in non-Goldman Sachs money market funds are affected by either Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, a member of FINRA, SIPC and NYSE, or Goldman Sachs International. For additional information contact your Goldman Sachs representative. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Goldman Sachs International, Goldman Sachs Liquidity Solutions, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, L.P., and the Goldman Sachs funds available through Goldman Sachs Liquidity Solutions and other affiliated entities, are under the common control of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

The cited case studies represent examples of how we have partnered with various institutional clients on a broad range of services and offerings. The experiences outlined in the case studies may not be representative of the experience of other clients. The case studies have not been selected based on portfolio performance and are not indicative of future performance or success. This is not a testimonial for Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s advisory services.

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