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The Emphasys SymPro team is based in Emeryville, CA, and was created in response to the public agency reporting mandate issued in 1985. The SymPro Fixed Income Management System evolved to become a complete solution for public agencies that need reporting and management of their fixed income portfolios. Having assisted hundreds of state, county and city governments and municipal infrastructure agencies across the country over the past 16 years, SymPro is firmly established as the national standard bearer for fixed income investment reporting. In 1990, SymPro responded by expanding features of its software to address the analytical and reporting requirements of investment managers and corporate cash managers. Emphasys acquired SymPro from JPMorgan Chase & Co on December 14, 2007.

The Emphasys SymPro software currently offers a full complement of nine integrated modules to meet the needs of today's investment professionals. The modules include:

Fixed Income
Debt
Cash Management
Market Pricing Interface
Financial Services
General Ledger Interface
Earnings Allocation
Cash Flow Forecaster
Equities

With more than 350 clients nationwide, managing portfolios ranging from 25 million to several billion dollars, the Emphasys SymPro software is clearly a leading solution.

Emphasys SymPro's Focus
We are committed to continually striving to develop and enhance the Emphasys SymPro software by utilizing two major outside sources to drive improvements. The first source is the direct feedback provided by our customers. Our philosophy is to actively solicit the ideas and needs of our clients, and whenever possible, incorporate them into the product. The second source is the portfolio management marketplace itself. We closely monitor the compliance issues and product innovations that appear on the market, following any leads that may develop into future features and enhancements. We actively participate in numerous professional forums (GASB/FASB, GAAP, AIMR) as part of this strategy.

Our diligent research allows us to enhance the software several times per year. By continually improving and upgrading our product to serve the needs of our clients and the marketplace, Emphasys SymPro continues to solidify its position as an innovative leader in portfolio and treasury management systems.

The Emphasys SymPro software brings you a complete suite of powerful, user-friendly software solutions giving you the tools you need to make strategic treasury management decisions. Our modular design is cost-effective, efficient and flexible, allowing you to fulfill your unique fiduciary duties with enhanced professionalism.

All of the modules in the Emphasys SymPro system are fully integrated and share a unique financial database. With its ease of use and highly developed capabilities, the Emphasys SymPro software supports you in all your treasury management needs. SymPro is available in different variations allowing you to create a more customized configuration for your organization.

SymPro / Cash Flow Reporting
Selects transaction activity from your fixed income, debt and equity positions to produce an in-depth picture of current and projected cash balances identifying future cash/liquidity needs. Maintains multi-year actual transactions to serve as a basis for future term cash forecasting.

SymPro / Cash Management
Consolidates imported bank transactions and electronic funds transfers with transactions in the Emphasys SymPro Fixed Income, Debt and Equity Modules to present an integrated cash position worksheet.

SymPro / Debt Management Module
Provides a structured set of debt obligations with call, sinking fund, term, and redemption analysis. Tracks outstanding debt at the project, division, and enterprise level. Provides detailed arbitrage calculations, and defines cash flow obligations for the securities in each debt issue. Reports on remaining par, interest, and principal payments for all securities associated with a bond issue. Links scheduled debt payments to our Cash Flow module, enabling thorough liquidity management.

SymPro / Earnings Allocation
Allocates earnings from fixed income and equity investments to the participants in an investment pool. Calculates each participant's share and distributes earnings based on the proportional average daily balance of each account. Includes options for fee formulas, account exceptions and reports on all participants in the allocation pool portfolio.

SymPro / Equity Module
Manages equity portfolio positions, transactions, dividends, composition, returns, performance and compliance by client, manager or composite portfolio. Reporting is for any user-defined date range and the system supports accounting for average cost, FIFO, LIFO or specific lot.

SymPro / Financial Services Module
Automatically imports or reconciles investment or debt positions in your Emphasys SymPro portfolio with records held by a safekeeping, custody service or trustee. You may post the market prices of your positions supplied by custody or related service providers as well as import other financial service data files, such as cash transactions or cash balances.

SymPro / Fixed Income Module
Includes a comprehensive approach to fixed income investment management. Provides prior and current valuations, portfolio composition, earnings analysis, schedules of cash flows and maturities, buying and selling analysis positions with what if gain/loss calculations, sector and category analysis. All reporting requirements are available, including full-disclosure financial reports, asset reporting on book, par, market values, earnings reports, change in market value, total return and policy compliance reports.

SymPro / General Ledger Interface
Creates general ledger journal entries to reflect investment transaction activity within a portfolio for a specific date range. The activity includes purchases, sales, maturities, income earned, interest/dividends received, change in value, and related journal entries to reflect investment and debt transactions. Users can view the journal entries on screen, print reports, or export the data to an external general ledger application.

SymPro / Market Pricing
Price your portfolios automatically with a single mouse-click. The Fixed Income module informs you immediately when your prices are outdated; you can then use Market Pricing to update all of your positions at once with current market prices.

Emphasys SymPro is a flexible, proven treasury management software solution designed to meet the challenges of today's treasury managers. Our integrated treasury management software provides financial professionals with the ability to effectively manage cash, investment and debt portfolios.

Over the past 15 years the Emphasys SymPro software has become a trusted leader in the financial industry by automating detailed treasury and portfolio accounting procedures.

The Emphasys SymPro modular design is cost effective by allowing you to select the specific modules that best suit your treasury operations. This architecture provides the method to keep pace with the changing practices and regulations in the financial industry.

Emphasys SymPro provides you with timesaving solutions:

Calculate earnings, accrued interest, capital gains & losses, average daily balance, amortization, weighted yields, duration and total return
Analyze your complete cash, investment and debt portfolio, including historical trends, earnings, yield, book value and "what if" sale analysis
Generate graphs and over 50 standard reports including GASB and FASB compliance reports and performance reports
Create and export general ledger journal entries reflecting investment transaction activity
Import positions or transactions from your custodial service or broker
Create an unlimited number of portfolios with multiple funds, divisions or advisors for each portfolio

The Emphasys SymPro software does the complex number crunching required for comprehensive analysis of investment and debt positions. Emphasys SymPro offers conversion services so you can be up and running immediately.

Emphasys SymPro has complete portfolio analysis with extensive reporting. Produce accurate and timely management reports that provide analysis of earnings, market value, realized and unrealized gains/losses, volatility, total return and compliance.

It keeps you current with up-to-the-minute position and financial information by allowing you to view positions immediately — get current market prices, variable rate changes, interest & dividend cash flows and redemption information. Identify opportunities and vulnerabilities within your investment and debt positions.

Emphasys SymPro helps you comply with financial policies. Reduce the resources required for compliance monitoring and reporting. We are dedicated to providing the tools to manage compliance with individual investment policies as with federal, state, and local laws.