portfolio-management-systems
Portfolio Management Systems
Purpose
Enable Claude to advise on the selection, configuration, and operation of portfolio management systems (PMS) within registered investment advisory firms. This skill covers the full PMS lifecycle: platform architecture, model portfolio construction, sleeve-based and UMA management, drift monitoring, rebalancing, held-away asset aggregation, portfolio accounting, trading integration, performance calculation, billing, and custodian data feeds. It equips Claude to guide advisors, operations teams, and technology leaders through PMS implementation decisions, day-to-day operational workflows, and troubleshooting reconciliation or data-quality issues.
Layer
10 — Advisory Practice (Front Office)
Direction
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150trade-execution
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146finance-psychology
Recognize and mitigate cognitive biases that impair financial decisions, and coach clients toward values-driven financial lives. Use when the user asks about behavioral finance, money psychology, loss aversion, overconfidence, herd behavior, or emotional investing. Also trigger when users mention 'why do I panic sell', 'money fights with my spouse', 'I can never save enough', 'fear of investing', 'lifestyle creep', 'keeping up with the Joneses', 'Rich Life', 'money scripts', or ask how emotions affect financial decisions.
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