Canada Life UK Goes Live with Multifonds
The assurance and pensions firm will administer more than £40 billion of assets on the Multifonds fund accounting platform
GENEVA, Switzerland – FEBRUARY 24, 2022 – Multifonds today announced that Canada Life UK – a subsidiary of Canada Life Group – has gone live with Multifonds to support its UK investment accounting operations.
Administration of life and pensions funds is highly governed and poses particular challenges in meeting the competing needs of diverse stakeholders with distinct accounting views. Multifonds worked with Canada Life UK to deliver specific functionality for the UK market, including support for UK SORP, UK Tax, Solvency II, and unique company reporting requirements. With this functionality in place, the firm successfully migrated over 800 funds over a single weekend and will administer more than £40 billion of assets on the Multifonds platform.
The implementation follows the successful migration of Canada Life’s Canadian business to Multifonds and consolidates both books of business totaling $160bn in assets onto a single, scalable global fund accounting platform. With an open architecture accessible via APIs and built on cloud-native components, Multifonds future-proofs the firm’s technology investment and provides a path to future cloud deployment.
Daniel Shaughnessy, Operations and Process Improvement Director of Canada Life UK, commented:
“The move to Multifonds frees us from legacy constraints to accelerate our digital transformation and increase operational efficiency.”
Oded Weiss, Managing Director of Multifonds, said:
“Canada Life UK is a major player in the UK pensions and life market, and we congratulate them on this successful go-live with Multifonds. Our close collaboration delivered a smooth implementation and a fund administration platform specifically designed for the UK life market. The work we have done with Canada Life UK in developing Multifonds opens up new opportunities for other life companies in the UK to join our platform.”