The financial technology firm has rolled out what it says is a solution aimed at the fast-growing managed accounts sector.

US-headquartered financial technology giant SunGard has announced it is moving into the world of managed accounts with a newly-launched investment solution being put into use by Minnesota-based community bank Union Bank & Trust.

Union Bank & Trust is using the SunGard solution to help transform its trust department into a full-service wealth management business, a statement from SunGard said yesterday.

The offering, SunGard said, helps wealth advisors and financial institutions such as banks, trust organisations and RIAs.

The rollout comes at a time, SunGard said, when there is expected to be a compound annual growth rate in managed solutions assets of 14 per cent and a near-doubling of industry assets by 2018 (source: Money Management Institute).

Managed account platforms, SunGard said, can “provide advisors with a tailored, automated financial strategy using a centralized back-office operations platform to meet business goals”, but it says many advisors are not confident in their platform’s ability to meet their needs.

The solution combines Sawtooth Asset Management’s open architecture investment and practice management capabilities with SunGard’s wealth management, transaction processing and trading connectivity solutions. (Sawtooth, based in Edina, Minnesota, provides outsourced investment-based practice management solutions to wealth managers.)