For firms that support high-net-worth clients, investment data is both essential and difficult to manage. Portfolios are spread across multiple custodians and reporting systems. Statements arrive in different formats and at different times. Teams often spend hours downloading files, cleaning data, and keying entries into the general ledger.
The result is familiar. Month end close takes longer than it should. Reporting is behind. Staff who should be focused on analysis and client questions are pulled into manual reconciliation and data wrangling.
InvestLink was built to change that.
AgilLink’s InvestLink platform aggregates investment data across hundreds of institutional custodians and reporting systems, standardizes it, and transforms it into accounting ready journal entries that flow directly into your general ledger.
The goal is simple. Give firms a faster, more reliable way to turn investment activity into financials, so they can deliver timely, consolidated reports without relying on spreadsheets and manual work.
The Problem: Investment Data in Silos
Many family offices and business management firms still treat investment data as a separate workflow from client accounting. Portfolio systems may capture positions and performance, while accounting systems maintain books and records. Connecting the two often falls to a spreadsheet or a single staff member who “knows how to do it.”
That approach creates several challenges:
- Manual entry across accounts and entities
- Inconsistent treatment of the same security or transaction type
- Limited ability to scale as client relationships grow
- Longer month-end close and slower reporting to clients
It also introduces operational risk. When teams copy and paste data between systems or rely on file imports that must be manipulated by hand, the chance of error increases, and audit trails become difficult to maintain.
What InvestLink Does
InvestLink is designed to connect those dots and make investment data a natural part of your accounting and reporting process, not a separate project.
At a high level, InvestLink:
- Aggregates data from more than 300 custodians or from your existing investment reporting system by using secure APIs (Application Programming Interface) and institutional feeds
- Standardizes securities, transactions, and valuations across sources
- Transforms that data into journal entries that align to your chart of accounts
- Publishes consolidated, investment aware financials and reports in AgilLink
Instead of manually posting dividends, fees, and trades across multiple entities, your team can rely on a consistent, automated process that treats similar activity in the same way every time.
How InvestLink Works in Practice
Here is a simplified view of the workflow.
- Aggregate and pull data: InvestLink connects to custodians or investment platforms and retrieves account level activity through secure, tokenized feeds. There is no need to share end user passwords.
- Standardize and map: Securities, transactions, and valuations are normalized so that different formats from different sources can be treated consistently. This is where mapping to your chart of accounts occurs, based on the rules you define.
- Transform into journal entries: Once mapped, investment activity is converted into balanced journal entries that reflect how your firm wants to present that information in the general ledger.
- Reconcile and publish: Entries are reviewed, reconciled, and then posted, producing consolidated financials that incorporate both operating and investment activity across entities. Teams can drill into transaction level detail without leaving the accounting system.
The result is a repeatable, auditable process that replaces ad hoc spreadsheets with a clear data pipeline.
What Firms Can Do with InvestLink
When investment data flows directly into AgilLink, it changes what teams can deliver. With InvestLink, firms can:
- Produce consolidated statements that reflect the whole relationship. Present operating and investment activity together, across entities, in a way that principals and advisors can understand at a glance.
- Shorten month end close. Automated feeds and mappings reduce the time required to post monthly investment activity, which speeds up financial statement delivery.
- Reduce manual effort and errors. Teams spend less time re keying data or reconciling spreadsheets, and more time on analysis and client conversations.
- Support growth without adding headcount at the same pace. Because the same process can be applied across accounts and entities, firms can scale investment aware reporting to more clients without proportionally increasing workload.
- Strengthen controls and audit readiness. Secure API feeds, standardized mappings, and system based journal entries create a clearer audit trail than manual imports and spreadsheets.
One client described InvestLink as “a deep breath of fresh air,” noting that “the upfront setup quickly paid off in ongoing efficiency and peace of mind.”
Where InvestLink Fits in the AgilLink Ecosystem
InvestLink is an add-on service to AgilLink and a powerful part of the broader AgilLink platform:
- Bill pay and approvals: handle outgoing payments with controls and workflow.
- Client accounting: provides multi-entity general ledger, consolidations, and reporting.
- Integrations and embedded banking: connect directly to City National Bank and other systems to streamline cash management.
- InvestLink pulls investment data into that same environment so that reports reflect the complete picture of a client’s financial life.
Together, these capabilities help firms move away from disconnected tools toward a cohesive ecosystem where data flows cleanly and teams can focus on higher value work.
Ready to Learn More?
InvestLink was created for firms that want investment aware financials without the overhead of manual processes. By combining data aggregation, standardization, and posting into one workflow, it gives teams a faster path from portfolio activity to financial reporting.
To see how InvestLink could work in your environment, contact us to schedule a demo.
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