Legato Finance · Knowledge Base
Investment analytics and reporting, built for firms that answer to a committee.
Legato Finance turns scattered portfolio spreadsheets into one governed workspace — live risk oversight, audit-ready evidence, and board-ready reports, all produced from a single model instead of rebuilt by hand before every deadline.
What Legato Finance is
One workspace for the numbers behind an investment decision
Investment teams don't lack data — they lack a fast, defensible way to turn that data into a decision. Legato Finance is the workspace that closes that gap: it compiles portfolio, risk, and compliance data once, then reuses that same governed model to produce every report, memo, and board pack a team needs.
Built for the people in the room
CFAs and portfolio teams get a faster way to explain the story behind the numbers. Governance stakeholders and boards get evidence they can trust and interrogate, not a slide deck built the night before.
One model, every output
Risk registers, annual financial statements, year-end reports, and committee packs are drawn from the same underlying data — so nothing has to be rebuilt by hand for a different audience.
A productivity layer, not a black box
Automation and narration speed the work up. It doesn't replace the judgment of a CFA, adviser, auditor, or investment committee — it gives them a cleaner starting point.
Investment Analytics & Reporting
What the product actually does
Investment Analytics & Reporting is the core of Legato Finance: a live register of portfolio, risk, and governance data that feeds every downstream report.
Portfolio explorer
Drill from fund family into a single fund, then into a single asset. Commitment, called capital, distributions, DPI/TVPI, and current mark are visible at every level.
Valuation & audit trail
Choose a valuation methodology — DCF, trading comps, cost — and every change is written to an audit trail, so a mark is never a black box when an auditor asks how it was reached.
Scenario & stress testing
Move rates, shift FX, or push exit timing out a few quarters, and the portfolio re-prices with attribution showing exactly which positions moved and why.
Performance attribution
Selection, allocation, currency, and leverage effects are broken out and tied back to the underlying trades — the kind of detail an investor can actually follow.
Committee memo builder
Pull financials, comparables, and risk flags into a single memo, with the voting record captured alongside it, ready for the next committee cycle.
Risk & limits, enforced
Sector caps, single-name concentration, and counterparty exposure aren't advisory. A breach is flagged, routed, and can freeze a new ticket before it's booked.
Investor & stakeholder reporting
Branded, footnoted statements go out on the same schedule your investors expect — reviewed on whichever device they actually use.
Data lineage
Click any figure in any report and trace it back to the source ledger, the transform that produced it, and the person who signed it off.
Why it's amazing
Fewer manual packs. Less spreadsheet risk. Better evidence.
The point isn't novelty — it's what changes for the team building the pack and the board reading it.
- ✓One governed model replaces a shared workbook on its forty-seventh tab.
- ✓Year-end risk reports, annual financial statements, and board packs are linked, not stitched together at the last minute.
- ✓Limits are enforced at the point of the trade, not caught in next month's review.
- ✓The long PDF wait disappears — reports render and preview online before they're exported.
- ✓Committee, compliance, adviser, partner, and public-share audiences all read from the same source data, formatted for them.
- ✓Every number a stakeholder questions has a traceable answer.
The F1 layer
Tailor-made onboarding, built to each firm's process
F1 is the client onboarding and intake engine that pairs with Legato Finance. Instead of a generic sign-up form, each firm configures its own question set, document requirements, and e-signature steps — matched to its jurisdiction, regulatory regime, and house style.
- Identity & relationship typeNatural person, joint account, company, or trust — each routed to the right due-diligence path.
- Regulatory & tax statusSource-of-funds, tax residency, and beneficial-ownership questions configured to the firm's regime — for example FICA and FAIS-style suitability in a South African onboarding flow.
- Risk & suitability profilingObjectives, time horizon, liquidity needs, and loss tolerance, captured before a portfolio is ever recommended.
- Portfolio preference & documentsThe client's preferred model portfolio, supporting documents, and a signed consent — all in one packet ready for adviser review.
Same engine, every firm's own brand
F1 Advisory — the financial-advisory experience this knowledge base sits behind — is itself running on this engine: its own name, its own colours, its own onboarding questions, same underlying platform.
Beyond onboarding
A personalised dashboard for the whole relationship
Onboarding is the first conversation, not the only one. Once a client is onboarded, F1 gives them a live, personal dashboard for as long as they invest with the firm.
Progress, not paperwork limbo
Clients see exactly where their onboarding or case stands — workflow progress, upcoming milestones, and hard deadlines — instead of waiting on an email update.
A secure document centre
Signed packets, uploaded evidence, and firm-issued documents live in one place the client can reach any time, without another back-and-forth over email.
Automated performance reporting
Month-end and year-end reports are generated from the same governed data model that feeds the firm's internal reporting, then shared automatically — a polished client update instead of a manually assembled PDF.
One relationship, start to finish
The same profile carries a client from first enquiry, through onboarding and verification, to ongoing reporting and review — nobody re-keys the same details twice.
Ready when you are
Give your clients a firm that feels this organised.
Legato Finance for the analytics and reporting your committee needs. F1 for the onboarding and dashboard experience your clients see. Same standard, start to finish.