Video: Sixty Years of Investment Fund Accounting and Technology – A Timeline

In recognition of the 100-year anniversary of the first open-end mutual fund, the FundGuard team has created a corresponding video timeline depicting the history of technology and investment fund accounting software.

While the rise of supporting technology and eventual fund accounting software dates back only as far as the 1960s, it is still a storied history – with the first fund accounting software platforms of note entering the market in earnest around 1980 and ushering in a series of legacy solutions and subsequent workarounds that are now burdening an industry at the cusp of digital transformation – making way for the new era of investment accounting technology.

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