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Technology for hedge funds

When product portfolios grow, you need technology that's reliable and scalable. By enhancing your trading, risk and reporting systems, we help you:

• handle larger, more diverse portfolios
• differentiate your business model
• scale across multiple funds and markets
• improve data quality and analysis
• increase investor confidence
• trade more competitively

Fund managers should get the same high-quality technology as larger financial institutions. We create systems that are customised to your business, allowing you to:

• create on-demand reports for market intelligence
• automate and streamline your order management
• integrate spreadsheets into your trading and risk systems
• automate and simplify data capture

Automated systems reduce errors, costs and operational risk as well as meeting regulatory compliance.

Our hedge funds experience

We offer cost-neutral solutions. Bespoke systems offer more benefits and better functions than a packaged software alternative, but at no greater cost.

A bespoke solution will differentiate your business from the competition. And we can deliver it for a fixed price.

• We designed a robust and centralised trading and risk system. Spreadsheets were replaced with a single front-end for trade execution, P&L reporting and automated communication with administrators and brokers.
• We built a ‘light-weight’ system for pricing, position-keeping and reporting. This allowed fund managers access from locations in low-bandwidth, emerging markets as well as intra-day pricing and the management of multiple portfolios and currencies. Unwieldy spreadsheets were replaced with on-demand calculations of risk and P&L.
• We integrated a leading risk reporting system (Algorithmics RiskWatch). We created a data repository, improved trade flow and P&L, integrated market data and configured the system to accurately calculate prices for a wide range of instruments. P&L calculations were streamlined for near-time, intra-day accounting.
• To manage credit limits more efficiently and accurately, we analysed our client's monitoring system. Then we recommended how they could merge their multiple risk systems into a single, group-wide software system.

Our technology services

• reducing spreadsheet dependence
• risk and limit management
• P&L analysis and attribution
• trading and work flow
• management and client reporting
• software selection and systems integration
• performance measurement and attribution

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