Algo Risk Service

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Customizable, hosted risk service for portfolio construction, risk management and reporting

Algo Risk Service offers hedge funds, asset managers, pension funds and other buy-side organizations access to an award-winning web-based portfolio construction, risk management and reporting service without the costs or challenges of an in-house deployment. It provides a wide variety of simulation-based risk analytics that enable portfolio managers, traders, risk managers and senior officers to take a proactive approach to risk oversight and decision making.

Algo Risk Service features include:

Risk-informed decision support provides ‘what if’ analysis of possible trades and hedging strategies.
Customization and flexibility enables the valuation, simulation and reporting of assets and risk factors to be tailored to your specific requirements.
Coverage of multiple asset classes and risk perspectives across an extensive range of risk factors, asset classes and investment strategies.
Interactive Web-based interface integrates the front and middle office with support for on-demand analysis.
Hosted risk management and reporting enables you to focus on your primary business activities.

Risk-informed decision support

Provides better insight for decision making, with advanced features for risk aggregation, attribution and decomposition of portfolio risks.
Enables you to perform pre-trade “what-if” analysis to evaluate the impact of different portfolio choices before real world decisions are implemented.
Allows you to show how a portfolio would perform under a range of simulated conditions by conducting stress tests and scenario analysis.
Supports your developing best hedge strategies by utilizing its optimization capabilities.

Customization and flexibility

Tailored to your specific requirements, with a dedicated data and production environment that offers customized risk analytics, valuation, simulation and reporting of assets and risk factors.
Enables on-demand analysis with its interactive user interface.
Allows you to introduce liability cash flows from different actuarial systems to support, for example, liability driven investing.
Provides a range of powerful extensions that can be added to the risk service as required to address your specific requirements, or as your firm’s business needs or risk strategies evolve.
Gives you the ability to work with partners to build out 'best of breed' solutions on an individual basis.

Coverage of multiple asset classes and risk perspectives

Provides you with multi-asset class coverage that spans asset types and geographies, and includes complex derivatives and other non-linear assets.
Enables a holistic understanding of risk across your organization, with support for multiple risk perspectives that encompass an extensive range of risk factors and investment strategies.

Interactive Web-based interface

Enables on-demand analysis to help make risk-informed decisions on a timely basis. This Web-based, interactive risk analytics tool allows you to quickly obtain analyses at multiple points of inquiry including firm, fund, or position level.
Integrates the front and middle office, enabling team collaboration across the enterprise.
Gives you cost-effective access to a range of powerful analytics, with the advanced capability to integrate with other code analysis tools through use of a common, extensible framework.

Hosted risk management and reporting

Helps risk managers assess the risk of an individual portfolio or the consolidated risk of multiple portfolios and/or portfolio hierarchies across different geographies.
Enables you to focus on your primary business activities and avoid a potentially costly and complex installation project.
Supports a range of different reports for stakeholder reporting, including investment, client and regulatory reports.