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Asset Management Portal Solution 

The asset management portal solutions platform (“AMP”) is a comprehensive suite of trading application tools which cover front to back-office processes with specific emphasis on: 

• Customized portfolio workstation
  
• Powerful, fully customizable, alpha signaling
  
• Robust risk management
  
• Sophisticated equity trading
  
• Seamless back-office processing
  

Portfolio Workstation

Utilizing the Portfolio Manager Workstation (“Portfolio Workstation”), the platform provides an extensive array of tools, which combines the data sources needed to make informed investment decisions that yield profitable results.  The Portfolio Workstation captures the analytics that transforms data into decision making criteria. 

Benefits to Fund Managers:

• Integrated pre-trade analysis:  Equity positions, dollar balances, industry weightings, risk exposures, non-linear transaction cost estimates
  
• Real-time analytics:  Equity pricing, currency rates, and textual news that converts into measurable sentiment sources
  
• Surveillance tools:  Provides investors a disciplined method to monitor stock news 

The Portfolio Workstation employs a fully customized user interface that integrates seamlessly into any Microsoft infrastructure. 

Alpha

Within the Portfolio Workstation, the customizable Alpha engine can be tailored to your specific investment style.  The engine is deployed daily to the Portfolio Workstation. 

Benefits to Fund Managers:

• Customizable Alpha:  Choose investment style, horizons, and regions to invest
  
• Integrated into Portfolio Workstation:  Identify risk exposure levels, view signals at granular levels, and make trade decisions on a seamless platform
  
• Discuss specific alpha factor needs with researchers and portfolio managers 

Risk Modeling

The risk management platform contains a product suite of tools that range from real-time sensitivity analysis to portfolio attribution reporting.  The risk modeling techniques allow investors to manage their risk in real-time for better decision making and transparency. 

The custom built daily risk modeling process identifies risk at the investment level and aggregates to the portfolio level for the following areas:

• Industry, sector, and region
• Beta, size, and style
• Oil, interest rates, and currencies 

Benefits to Fund Managers:

• Identifies risk contribution for each trade
• Ensures risk exposure tolerances are sustained
• Calculates detailed portfolio attribution
• Archives data for regulatory agency demands
• Produces in-depth reporting capabilities 

Execution 

• Broker-neutral global market and algorithm access
• List and single stock trading tools
• Extensive customization capabilities
• Independent post transaction cost analysis
• Fully integrated front to back-office operations processing 

Back-Office Processing

Back-office processing sends equity and currency trades to custodians in a seamless, straightforward process.  The following services are provided:

• Corporate Actions
  
• Position reconciliations
  
• Positions repository
  
• Trade verifications with all clearing institutions
  
• Currency transactions 

Fixed Income and OTC Capability

The AMP product can assist fund managers with the complexity of credit and interest rate strategies, providing a comprehensive suite of trading application tools, covering front to back-office processes with specific emphasis on:

• Pre and Post trade analytics
  
• Sensitivities and scenario analysis
  
• Single security and total portfolio measures
  
• Ability to customize reporting to investor needs