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Alternative Investment Management Software

Risk Shell

Institutional portfolio management, risk analytics and portfolio construction for alternative and multi-asset portfolios.

Integrated investment data, stress testing, portfolio optimization, alternative investment analytics and shadow accounting within one platform.

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FoF Manager

Shadow Accounting for Alternative Portfolios

Manage hedge funds, private equity and multi-asset portfolios with liquidity controls, custom classifications and flexible historical accounting.

35+ hedge fund liquidity settings
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Portfolio Optimization

Nonlinear Portfolio Optimization

Construct hedge fund-of-funds and multi-asset portfolios with stress-test, factor-exposure, liquidity and other user-defined constraints.

Custom Constraints for market-neutral and risk-controlled portfolio construction
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Risk Shell AI

Natural-Language Access to Risk Shell

Use natural language to access investment research, risk analytics and portfolio workflows.

2.3B tokens in our in-house financial LLM
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Macroeconomic Scenario Screening

Select Assets for the Scenario You Define

Screen managers by risk and return targets under user-defined macroeconomic scenarios.

Trend Segmentation™ proprietary regime-analysis engine
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Peer-relative Stress Testing
Portfolio Stress Testing

Peer-Relative Stress Testing

Compare extreme-event outcomes with a relevant peer group.

500K+ live stress-tested instruments
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Risk Shell Financial Data

Global Financial Data

Risk Shell databases cover traditional assets and alternative investments.

550,000+ Instruments
AssetsOEF, Hedge Funds, ETF, Equities
36Databases
4,000+ Data Points

Alternative Investment Data

Hedge fund data from all major data vendors.

208,000+ Hedge funds
56,000+Active funds
Updates Daily

Indices & Macroeconomic Factors

Benchmarks, investable indices and macroeconomic factors since 1990.

50,000+ Global indices
500+Hedge fund indices
History Since 1990

Infrastructure

Flexible data access with dedicated institutional infrastructure.

Access Risk Shell, Snowflake, MySQL
Redundancy Fully synchronized servers
Security Private dedicated servers

Hedge Fund Databases & Financial Data

ABC Quant provides broad financial data coverage across hedge funds, fund of funds, CTAs, ETFs, UCITS, open-end and closed-end funds, global equities and indices. Risk Shell also integrates real-time Bloomberg data, providing access to millions of Bloomberg instruments.

Alternative investments remain a core area of coverage. Risk Shell incorporates hedge fund data from leading vendors including Eurekahedge, Morningstar®, BarclayHedge and With Intelligence (now part of S&P Global), covering more than 208,000 instruments and over 56,000 unique active funds.

Risk Shell data is not limited to vendor feeds. Institutional clients can integrate proprietary in-house databases, use custom Risk Shell databases and combine multiple data sources within the same platform. ABC Quant has maintained long-term relationships with major financial data providers for more than two decades.

 

Risk Shell Data FAQs

Can I use Risk Shell with my own data instead of subscribing to vendor data?▼

Yes. Risk Shell fully supports custom data, so you can use your own data without subscribing to vendor databases. There are two ways to integrate custom data. First, you can create and maintain your own databases within the Risk Shell framework. Second, ABC Quant can create a data bridge between our data servers and your servers, allowing you to maintain your in-house databases while synchronizing them with Risk Shell.

How often is Risk Shell data updated?▼

Local Risk Shell data is synchronized with the corresponding vendor feeds and is updated whenever the vendor data is updated. Most data feeds are updated daily.

Why do you provide global equity data?▼

Global equity data serves several purposes. It is required for Holdings-Based Analysis of funds with equity exposure, can be used to build long/short equity portfolios, and allows equity positions to be incorporated into multi-asset portfolios.

Can I subscribe to data only and skip the risk analytics?▼

Yes. You can subscribe to any of the data packages distributed by ABC Quant without subscribing to Risk Shell analytics. We offer various data delivery options, including FTP and SFTP, with encrypted or unencrypted delivery.

Do I need to subscribe to data packages separately?▼

Risk Shell and data subscriptions are separate licenses, although some Risk Shell packages include selected data feeds. Most data feeds can be subscribed to either through ABC Quant or directly from supported data vendors. If you obtain a data license directly from a vendor, access to the relevant database will be enabled after your license has been verified.

Can I run Holdings-Based Analysis for funds investing in bonds?▼

Risk Shell does not maintain fixed-income data within its standard environment. However, you can obtain virtually any financial instruments, including bonds, through the integrated Bloomberg data feed or upload them manually as custom assets.

Can I back up my own data in Risk Shell?▼

Yes. Risk Shell provides two levels of custom data backup: automatic system backups performed twice a day and user-initiated manual backups. System backups are retained for two years.

How are duplicates across different data feeds resolved?▼

Duplicates can occur when you subscribe to multiple data feeds covering the same asset class. Risk Shell provides dedicated tools for eliminating duplicates across multiple data vendors based on user-defined rules.

Book Your Spot: Working With Data

06 Nov 2026;
03:00PM - 04:00PM
Custom Data
06 Nov 2026;
03:30PM - 04:30PM
Due Diligence Tools
09 Nov 2026;
03:30PM - 04:30PM
Operational Due Diligence On Hedge Funds
11 Nov 2026;
09:00AM - 10:00AM
Bloomberg Data Feed
19 Nov 2026;
09:00AM - 10:00AM
Databases & Data Sets
27 Nov 2026;
03:00PM - 04:00PM
Custom Data
27 Nov 2026;
03:30PM - 04:30PM
Due Diligence Tools

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Global Financial Data covering alternative and traditional assets

  • Global data in Risk Shell

    More than 550,000 traditional and alternative investment vehicles across global markets, covering all major asset classes and geographical regions within the Risk Shell data environment.

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  • Integrated Vendor Data

    Data feeds from established institutional providers are processed and compiled into Risk Shell-format databases covering traditional and alternative investments across multiple asset classes.

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  • Virtual databases

    Create proprietary assets and virtual databases directly within Risk Shell. Define unlimited custom data fields and structure data around your own investment, research and reporting requirements.

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