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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Quantitative Screening

Screen funds, managers and other assets using 100+ risk and performance measures over user-defined historical periods.

  • 100+ searchable risk and performance statistics
  • User-defined historical windows, fixed intervals and trailing periods
  • Variable confidence levels for applicable risk metrics
  • Upper, lower and bounded thresholds for individual screening criteria

Asset Screening Filters

Quantitative and qualitative filters run as one search, not as a screen followed by a manual cut. Risk statistics, factor and benchmark exposures, liquidity profile, stress-test results, strategy and reporting status are applied together, on a trailing period or a closed interval, across the selected hedge-fund and multi-asset universe.

  • Risk, Factor & Liquidity Filters

    Screen hedge funds and other assets by factor exposures, liquidity profile and performance under historical stress events.

    • User-defined factor exposure filters
    • Liquidity profile and liquidity-based screening criteria
    • Historical stress-test results across extreme market events
    • Factor- and benchmark-relative metrics including alpha, beta, upside beta and downside beta
  • Manager & Fund Screening

    Screen on descriptive fund and manager fields. Hundreds of searchable data points.

    • Strategy, substrategy, holding details and other descriptive fields
    • Dead and non-reporting funds
    • Vendor fields and custom user-defined manager fields
    • Qualitative and quantitative filters applied together
    • Tailored for hedge funds, fund of funds and multi-asset portfolios
  • Cross-Database Asset Search

    Use risk-return filters to search assets acrows multiple databases

    • Global search across multiple vendor databases
    • Hedge funds and fund of funds
    • Long-only funds and CTAs
    • ETFs, closed-end and money market funds
    • Equities and other supported investment universes

Asset Selection FAQs

Can I combine quantitative and qualitative filters in Risk Shell?▼

Yes. Risk Shell allows complex searches that combine quantitative criteria with qualitative or descriptive fields. This makes it possible to narrow the search using characteristics such as asset type, strategy, classification, or other descriptive attributes together with numerical measures such as returns, volatility, liquidity, valuation, or risk statistics.

What is Factor Screening in Risk Shell?▼

Factor Screening identifies instruments with specified sensitivities, or betas, to selected economic factors, market indices, or benchmarks. It can be used to find assets with particular factor exposures and to support factor-based research, portfolio construction, and risk analysis.

Can I search for instruments based on their correlation or regression to another asset or benchmark?▼

Yes. Risk Shell provides regression-based search functionality that allows you to identify instruments within a specified correlation or regression range relative to a reference asset, index, or benchmark. This can be useful for finding instruments with similar, complementary, or specific market relationships.

Can I perform a quantitative search over a specific historical time period?▼

Yes. Risk Shell supports quantitative searches over defined historical periods, including both trailing and closed time intervals. This allows search criteria to be evaluated consistently over the period relevant to your analysis rather than relying only on current values.

Can I search using custom, user-defined data fields?▼

Yes. User-defined data fields can be included in Risk Shell searches in the same way as supported vendor data fields. This allows institutions to incorporate proprietary classifications, internal metrics, and other custom information into their screening criteria.

Are custom instruments included in Risk Shell searches?▼

Yes. Custom instruments and user-defined datasets can be organized as virtual databases within Risk Shell. They are integrated with vendor databases and can therefore be included in the same search and screening routines.

Can I screen funds and other investment instruments using quantitative criteria?▼

Yes. Risk Shell supports quantitative screening across a broad range of investment instruments and datasets. Depending on the available data, search criteria can include performance characteristics, risk measures, exposures, classifications, and other quantitative or descriptive fields.

Can I use risk and performance metrics as search criteria?▼

Yes. Risk Shell can use quantitative risk and performance measures as screening criteria. This allows users to search for instruments or funds according to characteristics such as historical performance, volatility, downside risk, tail-risk measures, and other available analytics.

Can I screen instruments by their exposure to market or economic factors?▼

Yes. Factor-based screening can be used to identify instruments according to their estimated sensitivities to selected market, economic, or benchmark factors. This provides a practical way to search for specific sources of systematic exposure rather than relying solely on asset-class or descriptive classifications.

Can I search for instruments with similar historical behaviour?▼

Yes. Risk Shell's quantitative search capabilities can be used to identify instruments with specified statistical relationships to a reference instrument or benchmark. Correlation, regression characteristics, factor sensitivities, and other available quantitative measures can help identify instruments with similar or contrasting historical behaviour.

Can I use multiple screening conditions in a single Risk Shell search?▼

Yes. Risk Shell is designed for multi-criteria searches, allowing users to combine several quantitative and descriptive conditions. Complex screening rules can therefore be used to narrow large instrument universes to a specific set of assets or funds matching the required characteristics.

Can Risk Shell search across multiple data sources?▼

Yes. Risk Shell can integrate data from supported vendor databases together with user-defined data and custom instruments. These datasets can be incorporated into the search environment, allowing screening criteria to be applied across a combined investment universe.

What can Risk Shell quantitative screening be used for?▼

Quantitative screening can support a wide range of institutional investment research tasks, including investment universe selection, manager and fund research, factor analysis, portfolio construction, benchmark-relative analysis, and identification of instruments with specific risk, return, correlation, or exposure characteristics.

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Risk Shell Components

Risk management and portfolio construction for alternative investments