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 Editions for Institutional Investors & FoF Managers

Institutional configurations cover the broadest Risk Shell functionality, from asset and manager research through portfolio construction, risk management, due diligence, FoF management and shadow accounting. The editions are cumulative: higher configurations retain the components of the preceding edition and add more specialized analytical and portfolio-management tools.

The configuration can be adapted to the institution's investment process, data environment and user structure. Risk Shell supports multi-user access, proprietary data, custom reporting and integration with institutional data sources alongside the standard analytical components.

Investment Research & Risk Analytics

Research and compare funds, managers and other investments using Risk Shell screening, peer analysis, factor models, stress testing and holdings-based analytics.

  • Global Search and 100+ quantitative screening criteria
  • Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™ and FlexiRank™
  • Factor, attribution and Holdings-Based Analysis
  • Stress testing and tail-risk analytics

Portfolio Construction & Optimization

Build and test institutional portfolios using portfolio risk analytics, optimization, risk budgeting and advanced allocation constraints.

  • Portfolio Optimization and optimization backtesting
  • Risk Budgeting and marginal risk contribution
  • Factor, liquidity and stress-test constraints
  • Portfolio rebalancing and market-neutral construction

FoF Management & Shadow Accounting

Higher Institutional editions extend Risk Shell from investment analytics into operational portfolio management for hedge fund, FoF and multi-asset structures.

  • Exposure and investment-limit control
  • Liquidity analysis and redemption management
  • FoF Shadow Accounting
  • Master-feeder and multi-portfolio structures

Institutional Data & Deployment

Risk Shell can operate within an institutional data and research environment rather than as a standalone analytical application.

  • Multi-user access and controlled user permissions
  • Proprietary data and custom database integration
  • Bloomberg integration in selected editions
  • Custom reports, development on demand and expert training

Choose the Appropriate Institutional Edition

Basic provides the core research and screening environment. Ultimate I adds advanced risk, factor and holdings analysis; Ultimate II introduces portfolio construction, optimization and due diligence; Ultimate III adds FoF management, shadow accounting and institutional data integration; and Ultimate IV extends the configuration to Private Equity analytics.

The matrix below provides the complete component-by-component comparison of Risk Shell Institutional Editions.

Risk Shell Editions (Institutional)

Institutional Investors Risk Shell Components
Edition Basic
Edition Ultimate I
Edition Ultimate II
Edition Ultimate III
Edition Ultimate IV
Research & Screening
Search filters (100+), excluding Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Global Search across multiple databases
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Peer Group Analysis — Classic & Multi-Statistic
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Risk engine for asset valuation — 100+ risk and return metrics
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Side-by-Side Analysis
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Interactive charting — 2D & 3D
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Script Recording — record and retrieve user actions
Added
✓
✓
✓
✓
Multiple return frequencies — monthly, weekly & daily
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
FlexiRank™ — custom asset and manager ranking criteria
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Risk, Factor & Holdings Analysis
Attribution Analysis — Static & Dynamic, including Trend Segmentation™
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Stress Testing — models, scenarios & historical extreme events
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Holdings-Based Analysis
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Factor Best-Fit — LASSO, PCA, AIC & Ridge models
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Option Modeling
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Autocorrelation Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Data, Custom Assets & Research Tools
Wallets, including Global Scope data containers
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Portfolio What-If Analysis
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Series Transformation, including FX Forwards
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Reports — technical & design reports
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Custom Assets, including Portfolio module
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Return Adjustment Framework
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Index Builder
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Proxy Builder
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Performance Fee & Leverage module
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Currency Conversion module
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Report Builder (RBLD)
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Custom Backups
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Data Management — custom fields & data merge
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Construction & Optimization
Equity Style Box
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Advanced Portfolio Correlation Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Marginal Risk Contribution & Diversification Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Risk Budgeting, including Equal Risk Contribution
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Optimization
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Optimization Backtesting, including bulk background testing
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Background Optimization
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Stochastic Simulation
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Performance Forecasting
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Rebalancing
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Market-Neutral Portfolio Builder
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Due Diligence & Manager Research
OEF Holdings Drill-Down
—
—
Added
✓
✓
OEF Portfolio Breakdown
—
—
Added
✓
✓
CRM Document Manager, including email parser
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Due Diligence Tools — DDQs, templates & bulk uploading
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Fund of Funds Management & Shadow Accounting
FoF Management — exposure, limit control & liquidity analysis
—
—
—
Added
✓
FoF Shadow Accounting
—
—
—
Added
✓
Data Integration & Alternative Assets
Bloomberg Integration — real-time & pre-saved data
—
—
—
Added
✓
Private Equity Analytics
—
—
—
—
Added
Added
First included in this edition
✓ Included from a preceding edition
— Not included