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 Research Houses & Investment Consultants

Risk Shell Research House Editions are designed for firms that analyse investments across multiple asset classes and deliver research, manager assessment and portfolio recommendations to institutional clients. The configurations combine global investment databases with quantitative screening, peer analysis, factor and scenario analytics, portfolio risk tools and client reporting.

The editions are cumulative. Higher configurations extend the research environment from asset and manager analysis into portfolio modelling, risk budgeting and optimization, while Ultimate IV adds the Risk Shell Stress-Test Database for large-scale extreme-event analysis across the investment universe.

Cross-Asset Investment Research

Research funds, equities and other supported investments within the same analytical framework and across multiple databases.

  • Global Search and 100+ quantitative screening criteria
  • Classic and Multi-Statistic Peer Group Analysis
  • Side-by-Side Analysis across assets, managers and benchmarks
  • Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™

Manager & Strategy Analysis

Evaluate managers using quantitative risk, performance, attribution and market-conditional analysis rather than relying on headline performance statistics.

  • FlexiRank™ with custom ranking criteria
  • Static and Dynamic Attribution Analysis
  • Trend Segmentation™
  • Stress Testing and diversification analysis

Portfolio Research & Construction

Extend investment research from individual assets and managers to proposed client portfolios and allocation models.

  • Portfolio What-If Analysis
  • Marginal risk contribution and diversification analysis
  • Risk Budgeting and Portfolio Optimization
  • Optimization backtesting and stochastic simulation

Research Data & Client Reporting

Maintain proprietary research and produce client-facing analytical output from the same environment used for investment analysis.

  • Custom Assets, Index Builder and Proxy Builder
  • CRM Document Manager with email parser
  • Custom data fields and data merge
  • Technical and design reports

Choose the Appropriate Research House Edition

Basic provides the core cross-asset research, screening and peer-analysis environment. Ultimate I adds macroeconomic scenario screening, attribution, stress testing and custom research tools; Ultimate II adds portfolio analytics, forecasting, research-data management and client-document tools; Ultimate III introduces risk budgeting, portfolio optimization, optimization backtesting and stochastic simulation; and Ultimate IV adds access to the Risk Shell Stress-Test Database.

The matrix above provides the complete component-by-component comparison of Risk Shell Editions for Research Houses and Investment Consultants.

Risk Shell Editions (Research Houses)

Research Houses & Consultants Risk Shell Components
Edition Basic
Edition Ultimate I
Edition Ultimate II
Edition Ultimate III
Edition Ultimate IV
Cross-Asset 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
✓
✓
✓
✓
Advanced Investment Analysis
Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Attribution Analysis — Static & Dynamic, including Trend Segmentation™
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Stress Testing — models, scenarios & historical extreme events
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
FlexiRank™ — custom asset and manager ranking criteria
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Wallets, including Global Scope data containers
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Portfolio What-If Analysis
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Custom Data & Research Tools
Reports — technical & design reports
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Custom Assets, including Portfolio module
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Index Builder
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Proxy Builder
—
Added
✓
✓
✓
Portfolio Analytics & Research Management
Autocorrelation Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Custom Backups
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Equity Style Box
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Advanced Portfolio Correlation Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Marginal Risk Contribution & Diversification Analysis
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Performance Forecasting
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Rebalancing
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Market-Neutral Portfolio Builder
—
—
Added
✓
✓
CRM Document Manager, including email parser
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Data Management — custom fields & data merge
—
—
Added
✓
✓
Portfolio Construction & Optimization
Risk Budgeting, including Equal Risk Contribution
—
—
—
Added
✓
Portfolio Optimization
—
—
—
Added
✓
Optimization Backtesting, including bulk background testing
—
—
—
Added
✓
Portfolio Stochastic Simulation
—
—
—
Added
✓
Advanced Stress Analytics
Stress-Test Database — 500K+ instruments
—
—
—
—
Added
Added
First included in this edition
✓ Included from a preceding edition
— Not included