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 Traditional Long-Only Managers

Risk Shell Traditional Manager Editions combine institutional asset research, factor analysis and portfolio construction for long-only equity, fixed-income and multi-asset strategies. The platform extends conventional return, volatility and benchmark analysis with conditional screening, holdings-based risk analysis, nonlinear optimization and explicit portfolio constraints.

The editions are cumulative. Higher configurations add progressively deeper factor research, portfolio risk and optimization capabilities, while the upper editions extend the analytical environment with Bloomberg integration and the Risk Shell Stress-Test Database.

Asset Selection & Market Screening

Screen large investment universes using conventional risk-return criteria together with market-conditional and factor-based selection tools.

  • Global Search and 100+ quantitative screening criteria
  • Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
  • FlexiRank™ with custom ranking criteria
  • Peer Group Analysis and Side-by-Side Analysis

Factor & Holdings Analysis

Analyse portfolio and asset exposures using return-based factor models together with direct holdings-based risk analysis.

  • Static and Dynamic Attribution Analysis
  • Factor Best-Fit using LASSO, PCA, AIC and Ridge models
  • Holdings-Based Analysis
  • Equity Style Box and advanced correlation analysis

Portfolio Construction & Optimization

Move beyond basic mean-variance allocation using advanced portfolio objectives, explicit risk constraints and institutional rebalancing tools.

  • Portfolio Optimization and optimization backtesting
  • Risk Budgeting and marginal risk contribution
  • Portfolio Stochastic Simulation and forecasting
  • Rebalancing and market-neutral portfolio construction

Market Data & Stress Analytics

Combine portfolio analytics with market data and stress-testing tools for equity, fixed-income and multi-asset portfolios.

  • Bloomberg real-time and pre-saved data integration
  • Multiple return frequencies and currency conversion
  • Historical and model-based Stress Testing
  • Stress-Test Database covering 500K+ instruments in Ultimate IV

Choose the Appropriate Traditional Manager Edition

Basic provides the core asset research, screening and risk-analysis environment. Ultimate I adds macroeconomic scenario screening, factor analysis, holdings analysis and advanced research tools; Ultimate II adds portfolio construction, optimization, risk budgeting and institutional research management; Ultimate III adds Bloomberg integration for market-data-driven workflows; and Ultimate IV adds access to the Risk Shell Stress-Test Database for large-scale extreme-event analysis.

The matrix above provides the complete component-by-component comparison of Risk Shell Editions for Traditional Long-Only Managers.

Risk Shell Editions Traditional Managers

Traditional Long-Only Managers Risk Shell Components
Edition Basic
Edition Ultimate I
Edition Ultimate II
Edition Ultimate III
Edition Ultimate IV
Investment Research & Screening
Search filters (100+), excluding Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
Added
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Global Search across multiple databases
Added
✓
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Peer Group Analysis — Classic & Multi-Statistic
Added
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✓
✓
✓
Risk engine for asset valuation — 100+ risk and return metrics
Added
✓
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✓
Side-by-Side Analysis
Added
✓
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Interactive charting — 2D & 3D
Added
✓
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✓
Factor, Scenario & Holdings Analysis
Multiple return frequencies — monthly, weekly & daily
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Added
✓
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✓
Macroeconomic Scenario Screening™
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Added
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✓
Attribution Analysis — Static & Dynamic, including Trend Segmentation™
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Added
✓
✓
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Holdings-Based Analysis
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Added
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✓
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Factor Best-Fit — LASSO, PCA, AIC & Ridge models
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Added
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✓
FlexiRank™ — custom asset and manager ranking criteria
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Added
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✓
Stress Testing — models, scenarios & historical extreme events
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Added
✓
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Custom Data & Research Tools
Wallets, including Global Scope data containers
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Added
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Portfolio What-If Analysis
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Series Transformation, including FX Forwards
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Reports — technical & design reports
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Custom Assets, including Portfolio module
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Added
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Index Builder
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Proxy Builder
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Portfolio Construction & Optimization
Autocorrelation Analysis
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Custom Backups
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Equity Style Box
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Advanced Portfolio Correlation Analysis
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Marginal Risk Contribution & Diversification Analysis
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Risk Budgeting, including Equal Risk Contribution
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Added
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Portfolio Optimization
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Optimization Backtesting, including bulk background testing
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Added
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Portfolio Stochastic Simulation
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Performance Forecasting
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Portfolio Rebalancing
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Added
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Market-Neutral Portfolio Builder
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Currency Conversion module
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Added
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Research Management & Data Integration
CRM Document Manager, including email parser
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Bloomberg Integration — real-time & pre-saved data
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Added
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Advanced Stress Analytics
Stress-Test Database — 500K+ instruments
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First included in this edition
✓ Included from a preceding edition
— Not included