Technology for portfolio managers and funds
Family funds, fund managers and portfolio management services come to us for the systems around their decisions: research, execution and reporting. We have built OMS and EMS integrations, research platforms and a market regime system for private family funds in the UK and the US, and for Sharia fund managers in the US, Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The mandate and every investment decision stay with you.
- Dataprices, fundamentals, your own sources
- Researchbacktests, regimes, studies
- Your decisionthe mandate stays yours
- ExecutionOMS, EMS, FIX, allocation
- Reportingpositions, audit, dashboards
What we have built for fund managers
- OMS and EMS integration, so orders move from the manager’s decision to the broker with checks, allocation and a full record.
- Research platforms for testing the manager’s ideas on their own data, at the scale a fund needs.
- A market regime change system that tells the manager’s other systems when market conditions move from one regime to another, as the manager defines them.
The clients behind this work include private family funds in the UK and the US, and Sharia fund managers in the US, Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. We describe clients by type and region only.
Research
Most managers already have ideas and data; what slows them down is the plumbing between the two. We build the research side to your process: data pipelines that clean and align your sources, backtesting engines that model costs and avoid look-ahead, studies that run across many instruments and years, and regime tools that split history by the conditions you care about. See institutional research operations, backtesting software and market data engineering, and our own multi-market backtesting platform (in-house R&D, not client work).
Execution
Once you have decided, the order has to reach the market exactly as intended: allocated across accounts, checked against your limits, routed through your OMS or EMS or over FIX, and reconciled afterwards. We integrate with the platforms you already use rather than asking you to replace them. The detail is on our page on institutional trading systems.
Portfolio operations and reporting
Rebalancing many client accounts to the targets you set, monitoring drift, reporting positions and keeping an audit trail of every change are operations work, and they are where manual processes break first. We automate them to your rules: see portfolio rebalancing and the enterprise fintech data platform case study.
Confidentiality
A fund’s research and positions are its edge, and we treat them that way. We sign an NDA before you share anything, and build in your own environment where you want the code and data kept in house.
What stays with you
The mandate, the licence from your regulator, the client relationships and every investment decision stay with you. We do not suggest holdings, allocations or trades, we do not manage money and we do not take custody of assets. We build the systems that carry out your decisions and record them. Managers in the Gulf can read more on our UAE page, and in the US on our US page.
Common questions
- We are a small family office. Is this only for large funds?
- No. Several of the funds we have built for are private family funds. The systems are sized to the operation: a research platform and a clean route to the broker can matter as much to a family office as an OMS does to a large manager.
- Do you work with Sharia-compliant fund managers?
- Yes, we have built for Sharia fund managers in the US, Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Where your mandate carries screens or restrictions, you and your board set them; the systems we build apply them consistently and keep the record.
- What is a regime change system?
- Software that classifies market conditions into the regimes you define, for example trending or range-bound, calm or volatile, and tells your research and execution systems when the regime changes, so your own rules for each regime are applied. The definitions and the rules are yours.
- Will you suggest what we should hold?
- No. We never suggest holdings, allocations or trades. The mandate and every investment decision stay with you; we build the systems that carry them out and record them.