I Work At A Hedge Fund

If your hedge fund’s style uses high frequency trading, you should know that Solace Systems technologies speed up your trading to receive and act on market prices earlier by routing orders using ultra low latency messaging.  This gives you a pure competitive advantages over similar algorithmic trading firms.

R/V Platform is a risk management, portfolio valuation and planning system also integrated across Credit, Market and Operational risk. It is one of the most powerful, sophisticated and proven risk management systems available in the world today and supports the largest banks, asset management, insurance companies and hedge funds, providing them accurate and timely VaR, stress tests and full valuations in real time - and the Greeks to evaluate their derivatives positions. It also improves the timeliness or accuracy of risk/return statistics for investor reporting with respect to key risks and transparency.

The culmination of 14 years of on-going development in close liaison with customers from both the Buy and the Sell sides of the industry, R/V Platform supports easily to analyzing scenarios and can then stress test portfolios with one-step path, Monte Carlo and historical simulation techniques and other elaborate analyses involving thousands of risk factors.

While an industrial strength Enterprise Risk system, R/V Platform is very scalable and modular and can run on simple low end commodity hardware. It is thus easily integrated and used as a “plug in” for a specific risk function(s) within an overall application architecture. It can be run in-house or as an ASP / SaaS configuration (i.e. Application Service Provision / Software as a Service, or Cloud Computing).

Deutsche Asset Management uses R/V Platform globally for reporting to large institutional customers and for planning and monitoring reallocation strategies. R/V Platform was adapted for its reporting to large institutional customers, who all give customized mandates to Deutsche. These customers require performance reporting with widely varying benchmarks, reporting of any kind of mandates both in risk/performance terms and relative to benchmarks, and performance attributable to different risk factors. Deutsche Asset Management are able to target new client prospects by analyze their portfolios via R/V Platform and recommending fact-based and objective reallocations.