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SD-Funds: The Multi-asset Derivatives Platform for Fund Managers
| State-of-the-art Multi-Asset Pricing and Risk Management System for Fund Managers SD-Funds is a major breakthrough in buy-side derivatives technology. It includes all pre-trade and post-trade activities with powerful features specifically designed for hedge fund and asset managers, covering all assets and derivatives classes. The system combines accurate pricing, analytics, trading, risk management and compliance reporting. The user-friendly, web-based solution allows fund managers to optimize performance and effectively manage the risk and compliance of their multi-asset portfolios. Manage Risk and Performance Accurately and Consistently Portfolio managers as well as risk and compliance officers can manage and monitor market risk in real-time using sophisticated utilities such as real-time position-keeping screens, rich analysis and reporting tools. Users can view risk in all aggregation levels from the very high all the way to a full drilldown of specific trades. Risk and performance can be easily dissected and analyzed according to various criteria such as portfolio, trader, counterparty, sector, instrument class and geography. All valuation, performance and risk measurements are based on SuperDerivatives' benchmark option pricing model and qualified real-time and historical market data so that front office, back office, top management and auditors can all view, manage and control risk and performance consistently. Accurate Pricing and Analytics for all Options and Assets SD-Funds utilizes SuperDerivatives' award-winning benchmark option pricing model and real-time market data. It thus provides accurate real-time option pricing, retroactive mark-to-market, fully included real-time and historical market data and advanced analytics. SD-Funds offers the widest possible coverage of all options and structures, including the most complex exotic options, baskets, cross-asset hybrids, correlation and structured products. Investment Strategy Optimization Portfolio managers benefit from the most advanced analytical yield-maximization wizards and solvers such as the Strategy Yield OptimizerT. This unique wizard suggests a ranked series of possible strategies based on users' own market direction outlook, risk & cost constraints. With the SD-Funds backtesting module, portfolio managers can run simulations of any considered strategy using SuperDerivatives' vast 12-year rates database. Online Trading with Banks (OTC) Global Exchanges and ECNs SD-Funds comes built-in with rich and secure collaboration capabilities including text messaging, RFQ quoting and trading. The system is natively connected to global exchanges and ECNs as well as to market-making banks via SuperDerivatives' own OTC SD-TR trading network, allowing portfolio managers to directly execute at the most favorable venue and terms. |
  SD-Funds Highlights
 Allows risk officers to tightly control risk and ensure full regulatory compliance
Built-in Reporting, Revaluation and Compliance Extensive market accurate reporting capabilities including valuation, VaR, scenario-analysis, capital adequacy, margin calculation and P&L are readily available for effective decision-making, internal control, investor reporting, margin and collateral management and regulatory compliance. These reports also allow asset managers to comply with various existing and emerging standards and regulations such as MiFID best execution requirements. Reduce Operational Risk with STP Connectivity to Prime Brokers SD-Funds allows funds to significantly increase their productivity while greatly reducing operational risk with its automated portfolio management utilities and seamless STP deal capture to in-house or third-party treasury and back office systems which facilitate booking and online margin account management. Turn-key Online Solution that Requires ZERO IT Resources SD-Funds is a secure web-based system which includes all needed real-time market data feeds. It is constantly updated with new features and instruments as they become tradable, allowing portfolio managers to always be competitive, and requiring absolutely no IT resources. Fund managers and asset managers can start reaping the benefits of SD-Funds within seconds after product registration. The system is also extensively deployed by fund administrators and prime brokers who distribute it to their clients for ensuring the best and most consistent service. |