Enhancing Visibility and Optimization of Multi-Asset Portfolios and Risks

Beacon’s hedge fund offering gives risk professionals the ability to control risk factors and deliver accurate and reproducible reports from a single, centralized platform.

4 Steps for Hedge Funds to Move Faster from Fundraising to Growth

We can help you get your fund from research and fundraising to growth much faster, with better visibility of risks and exposures. Beacon’s cross-asset portfolio and risk management platform readily integrates with existing systems and data in just four steps:

4 Steps for Hedge Funds to Move Faster from Fundraising to Growth

We can help you get your fund from research and fundraising to growth much faster, with better visibility of risks and exposures. Beacon’s cross-asset portfolio and risk management platform readily integrates with existing systems and data in just four steps.

Unify Data, Systems, and Services

  • Single source of truth across data
  • Move asset class coverage to step 2
  • Different systems, trading strategies, “pods”, multi-pod funds, centralized view, enhance workflows, make more confident decisions based on that single source of truth

Build Models with Comprehensive Multi-Asset Coverage

  • Need centralized glue system, now spin up a new desk, open a new dest, trade a new instrument
  • Really enable people to spin up new desk, onboard new pod, trade new strategies
  • Accelerate time to market for new pods/asset class

Enhance Control and Transparency of Risk Management

  • Now you’ve spun up new asset class
  • Now need to run risk across classes, running risk, coup-de-grace, of course we have out of the box models, but you can also see how we get to that number, also define own risk factors, make sure there is no unexplainable PnL, see risk factors, drill into, be bespoke

Scale Volume and Performance with a Cloud-Native Architecture

  • Now run all this risk, how do you scale, increase trade volume, but also future proof system
  • What happens when we want to scale, market volatility, anonymized Jain story, systems were unable to support it, left sitting, resilient in different conditions, whether it’s market changes or trade volume

1. Unify Data, Systems, and Services

  • Single source of truth across data
  • Move asset class coverage to step 2
  • Different systems, trading strategies, “pods”, multi-pod funds, centralized view, enhance workflows, make more confident decisions based on that single source of truth

3. Enhance Control and Transparency of Risk Management

  • Now you’ve spun up new asset class
  • Now need to run risk across classes, running risk, coup-de-grace, of course we have out of the box models, but you can also see how we get to that number, also define own risk factors, make sure there is no unexplainable PnL, see risk factors, drill into, be bespoke

2. Build Models with Comprehensive Multi-Asset Coverage

  • Need centralized glue system, now spin up a new desk, open a new dest, trade a new instrument
  • Really enable people to spin up new desk, onboard new pod, trade new strategies
  • Accelerate time to market for new pods/asset class

4. Scale Volume and Performance with a Cloud-Native Architecture

  • Now run all this risk, how do you scale, increase trade volume, but also future proof system
  • What happens when we want to scale, market volatility, anonymized Jain story, systems were unable to support it, left sitting, resilient in different conditions, whether it’s market changes or trade volume

Portfolio Analysis and Risk Management Tools

Hypothetical book-level reporting based on what-if trades with support for workflow management

Flexible framework for monitoring leverage, cash, VaR, DV01, gross, and net exposures across asset classes

Near real-time calculations for positions, PnL, and risk sensitivities distributed on elastic compute infrastructure

Transparent and extensible valuation analytics with out-of-the-box generalized solvers such as PDE and n-factor Monte Carlo

Scalable framework for conducting historical and projected stress tests at both position and book levels

Composable dashboards with widgets to view and edit book and portfolio hierarchies, and pivot tables to dynamically analyze and segment risk and PnL

Cloud Infrastructure

Scalable and controlled cloud environments delivering performance, security, and cost savings

Developer Experience

Collaborative tools and workflows to increase software development efficiency and accelerate time to market

Applications

Prebuilt and extensible tools for analysis, trading, and risk management

Go Deeper

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JULY 13, 2023 – NEW YORK – Beacon Platform is delighted to announce its recognition in the Chartis BuySide50 report, securing a top 20 placement.

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