Since Alfred Winslow Jones launched the first hedge fund in 1949, the industry has grown tremendously. Competitions intensify with over 8,000 active hedge funds globally today. As a hedge fund management company, your business depends on the unique investment models that generate consistent returns to your investors. You need technology tools to sustain and compete in the hedge fund business, but often time you may find technologists unable to quickly and deeply understand your business. Hedge fund clients rely on Diverture & Cygnus to deliver innovative and cost effective solutions to align information technology with business strategy.
Our IT solutions enhance hedge fund operation in the following areas.

Sales & Marketing
Analysis
Trading
Risk Management and Bank Office
 

Custom Application Development
Diverture & Cygnus builds customized software applications on top of your current technology infrastructures. We leverage Cygnus’ analytical library and industry knowledge to design flexible systems that address constantly changing trading strategy and instruments; varying credit and market conditions; new compliances and unexpected investor demands. Our experience in hedge fund information technology includes:

Analytical and pricing applications for variety of financial instruments. We work with global equity, commodities, fixed income products, futures, forwards and credit derivatives.
Computation and forecast models to manage risk exposure in the portfolio. Our solutions include risk measurement and estimate for credit, market, operation and liquidity risks.
Reporting infrastructure for compliance and client communications. We create systems with enterprise wide reporting to generate custom reports depending on specific events, requests or regulations.
Trading infrastructure for proprietary investment strategies. We establish innovative, stable, flexible, and integrated IT platforms to support dynamic investment models like 130/30, arbitrage, event driven, long / short, market timing, Marco and multi-strategy.
 

System Integration Services
Access to accurate data on demand and on location is critical to the success of hedge funds. Our data management solutions help hedge funds deliver information in real time across different applications. Computing applications with integrated data provide more accurate predictions on portfolio pricing and sensitivity analysis. Our expertise in process automation helps clients minimize human errors in accounting, operation and maximize time invested on core business functions. Our experience in integrating a range of applications and data sources includes:

Application integrations to create enterprise wide reporting capability
CRM integrations to align investment operations with sales & marketing strategy
Code translation to analyze and migrate data from legacy systems
Market data integrations to access information across diverse software platforms
OMS / EMS Integration
STP implementation streamlining both external and internal business processes
 

Business Outsourcing Services
Our goal is to provide services to help hedge fund clients focus on core investment activities. We help improve hedge fund’s operational efficiency by offloading and managing labor intensive tasks. We provide a back office team to support administration demands. Our team works in a remote and secure virtual environment to ensure protection of sensitive client information. Our business outsourcing services include

Accounting and compliance record maintenance
Market data analysis
Portfolio pricing and sensitivity analysis
Portfolio accounting, reconciliation and report distribution
Pre trade analysis on simulated scenarios
 

Case Study
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