Tradar Insight: Front Office
Take complete control of your order process
Insight for the Front Office maintains a live portfolio, enabling fund managers to make real time trading decisions across multiple asset classes and strategies. Insight provides all the facilities required for order entry, allocation and routing to your designated network or Execution Management System (EMS) via FIX. The integrated compliance engine validates orders pre-trade, against fund or regulatory investment restrictions prior to execution.
Key Benefits Include:
- Real-time portfolio monitoring enables managers to make informed investment decisions with greater confidence.
- Consolidated view of orders executed via FIX or voice provides increased control over the trade management process.
- Efficiently manage the portfolio through an intuitive interface.
- Provides firms with a fully auditable order placement and execution workflow, decreasing risk and increasing transparency.
- Straight through posting to Middle Office eliminating the need to dual-key.
Key features include:
- Real time monitoring
- Order creation
- Order management
- Connectivity
Real Time Monitoring
- Multi Period Live P&L – Improve decision making with year to date, month to date and daily performance views.
- Exposure management – Full valuation and exposure calculation that can be adjusted by Beta or Delta.
- Alert monitoring – configurable alerting tool on exposure, price and P&L limits.
- Data sources – live transaction data with ticking prices and exchange rates downloaded from either Thomson Reuters or Bloomberg.
Order Creation
- Rebalancing – dynamically generate bulk orders to adjust portfolio holdings based on capital flows.
- Realignment – create orders to adjust relative portfolio weights by either internally crossing or generating market orders.
- Target position – Singular order generation to meet the required target percentage of NAV or nominal amount of shares.
- Excel friendly – Copy and Paste directly to the order blotter from Excel.
Order Management
- Order allocation – Allocate orders across Funds, Accounts and Strategies using pre-defined or ad-hoc allocation rules, while closeouts can be on a pro-rata basis.
- Broker allocation – Allocate single target orders to multiple executing brokers or venues.
- Pre-Trade Compliance – Allows you to check order and position limits pre-empting any potential breach.
- Fill management – Monitor executions in real-time with automated posting, ensuring all reports are up to date.
Connectivity
- 2 Way FIX - With FIX capabilities and allocation tools, Insight allows traders to stage orders for execution, and receive executions in real-time.
- FIX drop copy – Receive unsolicited order executions from designated EMS or FIX network connections in real time.