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Market proven, cross-asset by design

If you’re a mature hedge fund taking the next big step or a major launch looking to get started, Orchestrade provides the natively cross-asset, cross-instrument, front-to-back portfolio management and risk solution to meet your specialized investment requirements.

Orchestrade is cross-asset by design and offers unrivalled out-of-the-box capabilities with a comprehensive business process library, a range of best-practice workflow configurations and an extensive collection of market standard APIs, all of which enable rapid deployment and a refreshingly short time to market.

Orchestrade: Single Cross-Asset Data Model

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Hedge funds have distinct needs:

  • Increasing demand for reporting, operational rigor and transparency from regulators and clients
  • Heavy initial and ongoing expenditure on staff and infrastructure combined with the pressure to accelerate the time-to-market
  • The right infrastructure in place to raise and support increasing AUM without outpacing infrastructure design and scalability
  • Able to cope with significant changes (up/down) in AUM without impacting levels of service

Orchestrade delivers:

  • Cost effective turnkey solution with pre-packaged configuration
  • Low risk and minimal implementation effort
  • Immediate operational pedigree that assists marketing efforts
  • Access to sophisticated derivatives technology
  • Kept to market by continual evolution of analytical models in response to industry changes
  • Full front to back services enables client to quickly achieve scale
  • Tried and tested institutional quality infrastructure that can already cope with large AUMs across asset class and instruments

Cross-Asset Portfolio & Risk Management

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Comprehensive front-to-back functionality

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Orchestrade provides portfolio managers with a dashboard that gives them a real-time view of their positions, P&L and risk. This functionality is delivered consistently across asset classes including equity, rates, credit, FX, commodities, inflation, and volatility. The platform has a wide range of market standard valuation models that can be extended to include third party or proprietary models.

Users can slice and dice trading activity by fund, strategy, trader, sector, geography, currency and many other factors. Adjustments to the P&L can be explained through identifying movements in rates, currency shifts, changes in equity markets and so on.

Orchestrade provides a broad range of analytics, sensitivities and risk metrics including greeks, cross-greeks, DV01, CS01, projected cash flows, value at risk (VaR) and beta to risk factors. Users can drill down into these metrics and attribute contributions from positions, groups of positions, risk factors, or alternatively across curves for key rate analysis.
 
Furthermore, the platform allows users to stress a multitude of risk factors including shocks to equity prices, FX, rates, credit, and volatility to assess the effectiveness of the investment strategy under a broad range of market scenarios.
Orchestrade helps facilitate more efficient integration between middle- and back-office applications, particularly IT innovations that eliminate manual systems, legacy solutions and pave the way for operational efficiency.
 
Its modern middle office functionality enables the system to live up to the product name — orchestrating and automating post-trade activities across a wide range of asset classes.
 
Once in the system, the entire trade’s lifecycle is automated based on industry practices and requirements, including confirms, payment schedules, corporate actions, fees schedules, accounting entries, etc., or allowing for the institution’s internal standards. The system is designed to be highly scalable and flexible, enabling significant economies of scale.
For funds that run shadow accounting, Orchestrade has a fully integrated general ledger with workflow to support all aspects of the accounting lifecycle including the generation of financial statements.

What does it mean to be Natively Cross Asset?

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Overview

A genuine cross-asset data model facilitates rapid onboarding of new trading strategies, markets, asset classes, instruments, portfolio managers, and risk-takers. By eliminating data siloes and ensuring consistent data representation across asset classes, users can quickly integrate new components. Workflows can be designed and deployed in a no-code GUI – again accelerating middle and back office operations.

Orchestrade supports a multi-curve framework, allowing clients to utilize (if required) separate curves, models and pricers for different stakeholders within the same organization. For example, front-office traders can work with one set of curves, while enterprise risk teams and senior management can operate using separate, tailored curves – all within a single unified platform.

With Orchestrade’s platform, our clients have the freedom to choose pricing & risk models, analytics and data that best suits their needs. They have the option to leverage Orchestrade’s proprietary models, integrate third-party vendor solutions or seamlessly incorporate their own proprietary models and data. This unparalleled flexibility leads to a platform that not only solves the current challenges of their existing solution, but also future-proofs their business as they grow, evolve and react to market opportunities.

We don’t believe in limiting how our clients’ source and access liquidity; Orchestrade is a hub-and-spoke architecture, providing seamless connectivity to various Execution Management Systems (EMS), Order Management Systems (OMS), bank platforms and other sources of liquidity. This open architecture empowers managers to access the best liquidity from multiple sources, streamlining trading operations and maximizing efficiency.

Most portfolio and risk management systems are either designed as one-size-fits-all solutions or have evolved from single asset data models (for example, equities or fixed income). Whilst these out-of-the-box setups are initially appealing, certainly from a cost efficiency perspective, they quickly become inadequate as managers grow and look to diversify their strategies, instruments and asset classes –or just want more control over pricing, valuation and risk analytics.

Orchestrade developers use the same programming interfaces that are provided to advanced users with an appetite for extending the system. Wrapping the entire platform with APIs (Rest, Python and C#) gives managers the ability to enrich Orchestrade without waiting for a roadmap decision – putting the power in the manager’s hands, rather than forcing them into a ‘walled garden’ or restricted ‘black box’.

Thought leadership
To manage risk, and make effective decisions, traders must have real-time visibility
Orchestrade featured in The Hedge Fund Journal
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Testimonials

“Orchestrade’s cross-asset capabilities, extensive out-of-the-box interfaces and ease-of-use enables our team to focus on our business instead of tangling with technology issues. The team is great to work with, and we are very happy to have Orchestrade as a strategic partner underpinning the infrastructure for our fund,”
Andy French, Founding Partner and COO of Mesarete Capital
“Orchestrade enabled us to launch a specialized fund business in under 6 weeks, covering end-to-end processing of all the basic cash and complex derivative products we trade.”
Gang Hu, Managing Partner, WinShore Capital
“We went live in less than 3 months with Orchestrade as our trading, risk and operations system for our fund launch, covering a wide range of OTC and exchange-traded products. We continue to rely on the breadth and depth of the system as our business grows.”
Robb Arnulphy, COO, Welwing Capital Group
"Orchestrade is very responsive and will make senior experts available on short notice. They are keen to enhance and adapt the software to meet the needs of our business and will offer creative interim solutions as required. Orchestrade is a valued partner and helps our organization remain agile and responsive to markets”
Matt Darnall, Head of Modelling and Technology, Element Capital

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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries.