Context of use of Cube Platform
A UCITS Management Company that needs to manage all its investment processes.
Company functions involved
Front Office, Back Office, Risk Manager, Compliance, External Advisors
Fund Manager / Advisor functionalities:
- Create orders
- Calculate order quantities based on portfolio value (increase pct, decrease pct, fixed target, etc)
- Create allocation forecasts from simulated orders
- Monitor on RT basis all portfolio values (qty, PL, exposure)
- Simulate any effect of virtual positions on current portfolios
- View Order book (Advisor restricted to own sub-funds)
- Calculate performances and performance contributions
Front office functionalities:
- Manage the entire life-cicle of the orders, from its generation to their fill
- Send/receive orders to/from brokers automatically via FIX (EMSX, TSOX, FIX hubs)
- Make the compliance pre-trade check
- Monitor on RT basis all the portfolio values (qty, PL, exposure)
- Simulate any effect of virtual positions on current portfolios
Risk Management functionalities:
- RT monitoring of post-trade compliance (regulatory: Ucits, Aifmd and the funds prospectus)
- “4 eye” compliance operations supported
- RT monitoring of post-trade Value at Risk
- View Risk metrics for all subfunds
- Calculate the portfolio Value at Risk with various models (Parametric, Historical Simulations and their sub-versions)
- VaR back test process and validation
- Scenario Analysis
- Stress Test Analysis
- Creation and management of Investment Policies
- Creation of Custom Asset Classes
Back-office functionalities:
- Receive the official portfolio data from various depositary banks, the reference and market data from various data provider (Bloomberg, Reuters, Telekurs, others).
- Manage all type of transactions
- Reconcile the transactions and the positions
- View or modify dictionary data (instruments, portfolios, counterparties, contacts, asset classes)
- Automatically create security data from Data Provider, or manually
- Calculation of rebates to fund distributors and placing agents
- Create and manage the directory of commercial counterparties / fund distributors and rebate rates
- Calculate the soft NAV