Long/ShortManager
Long/ShortManager was inspired by the requirements of a highly diversified market neutral manager who wanted a portfolio management platform with sophisticated risk management tools and a great deal of flexibility to customize beta calculations and change risk management parameters on the fly.
Key Benefits
- Make better decisions with more accurate, real-time information
- Improve client service, save time and money by eliminating manual processes and by having instant access to timely relevant information
- Grow your assets under management while scaling, not increasing, your operations infrastructure investment
- Access your portfolio information portfolio anytime, anywhere via a web browser
- Highly flexible system with many parameters that are defined by users
Key Capabilities
Trade Information Capture
- Track and account for trades by importing trading data in batches or entering trades manually
- Trades can be automatically allocated to individual Managed Accounts
- Errors are easily overridden and corrected
- Trades can be viewed and filtered by date, by fund, by position
Portfolio Accounting
- Track and report positions and P&L’s at fund level and at individual Managed Account level
- Positions and P&L’s are automatically updated when new trades are entered.
- Track commissions from multiple prime brokers
- Track trading history by time period or by stock
- Track positions in stocks, indices and options
- Account for splits, dividends and other corporate actions.
Performance Measurement
- Track P&L performance in real-time and slice data by multiple criteria such as time period (daily, month-to-date, year-to-date), portfolio, account, trade, position, sector, market cap.
- User-defined stop loss alerts by portfolio, by position
- User-defined trailing stop alerts
- Review realized and unrealized gains
- Pre-defined, popular reports and graphs
- Track companies no longer in the portfolio to determine attractive re-entry points
Real-Time Risk Management
- Instantly determine exposure by multiple criteria such as sub-sector, beta-adjusted, gross/net sector and market cap
- Perform real time P&L and Portfolio Valuations
- Provide more accurate and more specific risk assessments to your clients
- Eliminate costly errors by automating today’s manual processes
Customization Capabilities
- User-defined beta calculations by position – e.g. set shorter time periods for more volatile positions
- User-defined Benchmarks by Position, by Sector, by Market Cap
- Create customized reports for individual clients
- Create ad hoc reports easily and export data easily to an Excel file.
Seamless Integration with Other Sources
- View news and filings headlines by ticker
- Can be fully integrated with Bloomberg, other 3rd party systems and in-house systems
