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Allocators

Allocator Solution for Portfolio Constuction

AlternativeSoft is a best-in-breed solution for Fund Selection and Portfolio Construction. We cater to all fund types, including Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, ETFs and Private Equity Funds, across a wide range of investors. These include Fund of Funds, Municipal Pension Funds, Private Banks, Foundations and Endowments, Insurance Companies, and Family Offices.


One platform for all your data

  • Aggregate data vendors like Eurekahedge, HFR, BarclayHedge, Preqin, Morningstar, Bloomberg, and Refinitiv in one platform.
  • Import exposure data using Albourne, OPERA Reports, and Excel.
  • Access and analyses data on over 35,000 hedge funds and 300,000 mutual funds.
  • Create comprehensive and fully customized fund fact sheets.
  • Collect hedge fund returns and exposures data.
  • Collect your private equity returns, contributions and distributions.

Find the best performing funds

  • Leverage factor-based Style Analysis for finding a source of Alpha (Style Selection or Stock Selection) or to measure sensitivity to different economic & market indicators.
  • Screen across your entire investible universe, across over 4000 different metrics.
  • Compare funds risk/return performance vs indices or user-defined peer groups.
  • Stress test funds against historical or simulated market and economic conditions.

Export all your analysis into shareable content:

  •  Power BI: Add a more deep dive analysis into your existing dashboards, and your existing reports.
  •  Excel API: Flexible, easy to use, and infinitely customisable (with hundreds of functions available.)
  • Automated Reports: Schedule and automate up to 100 fund or portfolio reports at once.
  • Templates:  Automate the creation of bespoke templates to facilitate the production of fact sheets, portfolio reports, fund peer group analysis, exposure analysis, and stress testing. (Over 50 free templates provided covering fact sheets, portfolio reports, fund peer group analysis, exposure analysis, and stress testing).
  • Free white-labelled fact sheets.

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Construct optimal portfolios

  • Optimize portfolios on an ex-ante or ex-post basis against 11 different risk engines.
  • Decompose risk and return attribution.
  • Create and analyze ‘what if’ scenarios for your portfolio.
  • Break down all of your portfolio’s cash flows in one screen.
  • Analyse the impacts of allocation decisions and how adding or removing managers can impact your portfolio’s risk/return profile.
  • Create and customise composite benchmarks.
  • Creating Composite Benchmarks.
  • Create and customize portfolio fact sheets to share with stakeholders.

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Manage Private Equity Fund Investments

  • Compare managers with their peers by multiples, vintages, strategy, and sectors.
  • Access full accounting breakdowns for your private equity investments.
  • Breakdown and forecast cashflows, multiples, J-curves. with the Yale Takahashi model.Search for the best funds that are raising capital right now.
  • Apply stressed scenarios to analyse and forecast future manager cash flows.
  • Evaluate portfolio cash flows and budgeting with AlternativeSoft’s pacing model.
  • Create bespoke fund and portfolio reports.

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Connect with managers via our audited digital Operational Due Diligence platform

Leverage AlternativeSoft’s secure peer-to-peer Operational Due Diligence platform in order to seamlessly exchange documentation, DDQs and key investor data.


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Python API

Python API documentation for installation including examples of basic calls made using the REST API within the Jupyter IDE

For 35,000 hedge funds and 300,000 mutual funds, using Python code:

  1. Export any funds returns vectors
  2. Export >2,000 statistics such as annualised returns, return during 2020/2021, monthly VaR 99%, maximum monthly loss, skewness, correlation to any benchmark since inception / last quarter / last year, annual Sharpe ratio since inception / last 2 years, outperformance vs any benchmarks, CUSUM, up captures, down capture, and so on.


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160 happy clients say about us

The AlternativeSoft platform is an intuitive application that is additive to our portfolio construction and risk monitoring processes. Further, the AlternativeSoft support team has been very helpful in supporting our implementation and on-going use of the software.

Aberdeen Asset Management

Head of Risk Management
AlternativeSoft is a practical and user friendly tool used as part of our portfolio construction and risk management process. Their extensive support and responsiveness provides added value.

AllianceBernstein

Co-head, Risk Management and Portfolio Construction
From statistical analysis on a single hedge fund, screening the investment universe, peer group analysis, FoHF portfolio construction to risk analysis and stress testing, AlternativeSoft is one of the most effective, intuitive, and efficient tools I have handled.

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