Why Explica?

Investment management firms face increasing demands to carry out risk, performance and style analysis on products they distribute.

Pressure for improved transparency in this area from regulators and clients has been an important driver for this. As also have structural changes within the industry as firms started to package and distribute mixes of external products under their own branding.

To create good quality products and continually monitor them requires powerful automated tools in place to handle the large amounts of data and analysis necessary to do the job well.

These factors affect the range of participants in the retail and institutional markets: multi-managers, fund-of-funds distributors, money managers, Hedge funds, Insurance companies following the “open architecture” approach, Private Banks, pension funds and investment consultants.

Quaternity has created Explica to address these needs in a state-of-the-art software solution.