AlternativeSoft

About Us

Since 2005, AlternativeSoft has simplified the asset selection and portfolio construction process for institutional investors, empowering users by creating a personalised investment universe driven by state-of-the-art analytics.

With a total combined AuM over $1.5tn worldwide, some of the world’s largest pension funds, fund of funds, family offices, private banks, endowments, foundations, wealth managers and advisers trust AlternativeSoft to identify and analyse multi-asset class portfolios of hedge funds, mutual funds, ETFs and private market funds.

Our Awards

Data Aggregation

The only analytical tool on the market to build and manage a universe with data easily imported from any source
Linked to all major databases including Bloomberg, Morningstar, Albourne, EurekaHedge, Preqin and many more.
Ability to import from Excel or in-house databases using XML.

Asset Selection

Asset Search – Screen and search your fund universe using any combination of over 3,000 qualitative and quantitative parameters
Peer Group – Benchmark one fund with up to 10,000 peers
Exposure – Dissect and analyse exposure weights and attributions broken down by geography, sector, asset class and market cap
Style Analysis – Calculate sensitivity to market factors and evaluate a manager’s style timing alpha and asset allocation alpha

Portfolio Construction

Portfolio Optimisation – Minimise the probability of extreme negative returns on your portfolio using up to 10 different risk measures
Manual Portfolio Construction – Build and compare multiple model or pro-forma portfolio allocations side-by-side
Stress Testing – Prepare your portfolio for extreme market conditions with “what-if” scenario analysis

Portfolio Management

Performance – Compute daily, weekly or monthly portfolio returns after management and performance fees
Liquidity – Track and analyse portfolio liquidity, visualise redemption dates and understand quickest vs. cheapest ways to liquidate
Attribution: Examine return attribution to separate allocation, selection and interaction effects
Profitability: Calculate P&L across an entire portfolio, then drill down by strategy, asset and time

Customised Reporting

Automated Reports – Customisable fund factsheets, portfolio reports and dashboards with over 50 free templates.
Excel API – Flexible, easy to use and infinitely customisable with hundreds of proprietary functions available
Templates – Over 50 free templates provided covering fact sheets, portfolio reports, peer analysis, exposure analysis and stress testing

Our Partners

Our Clients

Hear What Over 200 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.

Head of Risk Management

http://www.aberdeen-asset.co.uk/

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.

Co-head, Risk Management and Portfolio Construction

https://www.alliancebernstein.com/

From statistical analysis on single hedge fund, screening the investment universe, peer group analysis, FoHF portfolio construction to risks analysis and stress testing, AlternativeSoft is one of the most effective, intuitive, and efficient tool I have handled.

Hedge Fund Solutions

http://www.bnpparibas.co.uk

AlternativeSoft is the only company that provides serious quantitative solutions dedicated to serious hedge fund investing.

Professor of Finance

https://risk.edhec.edu/

AlternativeSoft provides a user-friendly, powerful tool for asset allocators that takes into account higher moments of distributions.

Fund Manager, Multi Asset Strategies

https://www.rcm-international.com/

AlternativeSoft has a great portfolio optimization facility, allowing us to segment our portfolios, create custom constraints and define our own risk parameters. The resulting risk adjusted portfolios have been tested in the market and given us the desired results.

Chief Investment Officer

https://tavistockwealth.com/

The AlternativeSoft platform is a helpful addition to the set of tools available to a hedge fund allocator, for both idea generation and idea testing. Moreover, the use of academic models in the platform fits well with our investment process.

Portfolio Manager

https://www.vontobel.com/en-int/

We have been using AlternativeSoft since years. It is a powerful tool helping us to construct robust and well performing Hedge fund’s portfolios. We also like AlternativeSoft’s extensive and responsive support and that they constantly add features and improve the product.

Member of Executive Management

https://vpfundsolutions.vpbank.com/en

AlternativeSoft is easy to use and a valuable tool for our fund of funds investment process. Ongoing support has been efficient and prompt.

Portfolio Manager

https://www.uss.co.uk/

We started using AlternativeSoft in January 2016. We are extending our licenses from our alternatives team to our long only team. The capablities and improvements delivered by AlternativeSoft give us confidence that AlternativeSoft is here to help us.

Vice President - Cross Asset Solutions

https://www.unigestion.com/

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Office Location

1st Floor, South Quay Building, 189 Marsh Wall London, E14 9SH

Phone

+44 20 7510 2003+1 917 791 2237

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