Short Maturity, Fixed-Income Portfolio Management and Compliance System
The Front-Office Toolkit for Short Duration Investment Managers
Whether the focus is on short duration SMAs, 2a-7 funds, or something in-between, Smart™ streamlines the investment process and ensures regulatory and internal policy compliance.
Tailor-made for short duration portfolio management
If LOCs, CP, or maturity-shortening provisions are a part of your vocabulary, Smart is an indispensable solution. Seamlessly integrating into your workflow, Smart delivers the precision and reliability required to confidently manage these complex, financial instruments.
Built for Scalability
Smart is specifically built to tackle the unique challenges of managing ultra-short duration funds, short duration SMA accounts, and 2a-7 funds.
Robust Stress Testing
The system identifies and helps to mitigate portfolio risks, while delivering powerful stress testing that impresses the board with actionable insights.
2a-7 and Internal Compliance
The flexible rule framework and scalable compliance workflow ensure pre- and post-trade compliance with each IPS, fund mandate, and 2a-7 diversification limit.
Growth Optimization
Designed for your needs, no shoehorning required
Managing a short maturity portfolio presents unique challenges compared to long-duration strategies. Smart effectively addresses these challenges, empowering the team to navigate them with precision.
Take advantage of integrated daily maintenance
- Ensure your data is ready to drive decisions with our interactive guide
Track guarantees and liquidity facilites
- Monitor securities with structural considerations and be alerted in advance of facility expiration
Use reports and graphs tailored to short maturity/duration
- Understand weighted average maturity (WAM), weighted average life (WAL), duration, and other key metrics in days, weeks or months – right out of the box
Utilize a trading center and cash projections
- Identify and address cash shortfalls or surpluses quickly – even in advance with cash flow projections
Stress Testing and Compliance
Industry-leading solutions to identify, communicate, and inoculate portfolio risk
Whether preparing for a fund board meeting, a 2a-7 requirement, or part of a presentation to win new business , our stress testing and simulations suite quantifies risk and lets you easily identify potential performance outliers.
Generate reports for the board
- Produce comprehensive stress testing for the board
Define your own scenarios
- Define your scenarios' interest rates, spread changes, impacts of downgrade or default, redemptions rate, allowable NAV volatility, and percent of weekly liquid assets threshold
Gain top-to-bottom insight
- Model the cash flows for each security in your portfolio to gain a comprehensive understanding of both individual and combined sources of stress and ensure confidence in your results through security-level accuracy
Secure 2a-7 fund manager approval
- Leverage our stress testing feature to exceed the regulatory requirements of 2a-7 fund managers and boards
Leverage powerful compliance
- Implement out-of-the-box 2a-7 risk limiting conditions
- Harness robust 2a-7 stress testing
- Configure internal policy compliance