Application Development Capabilities Overview Sample – Portfolio Monitoring
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Application Development Capabilities Sutherland IT Application • • •
Sutherland’s in-house IT team leverages the firm’s core capabilities in fundamental credit research to build customized applications and databases to help clients Sutherland’s in-house developer team, with expertise in technologies such as .Net, JAVA and databases such as Oracle and SQL Server, has developed applications for leading investment banks and buy side firms Customized applications help in overcoming restrictions of proprietary packages and offer specific functionality
Sample Offerings New Issue Tracking System •
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Provides a summary on all HY deals, in the European, US, and global markets in the past 4 years Offers the facility to search deals based on issuer, sector, country, ratings, etc Enables an efficient search based on coupon, maturity, YTM, road show dates, proceeds, ratings, etc Output can be exported to Excel Ability to compile league table reports showing value and percentage share of deals done by different investment banks
Portfolio Monitoring System •
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Provides a snapshot of the important details of all invested assets including amount invested, facility, spread, industry, etc Information can be filtered by running queries on industry, analyst, country, leverage, revenue, EBITDA, etc Output can be exported to Excel
Can generate various reports for portfolio allocation (based on industry, rating, analyst, etc.), performance comparison, relative value analysis, financial charts, etc.
Risk Management System •
Provides flexible reporting tool to facilitate better and quick monitoring
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Facility to upload third-party data such as Bloomberg, Capital IQ
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Can generate a number of standard reports to monitor portfolios across funds
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Ability to internally calculate BETA, liquidity risk and the investment risk for every fund, portfolio and security
Combining fundamental research and application development capabilities allows us to not only build applications and databases, but also to maintain and use these tools for research purposes © 2014 Sutherland Global Services Inc., All rights reserved. Privileged and confidential information of Sutherland Global Services Inc.
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Application Development (Portfolio Monitoring System) Engagement Brief • UK-based hedge fund and an existing client of Sutherland
• Engaged Sutherland to develop an application to give easy access to portfolio information
Summary of Engagement • Application developed using Visual Basic and MS Access • Standardized MS Excel templates are used as input containing details such as facility type, spread, amount invested, bid/offer price and selected financials of the company
Benefit to the Client • Enables the portfolio manager and other research analysts to get quick and easy access to all portfolio information like prices, spread, invested amount, financial information, etc • Portfolio manager can use the application for rebalancing the portfolio based on industry/country/rating exposure
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