IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Software Announcement
ZP14-0256, dated April 29, 2014
IBM Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud
programs deliver data and analytical solutions for risk
management
Table of contents
1 Overview 5 Technical information
2 Key prerequisites 6 Ordering information 2 Planned availability date 7 Terms and conditions
2 Description 9 Prices
5 Program number 9 Announcement countries
Overview
IBM® Algo One® Managed Data Service on Cloud includes:
• Algo One Managed Data Service Market Data on Cloud provides data that is validated daily and historical risk-factor data generated through a robust data cleaning process.
• Algo One Managed Data Service Master Data on Cloud offers terms and
conditions for bonds, funds, certificates, equities, derivatives, and insurance with emphasis on cost reduction and financial engineering for complex products. • Algo One Managed Data Service Analytics Data on Cloud provides stochastic
quantitative risk analytics for risk management, monitoring, and regulatory requirements.
• Algo One Managed Data Service Simulated Data on Cloud provides daily, simulated scenarios to help address risk management, monitoring, and regulatory requirements.
• Algo One Managed Data Service Asset Allocation Optimization on Cloud utilizes proprietary optimization methodologies to create model portfolios with specific asset allocations.
IBM Algo Risk® Service on Cloud offers:
Algo Risk Service Ex Post Performance and Risk on Cloud combines Algo® risk analytics with the following performance attribution capabilities from Ortec Finance:
• Enhances the investment process by enabling the same architecture, data, and assumptions to be shared consistently across both Algo and Ortec Finance methodologies.
• Provides a new diagnostic tool to help different stakeholders optimize performance and achieve better oversight of the investment process. Algo Risk Service Point in Time Processing on Cloud delivers the following capabilities:
• Handles backdated processing.
• Allows a period of time for you to put together the position holdings for a certain date in the past, meanwhile it keeps instrument prices and risk factor data stored separately, as referenced by the selected reporting date.
Key prerequisites
These programs require a workstation that supports Mozilla Firefox or MicrosoftTM Internet Explorer 7, or later.
Planned availability date
April 29, 2014
Description
Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud
Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud helps financial institutions save time and reduce total cost of ownership with its specialized, outsourced data management, risk analytics, and optimization services. You can focus on your core business
activities while IBM specialists take command of computational-intensive calculations and time-consuming data management.
A key foundation to the overall service is to structure data to meet your
requirements by calibrating market and reference data to your definitions. Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud helps companies avoid gaps in coverage by accommodating private placements or internally structured securities in a consistent fashion.
Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud helps you to demonstrate to regulators and supervisory authorities that your input data is consistent and auditable. Solution packaging - Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud
Algo One Managed Data Service Market Data on Cloud offers a robust, raw-data cleaning process and methodology that uses statistical investigation, coupled with a guided-through professional engagement to supply reliable and validated risk factors for financial risk and return management. Market data is produced with automated daily data collection and storage, thorough data scrubbing and formatting, professional data validation, and proprietary enrichment methodology to compensate for data inconsistencies.
Available risk factor classes include: • Interest rates • Credit spreads • Inflation • Equity indices • Volatilities • Commodities Benefits include:
• Transparent, derived data elements to explain data movement
• Skilled financial engineers who provide data validation and enrichment • Methodologies that support quality data elements
• Data architecture that is designed for risk management
Algo One Managed Data Service Master Data on Cloud provides clients access to an expansive repository of financial security Terms and Conditions for a large set of securities with ISIN and CUSIP codes, which include but are not limited
to investment funds, insurance contracts, listed derivatives, government bonds, corporate bonds, financial bonds (plain, equity linked, and foreign exchange linked), and currency exposures. Private placements or internally structured securities without industry-recognized identifiers, are available based on client-provided, term sheets. Terms and conditions are validated through a data-cleansing process that tracks data changes for auditing purposes. This helps to ensure adherence to internal or regulatory requirements.
Benefits include:
• Validated terms and conditions for an universe of exchange traded and private placement securities
• Terms and conditions that are captured directly from term sheets • Risk factor representation for each security
• Multi-exposure representation for funds modeling
Algo One Managed Data Service Analytics Data on Cloud provides you with daily risk analytics for risk management, monitoring, and regulatory needs. Risk analytics, such as value at risk for specified quantiles, are calculated by using the full-revaluation method under pre-defined historical and Monte Carlo scenario sets. Default parameters for simulated data sets and additional risk analytics may be configured according to requirements.
Algo One Managed Data Service Simulated Data on Cloud provides daily, simulated scenario sets to help meet your risk management and regulatory needs. Simulated data (risk factors and scenarios) includes instruments, scenarios, and time step. Predefined scenarios include historical simulation and Monte Carlo simulation by using time series of one-year, daily observations or five-year, weekly observations. Benefits of Algo One Managed Data Service Analytics Data on Cloud and Algo One Managed Data Service Simulated Data on Cloud include:
• Outsourced, cmputationally intensive processes, that reduce in-house infrastructure and investment to allow optimization of in-house resources • Scalable solution that is designed to address current and future needs • Quality-enriched data that is suitable for risk analytics
• Flexibility to incorporate new instrument types and asset classes
Algo One Managed Data Service Asset Allocation Optimization on Cloud provides a set of model portfolios with specified asset allocations for the purpose of client-risk profiling that utilizes proprietary optimization methodologies. Simulations are performed by using Algo One Managed Data Service Simulated Data on Cloud. Instruments are modeled by using output that is produced by Algo One Managed Data Service Market Data On Cloud and Algo One Managed Data Service Master Data On Cloud.
Benefits include the ability to:
• Support construction, allocation, and monitoring of investor portfolios. • Empower wealth managers by using real products and related risk factors. • Utilize validated and enriched market data to resolve gaps in external data. • Deliver models that include stochastic scenarios, stress tests, and market
views to support investment ideas and portfolio construction through time. Full revaluation over multiple time periods and scenarios.
• Provide probability-based optimization to focus on individual, client goals without loss of product or portfolio total return convexity.
• Support distribution of model portfolios and analytics to a network of client advisors.
Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud can be used with other IBM products to form a range of editions.
Algo Risk Service on Cloud
Algo Risk Service Ex Post Performance and Risk on Cloud
• Designed to achieve consistency and help lower costs of ownership. The addition of the Ortec Finance performance attribution capability to Algo Risk Service on Cloud means that a single, consistent data platform is used for both disciplines. The result is a consistent set of assumptions that includes data frequency, evaluation period, benchmark rebalancing, treatment between portfolio and benchmark constituents, hedging methodology, and portfolio rollover methodology.
• Improve client communication. The new risk and performance diagnostic tool helps you evaluate any mismatch of performance versus expected returns, and can help explain the underlying reasons for a mismatch. The result can be improved understanding and a better client experience.
• Optimize investment decisions. Portfolio managers can use the risk and performance diagnostic tool to understand the impact of their investment
decisions. By helping managers understand the reasons for performance, the tool can help improve decision making over a period of time.
• Achieve superior executive oversight. The tool provides executives an indication of the efficiency of investment managers at various levels of the hierarchy. This information can help the organization stay within risk-budget limits and produce consistent, risk-adjusted returns. It also provides the basis for a more effective, remuneration policy that is based on manager performance.
• Validate risk models. The integrated risk and performance platform supports back testing. By facilitating regular evaluations of actual versus expected performance, it can help you validate risk numbers against past performance.
• Achieve customization to align with goals and investment process. The solution provides multiple risk and performance measurement and attribution methodologies that apply to a wide range of asset classes, including OTCs. When these methodologies are provided by Algo Risk Service on Cloud, you also have configuration choices (for example, evaluate at a position or fund level) and the option to specify different calculation metrics, such as frequency, methodology, and rebalancing rules.
Algo Risk Service Point in Time Processing on Cloud
Common operational delays can make it difficult for clients to provide Algo Risk Service on Cloud with positions for a scheduled simulation run, due to critical reporting periods, such as month or quarter-end. Algo Risk Service Point in Time Processing on Cloud allows a period of time for clients to put together the position holdings for a range of past dates. Meanwhile it keeps instrument prices and risk factor data stored separately, as referenced by the selected reporting date. This functionality is in high demand for firms that:
• Need to prepare internal risk management or external regulatory reports on a monthly or quarterly basis but must wait for back-office final reporting of the ledger.
• Provide custody services but require a period of time to obtain finalized position data from clients.
• Have investments that are managed by external asset managers that do not provide investment portfolios on timely basis.
While the functionality enables you to have more flexibility when closing the book on a monthly run, its value extends beyond this. Clients can create a universal base session with a wide range of risk factors captured in order to set a benchmark for valuation. Position data can be brought in from a source fund and integrated consistently into a single run without trying to patch mismatched figures together. The point-in-time sessions can also be stored and used to conduct risk back testing and model back testing. Risk managers can enter new positions and perform historical what-if and scenario analyses.
reporting. Point-in-time processing is one of the contributions to that effort and allows clients extra time to handle operational pressures without compromising on the integrity of the risk evaluation.
Accessibility by people with disabilities
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Program number
Program Program number VRM name
5725-H91 1.0.0 IBM Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud 5725-H57 4.9.0 IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud
Education support
IBM training provides education to support many IBM offerings. Descriptions of courses for IT professionals and managers are on the IBM training website
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Contact your IBM representative for course information.
Offering Information
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Also, visit the Passport Advantage® website
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Technical information
Specified operating environment
Hardware requirements
Algo one Managed Data Service on Cloud
Workstation that supports Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, or later. Algo Risk Service on Cloud
Workstation that suports Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, or later.
Software requirements
For details, refer to the Hardware requirements section.
The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a readme file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter.
Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
Global Technology Services®
Contact your IBM representative for the list of selected services available in your country, either as standard or customized offerings for the efficient installation, implementation, or integration of this product.
Ordering information
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IBM Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud 5725-H91 IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud 5725-H57 Product category: Customer solutions
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http://www.ibm.com/software/support/pa.html Passport Advantage
Part Program name/Description number Algo One Managed Data Service on Cloud (5725-H91)
- Algo One Managed Data Service Market Data on Cloud
Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit (BACU) D14MHLL Subscription with Support per Annum
Daily Fee for Partial Month D14MILL - Algo One Managed Data Service Master Data on Cloud
Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit (BACU) Subscription D14MJLL with Support per Annum
Daily Fee for Partial Month D14MKLL - Algo One Managed Data Service Analytics Data on Cloud
Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit (BACU) Subscription D14MLLL with Support per Annum
Daily Fee for Partial Month D14MMLL
- Algo One Managed Data Service Simulated Data on Cloud
Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit (BACU) Subscription D14MNLL with Support per Annum
Daily Fee for Partial Month D14MPLL - Algo One Managed Data Service Asset Allocation
Optimization on Cloud
Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit (BACU) Subscription D14MQLL with Support per Annum
Daily Fee for Partial Month D14MRLL Algo Risk Service on Cloud (5725-H57)
Algo Risk Service Ex Post Performance & Risk
- Per Billion Asset Conversion Unit with Support per Month D156KLL - Daily Fee for Partial Month D156LLL Algo Risk Service Point in Time Processing On Cloud
- Document per Month Subscription D156MLL - Daily Fee for Partial Month D156NLL - Document Overage D156PLL
For other ordering information for Algo Risk Service on Cloud, refer to • Software Announcement ZP12-0518, dated October 2, 2012 • Software Announcement ZP13-0252, dated May 21, 2013 • Software Announcement ZP13-0534, dated September 3, 2013 Charge metric
PID
Program name number Charge metric
IBM Algo One Managed Data Service 5725-H91 Billion Asset Conversion Unit on Cloud
IBM Algo Risk Service on Cloud 5725-H57 Billion Asset Conversion Unit Document per Month Subscription
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Terms and conditions
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This product is only available via Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.
Subscription
The IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement and the IBM SaaS Terms of Use govern your use of this offering.
Technical Support
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Terms of use
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Limited warranty
If warranted, refer to the warranty as stated in the Terms of Use document or the Cloud Services Agreement for this offering.
Money-back guarantee
No
Volume orders (IVO)
No
Passport Advantage applies
Yes, and through the Passport Advantage website at http://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage
Software Subscription and Support applies
No
System i® Software Maintenance applies
No
Variable charges apply
No
Educational allowance available
Education allowance does not apply.
Special education prices are available for qualified customers through Passport Advantage.
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Prices
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