Regional Overview

   Asia-Pacific

   EMEA

   North America

   South & Central America

The Charles River Investment Management System (Charles River IMS) is the market leading portfolio management, trade order management, and compliance system for institutional investment managers. The world's leading banks, insurance companies, mutual funds, pensions, hedge funds, and asset management firms rely on Charles River IMS for their mission-critical trading and compliance operations.

Charles River IMS is ideally suited to facilitate investment management workflow. Charles River IMS offers support for all security types, 24 X 7 trading capabilities, an extensive global compliance rule library, standard interfaces, and an open, scalable architecture for easy systems integration. A comprehensive solution for end to end electronic trade processing, Charles River IMS links directly to vital internal and external sources for real-time, efficient, and paperless communications. These integrated capabilities for portfolio management, trading and compliance streamline workflow and allow investment managers to effectively manage more assets with current resources.

Offices

Charles River maintains EMEA offices in London and Paris and has a Sales & Service Partner in South Africa.

Capabilities

The following capabilities may be of specific interest to investment managers located in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Please refer to the Charles River IMS and Interfaces sections for comprehensive product details.

Charles River IMS

• Full support for all security types including equities, options, fixed income, money markets, futures, and derivatives
  
• N-Tier architecture (Java J2EE application server and Microsoft .NET user interface)
  
• Business logic exposed via XML/SOAP Web Services calls
  
• Integrated support for major enterprise messaging platforms
  
• Fully supported on Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server databases
  
• Standard interfaces to all major vendors of real-time and batch market data
  
• Interfaces supplied for leading accounting systems
  
• Open architecture for rapid development of custom interfaces
  

Charles River Manager

• Conduct advanced modeling and "what if" analysis
  
• Rebalance single/multiple accounts/portfolios to a model or another account
  
• Conduct multi-currency cash forecasting
  
• MBA/ABS/CMO trading and TBA processing, including connectivity to EPN for pool receipt and delivery (optional module)
  
• Generic order handling ("characteristic-based trading")
  
• Integrated and comprehensive fixed income analytics package
  
• Manage synthetic cash and exposure; includes support for derivative instruments (futures, forwards, CFWDs, etc.)
  

Charles River Trader

• Certified regional FIX Connections to all leading investment banks including Deutsche Bank and UBS Warburg
  
• Cost-effective FIX connectivity that connects to any broker via all networks
  
• Fully-integrated FIX support
  
• Integrated connectivity to all major ECNs and ATSs

Charles River Compliance

• Pre-trade, post-trade and real-time compliance system
  
• Pre-configured, constantly-updated rule libraries covering all major regulators including EU UCITS and non UCITS, German KAGG, SEC, and FSA
  
• Ability to manage complex portfolios covering all security types including equities, options, fixed income, money markets futures and derivatives
  
• Solutions customised for investment managers, banks, pension funds, insurance companies, trusts, wealth managers and hedge funds
  
• Instant reporting clearly identifying breaches real time
  
• Complex allocations between funds whilst identifying specific fund and or group restrictions
  
• Complete audit recording allowing complete audit trail with comprehensive open-reporting capabilities
  

Implementation and Support

Charles River maintains a branch office in London and has implementation managers stationed throughout the region for full implementation capabilities and technical support.

• 24 X 7 global support
  
• Industry-leading rapid implementation timescales
  
• Extensive user manuals and system documentation
  
• Scheduled and customized product training sessions
  
• Annual client user conference
  

Clients

Following is a sample list of the many EMEA investment managers who rely on Charles River IMS to streamline workflow and facilitate STP:

• Aberdeen Asset Management
  
• First State Investments (UK) Limited
  
• Schroders Investment Management
  
• Standard Life Investments
  
• Union Investments
  

For more information or to schedule a demonstration, please contact us.

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