Risk Management Solution

NorthPoint’s risk management system provides the consolidation of positions, trades, and other asset class diverse base transaction data into a single, robust platform. This information is vital to a firm’s ability to determine exposure and assess the level of risk utilizing different industry measures, as well as provide timely reporting to the many stakeholders and investors who depend on this information. Our approach to risk management also provides the ability to reprice and revalue a portfolio based on simulated market and stress conditions. Typically, managing this information and revaluing the positions can be cumbersome, based on the dynamic nature of the market and diverse asset valuation methodologies. It becomes a very resource intensive, costly, and error prone process.

The Solution

NorthPoint’s Risk Management platform provides an environment for consolidation and management of portfolio information, and a flexible pricing/analytics platform targeted to your specific risk functions. This solution provides “vendor agnostic” integration to most portfolio management, order management, risk and accounting systems in use today. It also provides the same level of integration to risk and analytics tools, providing a “best of breed” consolidation of many data and modeling sources. Our platform has been designed with the input of many buy side firm industry leaders, and utilizes an enterprise level architecture without the enterprise level cost. Our approach targets the valuation, models and data required for your risk management process, avoiding the expensive licensing and implementation usually associated with today’s overly complex risk management platforms. Our user defined exposure and risk views consolidate this broad array of data that is dispersed across your operating platform, while also providing the modeling and valuation tools to handle this within the application.

A proven platform interface

• No expensive and recurring enterprise risk platform licensing
• Leverages cost feasible valuation/risk tools and programming interfaces
• Integrates with the NorthPoint Securities Master
• Integrates with the NorthPoint Order Management System
• Integrates with the NorthPoint Portfolio Management System
• Leverages NorthPoint CDS Pricer for pricing / analytics

Features

• Support ALL asset classes with the ability to add new asset classes and attributes on-the-fly with no programming
• Ability to track multiple Curves (swap, treasury, spread) and volatility surfaces at system or security level
• Create, save, and run unlimited exposure reports as well as Stress Tests / Scenarios.
• Unlimited automated “Batch” stress tests / scenarios, configurable by the Risk manager.
• Ability to create and maintain static, or time series attributes at Security or Issuer level.
• Create and track relationships between securities.
• Create custom tagging and aggregations (sectors, sub strategies, etc.)
• Track historical prices and analytics with full audit trail of sources, changes, overrides.
• Assign pricing methodology to security (Spread, Dollar, Relative, etc)
• Integrates with real-time market data pricing (BBG)
• View cash flow – level detail on pricing in scenarios / stress tests.