RisCura Analytics
Bringing Investment Into Sharper Focus
Today, the financial services industry is obliged to adopt ever more transparent practices that protect the interests of investors and satisfy regulators. At the same time, the nature of investment markets makes first-class intelligence and analysis indispensable, if performance is to meet expectations.
RisCura Analytics provides the independent analysis and independent verification needed throughout the investment value chain to make sound investment decisions. From asset owners to managers, brokers, consultants and more, we transform both internal and external raw data into the accurate and valued information that maintains compliancy, reduces costs and increases investment returns.
A Proven Combination of Investment Expertise and Technology
Through our industry-leading proprietary systems you can access unlimited combinations of highly customised outputs – customised to your unique needs and in real-time. Vast quantities of complex data can be processed from multiple sources, in different formats and mathematical results can be calculated from it in different ways. Of course all this is managed in line with our prominent reputation for confidentiality and safeguarding clients’ intellectual property.
Then, expert verification of accuracy ensures you receive only relevant and correct data, arming you with essential knowledge, right when you need it. This verification is delivered, with uncommon agility, by a team with deep market experience and technical expertise (from portfolio managers to physicists, analysts and actuarial scientists), marrying data crunching with sophisticated interpretation.
A Suite of Services for all Your Investment Data Needs
You can ask us to create any variation of outputs to meet your data requirements, although our standard offerings fall broadly into the following areas:
Risk and Performance Services
Providing an independent and customised verification of multiple investment vehicles, from fixed-income to hedge funds, across risk profile and performance, performance attribution and sensitivity analysis. We also offer advanced competitor analysis - helping you contextualise your performance against industry peers and competitors.
Data Services
As experts in processing and managing financial information we carry out the time consuming and labour intensive procedures necessary in complex financial data processing. We can also access difficult-to-find data for you, as well as delivering high-quality data consolidation, bespoke calculations and reporting.
Quants Services
By providing access to many of the most experienced and respected minds in the investment industry, we can help you create custom solutions for your investment-related quants services, including back testing, stress testing and scenario analysis.
Independent Mandate Compliance Monitoring
When checking investment mandate limits, we go beyond broad checks relating to compliance monitoring and custom benchmarks. Our ability to measure investments on a daily basis not only allows managers to provide comfort to investors, but also takes compliance a step further by enabling the active management of exposures through early warning systems and strict notification protocols.
Indexation and Benchmarking
As South Africa’s only independent external indexation calculation agent (vetted and cleared by both FTSE and JSE) we provide both safe and cost-effective independent indexation and benchmarking services, including index calculation and development.
Regulatory Reporting and Compliance Monitoring
Our approach to fund reporting and compliance monitoring eases the demands of statutory compliance, by preparing and submitting periodic and regulatory reports on your behalf. We achieve this through a unique combination of industry-leading technology and analytical processes proven to return the best in cost-efficiencies and accuracy.
Investment Accounting
Investment accounting can be both time-consuming and expensive for your fund to accomplish in-house. Our service includes liaison with all asset managers and consistent pricing that irons out discrepancies in timing and reporting methodologies. You receive precise and consistent accounts that include all relevant data from all asset managers and across all asset classes. This details a fund’s overall value, compiled and summarised according to IFRS and your specific requirements.
Transaction Cost Analysis
Whether you are an institutional fund, asset manager, investment consultant or broker, the trading you sanction will involve costs. And costs impact performance. We’ll analyse all transactions in your portfolio to ensure they have been implemented efficiently and cost effectively. We’ll also assess all the variables, checking that trades have been made with good judgement, while highlighting trading errors or over-charging.
A Clearer View, with RisCura
Because we shine a bright light on your existing and past investment data, you can benefit from an independent and accurate representation of your investment activity, without doubt or speculation. Then consider how the way we work processes so much manager and market data that we are able maintain a unique and holistic view of the entire investment industry. This translates into often-unexpected client insights on a portfolio or investment process, even leading to previously undiscovered investment opportunities and new high-performing management approaches.
Making Analytics Work for You
Discover how RisCura Analytics can bring new clarity to your investment activity and contact us for a confidential discussion about your data processing and interpretation requirements.
