Alternative Investments

From hedge funds, fund of funds and private equity firms to asset management companies, family offices, real estate and investment banks, SunGard provides specialized solutions designed specifically to address the primary business requirements of the alternative investment space.

They range from front office analysis, trading and portfolio management, and specialist support for private equity transactions; through independent valuation, risk management and daily P&L; to accounting, records and investor reporting.

SunGard's solutions are available both as locally installed applications and as outsourced services e.g. over an Application Service Provider interface (ASP) or Software as a Service (SaaS).

SunGard Alternative Investment solutions:

  • More than 400 hundred hedge funds and asset managers use SunGard’s alternative investment solutions
If Your Role Is… And Your Needs Are… View These Products
Family Office / Wealth Manager
  • Portfolio construction and optimisation, risk modeling and reporting
  • Portfolio and investor accounting
Fund Accountant / Administrator
  • Risk and middle office functionality
  • Hedge fund investor accounting, fund of funds portfolio and investor accounting
  • Private equity, real estate and infrastructure fund portfolio and investor accounting
  • Independent Valuation
  • Hedge fund portfolio accounting
Fund of Funds Manager
  • Portfolio construction and optimisation, risk modeling and reporting for funds of funds
  • Portfolio and investor accounting for hedge funds of funds
  • Portfolio and investor accounting for private equity funds of funds, investor accounting for hybrid funds of funds
Hedge Fund Manager
  • Equity long-short portfolio and risk analytics
  • Cross-asset-class real-time portfolio monitoring and risk, trade processing and middle office
  • Investor accounting
  • Convertible arbitrage trading and analytics
  • ASP risk service for hedge funds
  • Portfolio accounting
Investment Banker
  • Portfolio and risk analytics for broker-dealers and prime brokers
  • Cross-asset-class real-time portfolio monitoring and risk, trade processing and middle office
  • Convertibles origination, pricing, sales and training
  • Independent valuation of OTC derivatives and structured products
Portfolio Manager
  • Portfolio construction and optimisation, risk modeling and reporting for equity, balanced and multi-asset funds
  • Cross-asset-class real-time portfolio monitoring and risk, trade processing and middle office
  • Private equity, real estate and infrastructure portfolio management
  • Convertibles portfolio management
Private Equity Fund Manager / General Partner
  • Portfolio and investor accounting, relationship management and reporting
Private Equity Investor / Limited Partner
  • Portfolio and investor accounting, relationship management and reporting
Risk Manager
  • Risk reporting and attribution for equity, balanced and multi-asset funds
  • Real-time risk for cross-asset class trading
  • Desk-level risk for convertibles and relative value hedge funds
  • ASP risk service for hedge funds
Product Description
APT Risk management solutions, providing portfolio construction, risk reporting and related professional services globally.
FastVal Expertise in derivatives pricing and analytics, independent valuations and risk management services.
Front Arena for the Buy-Side An enterprise-wide platform for trading and risk used by institutional asset managers and brokers, traders, and market makers to trade equities, fixed-income, interest rate derivatives and credit.
Hedge360 An integrated, hosted service that supports the complete investment lifecycle for hedge funds and alternative asset management firms, from portfolio management to risk management, convertible bond analysis and modeling, independent valuations and portfolio accounting and reporting. The various solution components are delivered on a Software-as-a-Service* basis, allowing customers to choose features and functions to customize a comprehensive solution.
InvesTier An investor accounting and reporting solution providing partnership accounting, fee calculation and equalization accounting capabilities for domestic and offshore hedge funds and funds of funds.
Investran An integrated application suite that automates front- middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms.
MarketMap MarketMap provides financial market participants with flexible access to cost effective, high quality, global market data via a suite of applications, data feeds, and a historical database solution that are fast, comprehensive and easy to use.
Monis Industry leading analysis, modeling, pricing, trading and portfolio management tools supporting a range of derivatives, including convertible bonds, equity options, FX options and interest rate derivatives.
SunGard Data Exchange Web-based investor relations, portfolio monitoring, and information exchange.
VPM An integrated, multi-currency investment management solution designed specifically for hedge fund managers.