Opturo Consulting is a premier firm specializing in leveraging proprietary Virtual Investment Analytics technology to examine all critical data from any source including portfolio accounting systems, custodial record keeping systems and any pricing or analytical data warehouse, to create a unified data foundation to assist financial firms with the following:
- SEC COMPLIANCE
- GIPS COMPOSITE PERFORMANCE COMPLIANCE
- ACCOUNT LEVEL PERFORMANCE REPORTING
- PERFORMANCE & ATTRIBUTION ANALYSIS
- PORTFOLIO RISK ANALYSIS
We provide the following two service models:
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In-house: By temporarily deploying our proprietary Virtual Investment Analytics technology at the client site, we can perform on-the-fly analysis to answer a question or solve a problem for the client. For instance, we can run comprehensive security-level performance & attribution reports every quarter for investment firms looking to understand the impact of their decision on portfolio construction and performance with a view to making more insightful and informed investment decisions in the future.
- Outsource: If the client chooses to outsource the function to us, we will own the whole process. This allows the client to extract away the uncertainty, complexity and variable cost for assurance and fixed cost. For instance, a firm can outsource the creation and maintaining of composites, composite performance reporting and working with the third-party verifier to achieve GIPS compliance.
SEC COMPLIANCE
Validate SEC compliance data and operational requirements for:
- Firm’s books and records are consistent with custodial books and records on a transactional basis.
- Firm’s Investment policy statements accurately define investment guidelines and objectives as measured by historical investment activity.
- Firm’s policy and procedures provide full disclosure as how any advertising and or performance advertising is consistent with trading, fee calculations and client reporting.
THE OPTURO CONSULTING ADVANTAGE
- Stay Compliant: The dedicated professionals of Opturo Consulting will ensure that its clients are current and compliant to all SEC guidelines.
- Cost savings: Fix and lower the cost of being SEC compliant.
- Assistance with Audits: We will work directly with any auditor on behalf of the client to ensure that the auditor get all the relevant information quickly and seamlessly, there by significantly lowering the time and cost of the audit.
- Lower E&O Insurance: Lower the cost of insurance by staying compliant.
GIPS COMPOSITE REPORTING COMPLIANCE
To Pre-verify firm’s that seek to adhere to the “GIPS” standards as defined by the “Institute of Certified Financial Analyst’s for:
- Firm’s books and record will meet the minimum back testing exclusive of any in-house portfolio valuation calculations.
- Firm’s Investment policy statements accurately define investment guidelines and objectives as measured by historical investment activity.
- Firm’s policy and procedures provide full disclosure as how any advertising and or performance advertising is consistent with internal trading, fee calculations and client reporting.
- Firm’s will adhere to the “GIPS” standard on a forward basis requiring, at a minimum, calendar quarterly, maintenance of “composites”, as defined by “GIPS”.
THE OPTURO CONSULTING ADVANTAGE
- Stay Compliant: The dedicated professionals of Opturo Consulting will ensure that its clients are current and compliant to all GIPS guidelines.
- Cost savings: Fix and lower the cost of being GIPS compliant.
- Working with third-party Verifier: We will work directly with the verifier through a streamlined process to ensure that process is completed quickly, while lowering the cost of verification and passing on the savings to the client.
- Assistance with Audits: We will work directly with any auditor on behalf of the client to ensure that the auditor get all the relevant information quickly and seamlessly, there by significantly lowering the time and cost of the audit.
- Lower E&O Insurance: Lower the cost of insurance by staying compliant.
ACCOUNT LEVEL PERFORMANCE REPORTING
To provide account level performance for firms that would look to outsource and validate:
- Firm’s books and records are consistent with custodial books and records on a transactional basis.
- Firm’s Investment policy statements accurately define investment guidelines and objectives as measured by historical investment activity.
- Firm’s policy and procedures provide full disclosure as how any advertising and or performance advertising is consistent with internal trading, fee calculations and client reporting.
- Daily, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual account level performance valuation.
THE OPTURO CONSULTING ADVANTAGE
- Cost savings: Fix and lower the cost of account-level performance valuation and client report generation.
- Accurate Client Statements.
- Customized Client Statements.
PERFORMANCE & ATTRIBUTION
To provide firms with one solution to address:
- All levels of performance & attribution on any portfolio against any defined benchmark.
- The impact of decisions on portfolio construction and performance.
- Exact and accurate security level performance calculation.
- Comprehensive performance & attribution using data from multiple brokerage platforms.
- Multi user/manager access with extensive multi-currency and custom reporting.
- Multi asset, balanced fund and fund of funds performance & attribution.
- Return and Risk Attribution.
THE OPTURO CONSULTING ADVANTAGE
- Fast and Efficient Analysis: Leveraging our unique platform, we can generate comprehensive and detailed performance & attribution reports on-the-fly.
- Exact Performance: Built upon daily, component-level, multi-currency returns for both longs and shorts. Includes intra-day transactions, corporate actions, over-night cash flows and tax reclaim to provide accurate weights and returns for performance reporting and attribution.
- Understanding the Investment Process: Using our propitiatory user-defined attribution decision model, the firm can get an accurate report of the effects of each decision on the performance of the fund and the level of risk associated with it.
- Evaluating the Portfolio Manager: CIO’s can use the unique and detailed customized decision based attribution report to better evaluate the Portfolio Manager.
PORTFOLIO RISK ANALYSIS
To provide firms with one solution to address:
- Monitor portfolio risk utilizing one or several third party or in-house factor risk models.
- Evaluate risk characteristics including exposure, leverage and Beta at various segment levels.
- Manage portfolio risk through pre-defined or custom reports generated “On-the-fly”.
- Time drift of risk.
- Evaluate trade vs. model impact on tracking error.
- Analyze and graph changes in exposure, tracking error, Beta, leverage and other risk characteristics through time.
THE OPTURO CONSULTING ADVANTAGE
- Fast and Efficient Analysis: Leveraging our unique platform, we can generate comprehensive and detailed portfolio risk summary reports against multiple risk models on-the-fly.
- Point-in-time Risk Assessment: Analyze risk characteristics of a fund at a current or past date.
- Time-series Risk Assessment: Analyze risk trends for a fund. For instance, view changes in exposure, tracking error, Beta etc. through time.
- Comprehensive Portfolio Summary: Detailed exposure and other relevant risk characteristics at both the portfolio and security levels.
- Evaluating the Portfolio Manager: CIO’s can use the unique and detailed customized portfolio summary report to evaluate the Portfolio Manager.
