5:15 Capital Management Selects SunGards Front Arena for Portfolio Management, Valuations and Risk Analytics
January 5, 2012 — New York - 5:15 Capital Management, LLC has selected SunGard’s Front Arena for trade processing, valuations of OTC derivatives, risk management and portfolio analytics. Front Arena is a cross-asset solution that provides trade capture, real-time profit and loss, position control and risk management capabilities for hedge funds and other alternative investment managers and financial institutions. It helps customers grow their businesses and better manage portfolio risk by helping establish more efficient operational procedures and controls.
Front Arena’s broad asset class coverage helps customers expand into new instruments and strategies quickly and easily. Its open and extendable framework also allows firms to add proprietary and external models and analytics to implement new trading strategies.
Martin Boyd, president of SunGard’s asset management business, said, “Today’s economy, combined with increased competition and greater scrutiny from investors, is driving alternative investment firms to seek technology that can help them grow with improved efficiency and transparency. SunGard’s Front Arena provides the automation, auditability and scalability to support the expansion strategies of hedge funds like 5:15 Capital Management.”
About 5:15 Capital Management, LLC
5:15 Capital Management is a Greenwich, Connecticut based asset management firm that employs Global Fixed Income Interest Rate Arbitrage and Tail Risk strategies. For more information, go to http://www.515capital.com.
About SunGard’s Front Arena for Alternative Investments
SunGard’s Front Arena is a real-time, enterprise-wide platform for trading, operations and risk. It is used by hedge funds, asset managers and fund administrators, to manage single and multi-strategy portfolios. Front Arena provides traders and portfolio managers with pricing, position management, real-time P&L, risk and sensitivity analysis. Managers, operations and middle-office staff can view and manage portfolios, trades, P&L and cash from the highest level, customize according to reporting criteria and drill down to the lowest levels in real-time. Front Arena offers a front-to-back solution embracing full trade transparency, workflow, settlements and interfaces to prime brokers and fund administrators. Front Arena provides both hosted and installed solutions.
About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves over 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. Look for us wherever the mission is critical. For more information, please visit www.sungard.com.
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