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Europe,
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Asset Manager / North
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America,
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1000 37%
Within the
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years
500 to 1000 11%
More than
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ago
250 to 499 17%
Never 10%
Less than
250
35% Not Sure 41%
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Where in the trade workflow are spreadsheets used?
83%
48%
42% 42% 40% 40%
Modeling Trade data Position Risk Compliance Other
Trade Workflow
Compliance
Confirmations
Structuring Centralized
Trade Electronic Document
& Pricing Position
Capture Storage
Tools Repository
Electronic Document
Storage
Risk
Management
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6. While Equities are a very common asset class, firms are
heavily dependent on Excel for modeling
Asset Classes for Which Excel is Used for Modeling How much is done in Excel?
64% All Some
26% 28%
Most
46%
26% Do you integrate analytics
25% providers?
23%
In Progress
13% 13% 6%
Yes
15%
No Under
56% Consideration
Equities Fixed Listed Credit FX OTC 23%
Income Derivatives Derivatives
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7. In order to facilitate modeling, over three-quarters of
users bring market data into the spreadsheet
When using spreadsheets that pull in real-time market data, what is the source of the data?
51%
40%
34%
22%
12%
Bloomberg Reuters Proprietary Public Domain Other
(Google/Yahoo)
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8. Concurrently, modeling needs to keep up with growing
amounts of data
12 Years of US Equity Options Messages = Over 155 Terabytes
52,525
45,102
CAGR 50%
18,309 19,072
CAGR 80% 9,091
5,785
2,996
172 263 340 516 1,221
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
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9. Managing shared spreadsheets is often done manually which
creates risk of overwriting critical information
How Do You Manage Spreadsheet Collaboration
Multiple Users of a Spreadsheet?
Spreadsheets often move from
front-office to back-office and
from clients to banks
Not used
simultaneously, Manually, 33%
31% Changes should be tracked in an
effort to detect erroneous
changes or intentional fraudulent
updates
Internal Solution,
11% Microsoft Manual auditing increases the
Sharepoint, 25%
risk of deleted workbooks and
files or changes to data or
formulas
Increasingly regulators &
investors are pushing firms/funds
away from spreadsheets to more
processing / production platforms
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10. Moving from structuring to processing requires more formal risk &
accounting controls which are difficult to deploy with spreadsheets
Formulas Computing Management Storage Market Data
Structuring Excel-based formulas File-based File back-up on Manual inputs
& User Defined user request or user-defined
Functions links
Pricing XLLs, DLLs, & other Cell-based File-back up on Limited manual
external code user request inputs; links
Determined controlled
Trade Details NA by time Cell-based Central NA
constraints database
and
Reporting XLLs, DLLs, & other complexity File-based NA All administered
external code links
Valuation / XLLs, DLLs, & other Cell-based Central All administered
Settlement external code database links
User Flexibility Enterprise Controls
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11. Dodd-Frank makes operational robustness an
increasingly important aspect of financial markets
• Living wills / resolution authority
• Swaps carve out (Lincoln Amendment)
• Volcker Rule
• Central Clearing
• Migration from OTC to Swaps Execution Facility (SEF)
Trading
• Enforcement Authority, Insider Trading, Disruptive
Practices and Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are entitled to protection and monitory settlements of
between 20 to 30% of enforcement actions of over $1m
• Basel III will also make capital more expensive
requiring greater controls and operational efficiency
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12. Conclusions
• Excel is a critical but worrisome aspect of the business
• While Excel is great for modeling & reporting
• Enterprise control of Excel is challenging
• Formulas can get stepped on
• Spreadsheets lost and corrupted
• Models can get too complex to be adequately vetted
• As products become more popular, firms need to migrate away
from spreadsheets
• Hard to validate data, models, and reporting
• Hard to quality control, protect, maintain, and secure
• Migrate to more structured enterprise-class platforms
• Tie into more formalized risk & processing systems
• The risk of not doing so can be punitive
• Greater demand for transparency from clients, service providers, and
regulators
• Increasing regulatory audits
• Lost or corrupted spreadsheets can lead to
• Fine, censure, lost business, and legal recourse
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13. The Three Reasons Investors
Want You Off Spreadsheets
Presented by:
Larry Tabb, Founder & CEO, TABB Group
Dr. Lance Smith, CEO, Imagine Software
Gregory Cozza, Business Development, Imagine Software
Gary Chang, Risk Manager, Prelude Capital
October 19, 2011
14. Agenda
• Spreadsheets and Capital Markets – Larry Tabb
• Current Challenges – Lance Smith
• Business Case Environments – Gregory Cozza
• Case Example: Prelude Capital – Gary Chang
• The Imagine Solution – Lance Smith
• Q&A – Larry Tabb, Gregory Cozza, Gary Chang,
Lance Smith
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15. Current Challenges
Dr. Lance Smith
CEO, Imagine Software
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16. Building Upon Larry’s Presentation of Research…
We at Imagine see the following areas of
spreadsheet challenges being encountered by
financial professionals time after time:
• Operational Risk Concerns
• Functionality, Performance, and Data
Management
• Transparency and Investor Confidence
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17. Operational Risk Concerns
• Testing and QA – lack of built-in data validation and
QA testing accounts for estimated 1-2% average error rate
in spreadsheet cells. (Source: Errors in Operational
Spreadsheets, Journal of Organizational and End User
Computing, July-Sept. 2009)
• Security – application-level security generally missing; no
role-based permissioning for data/app access or changes
• “Key Man” Vulnerability and Business Continuity – the
developer of a spreadsheet solution can walk out the front
door and literally take a key business process with them
• Audit and Version Control – non-existent! Every file
opening is an opportunity for unintended, untraceable
errors
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18. Functionality, Performance, and Data Management
• Point Solutions vs. Broad Solutions – spreadsheets
are well-suited for fast, “quick and dirty” solutions, not
for complex applications with broad functional scope
• The Need for Speed – a major issue for anyone
requiring real-time P&L and risk analytics
• Spreadsheet calculation performance degrades
steadily as portfolio positions grow in size and
complexity
• The Achilles’ Heel: Data Management – sourcing and
integrating all necessary market and value-add data so
a spreadsheet app can run a continuous business
process correctly is very challenging indeed
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19. Transparency and Investor Confidence
• Investors Don’t Trust In-House Spreadsheet
Apps – credibility problem is widespread
• Open Models Are Key – sophisticated investors
want transparency in valuation and modeling, too
• More and Better Reporting – escalating investor
demand for more reporting transparency and
sophistication in overall risk management
technology
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21. Case #1: A Premier NY-based Start-up Hedge Fund
• Description: A new $500m AUM global macro startup fund
utilizing equity, FI, credit, converts, and FX asset classes
• Primary business challenges/requirements
– Fast time-to-market
– User-customizable functionality
– Real-time performance
– Scalable
• Results: Imagine satisfied all requirements, enabled on-
time Aug. 1 launch, and is main system for 3 risk managers,
8 traders, 4 ops/IT professionals
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22. Case #2: Established Hedge Fund/Fund of Funds
• Description: >$300m AUM global macro – asset classes
include equities, FI, credit, commodities, FX, and FoF
• Primary business challenges/requirements
– Operational risk
– Lack of scalability and transparency
• Results: Addition of needed risk functionality and
successful migration from spreadsheets accomplished;
fund was able to triple AUM from $100m to $300m
• Additional benefit: Added ten managed accounts
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23. Case #3: Asset Management –
• Description: Alternatives and Fixed Income teams of $74B+ AUM
asset management firm offering a range of traditional and
sophisticated funds using a mix of in-house and third-party tools
• Primary business challenges that triggered the migration from
spreadsheets in Fixed Income teams:
– Sub-optimal transparency
– Insufficient analytical tools
– Expensive data management
– Increased operational risk
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24. Asset Management (cont’d) –
• Results: Imagine deployment solved these outstanding
issues. Additional benefits of note include:
• Easy integration with industry-leading front-end OMS
• Robust API and Web Services enables Imagine analytics to
be automated and used with other systems and groups
• Industry-validated risk capabilities and user-definable risk
calculations now allow real-time analysis / decision support
as well as ad-hoc management or investor reporting
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25. Business Case Example – Prelude Capital
Gary Chang
Risk Manager, Prelude Capital
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26. Prelude Capital – with Gary Chang
• Description: Capital allocator specializing in emerging portfolio
managers with <$250M AUM. Approx. 25 managers with
strategies ranging from L/S equity to event-driven
• Primary business challenges/drivers with spreadsheet apps:
– Fragmented data – could not aggregate across proprietary PB
spreadsheets and tools; needed a consolidated database
– Operational issues – consolidated P&L and other analytics
difficult to calculate; needed to be able to compare managers
– Speed – limited to end-of-day snapshots; agile, intra-day analysis
capability desired to match rapid market changes
• Results: Imagine solution provided integrated risk and DB
solution; solved speed and flexibility issues
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27. The Imagine Solution
Dr. Lance Smith
CEO, Imagine Software
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28. Operational Risk Concerns - Solutions
• Testing and QA – data validation logic, plus full regression QA
back-testing by trained QA professionals. The more critical the
app, the more important these practices are
• Security – rigorous, role-based permissioning applied to all users
for app and data access privileges, with a central administrator
and appropriate software controls
• “Key Man” Vulnerability and Business Continuity
• Avoid single-point-of-failure scenarios tied to individuals
• Deploy third-party, fully documented and maintained apps
• Audit and Version Control – eliminate problem of control and
tracking of changes to financial data with enterprise-grade audit
trails and versioning
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29. Functionality, Performance, and Data Management -
Solutions
• Point Solutions vs. Broad Solutions
• Employ professional, team-oriented programming
techniques to tackle expansive functional needs in
reasonable timeframes
• Separate data from code to enable maintainable, easily
extended and broadly capable apps
• The Need for Speed – leverage the power of affordable
cloud-based solutions to enable real-time analytics and other
compute-intensive processes
• The Achilles’ Heel: Data Management – engage a data
management service that supplies everything needed for
your day-to-day operations: real-time market data, global
security master, corporate actions processing, curves, vols
and correlations
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30. Transparency and Investor Confidence - Solutions
• Investors Don’t Trust In-House Spreadsheet
Apps
• Utilize established, industry-validated, third-party
solutions for exposure and performance numbers
• Open Models Are Key
• No “black box” modeling
• Employ open, industry-standard, well-documented
valuation algorithms
• More and Better Reporting
• Large array of standard reports aimed at investor
needs
• Custom report writer for customized investor output
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31. Imagine’s Approach:
Software+Data+Services
• Integrated, real-time portfolio and risk
management solution
• Highly scalable, high-performance cloud-
based solution
• Rapid time-to-market; implemented in weeks
• Comprehensive data management
encompassing all market and value-add
data (vols and correlations, specialty credit
data, etc.) Imagine’s
• Complete outsourcing of maintenance and
operations, including security, disaster
Cloud-based
recovery, and database, plus end-of-day and
start-of day processing services ASP
• Significant cost savings vs. traditional
enterprise solutions
• Open, extensible, constantly evolving
platform
• Worldwide business and technical support
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32. Open Q&A
With Larry Tabb, Gregory Cozza, Gary Chang,
and Dr. Lance Smith
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33. Thank You
For more information on Imagine’s integrated
portfolio and risk management solutions
please contact Imagine Software at:
Tel: +1 212 317 7600
Web: www.imaginesoftware.com
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